RandomFloridian
Banned
Alright,
I know you read the title and are probably thinking this belongs in the ASB forum.
However to your most likely surprise this had a real chance of happening in our timeline.
Let me explain,
During WW2 Joseph Stillwell was sent to the Burma theater to fight against the Japanese and help to command allied forces there.
While there Joseph Stillwell often clashed with Chiang Kai Shek.
Apparently due to their constant clashing Joseph Stillwell disliked Chiang so much that he was willing to assassinate him, telling chief of staff, Gen. Frank “Pinky” Dorn to “cook up a workable scheme and await orders.”
(Apparently earlier either Roosevelt or General Frank Dorn said to Stillwell “if you can’t get along with Chiang and can’t replace him, get rid of him once and for all. You know what I mean. Put in someone you can manage.”)
The plan to assassinate Chiang ultimately would have been done with either a botulinum toxin, which would have been undetectable in an autopsy, or a more complex plan that would involve Stillwell taking Chiang on a flight to Ramgarh in northeast India to inspect Chinese troops being trained there, as part of the effort to improve the Chinese Nationalist army. The pilot would pretend to have engine trouble and order his crew and passengers to bail out. Chiang would be escorted to the door of the plane wearing a faulty parachute and told to jump. "I believe it would work,” Stilwell told Dorn."
However ultimately in May 1944 meeting at his headquarters in Burma, Stilwell changed his mind about eliminating Chiang and nothing further was done.
But what if this didn't happen,
What if Stillwell went though with his plan sometime in 1943 and really did assassinate Chiang.
How much would this change Chinese history,
And if the truth ever came out in this timeline that a high ranking allied general had assassinated a fellow allied leader, just how much backlash and controversies will occur.
(I know that people will probably be asking for a source to confirm that these events really did happen in history and I did not just make all of this up so here is my source.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/03/assassinating-chiang-kai-shek-china-taiwan-japan-world-war-2/)
(Some have speculated that Stillwell wanted to assassinate Chiang so that he could become leader of China, but I don't really see why he would want to be leader of China and how he would be able to accomplish becoming leader of China at all. However that would make for an interesting ASB story or HOI4 mod, because Stillwell did know how to speak mandarin.)
I know you read the title and are probably thinking this belongs in the ASB forum.
However to your most likely surprise this had a real chance of happening in our timeline.
Let me explain,
During WW2 Joseph Stillwell was sent to the Burma theater to fight against the Japanese and help to command allied forces there.
While there Joseph Stillwell often clashed with Chiang Kai Shek.
Apparently due to their constant clashing Joseph Stillwell disliked Chiang so much that he was willing to assassinate him, telling chief of staff, Gen. Frank “Pinky” Dorn to “cook up a workable scheme and await orders.”
(Apparently earlier either Roosevelt or General Frank Dorn said to Stillwell “if you can’t get along with Chiang and can’t replace him, get rid of him once and for all. You know what I mean. Put in someone you can manage.”)
The plan to assassinate Chiang ultimately would have been done with either a botulinum toxin, which would have been undetectable in an autopsy, or a more complex plan that would involve Stillwell taking Chiang on a flight to Ramgarh in northeast India to inspect Chinese troops being trained there, as part of the effort to improve the Chinese Nationalist army. The pilot would pretend to have engine trouble and order his crew and passengers to bail out. Chiang would be escorted to the door of the plane wearing a faulty parachute and told to jump. "I believe it would work,” Stilwell told Dorn."
However ultimately in May 1944 meeting at his headquarters in Burma, Stilwell changed his mind about eliminating Chiang and nothing further was done.
But what if this didn't happen,
What if Stillwell went though with his plan sometime in 1943 and really did assassinate Chiang.
How much would this change Chinese history,
And if the truth ever came out in this timeline that a high ranking allied general had assassinated a fellow allied leader, just how much backlash and controversies will occur.
(I know that people will probably be asking for a source to confirm that these events really did happen in history and I did not just make all of this up so here is my source.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/03/assassinating-chiang-kai-shek-china-taiwan-japan-world-war-2/)
(Some have speculated that Stillwell wanted to assassinate Chiang so that he could become leader of China, but I don't really see why he would want to be leader of China and how he would be able to accomplish becoming leader of China at all. However that would make for an interesting ASB story or HOI4 mod, because Stillwell did know how to speak mandarin.)