Han Patriot
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Yes, diplomatically you have done well with the US and Pakistan. I am talking about military misadventures.
Yes, SU did not directly intervene. But Vietnam was able to halt the PRC offensive on their own. Or if you like - the PRC stopped on their own and withdrew. Same as they withdrew 'on their own' from Busan/Pusan back to the frontier. Perhaps some superior tactical move the world does not know about?
I would say it was a strategic stalemate, we demonstrated that we can invade Vietnam and prove to the world SU was a paper tiger but otoh we still couldn't prevent Vietnam from withdrawing from Cambodia. This incident seriously dented Soviet prestige, to be fair, Soviet was falling apart anyway.
For Korea, it was not about Chinese troops invading Korea, it was to prevent America from invading Korea, up to Chinese borders. We had no bombers and no nukes, yet we didn't give a fck and continued anyway, the human cost was huge, but strategically it kept America to SK and not proceed further for the last 50 years. You need to understand all military actions are due to strategic reasons. You must comprehend the strategic implications before saying these were 'misadventures'. Chinese don't attack without calculating the odds. Ever since 1949, China had never lost a single war and most achieved their strategic outcome.