Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How North Korea Finally Made It Impossible to Escape" video.

Unfortunately that would have invited a full Soviet retaliation, especially with necessary strikes across the rivers into the PRC. Starting a fight with the Red Army was real threat and not only in Asia. This is why McArthur who spent his whole career fighting without enemy nukes and publicly advocated for its deployment had to be dismissed. The real mistake was abandoning the KMT in China years earlier instead of helping making sure the Communists stayed contained to Manchuria, even as blatantly corrupt and inept as the pre-Taiwan Nationalists were.
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