The Japanese moderates, including the emperor, had been trying to end the war on terms acceptable to the U.S. since at least the end of June
Awesome propaganda. To which, I say, “oh well”. The slant-eyed mother fuckers started the war by bombing Pearl Harbor. We get to end it on
our terms,
not theirs. We should have dropped a third. And a fourth. Then we should have planted a flag and made it the 49th state of the U.S. (we didn’t have Alaska or Hawaii at the time). Would have made a nice nuclear test island for our military.
Ah well. Opportunity lost but lesson learned.