User blog comment:MisaoFan/Why Laos is a puppet government of Vietnam/@comment-26997191-20170311004354/@comment-4425142-20170311090354

It matters for me because Laos, during the Vietnam War at least, used to be a constitutional monarchy that tried maintaining it's neutrality accord to obe treaty but failed because the North Vietnamese invaded the country so strongly that the Americans has no choice but do a covert operation to counter Laos from NV. Sadly it failed in 1975 when the Pathet Lao take over the country under communist government since and are very closely aligned with Viet Minh for some reason.