Posted on 11/24/2021 12:45:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Forget James Bond’s gadgets, the supercars of “Fast and Furious” or “Dune”’s stunning landscapes — when it comes to box office smash hits, China’s Communist Party has nailed it this year.
“The Battle at Lake Changjin,” a 176-minute epic starring Chinese actor Wu Jing, isn’t only the highest-grossing film worldwide so far in 2021 but has become China’s biggest film ever — toppling 2017’s “Wolf Warrior 2,” which also stars Wu — according to ticketing platform Maoyan Entertainment. The movie was commissioned by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, otherwise known as the propaganda department.
The film tells the story of how People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) troops entered North Korea and valiantly defeated the Americans mid-last century.
Since its September 30 release during China’s National Day, it has raked in a hefty $891 million, including presale tickets, according to Maoyan.
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MacArthur sucked and you are wrong. Wrong about everything you said. His main strength was having a well connected mommy. He got a MOH for conducting an idiot’s defense of the Philippines and running away to let his men go into captivity.
Worthless as tits on a bull, except for his administration of postwar Japan. And he was good at that because he believed he was royalty of a sort.
Utter incompetence and a record of ignoring direct Presidential orders.
Oh my goodness! This leftist troll again.
OK I'm ready, give us example of what a real American would have done.
His main strength was having a well connected mommy.
Did you even know he had a father?!? ROTFLMAO!!
He got a MOH for conducting an idiot’s defense of the Philippines
OMG this is going to be more fun than I thought. Describe for all of us how MacArthur's defense of the Philippines was as you write "idiotic". I'll even stay up through PST waiting for a half-cogent reply LOL!!
Furthermore have you learned nothing from the treatment of Trump and thousands of other proAmerican individuals? MacArthur opposed Truman who represented all that was inimical to American interests at that time. His reputation had to trashed.
Yes, I agree - MacArthur was ordered to leave Corregidor by Roosevelt, the Commander-in-Chief. I don’t understand why you and John Mosby keep going back to that fact which I’m not disputing. My problem is with MacArthur’s decision to actually leave instead of explaining to Roosevelt and George Marshall that he was honor-bound not to abandon his command. What if MacArthur had been killed during the constant shelling by the Japanese before they landed on Corregidor? Would the war in the Pacific have been lost due to the absence of one man? Was there only one General capable of turning things around after the decision was made in Washington to write off the American troops trapped in the Phillipines? It’s my opinion that MacArthur was not that indispensable. We’ll just have to agree to disagree...
You and John Mosby seem to have the same opinion of those who disagree with you - namely that everyone who disagrees with you is completely ignorant and an uninformed amateur. I had a history professor in college who felt the same way you and John Mosby do - any criticism of MacArthur was simply due to not possessing your degree of expertise and personal connection with MacArthur. When discussing events like this, it doesn’t help to advance the discussion by simply stating “You don’t know what you are talking about.”
I previously wrote that like Custer, MacArthur surrounded himself with sycophants who defended him beyond reason, hero worshippers like yes, MacArthur’s mother (both Roosevelt and MacArthur were notorious mama’s boys) and in Custer’s case his wife Libby. She spent the rest of her life cultivating the idea that her husband was a military genius and that anything that went wrong was never his fault but rather due to his incompetent staff who let him down.
If neither of you can provide a counter argument, besides the “You don’t know what you’re talking about” retort, then I’ll have to presume we’re at an impossible-to-resolve impasse...but thanks for playing.
The most decorated American serviceman of WWI was simply fearless. Saving his own skin would not have been a consideration of MacArthur's in following orders.
What if MacArthur had been killed during the constant shelling by the Japanese before they landed on Corregidor? Would the war in the Pacific have been lost due to the absence of one man?
No but delay and many more dead Americans would have resulted.
Was there only one General capable of turning things around after the decision was made in Washington to write off the American troops trapped in the Phillipines?
Eventually, a replacement would emerge but in the meantime, delay and many needless American casualties would have occurred.
Perhaps it is more a matter of good people surrounding themselves with good people and those who weren't good were ignored and resented it.
General Kenney sure opened an epic can of whoopass on the Japanese. Later, after Kenny had retired and had nothing to gain wrote in his book nothing but words of praise for MacArthur.
General Wainwright certainly had motive to write something negative about MacArthur but didn't.
If 25 percent of the leftist's anti-MacArthur was true, why didn't Wainwright have unkind words to pen about MacArthur?
There is that old saying about the hand which rocks the cradle.
High performing people generally have parents that also performed highly. Both of MacArthur's parent were from families of substance. The father won the Medal of Honor in the Civil War, his grandfather was Chief Justice of the District Court for the District of Columbia and Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin. His mother was from a wealthy merchant family
Young Douglas spent several of his boyhood years on a frontier army outpost in the New Mexico territory where he was "home schooled" by his mother since there was no school on the outpost. So, the circumstances of many military families whereby the mother's have to take on larger role in child rearing was also the case for Douglas and his older brother Arthur.
That parents continue to influence their adult children is normal. With the death of his father and untimely death of his high performing older brother Arthur, a 43 year old Douglass was all that Mary MacArthur had left in 1923.
It was a good solid influence to drive him on to real American leadership and victories. He had no equal on the scale of the war in the Pacific theater, and winning island strategy with forward air support. Re-creating Japan as a buffer against Maoist Chi-Coms (still to this day Japan is an integral part of the opposition to Xi-Ping’s new Maoism. Another great result of the saving of Japan by MacArthur into a strong democracy with strong cultural discipline still in place.
Perhaps you can repost but address it to those on this thread who have been brainwashed by leftist anti-MacArthur propaganda.
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