Seventy years after the Korean War, what lessons should mankind learn? This question should be answered most by the United States, the defeated country in those years. However, I guess I can't ask anything, and looking at its behavior, I know that it still hasn't reflected.
The Korean War was lost, and the United States has long used a rhetoric to excuse itself, saying that the volunteers adopted the tactics of crowds and could not win by force. Is this really the case?
Clinton gave the answer, saying that the United States sent a total of 2 million troops that year. In China, it's 1.9 million. It can be seen that the number of Americans participating in the war is not small at all!
Why did the United States send so many troops to the war, and what lessons should it learn?
What is the United States trying to fight the Korean War?
There has been an international debate about how many troops the United States sent to the Korean War, and the figure announced by the United States itself is 300,000.
But as more details of the war come to light, that figure is increasingly being questioned, with some experts speculating that the United States has committed at least 1 million troops, perhaps even closer to 3 million.
Later, former U.S. President Clinton gave the answer: In order to help South Korea win the war, the United States sent 2 million troops. After all, this is at odds with the pragmatic image of the United States, which has always pursued to reap the benefits.
Many people are puzzled: Why did the United States work so hard to help South Korea fight the war? This has to start with the Cold War situation after World War II.
After the war, the Soviet Union rose to prominence and single-handedly propped up the socialist camp against the capitalist world dominated by the United States. The United States and the Soviet Union were even more evenly matched, competing for world hegemony.
In order to weaken the Soviet Union and the socialist camp led by it, the United States has devised a containment strategy, that is, to unite all forces and mobilize all forces to prevent the development and growth of the socialist camp, which is what we often say, anti-communism.
Focusing on this theme, the United States has been active in the Truman Doctrine, which meddled in global political, economic, and military affairs, the Marshall Plan, which co-opted European allies, and NATO, which confronted and deterred the Soviet Union.
It can be seen that the United States at that time was painstaking and spared no effort to oppose the Soviet Union and communism.
Against this background, after the Korean War began, the US intelligence department submitted an analysis report, holding that the war was launched by the Soviet Union at the behest of the DPRK, and that the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union's errand, and that its goal was to reunify the Korean Peninsula and thus give it more initiative in the struggle for world hegemony.
In addition, the report provides a detailed analysis of the strategic motives of the Soviet Union, including the following three points.
First, it weakens the influence of the United States in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia, and shakes the confidence of Southeast Asian countries in providing security guarantees from the United States, and the prestige of the Soviet Union will be greatly increased as a result.
The second is to put pressure on Japan to maintain neutrality and curb the development of the US-Japan alliance, so that the value of US military deployment in Japan will be greatly reduced.
The third is to test the determination of the United States to intervene in the world and confront the socialist camp.
It can be seen that this report regards the Soviet Union as the initiator of the war, and regards this war as part of the Soviet Union's hegemonic expansion, which directly threatens the capitalist world dominated by the United States.
Therefore, the report suggests that the United States should actively intervene in the war, and should go all out to help South Korea win the war, otherwise it will be a hint to the world that the United States is afraid of the power of the Soviet Union and does not dare to intervene.
If the war is won, the United States will be able to establish its prestige in Asia, and not only South Korea and Japan will follow the United States with all their hearts, but even the Chiang Kai-shek regime, Southeast Asian countries, and European allies will trust the United States to provide strong protection.
This report, which fit the mind of the Truman administration, was subsequently adopted in its entirety.
As a result, the United States intervened in the Korean War by force, not only providing a large amount of weapons and equipment, but also sending 2 million troops one after another to help fight the war.
As everyone knows, the United States lost. Now, 70 years later, has the American political elite learned the lessons of those years? No.
They didn't learn their lesson
In July last year, a US nuclear submarine ran to the port of Busan, South Korea, and this nuclear submarine was still carrying a nuclear warhead! This is an unusual move!
First of all, the US strategic nuclear submarine has not appeared in South Korea for more than 40 years, and the surprise visit must be to send a signal.
Shortly thereafter, the 70th anniversary of the armistice of the Korean War was celebrated, and the intentions of the United States were clearly revealed. US politicians are still afraid that the whole world will not know, and they have made it clear that this move is an attempt to hit China and the DPRK, which is both a warning and a deterrent.
This move is not difficult to remind people that when Yoon Suk-yeol visited the United States before, he publicly mentioned the Battle of Changjin Lake, saying that it was a miracle created by the US military, and especially thanked the United States for its "righteous help".
We all know that the Battle of Changjin Lake was the longest defeat staged by the US military, which is not what we said, but what the former US Secretary of State said personally.
In this battle, the American army lost more than 20,000 people, including a corps commander, a proper nightmare. Why did Yoon Suk-yeol say that? Many people complained that he was ignorant and that he had gone too far in currying favor with the United States.
The first half of this sentence is true, and the second half of the sentence is the key, because American politicians love to hear it.
The Korean War, which was regarded as the greatest defeat of the US Army in the post-war period and was deliberately covered up by the US government for many years, has now been transformed into a card for US politicians to stir up tension on the peninsula.
What US politicians want to provoke is not only the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, but also the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, which are aimed at China. This is not something we speculated about, but something that American politicians said.
Just before the U.S. nuclear submarine went to South Korea, a politician who focused on the strategic competition between China and the United States wrote an article saying that the United States should learn the lessons of the Korean War. What are the lessons? He pointed out three points in particular.
One is to play two cards well, one is deterrence by force and the other is armament. At the same time, we must always be ready to fight and increase military input, especially the military armament of the Taiwan authorities, in case of emergency.
Second, political and military means are used together to achieve better results. U.S. politicians have a great deal of flexibility in their political operations, and they can expand the scope for armed intervention, and the United States can handle it with ease and no matter what the outcome.
Third, once the war starts, let it go, don't be restrained, and the gentlemanly style of rational restraint will lead to greater and more arrogant retaliatory actions.
It can be seen that US politicians not only did not reflect enough on the Korean War of that year, but also did not have a clear understanding of the current situation and completely deviated from the situation.
If these politicians are allowed to stir up public opinion, Americans will inevitably not repeat the mistakes of the past and reap the consequences. What's more, it will also bring the whole world together for the funeral!
There is no doubt that American politicians should wake up!
The United States should remember
More than 70 years have passed since the Korean War, and there has still been no substantive peace on the peninsula, and tension and confrontation have been the main theme for decades.
Although there was a precious dawn of peace during this period, and even the DPRK and the ROK almost normalized relations, they all came to naught due to the strong intervention, gross interference, and malicious provocation of the United States.
In the unthinkable, the peninsula is a card in the hands of the United States, through which he intends to create tension and confrontation between the DPRK and South Korea, China and South Korea, China and Japan, and even saber rattling with each other, and then through the so-called bloc confrontation.
First, Northeast Asia will never be at peace, and countries will be pitted into internal friction due to confrontation, and second, they will draw Japan and South Korea and strengthen the alliance between the United States, Japan, and South Korea, with the ultimate goal of dealing with China.
The role of Japan and South Korea in the U.S. geopolitical encirclement of China can be regarded as the No. 1 and No. 2 leading actors.
The United States has made a loud calculation, organizing a number of peripheral circles, such as the United States, Japan, India, and Australia, as well as Aukus, which has recently clamored for expansion, and at the same time, further consolidating the first island chain in an attempt to lock us down.
So, you see, the United States is very busy, on the one hand, it gives the group actors the opportunity to play supporting roles in the Philippines, and on the other hand, they continue to add dramas to the leading actors in Japan and South Korea, and they are bent on turning the farce into a Hollywood blockbuster.
Obviously, the United States did not figure out the situation and advised it to stop and think about it. To help it figure it out, let's mention it here.
First, the United States is the big winner of the existing international order.
What are the distinctive features of the existing international order?
Taking advantage of the spring breeze of globalization, the United States has used the hegemony of the dollar to harvest the world and achieved unprecedented prosperity; it has used the US military to dominate the world and become the world's policeman; relying on its superpower power and the glory of "freedom and democracy" to dominate world affairs and gain extremely high international reputation and influence.
The United States is still enjoying these benefits today and will continue to do so for a long time. However, if it insists on de-globalization and returns to the Cold War model, not only will all the benefits it enjoy disappear, but its decline will also accelerate. This is the result of perverse behavior.
Second, China is no longer poor and white.
At the time of the Korean War, when New China had just been founded, there was nothing to be done, and its weapons and equipment lagged behind that of the United States, a nuclear power.
Today, China is also a nuclear power, whether it is economic strength or military strength, it is a proper standard for a great power. If you want to make trouble, think again.
Moreover, the United States should reflect on the Korean War.
For the sake of face, it is one thing to say that the volunteers have won many victories and have won dishonorable victories; if they really blindly cover up, do not seriously reflect on themselves, and do not learn a lesson, they are bound to suffer even more.
As a matter of fact, after the war, the officers and men of the US military who had personally experienced the war were deeply frustrated and ashamed, and they frankly chose the wrong target to fight with the PLA. These are only whitewashed and covered up by American politicians.
Think about it, when China was poor and weak, the United States did not win the war with one breath, but now that the rich country has a strong army and its will is undiminished, what chance does the United States have of winning? American politicians, wake up!
epilogue
The United States is now making intensive deployments in an attempt to combine geopolitical containment with military armament.
Isn't it engaged in many small groups, such as the United States, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Japan, the Philippines, and Aukus, and it wants to gather these military partners together to conduct regular military exercises around China, such as the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and blatantly target China.
This is the message conveyed by the US-Japan summit. As for the United States, it is obvious that it has not learned a lesson from the Korean War, and it intends to tie the world into a tense, antagonistic, and isolated Cold War pattern, with the aim of suppressing and subduing China and maintaining its obviously declining American-style hegemony.
Putting aside the fact that China's military strength has become stronger for the time being, is it really a monolith to say that this huge military alliance it has formed?
When we meet, everyone is in high spirits, they can do anything, they can do anything, and when they make statements, they are also talking wildly, they are concerned about this, they are concerned about that, and when they are serious, who is willing to come out strong? We must grasp this point, adopt non-military means, and break through each one.
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