First of all the fighting didn't just Peter out we have a armistice which is normally used to do a peace treaty it how do you get a peace treaty if North Korea and China doesn't want one. You mentioned that Russia would not have invaded Europe because they in Eastern Europe was still recovering from World War II well so is China and Korea but that didn't stop them. It may have been a un action not an actual War but the 55000 Plus military personnel plus way more civilians who got killed would probably not really get the Finesse of the difference. France actually did ask the United States for nuclear or probably Atomic then bombs to use in Vietnam we said no. As for it's spreading the war to where? Russia is not going to get involved and what we did was set a precedence that's it you can basically attack US troops and allies wherever they want and you're home free on the best weapon we had at the time. It's really not the fault of the United States that China at the time had very paranoid leadership it seems to be something that they give you with Communism look at Russia. Last but not least I'm not in favor of using nuclear weapons but by not using them we have sentenced the people in North Korea to a life of unimaginable Horrors that would make the atomic bomb look like a firecracker in comparison. It's like the people who are against using the atomic bombs on Japan well if you're going to start a war you better be ready for the worst that your victims can dish out because that's exactly what they're going to do. I really get tired of countries that bitch and moan all the time that I attacked country a and then they use all these smart weapons and high explosives are killing civilians well you shouldn't have attacked them in the first place that you wouldn't have that problem. Had we used them bear would have been a lot less proxy wars in the next 30 Years.
they fought to have that government last I checked.. who am I to judge. I don't pee in their back yard.. don't pee in mine.. merry Christmas.
Okay .. so .. like .. The USA and the west were not highly standoffish from the get go on communism. we of course went all out to be buddies with red china right? same with Hanoi? or Castro? or others when they came calling correct? uhm let me get this straight. since I missed he part where the USA was like trying to be buddies during this time frame with anyone communist. it wasn't until Nixon went to china and told them.. yo.. we can make lots of money that the tone changed.
Paranoid.. do you blame them? look at the history
the British
the French
the Portuguese
the Russians
the Japanese
hell I would be paranoid too.
as for the end of world war II .. I prefer to let history be the judge, but condoning the murder of civilians is not one of my stronger suites. no problem with war and bombs and bullets.. my problem is that the atomic/nuclear and hydrogen bombs are equal opportunity mass destruction devices, as is fire bombing and chemical warfare .. where do you draw the line.. that's a great question. you can stop dropping single bombs on a city, you can stop shooting your gun.. you only need one atomic bomb.
as for the French .. thank god we did say no.. the USA looked stupid enough as is in Vietnam.. in someone else's civil war, supporting a dictator in the south .. colonialism ..
I get it, we had the chance to use over whelming power. we didn't. hell in 1990 we could have again. then again in 2001 we could have, yet we are still in a quagmire 18 years later, and what would the bomb decide except that we can kill lots of people at one time and make the rest of the world fear us like some raving maniac.