Edgetho
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Guys.... <sigh> The Japanese were never that good anyway. They were defeated in June of 1942 at Midway. After that, it was a mopping up operation.
They had a good Navy but their Army was just short of pathetic. Even their individual rifles were a joke. By late 1944, they were making their rifle rounds out of wood. Their Fighter aircraft were obsolete in 1942, they had no Tanks to speak of, their artillery was WW1 quality at best.
They just weren't that good. Except for dying. They were very good at dying. Very brave but that's it. They had nothing else.
Their 'Army' in the Home Islands was nothing more than a bunch of children and conscripted old men with wooden swords for weapons. They were stockpiling rocks to chuck at our Soldiers if we invaded.
In fact, by late 1945 our Aircraft weren't even challenged when they overflew the Islands. Any of them. Enola Gay didn't even have a fighter escort, did it?
They had nothing in late '45. Less than nothing. They had shit.
If you wanted to claim that by not dropping the bomb, millions of Japanese would have died, you might have a leg to stand on but as far as any kind of defensive military capabilities -- None. we may have saved Japanese lives by dropping the bomb but our guys wouldn't faced any real resistance.
We would have just layed offshore with our Battleships and pulverized them. Then we would have sent in our Heavy Bombers, for which they had no (0) defenses. And this would have been after a 6 Month Blockade that would have starved half their people
They had nothing.
Also, if you want to say that we nuked them to hurry up and end the War in order to foil Russian plans in the region, you might have a point. But to repeat the silly-assed propaganda about us losing 'millions' of men is beneath your intelligence.
We nuked them for fun or vengeance. Whatever you want to believe is up to you.
Your choice
