Truman vs Henry Wallace=war vs peace. See Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick' documentary and book, "The Untold History of the United States", which former Russian and Soviet President termed "indispensable."
A dying FDR did not/could not stop the Democrat Establishment from stealing the presidential candidacy from the favorite"-the popular, world peace promoter, and working class supporter"-Henry Wallace. The Democratic party's rich backers insured the handing over of the balance of the hugely popular but ailing president's fourth term to the ignorant and thus malleable Harry Truman. This fool dropped atomic bombs on innocent Japanese civilians when Japan was already defeated and seeking to surrender, not in order to end the war but to scare the Soviet Union.
Truman then went on to create the Cold War with Winston Churchill, which included the uncontrollable mass murdering mafia CIA/Deep State, and the launching of NATO. President Harry Truman adopted Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" COLD WAR speech as "containment" of communism. The Truman Doctrine became the law with the National Security Act signed on September 18, 1947, which created the Central Intelligence Agency to gather information and commit covert actions abroad. It is the offspring of the Office of Strategic Services from 1942-45, and many of the first CIA officials came from OSS.
In 1946, Truman took over parts of Churchill's Operation Unthinkable plan to attack Russia with nuclear weapons. This would have taken place soon after the end of the war in Europa if Truman had enough nuclear bombs. In the summer of 1945, however, Truman had only enough atomic bombs to kill civilians in Japan.
In 1946, Truman's prepared his first plan to invade Russia with nuclear weapons, Operation Pincher. Soon thereafter, a more sophisticated plan replaced it, Operation Dropshot. If enacted, these and other plans would have caused WWIII once the US used nuclear weapons against key Russian cities. Fortunately, a few scientists in the Manhattan Project or associates gave important information to the Soviet Union so that it could complete its nuclear bomb operations by 1949, before the US was able to produce sufficient nuclear bombs "- and B-29 bombers to carry them "- to destroy much of the USSR.
Dave Lindorff is writing a book about this concerning one of those scientists, Ted Hall, as the key heroic whistle-blower. A film documentary that Dave began and co-produced will be out about this in September. Under Truman, the US started its "world-record-shattering number of coups and invasions," to cite Eric Zuesse.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) works "exclusively for the United States Congress operating within the Library of Congress". Its latest report is March 8, 2022, "Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad," R42738.pdf (fas.org)
CRS cites hundreds of "US armed forces use abroad". The exact current number is obscured. However, in 2009 CRS reported that the US had conducted 330"wars" and "military interventions""-167 between 1798-1941; and 163 between 1945-2008, plus a handful since then. Most Latin American countries have been invaded, and more than once. CIA covert operations, including "regime changes" with and without massive violence are not included in those figures. But independent researchers, such as William Blum, have found a couple hundred more invasions than those CRS admits to.
I haven't taken the time to separate which of the US political parties has run most of those wars but the Democrats are high on the tiny list of governing political parties throughout US history.
To even Truman's later regret, the CIA went beyond its origins. Covert actions soon became any political and military operation that the Company wants to conduct, and it does so with or without presidential consent"-from fake propaganda to assassinations and paramilitary actions, overthrowing governments and engaging in undeclared wars.
In 1974, Truman told his biographer, Merle Miller, that the CIA "doesn't just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there's nobody to keep track of what they're up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they'll have something to report on. They've become"it's become a government all of its own and all secret. They don't have to account to anybody"I think it was a mistake [for him to create the CIA.]. And if I'd known what was going to happen, I never would have done it." Truman Was Right About the CIA | The Libertarian Institute
Lyndon Baines Johnson once in power reversed Kennedy's efforts to transform the United States into a peace-forging nation. On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to war against Vietnam without naming it a war, rather "retaliation" for an alleged attack on a US war ship in Vietnamese international waters that never occurred. Millions died for the "glory of the American experiment" as Republican Secretary of State Mike Pompeo later called US/CIA military-covert action aggressions. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: a Somber History Lesson | HuffPost Latest News
Jimmy Carter had his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski work with wealthy Saudi Arabian Osama Bin Landen and the extremist Mujahideen to fight the Communist party-led government in Afghanistan, which had introduced basic equal rights for women. Human rights was not a concern (as the US has claimed of its long war in that country. Rather, as Brezinski put it, the object was to turn "Afghanistan into Russia's Vietnam."
Nevertless, Carter was among the very few US presidents who didn't start his own war.
Bill Clinton broke President George HW Bush's promise not to extend NATO if the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union ceased to exist, which then did happen. Newly Declassified Documents: Gorbachev Told NATO Wouldn't Move Past East German Border | The National Interest
Between 1995-97, Clinton began to encircle Russia by bringing countries close to Russia into NATO, including all former Warsaw Pact countries. Clinton conducted wars and "military interventions" against Bosnia; Kosovo (stolen from Albania with assistance from the US-named terrorist group, Kosovo Liberation Army; the Gulf War against Iraq; Somalia; Rwanda and Haiti.
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