In the world, there are very few fighting four foreign wars in 10 years, but in Southeast Asia, Vietnam fought four wars in the 1970s. In the 1970s, Vietnam drove Laos out of the United States, achieved the reunification of North and South Vietnam, and then invaded Laos. It signed the Lao-Vietnam Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Laos. The treaty stipulates: " The government of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party accepts The leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam. The two countries will maintain the consistency of attitudes and policies in foreign relations. ”
On December 25, 1978, the Vietnamese government of Le Duan used “ to rule Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge invaded Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island and slaughtered it. Cambodian Vietnamese citizens "" ordered 250,000 Vietnamese troops to invade Cambodia, and the Vietnam-Cambodia war broke out for more than a decade. But within a year, Vietnam invaded and occupied our borders and killed our border residents. Our country was forced to fight back in self-defense against Vietnam. It can be said that Vietnam has not been idle since the Vietnam War, and has been using external force. So after Vietnam occupied Laos and Cambodia, why didn't they annex the two countries and merge with Vietnam?
International factors
The biggest benefactor behind Vietnam's ability to fight four wars in 10 years is the Soviet Union. Without Soviet support, it is impossible for Vietnam to continuously use foreign troops after the Vietnam War. Of course, during the Vietnam War, our country also provided selfless assistance to Vietnam, and Vietnam could not run out of this assistance. This is why Vietnam relied on our assistance and confronted us during the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.
After the Vietnam War, Vietnam first targeted the weak Laos. Although the war was not serious, Vietnam achieved its strategic significance and controlled Laos. Then Vietnam launched another invasion of Cambodia. In this war, it cannot be denied that Vietnam has a very strong combat power, and it quickly occupied most of Cambodia, basically occupying the entire territory.
However, Vietnam’s aggression has been criticized by the international community. Because Vietnam invaded a country, it not only interfered in internal affairs, but also caused a large number of casualties of innocent civilians. Therefore, with the exception of the support of a few Warsaw Pact countries such as the Soviet Union, the international community has expressed dissatisfaction with Vietnam's aggression.
At that time, Sihanouk received assistance from the international community, but Vietnam had Soviet support and the Vietnamese army had rich combat experience, so it was difficult to drive Vietnam out for a while.
However, in the late occupation of Vietnam, the forces supporting Sihanouk gradually became stronger, and Vietnam had to face this situation squarely. Therefore, even if Vietnam occupies all of Cambodia, they will not dare to merge Cambodia and Vietnam into one country, otherwise Vietnam will become the target of the international community.
The Soviet factor
As we said earlier, the reason why Vietnam dominates Southeast Asia is related to the strong support of the Soviet Union. However, the Soviet Union began to weaken gradually in the late Brezhnev administration. Moreover, the Soviet Union was unable to extricate itself from being trapped in Afghanistan, and its support for Vietnam was also stretched.
In the 1980s, Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia continued to shrink, and Vietnam was sanctioned by the international community for its invasion activities. Especially the Soviet Union, as the largest "golden master" in Vietnam, under Gorbachev's "new thinking" reform, the Soviet Union's economic development was slow, and Gorbachev had to order the Soviet army to gain a good reputation in the Soviet Union. Withdraw from Afghanistan. Regarding the international community’s condemnation of Vietnam’s aggression, Gorbachev also decided not to provide assistance to Vietnam.
In 1988, the Soviet Union announced that it would stop assisting Vietnam, which prevented Vietnam from obtaining a large amount of war resources and caused continuous setbacks in Vietnam's military operations.
In response to the accusations of the international community, as well as the weakening of the Soviet Union and the suspension of aid, Vietnam had to withdraw its troops from Cambodia. It was simply unable to annex Cambodia completely, even if the annexation time would not be long.
And if the Soviet Union is not in power by Gorbachev, the Soviet Union is still as powerful, and it is impossible for the Soviet Union to allow Vietnam to annex a sovereign state. Therefore, the Soviet factor played a key role in Vietnam's foreign war. If the Soviet Union “brings up” Vietnam, they will also be threatened. Everyone knows this.
own factors
Vietnam is a country with a narrow strategy of east, west, south and north.Although it has the ability to occupy Cambodia and Laos, Vietnam has been unable to achieve the goal of establishing an alliance after more than ten years of war.
According to data records, in the late 1970s, Vietnam’s military expenditures had exceeded 60% of the state’s fiscal expenditures due to the use of foreign troops in the late 1970s. such a huge military expenditure, let alone a rich country, is difficult to accomplish, and Vietnam is such a poor country. country. The military expenses are too much, and they are unable to carry out economic construction in the country. The people are so poor that they can't eat enough to fight.
In the mid-1980s, due to the prolonged war, the Vietnamese government itself admitted that because of the war, Vietnam's production was slow to develop, and even the contradiction between supply and demand was intensified, the fiscal deficit was huge, and the distribution and circulation areas were in tension and chaos. In 1988, Vietnam’s inflation reached 1,000%, and there was a food shortage.
didn't have much war potential in the first place, and he was very military, and his tossing himself was dying, let alone realizing the dream of establishing a "big federation". Therefore, Vietnam not only withdrew its troops from Cambodia, but also faced the consequences of a long war. This is why some people say that Vietnam has "more women than men" and that too many men died in the war.
Of course, there is another important factor that has to be said. Since the 1980s and early 1990s, Western countries have continued to disintegrate the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union and dramatic changes in Eastern Europe. If Vietnam does not withdraw its troops, let alone a decent withdrawal, the country may be disintegrated and replaced.
Concluding remarks
After World War II, the world pattern is basically delineated, and any country has achieved independence and integrity. If Vietnam arbitrarily occupy other countries and do not leave, is afraid that there will be a second "Vietnam War", because Iraq occupied Kuwait. For example, and the United States once again launched the Vietnam War, it will no longer be like the first Vietnam War. The US military has already shown advanced in the Gulf War, and the world is amazed by it, not to mention the small Vietnam?
Now Vietnam continues to show its favor to the United States, but if it wants to use the United States to restrict other countries, it will miscalculate and be fooled by the United States. Even the United States wants to subvert the Vietnamese regime, but there is no chance.
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