yw, my ten-year-old came up with it, enjoy.
Not surprised that it’s a childish buzzword
. Again, the proper term is anti-communist, not some bullhonky -phobe buzzword.
They crossed that border, part of the point of the post is pointing out the crimes people like MacArthur were perpetrating. Again, I feel the need to point out that the facts are not in dispute here.
The idea they, the UN forces, crossed the Chinese-North Korean border is utterly ridiculous. The only forces that crossed the Yalu River were the Red Chinese. If you actually read anything outside of commie dogma, you'd know that MacArthur was
fired by Truman after the suggestion to use nukes within the Yalu River area. I just find it hilarious that you call MacArthur's tactics before his suggestion of using nukes to salt the Yalu River region to keep the Red Chinese Army at bay, "a crime", because he dared to defend South Korea against the aggressive communist forces of the Korean People's Army.
Your first source is garbage and the second one is saying basically what I've been saying here already. The aid was minimal. The UN forces enjoyed complete air superiority the entire war. Hence their literal bombing of NK into the stone age.
Full stop. The first source is
not garbage. You only see it as garbage because it does not fit your narrative. Second of all the second source backs up the first. Again, the USSR aided North Korea. It does not matter if their aid was “minimal”. It may not be to the same extent as the Soviets gave to the Warsaw Pact nations, It's still giving aid.
I suspect you’d even call Encyclopedia Brittanica “garbage” too since they outline that the USSR
backed Kim Il-Sung.
As it was mentioned
numerous times in this thread: Who was the first that made the first strike and crossed the 38th Parallel? North Korea. Who pushed the South all the way to Busan? North Korea. Who wanted to unite Korea on their terms? Communists of North Korea.
The whole "Bombing of North Korea into the stone age" is just worthy of an eyeroll as just a half decade prior, World War II
had just ended. Countries in both Europe and Asia were literally in ruins and it takes time to rebuild.
Something that felt to me as relevant reading/important context for why China responded the way it did when MacArthur, who at the time was a flag officer with considerable civilian power in Japan and was sometimes referred to as "the Shogun of Japan," did in fact invade China through the Korean police action:
Something
@GenMarshall should be aware of too.
See my response to Estebonrober. The idea of invading into China via Korea is utterly ridiculous. Relying on rejected warplans that haven’t been carried out is just grasping at staws with Soviet apologia.
May I remind you that, until 1952 with the Treaty of San Francisco, The Empire of Japan was under Allied Occupation the same way Germany and Austria were. Unlike Germany, the Allies never assumed direct civil control of Japan’s civil administration and continued to operate under provisions of the Meiji Constitution until a new constitution was written and passed in 1947.
The idea that MacArthur had “power” in Japan and invaded China is purely laughable and rediculous.
The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China are not the same thing at all.
Both nations were part of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, no? Both are different countries yes, but they are both authoritarian communist dictatorships.
