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"South Korea" isn't a person. Who actually benefited?
Seeing how things are now, South Koreans
Oh yeah, you really helped those South Koreans lol. Just like Iraqi
Who is "you" in this case?
Well then, I hope you get to experience the same kind of "help" that the Korean people received. Maybe if someone drops chemical and biological weapons on you and your family, it'll cause people to be wealthier 70 years from now. Sound good?
I mean Soviet Union did attack us and cause destruction and deaths in name of helping the Finnish people during Winter War. War reparations after the following Continuation War helped us industrialize. And we're now pretty wealthy. So I guess we already experienced some of it?
Maybe the US should pay the DPRK war reparations, then.
Maybe they should've just done that without dropping chemical and biological weapons on innocent civilians first.
If only the Soviets had won, maybe monsters like you wouldn't exist. No wonder you take the side of the Korean fascists, fascist collaborators gotta stick together, huh?
I mean we paid reparations because USSR won. If you wanted to compare Finland and NK then the situation would be that USA won and forced NK to pay the US.
Monster? You're getting a bit emotional
Oh, am I getting emotional? Over the dropping of chemical and biological weapons on civilians? Oh dear!
Maybe you should get more fucking emotional. Like what the fuck is wrong with you? You know the US literally recruited Unit 731 to help them commit atrocities, right? Maybe dropping the fucking plague and smallpox onto civilians shouldn't be treated with fucking "poise and rationality!"
Anyone who defends that shit is too far gone to be reeducated.
I meant emotional to a degree that's preventing you from actually understanding what I've been saying. I've been agains the whole Korean War. It was a complete waste.
Right. You """oppose""" the war in the sense that you oppose the North, in the sense that you support sending troops in. So when you say you """oppose""" the war, what you're actually saying is that you support it.
Why do you fascists always play these word games? We both understand that your position of "giving kids smallpox is good, actually" is completely abhorrent and indefensible, but that's not going to change just because you twist some words around.
I think it would've still been bad if it wasn't the North who started it. Whoever started it of course the other side is going to fight back. So best not to start wars.
It's my hot take that's making you fume and rant about fascists hah.
"I only support infecting children with smallpox, and this crazy leftist called me a fascist over it!"
Maybe try not supporting biological warfare if you don't want to get called a fascist, fascist.
"I don't think North Korea should've started that war, nothing was gained and many horrible things happened because of it"
"You are a fascist who supports infecting children with smallpox!!"
lol
You support UN/US intervention. UN/US intervention included infecting children with smallpox. You know this, I've told you repeatedly and you have neither denied nor condemned it, you haven't even acknowledged it. Because you support it. In the same way someone who defends Nazi Germany and goes mysteriously silent whenever the Holocaust is brought up supports the Holocaust. You are fascist scum.
I didn't say I supported it though. You just assumed that because I thought North Korea shouldn't have started the war.
You said that the Koreans "benefitted" from UN involvement, now you're saying you don't support UN involvement? Would you deprive Koreans of the benefit of being infected with smallpox?
Or is this another one of your word games, where I correctly understood your position, but because you didn't technically explicitly say it it doesn't count? The classic "motte and bailey" tactic?
You asked who benefited and I answered that. It's not an endorsement lol. North Korea benefited from China entering the war. Do I now support Chinese involvement?
Like said, you're getting too emotional to actually consider what is being said...
Can I just get a straight answer? Do you or do you not support UN intervention in the Korean War? Yes or no, no more evasion, no more word games.
Ask direct questions, receive direct answers. No I don't support it. I think none of the war should've happened.
In that case I return to my original statement. "Damn, maybe we should stop doing them then." I don't have any control over what North Korea does or did, but I do, at least theoretically, have influence as a voter and a citizen over what the US does, so I'm going to focus on the things within my ability to influence. And your response that "North Korea started the war" seems largely irrelevant.
I don't have any control over either action so I'm just sad that North Korea started the whole thing, especially in hindsight when we know it achieved nothing but caused so much bad.
Well, your country is part of the UN and as you've emphasized it was a UN intervention so I'd say it's pretty clear which side of the war you have a greater ability to influence and therefore a greater responsibility to critique.
Not members of the Securit Council though who made the decision or the United Nations Command. So not any more say over the matter than any other country that was part of the UN (which at the time and still is pretty much every country, but not all).
But it also happened before I was born, so my possibilities on affecting the outcome are pretty limited.
Which returns to my previous point that "the UN" at the time was essentially just the US, the UK (whose support was bought with the coup in Iran), and France (who got US support in Vietnam in exchange).
Then why are we even talking about it? Because it provides an opportunity to learn from mistakes and avoid repeating them.
Pretty much every country was a member. This was the makeup of the security council at the time. Yugoslavia abstained, Soviet Union was boycotting the UN.
"Don't start wars" is a lesson we'll hardly need opportunities to learn about, no matter how many there are people are still going to start them again and again.
"Every country was responsible for the invasion of Korea because everyone was in the UN."
"Finland has no influence over the UN because we're not on the security council."
Choose one.
"Don't start wars" is not the only lesson to learn, also, "Avoid getting involved in wars unless you have a very good reason, even if you didn't start it."