0th anniversary of VJ Day: Thank the atomic bomb for saving millions of lives

[RetiredGySgt]

LOL it was either that or Japan surrenders since Japan had no intention to surrender and the Allies had no intention of allowing the war to continue it was going to happen all your claims are foolish and ignore reality.

LOL idiot poop boy disagrees that the scheduled November invasion was going to happen. He claims to be a history teacher and doesn't even know basic historical facts.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

LOL you dont get to use current thinking to second guess historical facts and historical realities.

Now poop boy thinks that people in 2020 could retro actively change what was planned in 1945.

 

[Unkotare]

Article clipped from Chicago Tribune

Clipping found in Chicago Tribune published in Chicago, Illinois on 8/14/1965.

www.newspapers.com

 

[Mushroom]

Japan was prostrate and there were other options than incinerating non-combatant populations.

Prostrate.

Well, other than occupying most of China with an army of almost a million men? And another 5 million on Japan and the islands they still occupied?

You know, like French Indochina? Formosa? Dutch East Indies? New Guinea? Malaysia? Siam? Burma?

All of which in their "idea of peace", they would have continued to occupy. Along with Manchuria and Korea.

But yes, they were "Prostrate".

 

[Mushroom]

An invasion was not necessary.

The entire war was not necessary. The world could have just sat back when Germany, Italy and Japan took over half of the planet and done absolutely nothing.

 

[Mushroom]

LOL idiot poop boy disagrees that the scheduled November invasion was going to happen. He claims to be a history teacher and doesn't even know basic historical facts.

Hell, I just got a laugh because he disliked that I posted actual discussions between Foreign Minister Togo and Ambassador Sato.

In other words, he did not like that I used actual communications inside the Japanese government to prove they had absolutely no intention of surrendering. Meanwhile, he still vomits up ancient comments from people that were not in the Japanese government at all. Like anything they said means anything, considering they were not even Japanese, and did not know what they themselves were saying or thinking.

He just hits dislike a lot because they prove he is wrong. Poopy is as poopy does.

 

[there4eyeM]

Nonsense

Thanks for overlooking the spelling error. Obviously it should be "Then", not "The".

 

[there4eyeM]

And a blockade would have doomed millions of Japanese civilians to slow starvation as the junta would have allocated whatever food supplies were available to the military.

Quite likely, but that would have been entirely by their own doing. It would also have absolutely extirpated that very military cult that refused to surrender and which persists to this day, there and elsewhere.

 

[Mac-7]

Thanks for overlooking the spelling error. Obviously it should be "Then", not "The".

Its nothing

I post typo’s all the time

 

[RetiredGySgt]

.

Once again RETARD an unsupported newspaper article 20 years later doesn't prove anything.

 

[Jarlaxle]

That’s not an answer.

The question was nonsensical. Therefore, I am forced to conclude you are trolling, you are intoxicated, or you are having some sort of medical issue that manifests as confusion.

 

[Mushroom]

It would also have absolutely extirpated that very military cult that refused to surrender and which persists to this day, there and elsewhere.

It is more than that, it is their culture.

Look at Saipan, where thousands of civilians killed themselves rather than be captured.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Quite likely, but that would have been entirely by their own doing. It would also have absolutely extirpated that very military cult that refused to surrender and which persists to this day, there and elsewhere.

The point is that a blockade would have resulted in MORE death and suffering than the two nukes.

 

[Mushroom]

The point is that a blockade would have resulted in MORE death and suffering than the two nukes.

Hell, there were conventional bombings in Japan that killed more than in those attacks. And conventional attacks in Europe that killed many more.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Hell, there were conventional bombings in Japan that killed more than in those attacks. And conventional attacks in Europe that killed many more.

I agree. And they did nothing to persuade the Japanese government to surrender.

 

[there4eyeM]

I agree. And they did nothing to persuade the Japanese government to surrender.

No, those in charge in Japan didn't care about the fried people, and we showed we were no better.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

No, those in charge in Japan didn't care about the fried people, and we showed we were no better.

after 4 years of total war those bombs were nothing and ended the war once and for all.

 

[Unkotare]

That’s not an answer.

.

 

[Ringo]

According to the title of the original post, shouldn't Russia conduct an atomic bombing of a couple of ukrainian cities? Well, to save hundreds of thousands of lives, following the US example? Or "this is completely different" (c)?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

According to the title of the original post, shouldn't Russia conduct an atomic bombing of a couple of ukrainian cities? Well, to save hundreds of thousands of lives, following the US example? Or "this is completely different" (c)?

LOL is Ukraine a fanatical country that has waged unrestricted war on the world for 4 years and murdered millions? And is it defeated starving and refusing to surrender? Is an Invasion planned that will cost the lives of millions? You know it is JUST like Japam in ww2 ehh?