Cambodia didn’t “fall” into chaos. It was shoved, by American bombs. Millions of them.
Cambodia was a relatively peaceful, neutral country. The Chinese even had a saying for it: “as rich as the Cambodians.” It wasn’t some war-torn wasteland. It wasn’t breeding radical communists. It wasn’t asking to be “liberated” or “protected” by American B-52s. That didn’t stop the U.S. from turning its villages into craters and blowing its people to pieces.
All in the name of a Cold War fantasy and Richard Nixon’s deranged need to appear “tough.”
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