WW1 was unjustified but Korea wasn’t
genuinely fucking baffled as to what anyone’s reasoning behind that could be
The argument I get from liberals is that North Korea invaded and violated South Korea’s sovereignty which validated America’s entry. When you point out that said division was forced upon the peninsula by foreign powers, they resort to “but line on map!”
And when you tell them the south was massacreing communists and literally killing people for “the wrong haircut” which prompted the “invasion” (weird how nobody ever says the Confederacy was ‘invaded’ by the U.S.) their eyes glaze over unable to see anything like a westworld android
weird how nobody ever says the Confederacy was ‘invaded’ by the U.S.
Have you been to the American South? My wife has multiple family members who still call it “the war of Northern aggression.”
they still don’t call it an “invasion,” which is probably because a civil war, within the same country, cannot by definition invade
American Southerner, I have heard it called a northern invasion from many different people across many different walks of life down here
yeah well i never have
Also that this was the result of the US already invading Korea, overthrowing its government, banning the popular ruling party, and installing one of their own lackeys as dictator in the first place.
yeah the war should actually be seen as starting then. But you fuck up a lot of america’s narratives if overthrowing a government is an act of war.
Also the “authorised by/under the flag of the United Nations” thing, while the UN resolutions underpinning it were boycotted by the USSR and decided by the United States and US-aligned states (India, Egypt and Yugoslavia abstained). Also the “United Nations Command” was almost entirely US commanders and 90% US troops.
Another infuriating thing is that the US justified entering the war by saying the north had committed an act of international aggression by crossing the 38th parallel into the south, but then when the war was going their way and they pushed into the north, they justified that by reversing their argument, calling it an “imaginary line”
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one was done for war reparations (bad) the other to kill commies (good)
it’s just not the same without the restaurant’s color scheme
Korea… certainly? get stuffed, bozo.
i think this is inscrutable precisely because it is unserious. the western chauvinist does not need to be serious. there is no wrong way to defend it, much like sartre’s antisemite.
It’s disgusting that these pale piggies get to sit rationalizing imperialist plunder with “justice”, acting as judge and arbiter of Earth. They get rewarded for doing so. I hate this place.
So I’m guessing “just” in this person’s eyes just means “The propaganda I have uncritically swallowed about this war hasn’t been challenged in any way.”
“I don’t know shit about fuck. Anyway, here’s my opinion,”
you know someone is cooked when they hew closer and closer to “but this war was okay” as they approach the present day and their living memory of conflicts.
“Just War” theorist opinions
I apologize for my ignorance, but was the US part of WW1?
Edit: Apparently they did enter the war in 1917 by declaring war on Germany. What was this submarine warfare issue though?
