^ Right now is probably not the best time to say that Korea was a successful US intervention. Although relative to other adventures, it was probably less bad.
What? so it would've been better to let the South fall to the North? Nonsense.
American intervention was justified in Korea.
In fact, we have right now a major economic player, a democracy and a very advanced nation in South Korea. Tens of millions of people were saved from the terrible fate of living under the communist North Korean regime.
Your argument is flawed.
This is a good video explaining what would likely happen if the North won the Korean war. The most likely outcome would be Korea ending up in a very similar situation to China, with the gradual liberalization of the markets occurring sometime between the early 70s and early 90s. Keep in mind that South Korea was also dirt poor up until the 1980s, going from one authoritarian regime to another, purging all communists in a very similar way to the communist purges. The point is, Far East as a whole will become a developed area in the near future, regardless of the timeline, it's just a matter of how many people are stuck in poverty for how long.
I do think that the Korean intervention was not only good, but necessary. That said, the war's outcome was definitely not ideal, and pretending like it was is just incorrect.
I've been noticing the tendency of people on the far left to say America lost the Korean War for at least the last 10 years. It's extremely strange and like objectively, obviously not true?
I agree, but using "like" as a filler word on a message board and ending your statements in a question mark unnecessarily is, like, annoying?
