hey so maybe we should talk about why there are 2 Koreas in the first place
yeah, and then afterward, basically this is already how it went down:
The Koreas wanted peace, and they got a peace talk scheduled in front of China and the European council or whatever, and we were pretty sure the Chinese were both: A backing the N. Koreans and B terrible evil Commies plotting against us, so the U.S. basically showed up to the peace talks and shouted “I DON’T LIKE IT” every time the N or S Koreans opened their mouth to say anything until the meeting time was over, causing even the Europeans (you know, the people who colonized and subjugated three fourths of the globe right before this) to be all, “whoah, those Americans sure are pushy, that was certainly uncalled for” and they made everyone sign a contract, like, on their way out the door, that promised no one would do any building up of armed forces and especially no presence of nuclear weapons in either N or S Korea
And everybody including probably the N Koreans was abiding by the contract until after a couple years the U.S. got twitchy and decided maybe the N Koreans might be starting to think about taking the first steps to developing nuclear weapons kinda, we just had this feeling, so we broke the contract we signed and build up a bunch of military in S Korea and then we armed them with tactical nukes. Gosh, I wonder why things are so tense over there?
We’ve made a LOT of power plays like that in the last hundred year or so, and honestly, China has been very tolerant. Like a huge and powerful patient giant. A hundred years is not a long time, as the Chinese reckon. If you watched a time lapse of it all and pretended it was a game of Risk, you’d see exactly what was going on. Here’s a map with U.S. military personnel in SE Asia
We’ve, y’know, totally coincidentally completely encircled them. No reason. Nothing to do with China. Coincidental.
Meanwhile, the hotspots in the Middle East MUCH OF WHICH BTW used to be very socio-economically progressive until the U.S. armed extremists to destabilize the region to wield politico-military power. And “our” “opponents” over there magically turn out to have Chinese or Russian made weaponry, just like the people they shoot them at magically have made in the U.S.A. tanks and rocket launchers. Meanwhile the infrastructure of those countries is destroyed, and the populations of those countries suffer more casualties than China, Russia, or the U.S.; all of us are too fucking civilized to do something as crass as host our wars in our own countries, my word no.
It’s a game Russia, China, and the Greeks and Romans have all played using the tribes and smaller nations between them, and probably stretches back to before the Babylonian Empire, even prior to the city states of Summer and Ur, before the time of Dagon.
Rome lost that game to the European tribes, who picked it up easily and played it particularly fast paced and vicious until their own colonies turned the tables on them, at which point, having made a great deal of profit plundering the world, the European nations like, suddenly wanted to retire and promote world peace. Their rebellious colonies (the U.S. of course) were super busy for a while what with the enormous continent to divest of wealth and full of people to murder plus whole other countries worth of people we imported as slaves to subjugate, and of course we also all hated each other a lot, but eventually we got that sorted out juuuust enough to yell “OUR TURN” and go out on an armed forces rampage through the world – South America that had barely stabilized after their own subjugation and subsequent revolt as European colonies (you’d think we had too much in common to go viking on them, but here we are; personally I think it’s because those countries have more mostly-indigenous people making up their existing communities) and also Africa and the Middle East (where sometimes, we swore we were helping, and like, the best way to help of course is to install some military bases and religious infrastructure, everybody knows that.)
And then y’know, we industrialized warfare for WW2 and fucking brought the gun to a knife fight with Japan and suddenly we were over in a South East Asian room full of swordsman, with our giant fucking guns drawn, looking around, while to their north Russia kept frantically scrambling to get their own big ass gun built while screaming “SEE THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING” at their old frenemy China.
Anyway, yes, we are the reason there is no peace in Korea, because we’re disagreeing with China by having our Korean allies keep guns pointed at their Korean allies. It’s horrible and disgusting and absolutely how the world has worked so far. We’ve come a long way in setting things up to be different, mostly by controlling our ability to communicate and organize at the socio economic levels that unwillingly support the war mongers and power barons that orchestrate all of that for their own benefit.
Oh, and in the middle east we allied with wealth and greed instead of peace and civilization, the Arab nations we allied with are the places in the Middle East that have more of what americans perceive as BAD MIDDLE EASTERN realities; that is where the people in power still stone people to death and chop off hands for stealing and shit, living by the ancient religious laws that define women as personal property and such. Honestly, look up a comparison between The Revised Laws of Hammurabi and current Arab socio-political legal system. Those are our allies, against populations in countries like Iran and Pakistan, where women have been the Prime Minister of the country.
Seriously, do you think Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, or do you think somebody over there threatened the interests of our Arab allies and then The very people we armed to accomplish our goals over there tried to those same weapons to make us leave their own country, and we sure as shit weren’t going to let THAT happen. And, you know, coincidentally, our huge military efforts over there created wealth for both us and our Arab investment relationships.
IT’s all really bad, basically, and our only hope is to continue to connect the common populations of the world into a brotherhood of co-survival and human decency and pull the rug out from under the rich and powerful.
The-Lounge 