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2025-06-26 China-Japan-Koreas

Moment of Mutation: The US's Transformation into a Guarantor of Democracy Began with Korea'

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Posted by badanov 2025-06-26 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [125 views ] Top
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#1 ...nuff said.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-06-26 06:51|| 2025-06-26 06:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Speaking of South Korea
A reality check against ‘We do too much for Israel’
For those who have a basketball-sized burr up their butt over President Trump’s recent action against Iran and who thus accuse him of being a “puppet of Israel,” here’s something that should make such malcontents three times more angry: our relationship with South Korea.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-06-26 07:57|| 2025-06-26 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey Tucker,

What's the population of North Korea?
South Korea?
The Philippines?
Japan?
Russia?
France?

Posted by Ceiling Tile 2025-06-26 08:34|| 2025-06-26 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 After WWII, Eisenhower and others said that the failure was that Hitler and Tojo and Mussolini were not stopped when they were early in their ascent(s).

Eisenhower said unapologetically that boys from the heartland had to become soldiers only when intelligence agencies fail.

Sooo, the CIA was very active 1952-1960, when Ike was president ... and no wars.

The US turned away from this "Nip it in the bud" approach after President Eisenhower left office ... and long story short, here we are.

(If Eisenhower were president, one doubts nyc mayoral race yesterday would occur jmo)

Posted by Ceiling Tile 2025-06-26 08:46|| 2025-06-26 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Korean happened after the Soviet coup in Czechoslovakia. Moscow supplied insurgency in Greece and Turkey, and the Berlin Blockade. The latter of which caused a reintroduction of the 'peacetime' draft.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-06-26 11:04|| 2025-06-26 11:04|| Front Page Top

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