Tom Nichols
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And again, by the way, this was also a war that became possible, as we now know from, again, I'm sorry to be professorial, guys, but from documentary history, from Cold War documents that were released from the Soviet archives, that the thing that motivated Stalin to say yes, because he had said no to an invasion of the South repeatedly, it's when the Americans left.
When the Americans left the peninsula, exactly everything that Sachs and others want us to do, that's when Stalin said, go for it. And they almost made it. They get all the way down to the Pusan perimeter. The north rolls to the very tip of South Korea. And the Americans, at the expenditure of great blood and treasure for two years, not only pushed them back, but reestablished the status quo ante.
When the Americans left the peninsula, exactly everything that Sachs and others want us to do, that's when Stalin said, go for it. And they almost made it. They get all the way down to the Pusan perimeter. The north rolls to the very tip of South Korea. And the Americans, at the expenditure of great blood and treasure for two years, not only pushed them back, but reestablished the status quo ante.
When the Americans left the peninsula, exactly everything that Sachs and others want us to do, that's when Stalin said, go for it. And they almost made it. They get all the way down to the Pusan perimeter. The north rolls to the very tip of South Korea. And the Americans, at the expenditure of great blood and treasure for two years, not only pushed them back, but reestablished the status quo ante.
There wasn't like, okay, we're going to have an armistice and the North Koreans are going to keep an extra 200 miles. No, it went back to the 38th parallel. There was a demilitarized zone. And the Americans who had, I mean, South Korea is full of the bones of American servicemen. We're still there. Yeah.
There wasn't like, okay, we're going to have an armistice and the North Koreans are going to keep an extra 200 miles. No, it went back to the 38th parallel. There was a demilitarized zone. And the Americans who had, I mean, South Korea is full of the bones of American servicemen. We're still there. Yeah.
There wasn't like, okay, we're going to have an armistice and the North Koreans are going to keep an extra 200 miles. No, it went back to the 38th parallel. There was a demilitarized zone. And the Americans who had, I mean, South Korea is full of the bones of American servicemen. We're still there. Yeah.
It's just one of those things where I'm sure it must have, you know, while you were on your way to a meeting somewhere, you thought, hey, I just had a credo saying whatever they're doing out there. I don't I will not speculate. But but, you know, that that you you're walking down the hall and you're saying, hey, I just had a deep thought tweet. It's one of those things.
It's just one of those things where I'm sure it must have, you know, while you were on your way to a meeting somewhere, you thought, hey, I just had a credo saying whatever they're doing out there. I don't I will not speculate. But but, you know, that that you you're walking down the hall and you're saying, hey, I just had a deep thought tweet. It's one of those things.
It's just one of those things where I'm sure it must have, you know, while you were on your way to a meeting somewhere, you thought, hey, I just had a credo saying whatever they're doing out there. I don't I will not speculate. But but, you know, that that you you're walking down the hall and you're saying, hey, I just had a deep thought tweet. It's one of those things.
Well, again, you know, somewhere somebody's investing and watching all this and having the time of their life.
Well, again, you know, somewhere somebody's investing and watching all this and having the time of their life.
Well, again, you know, somewhere somebody's investing and watching all this and having the time of their life.
Again, Trump is going through and he's kind of checking boxes and paying dues, you know, of, yeah, if you help me get in, I'll set up all the schemes you guys can. I mean, Trump, in a way, I don't want people to attribute too much purposefulness to this, because I think what he's really doing is saying, I achieved the thing I needed to achieve.