Not a new revelation, but the article pulls from good sources and it’s nice to see this myth repudiated in a mainstream outlet.

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    Thing is that Japan was already trying to surrender, and the US was well aware of the fact before the decision to drop the bombs was made. The only purpose of this crime against humanity was to show USSR what level of depravity the US regime was capable of.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20220404122536/https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/15427-magic-diplomatic-summary-war-department-office

    There’s a whole book written on the subject by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa called Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. The fact that Japanese regime committed atrocities in no way justifies the atrocities committed by the US regime. Of course, I realize the concept that two wrongs don’t make a right might be too complex of an idea for the liberal mind to comprehend.

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      You’ve marred your argument by devolving into mud-slinging.

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      So, they were thinking about maybe starting the process.

      Meanwhile, the war crimes were ongoing.

      Let’s do a little thought experiment.

      Pretend you’re a Burmese, Korean, Chinese, or Vietnamese citizen. You’ve seen your friends and family killed; had your home town devastated; watched thousands of women raped. Not only had you already seen it, but it was an ongoing thing. How many months would you have given the Japanese High Command to mull the situation?

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        Incredible that you’d use countries that US promptly invaded after the war and killed countless civilians in, where people are still dealing with effects of chemicals like agent orange and unexploded ordinance, to make a case that US dropped nuclear weapons on Japanese civilians as a humanitarian action. 🤡

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          Pretend you’re a Burmese, Korean, Chinese, or Vietnamese citizen. You’ve seen your friends and family killed; had your home town devastated; watched thousands of women raped. Not only had you already seen it, but it was an ongoing thing. How many months would you have given the Japanese High Command to mull the situation?

          Funny how you can’t actually answer the question.

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            I did answer your “question”. The US never gave a shit about the lives of people in any of these countries, and the racists running the US regime see them as subhuman. US did not drop the bombs to help these people. What part of that are you still struggling to understand?

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              I must have missed the answer.

              Just give me a number. How many months would you, a Burmese victim of the invasion, let the Japanese go on killing and raping?

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                What part of US did not care about how many civilians would die are you having trouble understanding. Go read up on what US proceeded to do to the civilians in Burma, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and other countries in Asia right after the war. Ask yourself what Burmese victim of the invasion, let the US go on killing and raping?

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                  Sounds like you’re saying that the Japanese raping and killing was justified because of the American killings that occured later.

                  Because I’m still not seeing an actual number.

                  I’ll posit my thought experiment one more time.

                  It’s August 1945. You’re a Burmese who escaped and made it to Washington. Harry S. Truman confides in you that he has a terrible weapon that will wipe out an entire city in an instant. He offers you the option. Drop the bomb and end the war instantly, or let the raping and killing go on while the Japanese dither about surrender. You can’t see into the future. How many months do you tell Harry to let the atrocities go on.

                  I just want to see one number.

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                    The fact that you lack cognitive capacity to understand the concept of two wrongs don’t make a right is really phenomenal!