I just don’t see our military going anywhere right now. Heck, I doubt there’d be much American appetite to go to war for Japan. Does anyone sincerely think the public (who control war policy now, as we saw in Syria) give a damn about a treaty? The masses want the government catering to them, not fighting overseas.
China would be foolish not to take advantage of a chronically weak president. In fact if they could pick off Vietnam, they would essentially trigger a domino effect, and I’m betting the governments in Laos and Burma would just declare allegiance to China.
Not sure about Cambodia, and Thailand will probably be too busy preparing for its own civil war which looks likely.
It’s been about 10 years so Thailand is due for a civil war
Thailand will probably be too busy preparing for its own civil war which looks likely.
***I’ve been hearing about civil war brewing in Thailand since I was a child. Yet they’ve stayed upright this whole time, even when Pol Pot murdered a third of his own countrymen. There is something inherently stable about Thai politics, I don’t know what it is.
Thailand had a coup/war in 2006 so it’s not been a whole decade