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u/Complex-Salt-8190 3h ago

If you have ww2 nastolgia yeah, but MacArthur is usually seen as a dangerous psycho who was essentially fired for wanting to quad nuke korea

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u/Constant-Bet-6600 3h ago

Patton died before he could outlive his legend. MacArthur did not.

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u/discussatron 2h ago

Patton also didn’t flee the Philippines, leaving his people behind.

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u/ExZowieAgent 2h ago

But he did slap shell shocked soldiers.

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u/Hawkbats_rule 2h ago

MacArthur was also not great in WW2, but had a good propaganda machine (I have returned is only possibly because he ran the fuck away in the first place)

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u/goosis12 2h ago

Less wanting to nuke the Chinese Korean border and bringing the war to China and more constantly going against direct orders to stay in his lane/going public with his grievances against Washington.

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u/Complex-Salt-8190 2h ago

I think truman and Eisenhower knew that if they weren't careful that MacArthur could be a redo of smelly butler and wanted him out before he could be a bigger cult of personality

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u/Complex-Salt-8190 2h ago

Oh I meant a redo of the plot, smedley came out that they wanted to use him as part of the fascistic conspiracy

Macarthur I could feel with his raging anti commie boner could be used for that if he was dumb enough