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
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.
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”
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
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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