Yeah US army were tired of fighting. So they left leaving half of Korea.
Not going to discuss all other item with you, but I am going to say something about your preception about Korean War.
First of all, US never, ever wanted Korea to be unified, neither Truman nor the Congress wanted MacArthur go over to the 38 parallel. If you look at the 4 years prior to North Korea invaded the south. You can see the South Korean militaryy were not rebuild and have no training, no modern weaponry, no organisation and remained a militia force, that is the reason why it only take NK 3 months to go all the way to Pusan, because the South Korean Military does not exist at that point. Truman do not want to arm the South Korea Military so that they can go invade the North, that is true in 1946, before the war broke out, that is also true in 1950 when the war broke out.
Invading the North Korea after the UN troop pushes out the North Invasion have nothing to do with the US government, it was done prehaps by chance but mostly because of MacAuthur and the South Korean. UN go along with it, but with no authority between UN and the POTUS, the resolution 84 (which authorise force heading by the US to expel the North Korean invader) ended the authority only when they reaches the Status Quo, Resolution 84 was never intented to roll over North Korea and unify the Koreas
Thus, when the UN Force started to assemble, they were set with that goal in mind (Defending the South), and was mainly a defence force. Not an invasion force, with minimal tanks and offensive weaponry. But rather a large bulk of Infantry and Air Support. And the logistic was not build to stand up to stretch from Pusan all the way to Ap Loc river in the Chinese Border. In fact, when MacAuthur stated that they are going over to the North, many people within the US government and US military express their disbelieve. And one of them is truman. That is why when it eventually failed, Truman have to replace MacAuthur, even tho that mean he have to commit political suicide.
And if you look at the situation now, you can also argue had US indeed push the North korean all the way back to China, and North Korea ceased to exist at that point. China would not have lose 200,000 men to the war, may be able to recover the renegade Provice of Taiwan, and there will be no reason for US troop to station in South Korea, if China is using its influence smartly, an Unifed Korea under the South would have been entrenched in Chinese Camp now. Truman saw that, and he don't want the Koreas to be unified. So the current situation works for the best for the US. That is why US hang back with the UN force, and that is the reason why Chinese can push the UN force from the North, not because the Chinese were superior.
In fact, some one could argue North Korea actually did a better job invading the South Korea than the Chinese, beucase Chinese offensive stuck in 32 Parallel and eventually being pushed back to about the 38th (which is the current border) But the North Korean had all the way roll thur the south ending their offensive in Pusan.
I agree. But Here US and the west criticize Russian action in Ukraine. US condemns China's doings in the South China Sea. But that's all they do. More like that's all they can do. US seems to be having some problem playing the world police. That's all I'm stating. I'm not saying that US is becoming an irrelevant country. It seems that they can't project their power all across the globe as good as they could 2 decades ago.
I personal don't think the US have problem playing world police these day, they are just playing it smart. You are confused between not willing to act and not capable to act.
You don't need to fight an actual war if there is an alternative, in Afghanistan and Iraq, there were no alternative, the Amreican cannot use the kurd to fight a proxy war with Iraq as they tried that after 1991, and we can all see what had happened.
US tried to use Pakistan to hinder Afghanitan, but in fact, the public demanded the US troop on the ground becasue of OBL, hence US send troop to Afghanistan.
In Chinese case, there are
A LOT more alternative. With the Chinese Threat and SCS tension, American don't need to do anything themselves and they will just bankroll country like Vietnam, Taiwan, India, Japan, South Korea, even Australia. We saw an increase armament sale to all these country where they weren't used to be that big of a deal, but since the Chinese being painted a bad guy and they willingly played the role, the American have a lot of military equipment order filling those country. Earning a lot of money selling C-17, Apache, F-16, F-35, MLRS, Ships, Artillery Gun and so on.
Money feed from fear, if the fear is gone, then the money is gone, why the US need to esculate the situation when the current one suited their need. Just keep buying from the US and keep fanning dear for money, SCS have no strategic value for the US, why would the American wanted to invade??
Sames goes to Ukraine, Sames goes to Georgia.
