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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by BurningFrog on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:58PM (#46281325)
Yeah, that's about it. General Patton, John von Neuman were among those advocating for it, and in hindsight I think it would have been a good thing to avoid the Cold War and the communist era, saving China from the horrific Mao era, etc.

But I agree that turning on an ally, sacrificing millions more of your soldiers etc at that point would have been a very hard sell. I'm sure I would have been opposed to it at the time.

Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by greedo on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:21PM (#46282357)
Of course avoiding the Cold War would have been beneficial to humanity, but it wasn't realistic considering the state of the world at the time.