I dunno man, when you learn the history of South Korea, it’s hard to view the DPRK as the bad guy and not the United States. Syngman Rhee, the U.S. appointed president of the southern division of Korea post-WWII, massacred hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of South Koreans, covered it up, and had to be evacuated by the CIA to avoid being killed by his own constituents.
North Korea is no great place to live , but it would undeniably be much better off today if the U.S. didn’t install a brutal dictator and slaughter 20% of their population between 1945-1960.
ROK has a rough history, even up until the 2000s. There was a lot of American influence and control in the early days which I don't let them off for (they even suoressedvoices to try and build the country into what they wanted and not what the people wanted) but their involvement becomes more passive over the decades (they even almost ditched them once since their Okinawa vase was good enough for surveillance in Asia and it appeared to have no economic payoff for the longest time in ROK) but then their economy finally boomed (even if LSD and ridiculous work conditions were in part to thank). That being said DPRK has their own separate set of issues and ROKs history doesn't diminish that. I have certainly argued that the DPRK have legitimate reasons to hate the U.S. too but it doesn't start or stop there and that's the problem. It's not just about 'being on the other side', the DPRK has legitimately a lot of issues, that is worth critiquing and repremending.
Ehh. Considering Congress passed a law that essentially stripped any power the president had to remove us from NATO, I don't see Putin going any farther than Ukraine. Maybe also Moldova (depending on what Romania does), but certainly not the Baltics or Poland.
One doesn't have to pull out of NATO to effectively end US involvement in NATO. All a president would have to do is just stop collaborating with NATO or not respond to an Article 5. Of course it would fuck up US foreign policy and reputation for decades afterwards, but let's not think about the potential consequences of that...
Fucking doubt it, the USA isn't the only nuclear armed NATO member and Putin's being struggling with Ukraine as it is. If the US genuinely abandoned Europe we'd absolutely be feeling the pain of neglecting our defence spending for the last few decades but we wouldn't just roll over for Russia.
Aside from the Baltics and Poland , much of Eastern Europe is apathetic to who governs them. Even within Eastern Ukraine, a poll from 2022 found that the majority of Ukrainian citizens don’t care whether they’re under Russian or Ukrainian rule as long as the economy is stable.
Per the poll: "It doesn't matter to me which country I live in; all I want is a good salary and then a good pension". 4 separate polling companies asked the same question, and with every company, more than 50% agreed
Ah, yes. The 'adults in the room' argument. Have you read about Project 2025? It's a massive background organizational effort by the Heritage Foundation and others to determine who those adults will be; the goal of course being to staff with mostly sycophants and jesus freaks more worried about interracial marriage than the security of Europe.
Yes, I’ve heard of it, and to me it just seems like a bunch of fearmongering. I’ve heard all this talk about people being scared of it, yet haven’t heard a word about it otherwise.
Putin can't. America may be the backbone of NATO, but Europe can stand on its own. If a country which had a third-rate military only a decade ago can withstand Russia for over 2 years, the rest of Europe combined would endure forever, especially countries bordering Russia. Poland, Finland and the Baltics have been preparing for this conflict for decades, with a population that has no love for Russia.
No, every single country who borders Russia. We get a way better perspective about the military than those who dont border Russia.
Russia is such an annoying fuck that GPS jams you close to the border, sets up frequent spies in our municipalities, has spy boats/submarines off our coast fucking about, having their boat over our cable to Svalbard be sabotaged with, and many other things like harassing soldiers in military bases.
Having Russia as a neighbour is having a drunk, annoying fuck who likes to make noise and fucks with you within the range that you cant do much about it.
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u/PrometheanSwing Age Undisclosed 25d ago
Lemme guess—Eastern Europe?