{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "give me one of your spiciest, most forbidden amhist takes", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/693337786577780736/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: give me one of your spiciest, most forbidden amhist takes</div>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/176436762378/\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>America would\u2019ve won a total nuclear war in 1951 and MacArthur shoulda forced *Truman* to resign</p></blockquote><p><p>Interestingly I&rsquo;m not sure this would have left America in a stronger position going forward \u2013 the old European empires hadn&rsquo;t fully collapsed yet and in the absence of Soviet counterweight could plausibly regroup, and other Cold War positions hadn&rsquo;t been consolidated yet \u2013 Indonesia didn&rsquo;t purge its communists until <i>1965</i>.</p></p>"}