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Korean War MemorialThe presumed post WW-II American hegemony (the one that revisionist academic historians use as the central fact in their argument that we should all bear collective guilt for Hiroshima and Dresden) lasted about 10 minutes. By 1946 the communists and royalist/nationalists were fighting a civil war in Greece. That war did not end until 1949, and the most optimistic estimate is that it cost 50,000 lives (out of a population of 7.5 million). The communists were eventually defeated but only at the cost of massive American aid. By then, a similar struggle between communists and nationalists had begun on the Korean Peninsula; a year later, with the Russian-supported invasion by a mechanized army of what would become "North" Korea, the United States would be at war (again!). By September 1950 the defeated American and South Korean forces were in the Pusan perimeter (10% of the land mass of Korean perimeter) and were considering evacuation. Still worse, the relative competitiveness of American steel manufacturing was already being undercut by unfairly cheap competition from Europe and American farmers were clamoring for price supports and export subsidies.

The permanent decline of the United States of America seems to be that rarest of all things — an historical constant.


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