Who really started the Korean War?
me
The Japanese were ultimately responsible.
>>13315263USA by suppressing Koreans and setting up a colonial governmentwas Korea just supposed to do nothing?None of the partitions post ww2 were supposed to be permanent; not Vietnam, not Korea, not GermanyWestern powers simply moved unilaterally to create separate puppet states out of their half
>>13315320>Western powers simply moved unilaterally to create separate puppet states out of their halfThe 38th parallel was mutually agreed on by both the US and the USSR.
>>13315555...for a temporary custodianship while Korean state was estabilishedinstead USA crushed native political movements, installed a military colonial government and then proceeded to set up a separate southern government made of handpicked cronies
>>13315658and that country they set up became a rich and prosperous and globally influential nation while the other one became an impoverished and failed state
>>13315693yeah, the south became an impoverished failed state lmaothe situation reversed after it begun to be heavily subsidized by the west and we got to the current state when the north was cut off from international trade
>>13315658>instead USA crushed native political movements, installed a military colonial government and then proceeded to set up a separate southern government made of handpicked croniesHow different was this from the USSR and North Korea?
>>13316577It wasn't>Vietnam, Korea, Germany>Western powers simply moved unilaterally to create separate puppet states out of their half
>>13315555So no Koreans
Usually it was the communists that started the hostilities. >>13315320By 1950 it was obvious that no one should trusts the Soviet Union. They promised free elections in Eastern Europe and we all know what happened - election frauds, coups, establishment of brutal communist regimes.
>>13316589Yes, but not unilaterally. The USSR was in in this.
>>13315289this guy
>>13316577List of topics to read about: People's Republic of Korea, people's committees, USAMGIK vs Provisional People's Committee of North Korea>>13316613Uh, remind me again what happened in France and Italy?
>>13315839>they will sell us the rope that we use to hang them>REEEE HOW DARE YOU NOT TRADE WITH US
Bruce Cumings is worth reading / watching:https://youtu.be/ba3dgDUtE9A?t=1746
soviets were building their buffer states: poland, bulgaria, hungary, estonia, latvia, etcthese states would provide a "buffer" between the soviets and the westkorea was going to be one more buffer statethe united nations disagreedkorea was just another buffer state
>>13315305That mostly China and USA, retard.
>>13317666you are comparing a state that is heavily subsidized by western powers buying up their products under preferential trade policies to one that is forced to be almost completely autarkic and trying to use the result as a pointi know it's hard being satan but there is no need to cope this much
>>13315263The allies for not letting Taiwan and Korea remain rightful parts of Japan
>>13315263Finland
>>13318470>give the UN security council seat to PR China>don't give Taiwan to PR Chinawhat did the allied powers mean by this
