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Re:DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam bas... by cogman10 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:43PM (#45596068)
It's a giant mess. I don't think Pot would have gained the support/power that he did without the US indiscriminate bombing. Much like the creation of ISIS and the strengthening of the Taliban in Afghanistan, it turns out people don't like the people dropping bombs on them. They'll turn to whoever is fighting the bombers.

The US involvement in Vietnam would have already been over before the uprising of Pot had Nixon and Kissinger not skuttled peace talks to help Nixon get elected.

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Re:DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam bas... by unyttigfjelltol on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:18PM (#45596498)
Iraq, for example, didn’t turn into Cambodia and conditions pre-ISIS in Syria more directly fostered its creation.

See a discussion of “proximate cause.”[1]

[1] https://legalclarity.org/what-is-the-difference-between-dire...

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Re:DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam bas... by refurb on Friday October 17, 2025 @06:50AM (#45615189)
It’s not like Cambodia was a stable democracy before the bombings.

The Khmer Rouge and other opposition groups were fighting the government in an armed conflict since 1950. The Khmer Rouge controlled almost half of Cambodia’s territory 10 years before the bombing.

In the grand scheme of Cambodias civil war, the US bombing didn’t play that big a role at all.

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