re: #376 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Let me add another book suggestion re the “Fall of China”:

Kevin Peraino: “A FORCE SO SWIFT Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949” (NY: Crown, 2017)

Good, concise analysis of how China “fell” to Mao and the CCP - lotta factors at play, but yes: a main one was that China was always considered a secondary theater by the Allies (US mainly) - the prevalent attitude being that China was big enough and resource-rich enough to be able to defend itself, and that Allied aid and efforts (US mainly) should be deployed on other fronts.
Wrong decisions (among many), but that’s History for you…..