On 7 December 1941 the USA was, generally, very poorly prepared for war in spite of (Ignored) information provided the Administration of (DEMOCRAT) PResident FDR that the Imperial Japanese government was "up to something" and suppressed that information leaving our Fleet and Army Air Corps liable to destruction. It took months for the USA to counter that presidential bungling. [It was only some, most excellent, tactical decisions AND a very great sum of "dumb luck" as allowed the USA to stop the Japanese takeover of Midway and not provide our enemy with a platform for the invasion of Hawaii.]
On 25 June 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea. Again, the USA was very ill prepared for a conventional war in Asia by an over-allocation of moneys to
"atomic warfare". Either there was a failure to have any idea of what the North Koreans were planning or a failure of (DEMOCRAT) President Truman's (Who I rate as the last, fully honest, man to be POTUS) Administration to act on that information. In either case, there was, presidential, "bungling" in effect. [Although President Truman quickly sent some troops to Korea it was only by the very, very, risky invasion at Pusan that we were not totally driven out of Korea. Our invading forces might well have been driving into the sea.]
The act-of-war which was the spreading of the CHINESE virus was not as apparent as the above-described attacks by armed forces. It was far less defined to President Trump's administration as made some bungling impossible to avoid.
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