BaronVonBigmeat
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- Sep 20, 2005
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The domino theory makes sense if you make the assumption that controlling more territory makes you more powerful. But it doesn't. You have a finite number of soldiers, and a finite economy to support them. Invading other countries makes you weaker and spreads your resources thin.
Russia wants to bleed money to Vietnam? Good, let them. They want to try and hold Afghanistan? By all means, let them tie up their resources there. Eventually they'll go bankrupt, and the people they formerly occupied will have a knee-jerk opposition to communism. As it is now, there are probably more people in France and Germany who think socialism can work than there are in China and Vietnam.
Russia wants to bleed money to Vietnam? Good, let them. They want to try and hold Afghanistan? By all means, let them tie up their resources there. Eventually they'll go bankrupt, and the people they formerly occupied will have a knee-jerk opposition to communism. As it is now, there are probably more people in France and Germany who think socialism can work than there are in China and Vietnam.