Street_Disciple
Banned
Let's say Mac had been given a free hand in Korea after the Chinese invaded, what would he have done and what would have been the Chinese response? We know from his address to Congress that he wanted to bomb Chinese facilities beyond the Yalu and to blockade the Chinese coast. His most strident wish was to "unleash Chiang" from Formosa and set him on Mao as well. Mao was only ensconced in Beijing for scarcely two years at the time of Korea. Could his regime have even collapsed in 1951 if MacArthur had put the screws to him in any really serious way? And would this have greatly alarmed the Soviet Union and brought them into the conflict directly or not?