Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:30:40 AM No.212062615
>In January 1950, [Stalin] approved Kim Il Sung's proposal to conquer South Korea in what became the Korean War that summer, believing that victory there would discredit NATO. The gambit backfired, however; despite their initial optimism the Communists were unable to defeat the US-led forces in Korea, and the war greatly increased Western military spending, for the first time making NATO a significant threat against the Soviets in Europe.
Why does it sound so familiar?
Why does it sound so familiar?
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