We need a version of .pdf related updated for the internet era tbh.
Cambodia
Ethan Rivera
Angel Collins
This was basically the same approach the US took after 1979 as well. Zbigniew Brzezinski said that after the Vietnamese ousted the Khmer Rouge, "I encourage the Chinese to support Pol Pot. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him, but China could."
So from 1975-1978 the US didn't mind a pro-Chinese government in Phnom Penh, and when this government was replaced with a pro-Soviet/Vietnamese one the US "closed its eyes" to foreign backing to the Khmer Rouge, just as it had pre-1979.
Yeah the US engaged in more "deniability" after 1979: they argued they weren't supporting the KR but instead a broad "coalition government" in exile consisting of supporters of Prince Sihanouk, former followers of Lon Nol, and the KR, of which the KR just so happened to be the only serious military threat to the Vietnamese and the Vietnamese-backed government.
Apologists of US foreign policy still use this argument even though it was clearly just a fig leaf to justify encouraging China and US allies like Thailand arming the KR.
I've been moderating /marx/ since before CTH even existed as a podcast, and I've been posting online since 2000 or 2001. I don't see what posting on reddit has to do with anything.
Lincoln Sanchez
Fucking gay.