Damn its amazing how if you look at any situation we get involved in, America seems like the bad guy
The Civil War and World War Two feature so prominently in American media because they're the only two wars where the US was on the right side.
🎶Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical.
"Once ze rockets go up, who cares where they go down?"
"That's not my department!" Says Wernher von Braun.🎶
Well yeah. In both examples, the US only ended up doing the right thing after trying every other option. And immediately returned to doing evil afterwards.
The civil war was the only time in American history where communists held any prominent positions of power.
Yep the American bourgeois were so scared of a handful of communist sympathizers and a foreign revolution that they did everything they could to remove all progressive elements from the political system. Shit’s sucked since. It also sucked before, but it definitely sucked after.
Big “pick up that can” oppressive dystopian occupying force energy from the us yet again
"In 2021 the world's greatest imperialist military left Afghanistan...
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
A declassified February 1949 CIA report had recognized “an inherent Korean sentiment against foreign interference,” that is, against the US presence on the peninsula. It also noted that Rhee’s government faced a “strong and efficient” Korean patriot under- ground. Hadn’t Hodge, and after him Rhee, spent the last four years rounding up leftists, immuring them in concentration camps, and fighting guerrillas in the countryside? Despite their efforts, culminating in 100,000 to 200,000 Korean patriots killed, 30,000 in prison and 70,000 in concentration camps, the resistance continued.
Those 100,000 - 200,000 are between the end of WW2 and the start of the Korean War.
After the war broke out:
The ROK collapse was immediate. Syngman Rhee and his inner circle immediately fled, soon followed by the ROK army. Those of the South Korean military who didn’t flee defected to the North Korean side. DPRK forces liberated Seoul within three days.
reminds me of recent events..
(from Patriots, Traitors and Empires by Stephen Gowans)
True, it took a month or two before they had the rest of the country, with only Busan remaining under ROK control
Imagine suffering from decades of oppression from the Japanese and then your "liberators" force you to speak English, a language you've never heard in your life. Just horrible
and then it turns into an outright military dictatorship even though the "liberators" are still in control of the military and also they send hundreds of thousands of your people to fight communism in Vietnam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea_in_the_Vietnam_War
wow, 350k? I didn't know about that, thank you
