Was there ever any possibility of Vietnam annexing Laos and Cambodia into a united communist "indochina" state during the mid to late 70s or early 80s?
Both were more or less Vietnam's puppets right (cambodia having been a Chinese client state before of course)? Was there ever any talk of outright incorporating them into one state?
I'm guessing their ethnic and cultural differences were probably just too much for it to be much of a serious consideration. If anyone knows whether the people of eastern mainland south east asia have or at least had any kind of affinity for one another to make unification a possible consideration I would greatly appreciate to hear it.
If the three countries had become one, would the resulting state be stronger from the unification, or strained under its own weight? Would such a state be potentially capable of "knocking over some dominoes" like thailand, malaysia, etc?
Perhaps an earlier POD during WW2 resulting in a united communist/ "nationalist" liberation front against the japanese and french would make this outcome easier to attain.
thanks for any and all thoughts. know this might be asb.
Both were more or less Vietnam's puppets right (cambodia having been a Chinese client state before of course)? Was there ever any talk of outright incorporating them into one state?
I'm guessing their ethnic and cultural differences were probably just too much for it to be much of a serious consideration. If anyone knows whether the people of eastern mainland south east asia have or at least had any kind of affinity for one another to make unification a possible consideration I would greatly appreciate to hear it.
If the three countries had become one, would the resulting state be stronger from the unification, or strained under its own weight? Would such a state be potentially capable of "knocking over some dominoes" like thailand, malaysia, etc?
Perhaps an earlier POD during WW2 resulting in a united communist/ "nationalist" liberation front against the japanese and french would make this outcome easier to attain.
thanks for any and all thoughts. know this might be asb.