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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
I think it is easy to look back and Vietnam and say the domino effect was wrong in South East Asia, hindsight is 20/20. Further, I would argue that the Domino Effects limited effect in the region (Cambodia and Laos) was due more to geography and topography than a flaw in Churchill’s view on the spread of communism.
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If the domino theory held water, wouldn't that have suggested that popular uprisings should occur in a region once one of the countries initially made the switch?
If so, when has that happened? I can see why they would think that -- look at how the previous era of revolutions swept the world (the US and France being the obvious major powers involved but there were a few more.) However, I think you'd expect Cuba to have kicked off something (go red-Haiti)
There is no empirical evidence that communism elicits a popular uprising. Both of the big examples (Russia and China) were military coups with a communist coverstory.