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It is important to add that even though the US has committed atrocities, for decades, from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos through Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gaza; illegal invasion, torture, genocide, war crimes; nothing meaningful ever came from it. There has never been Nuremberg trial equivalent for the United States, and there never will be. Every single president since Eisenhower, every single one, no exceptions, has been a war criminal by the standards of the Nuremberg trials and the Tokyo tribunal, and not one of them ever spent even a day in court for it.
There are no consequences for war crimes committed by Americans. None. Aside from 9/11, but the ones who died, the ones who suffered, were not the ones responsible for the atrocities committed by the US. So sure, "just following orders" isn't a valid defense, but you won't need one anyway.
The Nuremberg trials did not happen because the Nazis were wrong. They happened because the Nazis lost the war.
Skipped right over killing 25% of the Korean population that just happened to be so unlucky to live in the northern half at the time, as is tradition. No one remembers the Korean war for some reason.
I remember, but pragmatism wins over factual correctness sometimes. If you're trying to convince someone that American imperialism is bad, and they get a whiff of what they might misconstrue as being pro North Korean, they dismiss what you're saying outright.
I also didn't mention Indonesia, Timor, Guatemala, Chile, Cuba, and so and and so forth. And that's not because I don't think America is responsible for truly gut wrenching things there (I think Guatemala is especially egregious), but because people aren't as familiar with these as they are with the Vietnam War and the war on terror. And the latter two have the added benefit that it's generally agreed upon by liberals (after the fact, of course, never during) that they were a bad thing.
Understandable
It's known as the forgotten war for a reason, mostly because it wasn't as big as WW2 and not as much of a clusterfuck as Vietnam. For all the shit that happened it basically just returned to status quo, honestly out of all the non Korean participants it was most notable for the Chinese. For UN forces it was a test run and for the Soviets it was a decent area to test new post WW2 tech and dump some surplus.