• AstroStelar [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    13 days ago

    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.

    • EveningCicada [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      12 days ago

      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”