Classic US foreign policy in action!

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      22 hours ago

      And the South Korean military didn't crush parliament when it voted for impeachment despite orders from the South Korean President.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        20 hours ago

        The fact that the US vassal was not given the go-ahead to carry out a massacre that would politically destabilize the territory in a way that would stretch US forces even thinner for no real benefit is not evidence of America being hands off about this. It's just as easily evidence for the opposite conclusion: that Yoon was ready and willing to do Kent State 2, only to have Washington yank his leash.

        • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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          19 hours ago

          So the article is trying to make the argument that the US was a part of the coup yet the only fingerprints that could be traced to the US is that it kept the coup from being carried out.

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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            19 hours ago

            Nope, that's me pointing out that your argument cuts both ways: you're implying that what, a vassal state's military all just unanimously decided not to obey the president, and the hegemon that uses the place as a military and intelligence nexus just had no part in that decision? The US don't need to care about fingerprints in occupied Korea, they're the whole hand.