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Your so obcessed with your hatred and bigotry you simply can't understand that other people have different values to you. No further point in discussion here.

Wrong on two counts. a) Stalin was a true believer in one thing only and that was Stalin. ;) Lenin was probably more of a fanatical idealog, hence some of his behaviour. b) The mass murder of the kulaks was the slaughter of a bloc of people but not an entire population. Its prime purpose...

You missed the point. If the US triggers a war which sees most of Europe and Asia devastated by nuclear weapons then its lost a hell of a lot of its best customers. Not to mention the allies that help secure stability across much of the world. So their depopulated much of the world and pulled...

You can't sell much to a depopulated radicative wasteland. Especially if the survivors have reason to hate you for starting a nuclear war because your leader is a moronic thug. Not to mention this leaves the US unsupported in trying to maintain control over just about everywhere.

You raise some good points thanks.

Gods that idiot in the white house. :eek: Hopefully his officials would manage to prevent him and his ego doing anything too destructive to either the world or the US. If we get war in 1956 there would at the least be several million, probably tens of million dead and the former USSR as well...

Taiwan was recognised as a separate country, i.e. the 'real' China, at this stage. It was the mainland that was denied international recognition until the 1970's after Nixon ended US opposition to acceptance of its status. As you say a very successful Korea is likely to embolden the hawks...

Not sure but if the US & UN forces occupied all of N Korea and the communists allowed it for whatever reason then I would suspect that a US military move somewhere would be challenged more openly at some stage as the communist bloc would feel it had to else it would look too weak. Not sure...