Do these people not realize Russia and China would intervene and curb stomp the US and occupied Korea?

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      The North was economically far stronger than the South right up until the 80s when the US started to pour immense amounts of investment into their puppet state just as the USSR was starting to decline. Then the DPRK was effectively left totally alone in the 90s without any outside trade except for a small amount - much smaller than they had with the USSR - with China. And yet even to this day the North is arguably the more industrialized half because it has its own heavy industries including a very impressive military industry, whereas the South just buys American hand me downs. The North is self-sufficient in virtually every way including agriculturally and industrially. Which is really the weaker economy here, the one that produces for itself everything it needs or the one that has to rely on other countries’ industrial output while itself only really specializing in the automobile industry and a few other high tech sectors?

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        The 1990 HDI of DPRK was higher than the Philippines, which is arguably more representative of what a US colony would actually look like when the Americans do not fund a significant portion of the state budget as they did in Park era SK.

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    Talk abotu white savior complex. They do realize that we didn’t actually win the Korean War, right?

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    South Korea nearly received more western aid than ALL of Africa is why it’s successful. One was a site of resource extraction and the other a site of resource dumping. Why do liberals act like experts when they don’t understand simple shit like this. They truly believe South Korean manufacturers would be as successful not exploiting the cheap resources and labor of others.

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    1950s China, war torn with an agrarian economy, and an army under-equipped even by WW2 standards, pushed Dugout Doug back to the 38th parallel.

    What makes them think today’s China, one that is now the foremost industrial power producing some of the most advanced UCAVs, hypersonics, destroyers, carriers, and 5th gen fighters in the world, is going to let them?

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    North Korea remembers the atrocities that were done onto them the last time, and are more than prepared for a war with the US and their colony

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    “Putin is stupid for thinking he can beat Ukraine in a few hours. Anyway, we could totally btfo North Korea in 30 minutes.”

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      Even more amusing when you consider that DPRK has nukes, whereas Ukraine has only survived as a NATO proxy.

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        Its also on Russia that they are only focused on demilitarising with minimal damage and avoidance of civilian casualties. They do not have step 1: carpetbomb genocide mentality.

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          The Russians see East Ukrainians as Russians.

          The US media othered Iraqis and Afghans so much that a certain group of Americans started attacking other Americans that were Muslims and/or of west/south-Asian descent.

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          Exactly. People forget that “Special Military Operation” does not mean “anything goes, get mah warcrime gun”. In other words, the SMO indeed is not the same as a declared war.

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            It is the kind of mistake the corporate fascist Deep State facilitates culturally via brainwashed liberal and conservative puppets on the streets and on internet, to modify and twist reality, and to create alternative versions of it, so that 10-15 years down the line they can quote people saying it was a genocidal war invasion same-as-Iraq hurrdurr nonsense. I see the socdems/demsocs making this mistake, because they want more viewership and social reachout, trying to tussle with people who refuse to listen to non-controlled factual journalists, revolutionaries and vigilantes.

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              How to be a succdem for dummies:

              1. Accept and internalize class enemy propaganda

              2. Still fucking lose

              3. Go even further right

              4. Repeat 1-3 ad nauseam