@Smokin Joe
ONLY because Adam Schiff's grandfather lent the Japanese government enough money to build a new fleet of warships.
Seriously. This was a man who had to flee Russia to avoid arrest and execution,and leave all his real property behind. He and his family escaped with the gold and jewels they could put their hands on,and STILL had enough money to live like royalty in the west while lending enough money to a sovereign nation to build a modren navy.
I can't even begin to imagine how much actual wealth the Schiff family has today,deposited in banks all around the world.
Enlightening, and I had no idea the Shiff family was so well heeled.
Well,to be fair,the US Army was nothing more than an unprepared and underequipped shell of an Army when the Chinese crossed the Yalu in numbers higher than the number of rifle rounds the US Army had available. And the South Korean army was in even worse shape.
All true.
To be really fair, the Army had been downsized after WWII, and in the original invasion of the South, the Chinese were few and far between in the ranks of the North Koreans. Yep, the Army wasn't ready for that one, (either the ROK or US) and got hammered back into the Pusan pocket where, miraculously, they held, keeping the port open and the North Koreans tied up. McArthur's invasion at Inchon, which was by no means guaranteed success, (tides left the coast unapproachable mud flats for over 12 hours a day, the sort of substrate neither vehicles nor infantry can cross. I have crossed only about 100 feet of such, and it took most of an hour, without any battle rattle) was the turning point there. Ships would have been aground and at the mercy of anything that could reach them from land, so they had to withdraw with the tides.
The Inchon invasion cut the supply lines for the North Koreans in the south around the Pusan Perimeter, and gave the Army the chance to fight its way north, which they did, pushing the North Korean Army back to the Yalu River (the Chinese Border). Lemay and others had noticed the buildup of troops, India had warned of the Chinese willingness to enter the war, and they did, initially committing 250,000 troops to the effort, and eventually some 3 million troops to push American Forces back to the area of the current DMZ. LeMay wanted to nuke the Chinese, Truman said NO.
But initially, there were few Chinese (perhaps as advisors) in the North Korean Ranks.
They also would be facing off with an America with Slow Joe in the WH.
We should just go ahead and surrender now and be done with it.
Surrender Hell, they would be facing off against the American People at some point. A hoodrat on every corner, a rifle behind every blade of grass.