‘US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington’s Cold War on the Soviet Union. Ben Norton reviews the historical record.’
The level of propaganda to not only justify turning innocent civilians into dust and basically fuck the land for the next life, but to also convince your population that it was necessary is something else
Honestly it doesn’t take any convincing to make Americans support atrocities. The US can just do them and Americans will invent justifications all on their own.
I think it’s because of patriotism “oh the US did this atrocity? Well I am usonian and I did nothing wrong, therefore the atrocity was ok”.
Yeah people here take things very personally even though no one supports the government much? I don’t get it
Lol this really is true. I remember in high school I came up with the conclusion “Japan needed to be nuked because they weren’t going to surrender” on my own since I’ve never looked into it prior
One thing missing from a lot of the dialogue is choice of targets because they wanted to perform bomb blast studies on virgin targets
Roll that over in your mind for a minute
What? What is that supposed to mean?
“Virgin”, as in never being hit upon before, if you know what I fully mean…
What… NO. No they pecking didn’t.
video summary: https://www.summarize.tech/youtu.be/5vMEgneKF10
there is a famous youtube video on this that go through all the military personnel memoirs and other documents about the lead up to the bombing. https://youtu.be/RCRTgtpC-Go
also watch oliver stone docuseries on american history (first 2 episodes)
My le bomb… le killed people?
Japan’s Holocaust was as bad as the Nazi’s. They were killing, raping, mutilating, and enslaving millions of Chinese, Burmese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other peoples on a daily basis. Every extra day the Japanese empire was in power was another day of hell for millions of innocent people. Japan’s rulers know the War was lost after Germany fell. They were happy to keep the killing going.
I guess that justifies the murder of civilians for you?
By that logic, 9/11 was justified
as mentioned in the video, Japan was already willing to surrender because of the USSR
Even after accepting your premise there is a huge amount of middle ground between doing nothing and nuking civilian centres.
Your description of the conditions is correct but your conclusion is a non-sequitur. It does not follow logically that the only or best option to stop those atrocities was to mass murder civilians. Despite what the propaganda about the bombings that has since been inculcated into the western public claims, they were not in fact necessary for compelling Japan’s surrender. There were already internal disputes about this in the Japanese leadership for some time, but after their decisive defeat in Manchuria at the hands of the Red Army the decision to surrender as soon as possible became pretty much unanimous. Every day that went by was another day that the Soviets took more territory and came closer and closer - through the Kurils - to the Japanese home islands. The Japanese imperialists knew just as well as the Nazis that they stood a much better chance of avoiding punishment for their crimes (and some of them even being allowed to retain some power in the post war state) if they surrendered to the US rather than the USSR. Moreover we now know that the US leaders knew this. Their primary motivations were to have a live weapons test and to intimidate the Soviet Union.
You don’t have to compare atrocities of the scale of Nazi regimes or the Fascist Imperial Japanese regime.
This video says a whole lot of nothing. It took 6 minutes to finally talk about people regretting, and that lasted another 5 minutes.
Pro tip: you need to unmute the audio. He starts going through the evidence after less than three minutes
