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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Unrelated to China, but why is the Vietnam War listed as Indecisive or unclear outcome?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

List of wars being involved in is not a list of countries being invaded and occupied, nice try though.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (40 children)

honestly the map is too unserious to merit discussion

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Yeah, apart from other areas of china (if you can call those "invasions and occupations") there's only been one time they've invaded another country and that was Vietnam in 1979.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’m surprised that nobody defended the Western Allies’ takeover of former Axis empires yet. I am going to write this to prevent any attempts:

The Western Allies reused the Empire of Japan’s system of forced prostitution.

Italian anticommunists pardoned Fascists while punishing thousands of partisans; there was no equivalent to the Nuremberg Trials for the Italian Fascists; the liberal bourgeoisie refused to prosecute Fascists for their atrocities in Ethiopia; and there were continuities between Fascism & the post‐1945 Italian police.

When the Western Allies took Algeria from the Axis, they let the fascists continue running the internment camps; important elements of the Fascist era survived in postwar France.

The U.S. Army continued keeping Jews in the Axis’s concentration camps (‘We appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them, except that we do not exterminate them.’ — Harry Truman, Sept. 1946); West Germany’s régime was polluted with surviving Axis personnel; fascist elements survived in West Germany.

Somebody could argue that there was no alternative to the Western Allies, but plenty of partisans were active in France, for example, and the Eastern Allies could have reached every Axis‐occupied region given enough time.

I’ll freely concede that the Western Allies were better than the Axis… but that’s not exactly saying much.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

@yogthos
well... if the map also shows where the US has acted clandestinely for its own imperialist purposes, the map gets a little redder.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Stark comparison but China regularly has skirmishes with India on India's side of the border.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

There was also the time they invaded Vietnam.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Yog, where is P̶a̶d̶m̶e̶ Tibet?

Is it safe? Is it alright?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Tibet was liberated in 1951 thank goodness

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