[quote=@BingTheWing]
While a communist Thailand would certainly be more historically probable, something is just awesome about a tyrannical Kingdom of Siam expanding its imperialist influence all throughout Indochina and getting into border disputes with China and Burma. The thing is, a communist Thailand would probably be China's [s]bitch[/s] proxy state, and that's boring.
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Depends on how you define boring. If you can find the opportunities like Byrd does and can then you don't really need war.