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He was known here as Mike Collins. I knew him on DW as Spartan Phalanx. He was banned from both sites. In addition to all his bad behavior, he wrote some good TLs. When I tracked him down to the Ark, where he was known as Rick Deckard I found that he left there voluntarily or so it seems i started thinking about his work. One TL that I think I can faithfully reproduce concerns the Korean War. After the Chinese intervened Truman ordering the Air Force to bomb the Yalu River and cut off the supply of Chinese troops In early 1951, the North Koreans found the only hold on to a small sections in the mountains along the Chinese border. They sued for peace and a cease fire was signed with a armistice line much further North than OTL. I think that the American people would have given Truman credit for a victory but I don't see him winning a third term. I don't think he wanted another term. He also would have had to go up against the war hero Eisenhower. I think that North Korea in a smaller space with much less farmland becomes dependent on Soviet aid. When that aid is cut off they collapse during the reign of Kim Jung IL. There is one more change I see. The US military bases are in the North of the peninsula along the Chinese PDRK border. That means Mike/ Spartan/ Rick when he was stationed in Korea would have been somewhere different than OTL and would have a difficult time meeting his wife.
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