Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "The most hated US General of WW2?" video.

Stillwell was lucky few US troops were under his command. No one checked the survivors of the Chinese forces under his command. The US force Chiang to accept him as Chief of the General Staff of the National Chinese Army. After using Chaing's last mobile troops (essentially what he used to stop Japanese offensives) to save the Brits in Burma. This destroyed the units. Stillwell than marched out with the survivors to India, out of command for a fairly long period of time acting more as a corps commander than the Chief of Staff of an Army.. Chiang commented that if was a Chinese officer that he would have him shot for dereliction of duty.
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@jacqueslefave4296 No, Stillwell was gone but the animosity between him and Chiang lingered on. It was abetted by the left lean in the State Department and the anti-Chiang mood in the OSS in China. The problem was so bad that some supplies actually were sent to the Communists. After the war, it was worse with arms and ammunition embargoed. The last embargo was finally terminated shortly before the Nationalists fell in 1949. One stark example was the Nationalist request for 7.92mm German ammunition captured to be shipped to China (most of the army there used weapons in that caliber). The request was denied and the captured ammo dumped the Baltic. There are many other issues but that alone is one of the worst.
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@jacqueslefave4296 I avoided details of how Red the State Department and parts of the OSS were. One of my favorite laugh (but not because it is funny) is that Senator McCarthy somehow turned into the House UnAmerican Activity Committee. He didn't serve on the committee, those were Representatives, it was a committee of the House of Representatives, not a joint committee of Congress. McCarthy was used by the left to discredit the committee due to his own behavior and history. A trove of classified US intelligence intercepts of communications with the Soviets from some of the left's so called "innocents" was released during the brief period of openness before the Putin era began. It was released in book form, the Verona Report is the name if I remember correctly (I have stored somewhere). The communists made a lot of valuable recruits during the Trust Operation during the late 20s and early 30s. That operation gave the Soviets access to funds and both legal and illegally obtained technology; as well as the recruitment opportunities.
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@jacqueslefave4296 The book i mentioned actually had intercepted messages photo copied in the back. Little was done with the info to avoid tipping off the Soviets that we had basically gotten inside their communications systems. So, paranoia exists, but even paranoids can be right.
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@jacqueslefave4296 I suspect, that we disagree in our opinion of who is a war criminal or even what a war crime is, especially in terroris t and guess Rolla warfare. So, since most of that is opinIon, let's not go tnere.
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