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Why do we almost never hear anything about Laos? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzhou@lemmygrad.ml
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Like, it's one of the five AES countries; and yet, the other four (Cuba, China, Vietnam and DPRK) always gets the spotlight.

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[-] Gopnik_Award@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Laos really hasn't put anything revolutionary regarding theory-wise, and combined with the fact that Laos never really was unique among its other nations (China with Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, DPRK with Juche), it just kind of fell into obscurity for the most part.

Nonetheless, it would be ideal to study this as long as we got theory for it. Unfortunately, the theory is sparse or hard to find, meaning that we don't really have a solid basis.

[-] TheAxesAreSwinging@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly not too much goes on there. It's still a normal country, doing normal things.

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

All I know is they’re socialist and the Laos Army Soccer jerseys kick ass

[-] areyoulessthan@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly I think it would be great if we talked about Laos more.

[-] sparkingcircuit@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

While I'm not entirely sure, I imagine it is due to a combination of it being a tiny nation and it being one of (if not the least) developed nations in the world due to Amerikkkan bombing. I would love to hear more about it though.

[-] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Wait those mfs bombed Laos? Why? What did Laotians do to them? I thought their beef was with Vietnam.

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Even worse, it's the most bombed country in history. Over 270 million bombs were thrown on Laos from 1964 to 1974 (a planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, 9 years long). Something like 80 million of them didn't go off, making life difficult to this day, because they're still there.

[-] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Surely the Laotian Government could deploy sappers on the areas to defuse them like the Russian Government is doing on Donetsk-Luhansk, right?

[-] TheAxesAreSwinging@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

For decades already mate. Our sappers (Vietnamese sappers) get called to the Plain of Jars every now and then.

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

300k of them have been detonated by such programs. I believe the difficulty lies in locating the bombs, seeing that you safely detonate it and not blow up people or infrastructure or housing, and then finding the tools to do that. It's fine if it's the occasional bomb in your Western country that has the money to do so, but this is Laos and there's 80 million of these bombs.

[-] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Only 300K out of 80M? Goddamn, I'm impressed that Laos still even exists with that many bombs dropped in there.

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

The problem is worsened by the fact that Laos is mountainous af with lots of rainforest.

Its finding the deadly needles in the scenic heystack.

[-] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Cluster bombs are banned for a good reason.

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

F R E E D O M

[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Henrey Kissinger was basically like “there’s not much left to bomb in Vietnam, so why not bomb it’s neighbors too?”

[-] MILFCortana@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

They bombed across the ho chi Minh trail which included Cambodia and laos

[-] Weinus@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

And way more than just that.

[-] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Because "muh domino theeyaree"

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Isn't Angola socialist too? It's got the sick flag, anyway.

[-] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

You'd think so, but CIA happened and now it's another crapitalist country; despite the socialist motif. Even its socialist party (the MPLA) got turned from a Marxist-Leninist party to a Succdem one.

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

): at least we still have the flag 🇦🇴

[-] Binkie55@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Same thing happened with Republic of the Congo

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