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Classic US foreign policy in action!

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[-] reverendz@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

The US has it entire arm up the arse of the South Korean army and government.

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

there is nothing in there but two arms.

one of them is the United States government

the other one is the Samsung corporation.

if not for the arms inside it, the puppet would be a limp hollow tube of colorful cloth.

i mean, it sucks and it should stop, absolutely the United States should fuck off, but I'm saying that if/when it ever does, it won't be pretty.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 17 hours ago

And the South Korean military didn't crush parliament when it voted for impeachment despite orders from the South Korean President.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 3 points 15 hours ago

The fact that the US vassal was not given the go-ahead to carry out a massacre that would politically destabilize the territory in a way that would stretch US forces even thinner for no real benefit is not evidence of America being hands off about this. It's just as easily evidence for the opposite conclusion: that Yoon was ready and willing to do Kent State 2, only to have Washington yank his leash.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 15 hours ago

So the article is trying to make the argument that the US was a part of the coup yet the only fingerprints that could be traced to the US is that it kept the coup from being carried out.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Nope, that's me pointing out that your argument cuts both ways: you're implying that what, a vassal state's military all just unanimously decided not to obey the president, and the hegemon that uses the place as a military and intelligence nexus just had no part in that decision? The US don't need to care about fingerprints in occupied Korea, they're the whole hand.

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