American Strategic Deception Bureau

　But now, the United States has withdrawn, U-tapao Airport has been lost, the Royal Air Force is about to collapse, and the end of Thailand's Rama Dynasty seems to be approaching.

　Moreover, the current monarch who rules Thailand just happened to be Rama IX...

　——"Whoever seizes my throne will die in the ninth generation!" This was the curse uttered by King Taksin of the Thonburi Dynasty, the previous dynasty that ruled Thailand, before he was killed by King Rama I. In the following days, people all over Thailand kept repeating this curse. Everyone seemed to have a premonition that an era of earth-shaking changes was about to come.

　On February 25th, in Prachinburi Province, over 100 kilometers from Bangkok, the 80,000 Thai capital garrison troops of the First Military Region engaged in a decisive battle against 40,000 Vietnamese troops deep into the country. Despite outnumbering the Thai defenses, they quickly became vulnerable. Despite the United States launching strategic bombers from the Philippines, Guam, and Singapore to bombard Vietnamese positions and supply lines, the Thai defenses were unable to reverse their decline.

　The desperate Defense Minister and King Rama IX repeatedly asked for help from the surrounding Second, Third and Fourth Military Regions, but were unable to summon a single soldier.

　Because Thailand today is essentially a semi-feudal state, divided by regional powers, much like China's late Tang Dynasty. Thai armies across the country exhibit strong "warlord" characteristics. While peaceful and harmonious in normal times, when the stakes are high, the warlords are accustomed to holding their own troops and watching the outcome unfold.

　Finally, CIA agents managed to persuade General Vang Pao's Hmong mercenaries to lead over 10,000 exiled Thai soldiers to Bangkok to "support the king." Unfortunately, Vang Pao's Hmong soldiers arrived too late. By the time they reached Bangkok, the defenses of Prachinburi Province had already collapsed.

　To make matters worse, upon learning of the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Prachinburi and the imminent march of the Vietnamese army into Bangkok, General Vang Pao, instead of deploying troops on the spot and organizing a defense of the capital, joined forces with fleeing Thai soldiers from the front lines and launched a rampage through Bangkok, leading the Miao troops in looting banks and the royal palace.

　For a time, the streets of Bangkok were filled with gunfire and bullets flying everywhere. Soldiers from all walks of life rushed to raise their own severance pay before the Vietnamese army entered the city.

　Amidst the extreme chaos, the Thai central government in Bangkok completely collapsed, and King Rama IX of Thailand fled the palace with his concubines in a hurry and disappeared.

　After looting Bangkok, Vang Pao didn't dream of establishing a permanent presence there. Instead, he quickly retreated from the city, pulling hundreds of carts of gold and silver treasures with his now-rich Hmong mercenaries, returning to the mountainous region of northwestern Thailand. Before leaving, Vang Pao ordered a massive fire, leaving a burning Bangkok to the Viet Cong troops and Thai Communist guerrillas who arrived under red flags...

　On March 16, a red flag was raised in front of the ruins of the Royal Palace in Bangkok, and Prasong Wongwiwat, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Thailand, issued an enthusiastic victory declaration.

　Generals Westmoreland and Abrams were stunned. After blaming each other for a while, they could only pinch their noses and redeploy their troops, forcing the American soldiers who had enjoyed bullying the weak in Indonesia for several months to return to the nightmare quagmire of the Vietnam War.

　He complained to Fili who was also chewing ham and eggs.

　Well, even though it was dinner at the US consulate, Kissinger, despite his status, rarely had access to steak in this remote place. While 21st-century people often think of red wine and steak when they talk about Western food, in those days, with refrigeration technology and cold chain logistics still relatively undeveloped, long-lasting red wine wasn't a rarity. But getting a steak in a remote area wasn't so easy.

　Most Western restaurants in third-world countries, unless they're top-tier in the capital, usually serve ham and eggs. Ham is easy to preserve, and eggs are readily available. If you want a steak, you usually have to make a deposit and reserve it in advance.

　Of course, if it is canned beef, it is basically available everywhere, but the taste is definitely different from real steak.

　"General Abrams did not do nothing during the collapse of the Thai battlefield. But he was ultimately the commander of the US forces in Vietnam, not the commander of the US forces in Thailand, and the force he could use to support the Thai battlefield was ultimately limited," Firi explained.

　"So they just sent two groups of South Koreans to Thailand to die? That's really perfunctory." Kissinger shook his head.

　In fact, after the fall of U-Tapao Airport and the change of air supremacy in the Thai battlefield, General Abrams realized that the situation was not good.

　But he also knew that with the Thai front already crumbling and the Viet Cong fully deployed, the Thai battlefield would inevitably become a meat grinder. If he wanted to reverse the defeat, the reinforcements would have to hold the line and fill the gaps alone, and the casualties would be unimaginably high.

　Moreover, the Thai battlefield was too far from South Vietnam, beyond the combat range of US helicopters. Since the lives of American soldiers were more valuable, General Abrams, who was short of troops, decided to use his allies to fill the gap.

　He first dispatched 1500 South Korean paratroopers, airdropped them to the vicinity of Utapao, and then sent 2000 South Korean Marines to land and attack.

　If the attackers of Utabao were just some guerrillas or a mob that had temporarily defected, they would have been able to recapture it with such a force.

　But the problem was that at this time, three Vietnamese divisions and five Khmer Rouge battalions had actually gathered on the U-Tapao battlefield, with a total strength of more than 35000 people, and were preparing to attack Thailand’s largest naval base, Sattahip (U-Tapao and Sattahip are very close to each other, only about 20 to 30 kilometers apart).

　Not to mention, North Vietnam also invested heavily in transferring its newly trained air force to U-Tapao Airport and participating in the Thailand attack.

　Furthermore, according to some less certain sources, the Soviets also dispatched their air force "volunteer pilots" to Southeast Asia to assist the Vietnamese in the air war. Some brave fighters even went directly to U-Tapao, flying various aircraft to drop bombs on the Thais. This was much like the Soviet pilots who had supported "MiG Alley" during the Korean War and enabled the new China to "have a powerful air force overnight."

　As to whether this is the collective will of the Kremlin or the self-assertion of one or more individuals below, only God knows.

　There was no way around it. Since the Tsarist era, Russia's local governors and generals had a long tradition of acting independently and rebelliously. Adventurous Russian governors-general were known to provoke military conflicts without authorization and then leave it to the Tsar to clean up the mess. This situation remained unchanged even during the Soviet era. Even after the Great Purges of the Iron Father, Soviet soldiers and local party and government officials still loved to surprise the Kremlin.

　For example, during the Brezhnev era when Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated rapidly, the reason why Beijing always mistakenly believed that Moscow had nothing to do and stationed millions of troops in the north to threaten itself was largely due to the generals who were exiled to Siberia, who acted on their own to create friction and spread exaggerated false information in order to gain merit, and the Kremlin pretended that nothing had happened, which led to trouble due to mutual misunderstanding.

　But on the bright side, because of this positive subjective initiative and reckless action, the Russians always seem willing to help their comrades and brothers - sometimes supporting "proletarian brothers" and sometimes saving "Slavic compatriots."

　Now, with the collapse of the three-million-strong Indonesian Communist Party, the world's third-largest communist party, the international communist movement and the socialist camp suffered a devastating blow. Given this, the Soviet Union's attempt to retaliate in Thailand, to demonstrate that the polar bear had not yet become a plague bear, was a perfectly reasonable countermeasure.

　——This symbolizes the unity and cooperation of the entire Eastern camp!

　As a result, before this powerful Red Coalition launched an offensive against Sattahip, Koreans came to die first, and naturally they accepted their heads with a smile.

　In the following Battle of Sattahip, the Thai Navy performed stably as usual and made a "brave" move of "fleeing after hearing the wrong news" - they regarded the fight between more than 30,000 Vietnamese troops and more than 3,000 Koreans as a precursor to the Vietnamese army launching a general attack!

　As a result, the high-ranking Thai naval officers fled by boat, while the lower-level sailors were busy seizing the boats and rebelling, which eventually allowed the Vietnamese army to invade without bloodshed.

　Now, with the change of flag in Sattahip, the Royal Thai Army not only lost air superiority, but also lost sea superiority.

　Hundreds of Americans who did not have time to escape were taken prisoner in Sattahip, many of whom escaped from U-Tapao Airport.

　It was early March now, and Thailand

　The war situation had deteriorated to such an extent that General Abrams, believing that the situation was unstoppable, could only try to organize a large-scale retreat from Bangkok, attempting to withdraw Thai senior officials and part of the army and organize a deep defense in the area west of the Chao Phraya River.

　As a result, the Miao soldiers happened to rebel. General Wang Bao and his poor men plundered Bangkok and destroyed the Thai central government before the Viet Cong. As a result, the US military could not even carry out the retreat work properly and could only barely rescue the US embassy staff.

　At the same time, on the South Vietnam battlefield in the east, the Red South Vietnamese regime in Saigon also launched multiple assaults on Da Dao, Phan Rang, Nha Trang and other places occupied by the US military and "puppet troops". A Viet Cong commando even reached Cam Ranh Bay and blew up an anchored US aircraft carrier.

　With his own territory still unstable, General Abrams could only do so much to help the battlefield in Thailand thousands of miles away.

　"So, what about General Westmoreland in Singapore? He has over 200,000 elite field troops under his command."

　Dr. Kissinger continued, "Why did he wait until now, after Bangkok had fallen and the King of Thailand had disappeared, to send the 1st Marine Division, which had been crippled twice over the years, to Thailand to rescue the country? What use could this division have? It seems like a perfunctory response."

　"If Bangkok hadn't fallen, General Westmoreland probably wouldn't even be willing to send the 1st Marine Division back!"

　Phiri revealed a little inside information to Dr. Kissinger: "Indonesia has been torn into pieces by our military and our Australian allies. The country is actually at war everywhere: provinces are at war with provinces, tribes are at war with tribes, families are at war with families. The military government in Jakarta is also at war with itself. Everyone claims to be a friend of the United States, but they are never polite when it comes to looting American assets.

　Under such circumstances, General Westmoreland actually did not have many spare troops to deal with the low-intensity security wars that continued to break out in various places.

　Furthermore, beyond Indonesia, the situation in Malaysia is also unstable. Malayan Communist Party guerrillas have recently been rampant in Kedah, Perak, and Kelantan. Sarawak and Sabah in East Malaysia have been embroiled in secessionist activity. Singapore, despite clearly not wanting independence, was forcibly expelled from Malaysia.

　In addition, the Pattani region in the southernmost part of Thailand is also taking advantage of the chaos to seek independence... The entire Nanyang is in chaos!

　So, even if we ignore the mess in Thailand, there are still plenty of battles to fight around General Westmoreland!"

　Chapter 357: The Great Nanyang War breaks out! (Part 2)

　Whether in history or during the British colonial rule, the east and west of Malaysia have never been subordinate to each other.

　No ancient regime has ever crossed the vast ocean and ruled both the Malay Peninsula and Borneo at the same time.

　There were a few ancient regimes that simultaneously controlled territory on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java, such as Majapahit and Srivijaya. However, these ancient Southeast Asian powers looked down upon Borneo, believing it was too poor and backward.

　The ancient Malays' view of Borneo, the world's third largest island, was roughly the same as the Chinese's view of Siberia.

　Of course, this doesn't mean that Borneo or Kalimantan are simply barren wastelands. They also harbor ancient civilizations. The northern part of Borneo was once part of Brunei, known as the Kingdom of Boni. Established as early as the Tang Dynasty, it once ruled over most of Borneo at its peak.

　Later, the Brunei Kingdom gradually declined, its territory shrinking. The Sulu Kingdom rose in eastern Borneo, while a series of small Chinese states, such as the Daiyan and Lanfang, emerged in southwestern Borneo. However, the Brunei Kingdom, now renamed Brunei, still largely controlled northern Borneo.

　If nothing unexpected happened, Sarawak and Sabah in modern "East Malaysia" would still be Brunei's territory. But the problem is, in this cruel world where the strong prey on the weak, nothing unexpected happened - the British came.

　In Europe, the British Empire could only play the role of a troublemaker, but in Asia, the British Empire had an insatiable appetite.

　The British army brutally assaulted Brunei, gradually taking away most of its territory, leaving only the capital. This reduced Brunei, a vast nation with a territory exceeding 500,000 square kilometers at its peak, to a tiny nation of just 5765 square kilometers.

　After World War II, colonialism receded, and the indigenous people of northern Borneo naturally wanted to return to Brunei or become independent. However, Britain refused to allow this, forcing them to join the Federation of Malaysia. This naturally led to a rebellion in northern Borneo, which the British army was unable to suppress.

　As for the Malay Peninsula to the west, it has historically been home to numerous small states and sultans. During British rule, the Straits Settlements only controlled a few cities, while the rest of the country was governed by various vassal states. At first glance, it resembled a smaller version of British India.

　In 1963, in order to fight against the Sukarno government in Indonesia, which was heading towards communism, Britain forcibly combined several of its former colonies in Southeast Asia to form the Federation of Malaysia, so that it could appear on the map to be competing with Indonesia.

　It is conceivable that a country that was forcibly merged by foreign colonizers must be quite lacking in cohesion.

　Imagine if a group of Western imperialist invaders came from China's Shandong Peninsula, South Korea and

　Kitakyushu in Japan was divided into two parts, and a piece of land was cut off from each other, and a country was forcibly put together regardless of ethnic and cultural differences... Would anyone be willing to identify with such a country?

　This resulted in Malaysia lacking cohesion and being in a mess from the very beginning of its founding - the bizarre system of rotating monarchy, the Conference of Rulers composed of sultans from various states, the chaotic Unified Organization, the fierce fighting between the Chinese and Malays, the Malayan Communist Party guerrillas who were unwilling to be suppressed and persecuted, and the British agents' ability to stir up trouble, which made the country noisy throughout the 1960s.

　Last year, in order to suppress the Chinese, Malaysia forcibly kicked Singapore, which has a large Chinese population, out of the federation, which made Lee Kuan Yew cry.

　But at the same time, the Malaysian government is desperately suppressing separatist movements in Sarawak and Sabah in northern Borneo - the local indigenous people refuse to obey Kuala Lumpur's rule and want to jointly establish the "North Borneo Federation" or "North Kalimantan Federation" with Brunei.

　There is also the Malayan Communist Party guerrillas, who rose during the Anti-Japanese War and were persecuted and suppressed by British colonists after the war. They have also been persisting in guerrilla warfare in the deep mountains of northern Malaysia. Inspired by the successive victories in the Vietnam War, they have become increasingly active recently.

　In addition to the armed struggle of the Malayan Communist Party, the left-wing forces in Malaysian politics have also been engaging in literary struggles in parliament, trying to overthrow the reactionary rule of the right.

　Therefore, when General Westmoreland led more than 200,000 American troops south to Singapore to deploy the Indonesian attack strategy, Malaysia was actually in a turbulent period. Those lackeys supported by Britain were eager to obtain military support from the United States to stabilize the precarious ruling order in the country.

　——Although Britain still has troops stationed in Southeast Asia today, they are only small symbolic forces and are completely unable to help their agents wipe out the Communists.

　In addition, to the north of Malaysia, at the southernmost tip of Thailand, the four southern Thai provinces where the Kra Isthmus is located have now become hotspots of unrest.

　The so-called four provinces of Southern Thailand, namely Pattani, Narathiwat, Yala and Songkhla, are not only home to a large Muslim population in Thailand, but the locals are not Thai, but Malays. They also speak a variant of Malay, not Thai.

　This region was once an independent Islamic kingdom, the Kingdom of Pattani, which flourished for a time. The Pattani queens (or female sultans) of the 17th century are frequent characters in games, anime, and time-travel novels.

　From 1786 to 1832, Thailand, then known as Siam, launched five wars against Pattani before forcing it to surrender.

　As for Thailand's formal annexation of the Kingdom of Pattani and "destroying its country", that happened in 1909.

　As one can imagine, the glorious past, long tradition of independence, and ethnic, linguistic, and religious incompatibility with Thailand have all contributed to a lack of identification among Malay Muslims in southern Thailand with the Bangkok regime. Furthermore, the Rama Dynasty's brutal assimilationist policies in the region, which forced locals to wear Thai clothing and speak Thai, and abolished Islam in favor of Buddhism, further fueled ethnic and religious tensions.

　Even in the 21st century, the separatist movement in the four southern provinces of Thailand that wants to rebuild the Kingdom of Pattani is still as famous as the Irish Republican Army in Europe. It has always been a source of trouble for Thailand and makes foreign tourists dare not set foot in this chaotic place when they come to Thailand.

　In this time and space, seeing Thailand being beaten to the brink of collapse by the communists, the Malays in the four southern provinces of Thailand applauded and cheered. They had already formed a "Muslim Liberation Army" and occupied Pattani Province to cause chaos, and also received widespread support from their Malay compatriots in Malaysia.

　After all, this is an era of nationalism, and politicians and leaders in the Third World are all waving the banner of nationalism.

　But this also posed a big problem for the US military: if they wanted to support Thailand, should they suppress the Pattani independence movement?

　If the crackdown is carried out, anti-American sentiment in Malaysia will inevitably rise; if Pattani's independence is supported, the Thai battlefield will be hopeless.

　In summary, although General Westmoreland, stationed in Singapore, seemed to have escaped the quagmire of the Vietnam War, he was still surrounded by the remnants of the Malayan Communist Party, the Thai Communist Party, the Vietnamese Communist Party, the Cambodian Communist Party, and the Indonesian Communist Party, as well as various Islamic separatist armed forces.

　The local ruling class was also superficially pro-American, but they were constantly making small moves behind the scenes, and the British were also constantly stirring up trouble. Although Britain had become a follower of the United States at that time, even handing over its nuclear weapons to the United States for safekeeping, the habit of making small moves could not be stopped.

　In this situation where the whole place was filled with flames of war, General Westmoreland felt stretched even though he had an army of more than 200,000 men.

　Especially after Indonesia collapsed and Sumatra descended into chaos, pirates swarmed the Strait of Malacca, frequently robbing merchant ships and passenger ships. Even if General Westmoreland could ignore the fighting among the "indigenous monkeys," he still had to work hard to ensure the safety of navigation in the Strait of Malacca!

　As a result, a considerable number of US troops were tied to Singapore, often dispatched from there to carry out police operations to destroy pirate dens - although Lee Kuan Yew, who ruled Singapore, was very happy about this. But in other war zones outside the Strait of Malacca, the US military had to do nothing.

　Now that the 1st Marine Division has been withdrawn, more troops may have to be sent to Thailand to fill the gap. How can General Westmoreland be in a good mood?

　“It seems that the situation in Southeast Asia

　The situation seems to be developing in a direction that is unfavorable to the liberal camp!"

　Dr. Kissinger said with some concern, "Has President Eisenhower's 'domino effect' theory really become a reality? It started in Vietnam, then Laos and Cambodia, and now Thailand... Has all our military's bloody battles been in vain?"

　"Being able to easily eradicate an Indonesia that is on the verge of communism is already a great success, Doctor."

　Firi shrugged. "As for the situation in Southeast Asia, in a sense, it's just as the Soviets said."

　He paused, sighed, and repeated a line from an editorial in Pravda: "The firewood for the revolution has piled up like a mountain. All that's missing is a spark! And the Vietnamese are happy to spread the flames all over the world because they don't care about anything!"

　At the beginning of reform and opening up, when China first opened its doors to the world, the Asian countries it encountered were all known as the "Four Asian Tigers." From Thailand to Malaysia, prosperity, wealth, and modernization were everywhere. Those Chinese with limited funds, unable to afford travel to Europe and the United States, often chose to visit Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, then return to brag about their experiences abroad.

　Then, everyone was surprised to find that the natives of Southeast Asia, who were once considered poor and despicable by China, actually had an average income several times that of the Chinese. The bright lights, debauchery, and various entertainment enjoyments in the capitals of various countries were completely incomparable to the mainland of China, which had been closed for decades.

　So there was a group of antique "public intellectuals" from the late 20th century who, based on the current situation in Southeast Asia, made up nonsense that the yellow race was inherently stupid and inferior, had incurable bad qualities, and had to be colonized and ruled by advanced white masters for hundreds of years before they could move towards civilization and progress.

　But in reality, the "Four Asian Tigers" and "Four Asian Tigers" that the Chinese so fondly talked about at the time had only been rising for a few years in the 1980s, and their rise was only just beginning with China's reform and opening up. If anyone had been able to travel to Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand in the early 1970s, they would have been disappointed to find that even Singapore looked inferior to Hong Kong, and Thailand and Malaysia were even worse.

　Moreover, in the last twenty years of the 20th century, the prosperity and development of Southeast Asian countries had little to do with Europe and the United States, but had a lot to do with Japan.

　During the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union after World War II, the US supported Japan in Asia as a bridgehead against China and the Soviet Union. At the time, the US generously provided technology and opened its market to Japan, which, coupled with the Japanese's own hard work, enabled Japan to achieve postwar economic growth.

　Following Japan's economic takeoff, starting in the 1960s, it transferred some of its low-end industries to the "Four Asian Tigers"—South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Consequently, by the mid-1970s, the economies of the four Asian Tigers had also taken off, gradually becoming developed countries.

　The Japanese economy is far ahead of the rest, and in terms of numbers it is second only to the United States, taking the second place in the capitalist world.

　To this end, Japan formally proposed the "flying geese theory" in 1974, declaring that in Asia, Japan would be the leading goose, with the "Four Asian Tigers" forming the first echelon. Once the Four Asian Tigers developed, they could transfer low-end industries to the "Four Asian Tigers"—Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia—thus forming a massive industrial alliance, led by Japan and encompassing hundreds of millions of people.

　In a sense, it is equivalent to using money rather than war to rebuild the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" that Japan dreamed of in the early Showa period.

　In fact, this "Co-Prosperity Sphere" was indeed realized for a time, but it collapsed in the late 1990s due to Japan's inherent political weakness.

　Among the "Four Asian Tigers" that benefited from industrial relocation, Thailand was the biggest winner. Japanese automakers and South Korean electronics factories relocated to Thailand, quickly transforming the country into Southeast Asia's largest automaker, earning it the nickname "Asia's Detroit."

　When China launched its comprehensive reform and opening-up policy in the 1980s, the first group of people who went abroad came to Thailand. They were amazed and envious of the prosperous scene they saw - but they did not know that such a good year had only existed in Thailand for a few years.

　In Fili's own dimension, history had only just begun to roll on in the mid-1960s. Even the economies of the "Four Asian Tigers" hadn't taken off yet. Hong Kong's Li Huanggua was still making a living by making plastic flowers and buckets. So where was the extra capital to invest in Southeast Asia?

　Before 1975, among Southeast Asian countries, apart from the Philippines, only Thailand had a moderate industrial base. The rest were largely backward agricultural nations. Colonialists focused solely on extracting primary products like coffee, rubber, bananas, rice, and minerals, without developing any significant industrial base. Consequently, the lopsided gap between industry and agriculture eroded the people of Southeast Asia, leaving them impoverished, little better off than those in black Africa.

　On the one hand, the lower classes were living in dire straits, on the other hand, the upper echelons were corrupt, and coupled with the continued plundering of the remnants of Western colonial forces and the introduction of red ideology... Before the low-end industries were transferred from Japan and the "Four Asian Tigers", the whole of Southeast Asia was almost a powder keg.

　In another dimension of history, although the United States suffered greatly from the Vietnam War, it did successfully limit the influence of the "Red Plague" to the vicinity of Vietnam for a full ten years.

　This allowed Thailand and Malaysia to survive the turbulent 1960s relatively safely.

　By the time Saigon fell in 1975, the Vietnam War ended, and the three Indochinese countries all raised the red flag, Japan had already proposed the "Flying Geese Theory" and began to unite the "Four Asian Tigers" to make large-scale investments in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, allowing these countries' economies to take off.

　The revolutionary crisis that had been brewing in Thailand and Malaysia was completely resolved invisibly by the miraculous economic boom.

　But in this dimension, because the situation of the Vietnam War went out of control from the beginning, Thailand failed to survive the most dangerous 1960s and was directly transformed into a battlefield where the two major camps confronted each other. Indonesia was also completely turned into a mess because of the direct intervention of the US military.

　In this situation, no one would be willing to invest large sums of money in a war-torn country that is on the verge of collapse. Therefore, among the "Four Asian Tigers", except for the Philippines, which was once a US colony and can probably still make some money from its past, the future of the other countries is probably very worrying.

　Given the bleak future, sluggish economy, and the fact that the country is at the forefront of the Cold War, political turmoil is probably inevitable.