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In response to "~Hiroshima, Mon Amour~♪ -- (link)" by mud ♪

Japan was just sitting there minding its own business and then the US just nuked it! -- nm

Posted by Beaker 🍺 (aka Anniebecca) May 17 '23, 10:16

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This is less about WW2 than it is about Japan being right next door to a country that is growing its nuclear arsenal (and which sees itself as way - Roger More May 17, 10:28 4
- also the real reason Truman chose to drop the bomb in the first place, ironically -- nm - hollywood big shot May 17, 10:33 3
  - right at the start of the linked article "theory". Not "Fact" -- nm - Beaker May 17, 10:34 2
    - the firebombing of Toyko was arguably even worse, in the aggregate, so going nuclear was just another matter of degrees - hollywood big shot May 17, 10:35 1
      - true. and if no nuke they would of kept at it plus naval bombardment plus then Japan D-Day -- nm - Beaker May 17, 10:36
well Hiroshima and Nagasaki certainly were -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 17, 10:23 3
- What an odd thing to say about cities in a country actively engaged in a war we didn't start. - TWuG May 17, 10:26 1
  - they were about as active in the Axis as Cedar Rapids, IA was in the Alliance -- nm - hollywood big shot May 17, 10:29
- we're just sitting here doing nuthin and the Ukraine bombed us! -- nm - Moscow May 17, 10:26
~we said "What about the Bomb, are you sorry that you did it?" He said "Pass me that bottle, and mind your own business~ -- (link) - mud ♪ May 17, 10:23 [youtube] 7
- I could see the droppers taking it hard morally; but the tens of millions who would of died during the invasion would of taken it harder -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 10:25 6
  - the lie we've been telling ourselves since Day One -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 17, 10:27 4
    - ahh yes, they'd surrender but the Emperor remain in charge. that seems like a great deal. -- nm* - Beaker May 17, 10:32 3
      - The Emperor wasn't in charge, it was a military dictator ship with a figure head -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 10:55
      - which he did anyway -- nm - hollywood big shot May 17, 10:34 1
        
        (to be fair I stopped reading after a bit) -- nm - Beaker May 17, 10:35
  - hell yeah -- nm - mud ♪ May 17, 10:27

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