[–] 5 points 10 months ago

The UK and France bombed an arms cache used by enemies of the Syrian government. Syria won't be sad about it.

No casualties were reported from this strike. This looks like a pretty clean operation strictly to curtail IS, imo it shouldn't be in that same list.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Again you display a total lack of historical awareness. Korea was subdivided into two occupational zones by two imperialist powers, both intent on expanding their influence in the area. The people of neither area voted for such a division.

    Moreover, it was North-Korea that invaded the South, not the other way around. China also sent huge amounts of troops to the North for this initial invasion (up to 47% of the NK army consisted of Chinese troops when war broke out). Later, when the war did not go so well for NK anymore they sent even more troops.

    Plans of the US military to nuke China only came about after the Chinese helped NK invade the South, not before. It was also opposed on various levels of the military and government, so ultimately it did not happen. Again, it was Trumans policy to let China fall to the PRC, and it only changed after they started getting involved in Korea, not before.

    And let's just fucking clear, becoming communist is a choice that nations make as part of their self-determination.

    The North-Korean government was installed by the Soviet Union in the Soviet occupation zone. It was not created by the Korean people there. It has just about as much legitimacy as the SK government, which came about through elections held by the US in the American occupation zone.

    We're done here.

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