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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Axis probably shouldn’t have invented the modern concept of total war then.

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  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s the ratio of innocents to guilty people you’d like to see killed to satisfy your need for revenge, then?

    Dropping the bombs was verifiably not about beating Japan or saving american lives. It was purely to stop the Soviets from joining the Pacific theater, so they wouldn’t get their seat at the peace negotiations.

    The Japanese military were monsters, and many civilians were on board with it. It is still wrong to bomb civilians. And that’s what this was, there wasn’t even a pretext of this being about military targets.

    And I’ve seen the images you’re talking about. I also know of the rape of Nanjing, and the experiments done by unit 731. I know of the institutionalized rape, slavery, and mass murder committed by Japan. None of this makes me want to justify mass murder of civilians in response. The perpetrators can rot in the deepest pits of whatever hell is worst, but collective punishment, especially of civilians, is never justifiable.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Truly the Allies should have just taken a million casualties while killing many, many more Japanese than the bombs did in the invasion.

      I am smart and have read thousands of pages of commentary and history on this exact historical situation to form my opinion.

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      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, that’s quite literally not true.

        I am smart

        Sure, whatever you say

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cool, want to compare them to the images of many more babies boiled alive by the bomb? Or of the walking dead?

    You can’t argue y’all are the good guys if you stop atrocity with a much larger atrocity, and then hire some of the people who were in charge of different atrocities in Germany.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fucking lol, a larger atrocity.

      medium.com/…/the-asian-holocaust-killed-twice-as-…

      You people are a pathetic, ignorantly mewling joke of misplaced sympathy.

      There’s a real easy way to minimize the chance of your citizens being the tragic consequences of a war their nation started: Don’t Fucking Start It.

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      • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dropping the nukes likely saved several million more civilians lives,Imperial Japan was a truly horrific state which genuinely outstripped the third Reich at times in cruelty.

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  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Japan was hanging on to a thread and hoped for the soviets to negotiate a peace. With the threat of Soviet invasion, they would likely have capitulated.

    youtube.com/watch?v=RCRTgtpC-Go

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Killing countless real civilians is good because in my fan fiction it actually good.

    what a shittake

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