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Korean War v. 2

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okay we are recording back to our slideshow yeah  how the Korean war ended up a stalemate well at this point MacArthur being the general that was he wanted to bomb the Chinese back to the Stone Age he said let me fly into China let me hit their air bases because we know who were flying again so we work flying against North Koreans  will they were a few of them but not many we were flying against Chinese pilots and we were flying against Russian pilots in Russian play they might have hit Chinese markings or Korean markings but when you go up in a dog fight against the Russian Mig and the pilots got bright red hair he not Korean  Koreans don't have bright red hair Russians have bright red hair okay so we knew we were fighting Russians MacArthur said you know let's let's go attack where they are Let's cross the border let's wipe out their Airfield on the bridges on the yalu river but Truman is so afraid that this will widen to a much bigger War Truman is afraid to basically he won't take the gloves off Arthur MacArthur just let me go when it and Truman's like no no no no no we don't want World War 3 stick to the Rules of Engagement will MacArthur starts getting mad about this he starts writing letters to Congressman Senators newspapers saying this is appeasement this is no he's not being allowed to win size in the president and he even starts indicating that he will disobey the presidential orders if it means protecting his troops  at at this moment set a Truman is going to do the absolute bravest political thing he ever does in his life he fires five star general Douglas MacArthur he knows he's committing political suicide and he did when he fired General MacArthur his approval rating went into the cellar and stayed there MacArthur comes he gets a ticker-tape parade in New York City he addresses a joint session of Congress he is the great Concrete Hero and Truman's political career with Zen dies  and here's the interesting thing MacArthur MacArthur knew what was going on the ground and Truman should have listened to MacArthur new the Soviets the Soviets in the Koreans in the Chinese their ancient enemies have been fighting each other for hundreds of years MacArthur knew there was no way tell me the number to or no communism that the Soviets were going to risk a war of the United States over Korea or China  you know from history that wasn't going to happen but true wasn't so sure what listening to him Truman should have listened to his commander on the ground  the war would have turned out differently  but on the flip side a coin Truman was absolutely right to fire Douglas MacArthur  he was absolutely right to fire in because one of the basic principles of our how our government works is our military is under the command of our elected officials and anytime one of our military leaders start saying he's going to disregard where's the president I don't care how great a military commander he is that man has to go because there is a bigger principal call Sarah  military dictatorship is the bigger principle involved  so you know MacArthur was right trimming Shoulda listened to a MacArthur was wrong to pretend he was going to disregard that was MacArthur the end of his long and storied career now what happens with Korea well basically we go through two and a half more years of bloody Warfare stalemate finally by the summer of 1953 Joseph Stalin dies Eisenhower whack it and Eisenhower pledge she said I'm going to end the war and obviously that's the guy who took out Hitler so when he says I'm going to end the war you're probably going okay we're not dealing with the son of the pig farmer Independence Missouri anymore he's going to War 1 Stalin dies the North Koreans know they need to negotiate an end to the war and I finally in the summer of 53 a truce is sign now the war was never ended there's no official treaty and this is one reason why today you got the two Koreans you got South Korea which is prosperous their capitalistic they have a democracy they're one of the richest event they're one of the G20 through on the 20 richest countries on Earth you probably have something you belongs to you that was made in South Korea if you have anything electronic that's LG or Samsung or automobile that says Hyundai star Kia on it all those are South Korean products they are one of the wealthiest prosperous countries on Earth North Korea is so poor today under military dictatorship  that North Korea is when viewed from space at night it's a dark spot on the map it's literally as dark as the ocean because they can't afford to take keep the electricity on all day long they turn the electricity off at night that's a poor in backwards North Korea is North Korea they have to build fences around their border and the DMVs in military zone there on the 3rd fill out it is one of the most heavily guarded borders in the world it is set a rabbit can't go from North to South Korea without having his picture taken 3 times North Korea not only guards against the suppose that Invasion that they keep telling their people as coming but they also guard to keep their own people from they have to when they send athletes to the Olympics they have to hold family members hostage or their athletes won't come home that's how you know you're doing a great job running your country when you have to hold your Olympic athletes mother at gunpoint to make them come home good job  but that's how Korea ended up being the two koreas alright let's see

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