re: #299 Gus

Viet Nam finally “fell” and we didn’t see the dominoes fall. In fact it morphed into a rather successful communist-capitalist hybrid. Currently having stalled economically. I would venture to say that Viet Nam is in better shape today then it would have been if it was left split like Korea divided between North Korea and South Korea. A “North Viet Nam” and “South Viet Nam” would have been worse for the Vietnamese people in the end. It is in far better shape today as one contiguous nation.

The dominoes did fall, though. 1975 saw Cambodia and Laos both fall to Communism as well. Thailand avoided that fate, but that was thanks to its government being somewhat less brutal and far more functional.