Perhaps I Downplayed The Scale Of The Capitalist First World's Loss In 1949.

https://news.sky.com/story/earthquake-off-russias-far-east-one-of-the-strongest-ever-what-are-the-others-13403881

China joining the Communist Second World put the Communist Second World in control of everything between Germany and Japan. With the exception of India. Although that always leaned towards Communism and still got a Lula-style Maoist Peasant insurgency going on now.

In comparison South Korea and South Vietnam are absolutely tiny. Yet I think we all know how hard America fought for those.

Although still collectively and comparatively tiny Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and the Philippines certainly do.

As does anyone exposed to the School of the Americas via the School of Superior Warfare.

H.H

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K0N7nnLfFY&pp (High Flying, Adored, 2006, Audio, Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals).