Trump praised for his courage, named ‘Man of the Year’ by The American Spectator

The Korean conflict was the first UN led war. Stalin had agreed to leave ‘North Korea at the end of WWII, but reneged and secretly made a deal with the Communists Chinese to send 120,000 bodies to fight. The Soviets gave money and air support (secretly). North Korea has been a client state of the Soviets since Stalin, until our own BJClinton took them off Boris Yelstin’s broken hands.

Truman’s loved by Marxists historians for helping spread comunism and for his non-elite ways. An objective look at his presidency show he was a Comunist who gave China to the reds, tried to give half of Japan to Russia, and intentionally lost the Korean war.

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It's fitting you bring up Truman because Trump's campaign was similar to Truman's campaign in 1948. Truman was considered a joke among the "intellectual crowd", a backwards unsophisticated hick, and given no chance to win. On the other hand, Thomas Dewey was considered the "establishment favorite", a media darling, and was practically coronated ahead of the election.

Truman took his campaign to the people, on the "whistle-stop" tour. His stump speeches were Trump-like in that they excoriated the "do-nothing" establishment and the biased media who were already in Dewey's pocket. He started drawing huge crowds and won over fly-over country before it was even called that. As a result, Truman confounded the pollsters and pulled off the biggest presidential upset victory up to that time - an upset the likes of what we would not see again for another 68 years.

What inspires President Trump? Wealth? Celebrity? Power? Beautiful women? Certainly all of these motivated him in the past. But having achieved these goals, just what persuades a seventy one year-old to take on the rigors of the Presidency? The big clue is within his purpose to “Make America great again.” The man who makes America great again can count on the eternal gratitude of history. This is fame.

President Trump's Quest for Fame.

>If he was a communist, why didn’t he just let North Korea take over South Korea without a fight?

Because a lot of US troops were about to die if the communist overran us and the US system of client states would have collapsed if we hadn’t tried to fight back. Which in turn would have gotten him impeached/overthrown and the communists running the state department arrested and shot. Truman had to at least pretend like he was doing something.

Truman had no interest in destroying North Korea but once Mac had routed them he didn’t have a lot of options. However, he ignored recommendations to bomb the bridges bringing in supplies troops over the North Korean border which ultimately cost us a victory in the war when the Chinese moved a huge army over the border. Note that once MAC was removed from command the US never again tried to win the war. Instead, we fought a war of attrition to a stalemate.

>If Truman intentionally lost the Korean war, then why did he decide that we should intervene in the first place?

Truman approved MacArthur plan to land Inchon despite the joint chiefs of staffs objections that it would never work. Truman already hated MacArthur’s for informing the press when he tried to given Northern Japan to Russia. If you think North Korea /South Korea has been a pain, North vs South Japan would have been much worse. I believe that Truman expected the landings to fail thus giving him the opportunity to give up on holding South Korea and to get rid of MacArthur. It’s the typical liberal ploy: There wasn’t anything I could do about the rioters/crime/commies, my hands are tied!

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