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Basically, MacArthur, the commander bravely trying to fight off the Red Hordes of China, has come to the conclusion that he must use the nuclear option to thin their ranks and allow America a strategic victory in Korea. Parallels to Kwansgi, especially Mao/Lesser Mao, are made. However, between the ninnies at the United Nations and the clearly Soviet-associated Truman (never-fucking-mind that had he been a Soviet agent, he'd have let them take Berlin in 1948), he finds himself stymied. As a last resort, he tries to rally the generals and the American people at his side to make them see reason, only for the traitorous Truman to cut him down and fire him. Later, in a secret meeting with Stalin, Truman admits MacArthur's plan would have put an end to the war, ending the loss in lives and materiel to the USA, almost thwarting his plan to weaken the USA from inside.
How's that?
I can definitely picture such a film being made. Maybe even throw in some jingoistic action crap, like MacArthur defeating Soviet agents sent by Truman to kill him, or even throw in a Mao Zedong who is more based off of the Lesser Mao, who is secretly corrupting American soldiers with heroin.
I think the underlying message would be "only Communist pansies are afraid of nukes, and you need to do anything to smash the Reds."
Based off a thread right here on this forum, about whether MacArthur was right in wanting to use the nukes or not, I had this weird idea for a Rumsfeldia propaganda film, based off Korea.
The thing about nukes is that represent a massive shift in the old ways of thinking about war.
The old way of thinking about war was this: if you have the means to achieve victory, use those means.
OTL, from maxim guns, to poison gas, to subterfuge, to aerial bombing, whenever a better weapon was used, it would be implemented to achieve victory.
The incident OTL that shifted this attitude was the dispute between MacArthur and Truman. The former, like any general, wanted to use an easy means of achieving victory. Truman, however, saw how horrible that would be as a precedent.
ITTL, MacArthur might be seen as a proto-Rumsfeldian figure for his willingness to gamble with humanities future. Because the Gumboverse has seen many corrupt people decide that nukes are a useful tool in war, and thus many people have become victims of nuclear attacks, from Chicago to Kwangsi.