edit: at the same time, in the same conflict.

I remember reading a few years ago about a conflict in (I want to say) 1980’s Latin America where this occurred; however I can’t find anything about this with current online search tools. Did I hallucinate this or did this actually, and if so what groups?

  • klu9@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The closest I can think of: I think there was a crazy time when the People’s Republic of China and, to a lesser extent, the US were together(!) backing “Democratic Kampuchea” (i.e. the Khmer frickin’ Rouge) against the invading (USSR-allied) Socialist Republic of Vietnam and its proxy, the People’s Republic of Kampuchea.

    So, the US, softly, backing a bunch of far-left lunatics against a less-far-left bunch backed indirectly by the Soviets.

    From Wikipedia

    The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict between the Khmer Rouge-led Democratic Kampuchea and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It began in December 1978, with a Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia which toppled the Khmer Rouge and ended in 1989 with the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. This Cold War conflict was part of the Third Indochina War and Sino-Soviet split with the Soviet Union supporting Vietnam and China supporting the Khmer Rouge.