The prelude to McCarthyism was a little known historical event called WW2. The United States gave (not loaned) a brutal, belligerent, communist dictatorship staggering amounts of money & material, which they used to help establish friendly dictatorships across Eurasia, from East Germany, to China (simultaneously, the US put an arms embargo on the legitimate government who were fighting the communists), to North Korea. I note the last two are still potential global flashpoints to this day.
One might reasonably assume there was some communist sympathy among the civil service built around a four term president - whose earliest diplomatic mission was to establish relations with the USSR in 1933.
All North Korea and China have to do is convince the people of South Korea and Taiwan of the enormous benefits of being annexed. If they're unable to pull off even that, then they only have themselves to blame.
One might reasonably assume there was some communist sympathy among the civil service built around a four term president - whose earliest diplomatic mission was to establish relations with the USSR in 1933.
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