Like the amount of half truth and ignored nuance in this piece is staggering.

EDIT: It is even more insane when you consider there is an explicit plan by the US intelligence state to break up and balkanize China. Like they aren't even trying to keep it secret.

Edit2: "non amp version:https://web.archive.org/web/20211102155719/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/us-china-war/620571/" Courtesy of Alcoholicorn

  • culpritus [any]
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    3 years ago

    this paragraph is so full of :brainworms: and :pigmask-off:

    Examples of this are plentiful. In 1950, for instance, the fledgling PRC was less than a year old and destitute, after decades of civil war and Japanese brutality. Yet it nonetheless mauled advancing U.S. forces in Korea out of concern that the Americans would conquer North Korea and eventually use it as a base to attack China. In the expanded Korean War that resulted, China suffered almost 1 million casualties, risked nuclear retaliation, and was slammed with punishing economic sanctions that stayed in place for a generation. But to this day, Beijing celebrates the intervention as a glorious victory that warded off an existential threat to its homeland.

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
      ·
      3 years ago

      out of concern that the Americans would conquer North Korea and eventually use it as a base to attack China

      I wonder why they might have thought that. It's not like America had interfered in their Civil War and bombed villages along the Korean border before China entered Korea.

      risked nuclear retaliation

      Straight up admitting how close the Americans came to nuking people because they couldn't stand losing imperial control of a peninsula, very cool.

      But to this day, Beijing celebrates the intervention as a glorious victory that warded off an existential threat to its homeland.

      Correct, eat shit and cry about it :lmayo: .

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The subtext in what the author is saying is that China was irrational to think the US would use Korea as a base to launch an attack, because "we don't do that sort of thing".

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        I wonder why they might have thought that. It’s not like America had interfered in their Civil War and bombed villages along the Korean border before China entered Korea.

        MacArthur was a very stable genius and would never have initiated a bloody genocide from Pyongyang to Beijing that would make the Japanese blush, given half an opportunity.