1. sillygoose

    Additional realistic cases where the West and Russia avoid a direct confrontation but one of them fights the other's proxy?

    I don't recall that you showed it to me. I found it on a quick google search while looking for sources. I have others somewhere on my hard drive, just was looking for something quick and easy to find.
  2. sillygoose

    Additional realistic cases where the West and Russia avoid a direct confrontation but one of them fights the other's proxy?

    That's why I didn't mention them. From what I can find they only paid in blood since they lacked the money to pay for what they got. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_in_the_Vietnam_War#Confronting_U.S._escalation For all the 'no love lost' claims the Chinese went in pretty hard to support...
  3. sillygoose

    Additional realistic cases where the West and Russia avoid a direct confrontation but one of them fights the other's proxy?

    The entire war was financed by China: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/china-contributed-substantially-to-vietnam-war-victory-claims-scholar https://www.jstor.org/stable/651476
  4. sillygoose

    Additional realistic cases where the West and Russia avoid a direct confrontation but one of them fights the other's proxy?

    I'd argue that the Korea and Vietnam conflicts were far more China related than Russian. The Soviets were in a support role rather than driving those conflicts. Really the Chinese civil war should be added to the list as the CCP was a proxy for Stalin. Plus there were a ton of conflict IOTL...
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