Truman is another Dem who’d be run out of the party on a rail these days.
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BS. Truman's reckless defense cuts and inept foreign policy led directly to the Korean War and almost lost the Cold War before it got started.
Typical Dem. He was the product of local Dem machine politics and hired a Sec Def who was a crony with no defense experience, a hatchet man whose job was to take money from defense to finance universal health care.
Mao saw the weakness, but he was inept too in his overreach. MacArthur (another specialist in overreach) bailed Truman out in 1950, then tried to squander his amazing victory as he invited nuclear war.
Truman's reputation is a media creation and his seriousness in the 1946 Greenland offer would have likely faded away quickly had Denmark showed real interest in making a deal.