As we all know, after World War II, the world pattern showed a situation of two superpowers and many strong forces. The United States became the biggest winner of World War II because it made a lot of money from the sale of arms in World War II. As a result, after World War II, its comprehensive strength increased rapidly, becoming the only superpower besides the Soviet Union. But the United States was not satisfied with this, and in order to dominate the world, it launched the Vietnam War in the 1950s.
The Vietnam War was the largest local war in modern times, and the United States invested more in the Vietnam War than World War II in terms of strength and weaponry. Bombs alone weigh more than hundreds of millions of tons. Yet so many bombs were thrown into the Vietnamese battlefield, but in the end it was not Vietnam that suffered the most.
The biggest losses in the Vietnam War were vietnam's neighbor Laos. Why? According to historical records, during the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese army opened a new ammunition transportation road to avoid American air raids, and this road happened to pass through Laos. The U.S. military could not know the specific transportation route, so it launched a pattern of indiscriminate bombing, pouring a large number of bombs in Laos.
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military dropped 270 million bombs of various kinds on Laos in a decade, and decades after the end of the war, there are now 80 million war remnants buried deep under the ground in Laos, which were bombs that did not explode for various reasons at the time. Such a large-scale residual bomb has also brought poverty to Laos, which can be said to be so poor that only bombs are left.
Because the bombs are buried deep underground and widely distributed, it is difficult to clean up. And its performance is unstable, so it has caused a large amount of land to be uncultivated. Laos is also a predominantly agricultural country, so the outbreak of the Vietnam War undoubtedly made its already poor life worse.