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Is this ASB or not?
Lets assume that the US has spine and sees the invasion of South Vietnam as a break of the peace treaty.

As the world has been divided into spheres of influence (North Vietnam is communist and the South is democracy), the communists are clearly intruding into the sphere of the west.

What if Washington had the spine and the anger to tell the communists very clearly:

a) Either the North withdraws from the South and ACCEPTS that the South is inviolate, and we are willing to send them a clear and loud message about that (from diplomatic pressure up to anything to tell that you mean business)

or

b) we get Cuba in return. Castro, his cronies and every other communist may leave, provided the same applies to the leadership and the citizens of South Vietnam.

What would happen?
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