Like, it’s one of the five AES countries; and yet, the other four (Cuba, China, Vietnam and DPRK) always gets the spotlight.
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.
Wait those mfs bombed Laos? Why? What did Laotians do to them? I thought their beef was with Vietnam.
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.
Surely the Laotian Government could deploy sappers on the areas to defuse them like the Russian Government is doing on Donetsk-Luhansk, right?
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.
Only 300K out of 80M? Goddamn, I’m impressed that Laos still even exists with that many bombs dropped in there.
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.
F R E E D O M
Cluster bombs are banned for a good reason.
For decades already mate. Our sappers (Vietnamese sappers) get called to the Plain of Jars every now and then.
Henrey Kissinger was basically like “there’s not much left to bomb in Vietnam, so why not bomb it’s neighbors too?”
They bombed across the ho chi Minh trail which included Cambodia and laos
And way more than just that.
Because “muh domino theeyaree”
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.
Probably because there aren’t nearly as many English speaking comrades as there are in the other countries, and naturally we won’t see much from there in mostly English speaking (and generally Anglo dominated) online spaces.
Honestly not too much goes on there. It’s still a normal country, doing normal things.
Except with a few bombs let right and center
Honestly I think it would be great if we talked about Laos more.
Isn’t Angola socialist too? It’s got the sick flag, anyway.
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.
): at least we still have the flag 🇦🇴
Same thing happened with Republic of the Congo
The previous president was a corrupt opportunist, that allied with the US and enriched himself and his family, at the expense of the people.
But at least we can still pretend Blue Moon is the Soviet Union and clearly the superior nation.
If only the remake already would come out already. Blue Moon isn’t even the villain in any game! C’mon nintendo pls 😭😭
All I know is they’re socialist and the Laos Army Soccer jerseys kick ass
