AZrailwhale
Diamond Member
The biggest mistake the U.S. made was not letting Patton invade Russia and not dropping a nuke on Moscow. That's why the world is so screwed up today.[/QUOTE]
Just to play a game, we could say bombing Moscow would not have been morally worse than what was bombed.
Japan was out of the war and just waiting for the last holdouts to admit it.
IF...Moscow, Stalin and Soviet centralized control had suddenly disappeared, the US would have stood astride a world without enemies of any consequence, the greatest armed force ever assembled, and total discretion about where and how to apply its power. Invading Russia would have been unnecessary and, in fact, a tremendous error. In the unlikely event that the Red Army had the co-ordination and will to try to continue to fight, it would have been better to let them attack and destroy them on familiar ground with their logistics extended, rather than the other way. Or, draw them into a massive concentration and nuke that. Either way, populations and US troops would be spared and war ended fairly rapidly.
There was, of course, no way any of that could have happened. Thinking was just too limited. That is why the mistake of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was made, too.
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Your “final holdouts” were the Japanese government, the Mikado, the Japanese Army and Navy and the millions of Japanese civilians being trained to fight against an invasion. In their minds, which is the most important place, the Japanese were NOT defeated.