Comments by "Hyok Kim" (@hyokkim7726) on "South Korean Army's K-2 Rifle Needs to Chill Out" video.
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''The cold war had begun and communist east squared off against the capitalist west. Choose your side wisely! In June of 1950 the North Koreans attacked South Korea beginning the Korean war. Which would drag the major superpowers in.''
Actually, it was Stalin who had instigated the Korean War. He had wanted to drag in U.S. for an entanglement in Korea, and bid Mao to keep the Americans busy there, and in return, he agreed to provide heavy, modern weapons to PRC, and when U.S. was fully occupied, he was going to strike Europe, fast and furious and provide U.S. with a fait accompli.
That explains why the Soviet Union abstained during the U.N. resolution sending U.N. force to Korea: Stalin WANTED U.S. to go there, and Stay there.
Stain had employed the similar ploy, entangling the Japanese with China/ROC before WW2 so that Japan could not attack Soviet Union, with German, which would have sealed the fate for the Soviet Union, and most likely, the entire Allied cause.
You can read all about it, 'Mao: The Unknown Story'.
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