Re:U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance ...
by defrost on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:31PM
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> so that you would not be living as a slave under Kim Jong-un at this very moment.
Leaving politics aside, that's some very flawed alternative history thinking there.
The alternative world in which (say) Korean War era "Domino Theory" wasn't so aggresively pursued with military action and so many former Western colonies in Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, etc) weren't defended from finding their own path post WWII is a world where factors that created an extreme North Korea, and Pol Pot in Cambodia, etc. are absent.
Who's to say where the world would be had Kissinger and friends not been so hawkish.
In Korea at least:
Nearly 5 million people died. More than half of these–about 10 percent of Korea's prewar population–were civilians. (This rate of civilian casualties was higher than World War II's and the Vietnam War's.) Almost 40,000 Americans died in action in Korea, and more than 100,000 were wounded.
Five million would still be alive, fewer families would have been torn asunder, and the < %1 of the deceased that were US service personal would not have died.
Leaving politics aside, that's some very flawed alternative history thinking there.
The alternative world in which (say) Korean War era "Domino Theory" wasn't so aggresively pursued with military action and so many former Western colonies in Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, etc) weren't defended from finding their own path post WWII is a world where factors that created an extreme North Korea, and Pol Pot in Cambodia, etc. are absent.
Who's to say where the world would be had Kissinger and friends not been so hawkish.
In Korea at least:
Five million would still be alive, fewer families would have been torn asunder, and the < %1 of the deceased that were US service personal would not have died.