Exnihiloest wrote:GuyGadeboisLeRetour wrote:...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Monstrous (bombing of civilians) and unnecessary, Japan was about to surrender.
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But when ? After a few tens of millions of deaths like in Europe?
Of course, targeting the civilian population is lamentable, but in the end, Japan, an ally of the Nazis, let's not forget, got away with it with very few deaths in the end, Japan which, let's also remember, genocided the Chinese to the tune of 20 million ! For victims, our Japanese finally did well.
Revise (no revisionism, eh) your history a little and you will see that the greatest political analysts as well as the great admirals of the US say the same thing.
Eisenhower (memoirs):
"... Secretary of War Stimson, while at headquarters in Germany, informed me of the preparations for the dropping of an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were many reasons. convincing to question the wisdom of such an act. But the secretary ... seemed to expect vigorous consent. As he enumerated me a list of relevant arguments, I felt more and more depressed and this is how I let him know my serious forebodings: first, that I was convinced that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely useless; moreover, I thought that our country should avoid shocking the world opinion by resorting to a weapon the use of which was no longer obligatory to save American lives. I was sure that Japan, at this crucial moment, was seeking a way of surrender with minimum loss front".
