SEATO was a total flop, largely based around trying to prevent neocolonies from becoming independent. Unsurprisingly, nobody wanted to play ball so the French and Americans just took their ball and ran home to prevent further collapse of the paper tiger after Vietnam kicked their shit in.
Every later attempt has basically just been some random chud senator who didn’t read a briefing on it going, “gee why don’t we have a Pacific NATO,” without reading about the Pacific NATO we already had at home.
SEATO was a total flop, largely based around trying to prevent neocolonies from becoming independent. Unsurprisingly, nobody wanted to play ball so the French and Americans just took their ball and ran home to prevent further collapse of the paper tiger after Vietnam kicked their shit in.
Every later attempt has basically just been some random chud senator who didn’t read a briefing on it going, “gee why don’t we have a Pacific NATO,” without reading about the Pacific NATO we already had at home.