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75th anniversary of Nagasaki


75 years since the end of WWII, and the dropping of the second atom bomb in warfare.

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Most of Japan is stilll Japan with us getting them to surrender and not letting Russia take over half that country.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/its-time-solve-kuril-islands-dispute-163838

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As a American and a history buff, I find it very hard to justify the dropping of the second bomb.

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Funnily enough, it wasn’t the nukes that made them surrender in the long run, but the endless amounts of napalm the US Air-force dropped on their cities. The A-bombs were almost the coup-de-grace.

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Wood 🏠 and napalm, deadly mix.

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I bet you would be thinking differently if you fighting in the Pacific War in 1943.

As a history buff you would know that Japan attacked us first. People seem to forget this fact.

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I don't disagree with the dropping of the first one.

It is harder in my mind to justify the second just days after.

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I get it and I understand but the Japanese were willing to fight to the last man, woman and child. It sucks it happened but it ended the war.

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Technically it was the USSR declaring war against Japan that ended the war.

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Technically, according to History, it was the 2 bombs dropped that ended the War.

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A misconception. The reality is that Japan’s surrender was predicated upon the USSR joining the Western powers in the war against Japan. The bombs were mostly irrelevant to Japan’s decision.

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haha, ok!!!

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The justifing wasn't really talked about but Russia was killing thousand of Japaneese soldiers and civilians in China when they declared war. Russia was no prisoners taken thousdands of japanesse was killed by Russia after the first bomb.

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Japan didn’t have a choice after the oil embargo.

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Pretty sure it started like this:
1. Japanese expansionism into China
2. US oil embargo sanctions in protest
3. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in hopes of delaying or hampering the beast
4. US resilience on whoop ass mode in Midway etc.
5. Japanese resilience and fear of no surrender and conscripting most of Japan to resist 5 prong invasion of Japan for God Emperor Hirohito.
6. US nuke to force complete surrender
7. Japanese surrender on USS Missouri
8. Reforms and rebuilding
9. Anime, tech, and porn BANZAI!!

What happened back then was bad but a necessary evil against Imperialist Japan. Nowadays it's remembering and white folks tearing up not understanding the thinking back then.

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Of course it goes back further than that. If you truly wanted to analyze the cause and effect of Japan’s expansion into the Pacific, you’d have to go back to Commodore Matthew Perry’s entrance into Edo Bay where he forcibly removed Japan from its millennia-long isolation.

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Trump celebrates by dropping a megaton on Pyongyang!

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Excellent. The beginning of the end of the most important even of the 20th century.

Really don’t care what leftwing revisionist historians or their lemmings have dreamed up in the last 5 minutes to criticize the US. Frankly it’s boring and lazy.

All these Democrat asshats trying desperately to make a name for themselves in our corrupt institutions of higher re-education.

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Very sad!

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