Bubbalo wrote:
Re: Korean War: Regardless of the US' original intention, it eventually decided to invade North Korea, and was pushed back.
Sorry your being biased and harboring some sort of hatred leads you to make ignorant statements.. like saying the Korean war was a failure. The goal of the United States was to preserve a free and democratic south after the
North Invaded.. There was no question who was the agreesor or what the intentions were from the outset. The fact that the fight turned north and if you knew aything about the Korean war youd know the battle of Inchon had no intention of taking ofver the North but relieving Pusan. The Korean war was anything but a failure and your insistance of saying so is disrepsect to the people who fouht and died for South Koreas freedom.
Bubbalo wrote:
but make no mistake: the Stalin and Mao hated each other.
Really is that why in 1950 Stalin signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance a 30 year military alliance and 300 million dollar grant ? Stalin didn't support the nationlaists he simply abdicated any hope that China could somehow win a civil war and a war with Japan at the same time. In fact in 1926 Chiang Kai-shek kicked the Soviets out of China and the Soviets gave full aid the the PRC. During the Korea war some million Chinese fought with Russian t-34's mig's and other Russian weapons. The PRC and the Soviet Union were full blown allies and any bickering on the side hardly changes that fact. They didnt have any formal conflict with Russia till the late 60's
There is no point in babbling about whether or not China has achieved some Marxist ideal or yammering on the semantics of whether they are a true communist state. They tell the world they are so for all intents and purposes of simply speaking about them they are commies.
Bubbalo wrote:
I believe that, given that other countries have nukes, he has every right to have them.
I think the NAEA and United Nations China and just about every other relevant world leader disagrees with you. A country with no real ability to fight a conventional war a piss poor economy starving its own people and a leader that threatens the world with nuclear attacks and/or black market sales of WMD's is not a person who can be trusted or a country that deserves it.