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This article seeks to refocus the geopolitics of Vietnam within an Eurasiancontext and the Third Indochina War servesas the case study for doing this. Eurasiaprovides an alternative spatial context tomore Western centered ones and allowsus to understand why this small countryhas remained so important to this day, notonly for the Americans but also for theRussians, the Chinese and even the Indians.After a quick return to the past, I show howtwo rifts developed within the Eurasiancommunist world created in 1950 and howthey combined dangerously in the 1970s toopen up two fault lines, one between theChinese and Soviets in Western Eurasia,the other between the Khmer Rouge andthe Vietnamese in the Mekong delta. Howthese two misalliances developed and interconnected explosively along a Eurasian axisis essential to understanding this first warin world history among communists. Thisalso allows us to understand in new wayswhy Vietnam remains so important today inunderstanding Asian and global geopolitics.