The Philippines did their part

the Korean war is usually ignored by the US history types, mainly because it showed outright aggression by the communists was a reality.

And when it is remembered, usually it is seen as US vs North Korea, not only ignoring how China "helped" their allies, but that it was a UN sponsored war, so other countries helped defend the country.

and one only has to look at the prosperity of South Korea to see that the war was just (even though Marxist professors in the South are influential in persuading the students the US was evil in doing this.)

So if you are watching this on your Samsung phone, one reason is because the Philippines did their part.





this is not the only time that surrounded Philippine military helping the UN forces stood their ground:

The famous incident in the Golan Heights, when the "rebels" surrounded UN forces and demanded surrender resulted in the contingent from Fiji laying down their arms after being ordered to do this by the UN commander.


The head of the UN peacekeepers also ordered the Filipino contingent to surrender, but the Filipino peacekeepers refused, fought back, and eventually managed to escape.





Hmmm... so what is Molon Labe in Tagalog?

this is the Filipino equivalent to "Blackhawk Down", where the UN just couldn't get their act together to help the peacekeepers.

and ironically the UN types blasted the Filipinos because they put the Fijian soldiers who did surrender into danger.

by the way: unlike Korea, where the war was ideological, this was done because the rebels needed money, and figured this was the easy way to do it (they eventually got 25 million dollars for the prank).