I hope you realize just how ridiculous this post is. Ask the veterans of Korea and Vietnam if they fought in a war. Ask the Ukrainians if they are in a war with Russia. The cold war was not a war? Where were you in 1955? Where were you during the Cuban missile crisis? Counter espionage is only allowed if war has been declared?
Well, this is my point actually. I get the hyperbole of the time, but the Cold War was completely manufactured on our side (look at what Roosevelt and Churchill was working on vs what Truman ends up doing). I'm curious about how it got so carried away as to ruin so many lives here in the US and abroad. Why was the propaganda so successful?
War time policies such as draconian espionage prosecution should only be pursued in times of war (running constant police actions and massive fear propaganda is not war and it's not very "American"). I would hope any rational American would agree. I mean we've been at "war" my entire life. Most of my life has been both sides railing against the Patriot Act and its overreach and it is far less draconian than the Red Scare.
I'd rather leave Russia and Ukraine out of this as neither is soviet or even socialist at all atm. The moment I concede the validity of the entire cold war project then keeping tabs on sympathizers is justified but not the railroading of people's lives or the completely insane murder of the Rosenbergs.
All of this is a sidebar to the Korean War insanity. 3million people dead. Every city bombed to complete ruin. All to subjugate a people that never wanted us there... There is a theme in that last part.
I think the invasion of Japan was pretty far along in planning when they surrendered.
en.wikipedia.org
Truman says this was not why the bombs were dropped. So, it can be planned all it wants, after Okinawa and from some comments from generals after the war the idea was getting side barred.
If you think about it, the former is a precondition for the latter.
I did not know so many here were like the firebombing of tokyo and dresden were awesome. Jesus. So, I guess most commenters on this thread think Russia should just go full monty on Ukraine? and Israel on Gaza? Total War? I get the mentality but not with my tax dollars especially as an imperial project which Korea definitely was...
I got 24 minutes in. So many sound clips (of what?) and disjointed structure. I thought this was about Korea?
It seems like they’re denialists that don’t know there is documentation from Soviet archives where Kim Il-sung is pleading to Stalin for assistance and permission to attack, the latter which he finally receives in 1950.
its in there keep going. they make fun of mao for warning Kim about taking on the world's pre-eminent imperial power and then Kim kicking our ass, Mao having to come save hima nd then falling into the same over confidence Kim fell into. Its all in their with their corispondence to each other...
It's definitely the other side of the story, so no its not going to be history channel rah rah America stuff because the facts do not support that narrative.