USSR vetoes intervention in Korea

POD while still angry that PRC doesn't have a permanent seat the soviets decide against boycotting the UN but rather use their powers piss off everyone.
 
US will go forward no matter what, with or without official UN support. Though less countries would be inclined to commit forces reducing the overall manpower of the effort.

Seeing as thet made the bulk of the UN army, I don't see the early stages (Inchon Invasion and all) going different from OTL.

What you may see, however, is small expeditionary detachments sent from Taiwan to fight on the Peninsula to help bolster the manpower.

This of course could potentially butterfly into a more hyper aggressive PRC surprise attack before said troops get as close as they did to the Yalu in OTL.

With a more aggressive and earlier PRC attack in say late summer or early fall, you might see the US forces with less comparable manpower compared to OTL actually get swept off the Peninsula as well as US more inclined to use Nukes to save face.
 
I'm not sure you'd end with that less manpower than IOTL. While some countries may not join the international forces, the main partners (South Korea, USA, UK) have all a real interest acting in Far East Asia and would still represent the bulk of the military forces.

Maybe a deficit of 30 000 men at worst (probably far much less), that could be easily filled with slightly more important military involvement.
 
We had this debate couple of times already. The agreement is that US will go in anyway. Some smaller contingents will be missing but they won't produce such shortfall other participants couldn't cover.

Though I wonder if different structure would affect political outcome, so it doesn't end with ceasefire but actual agreement/peace treaty.
 
Not only would the US intervene, but even if you assume that some of the smaller nations would not have joined the effort without explicit sanction from the UN, the US would get that anyway--the General Assembly, where there is no veto, would have given formal backing to the intervention as it ultimately did in OTL with the "Uniting for Peace" resolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...Resolution_377
 
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