Keep making your fantasy about Hundred thousand VN troops in Laos
, After the defeat in 1979, all Vietnamese living in Laos or Cambodia kept their head down and to add more sour grape, they're looking China with a red yes and jealous of our development and influence in Laos, Vietnamese are just irrelevant there.
With the high speed train, tourism, trade Laos and Thai will be closer and closer to China, Vietnam will be lonely and marginalized, you can keep fantasized for the rest of your life about how Vietnam control Laos but the fact is that Vietnam can not do anything to counter China influence in this region. Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia are with China
Laos HSR
Thai HSR