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[hog88]

Maybe, maybe not. We’ll never know. But Hirohito thought about for 3 days and had a chance to capitulate and didn’t. Second bomb forced it. I can’t question Truman and the leadership if they didn’t want to risk hundreds of thousands of additional casualties by invading. Obviously I wasn’t there (my parents were though) but I can guarantee the vast majority of the US population was glad to see it end by any means necessary.

Another thing to consider is our dropping both bombs has probably saved the world from another being used since.

Russia was well on their way to having their own bombs(s) and without the real world demonstration of their destruction who knows. My guess is that we’d have already seen a nuclear exchange between countries.

 

[Orangeburst]

if I am not mistaken, we killed more with firebombing Tokyo than either nuclear bomb. they were getting decimated with thousands of B-29s.

 

[BeardedVol]

Ha

This was probably the price for scuttling a diplomatic solution with Iran.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

 

[n_huffhines]

It’s hard to tell a difference between Babylon Bee and reality anymore.

No it ain't. Reality is actually funny

 

[n_huffhines]

Ha

 

[volfanhill]

Trump on TV being interviewed saying the Strait doesn't matter bc we don't get oil from there. Can someone, anyone, explain to this MFer how this works. Either he thinks we are all stupid, which is possible, or he's an idiot on this

 

[NashVol11]

Trump on TV being interviewed saying the Strait doesn't matter bc we don't get oil from there. Can someone, anyone, explain to this MFer how this works. Either he thinks we are all stupid, which is possible, or he's an idiot on this

Definitely thinks we are stupid, especially his base

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Definitely thinks we are stupid, especially his base

He knows his base is stupid.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

The ceasefire will end when Netanyahu tells Trump it ends, not before.

Yes. My apologies for misunderstanding your post earlier today. Eisenhower has been spinning

 

[Carl Pickens]

I understand the reasoning. And as I get older I understand how many lies we are told by our government. We gave them 3 days then killed 40K more civilians. It was unnecessary. They probably would've surrendered or come to some kind of terms. Jmo.

The second was to send a message.

 

[Carl Pickens]

Israel wrecking our ceasefire again

Wonder why Iran gives a damn about what’s happening in Lebanon?

 

[Vol8188]

I understand the reasoning. And as I get older I understand how many lies we are told by our government. We gave them 3 days then killed 40K more civilians. It was unnecessary. They probably would've surrendered or come to some kind of terms. Jmo.

Revisionist history nonsense. There was a literal attempted coup after the second bomb because many of their leaders still fully opposed surrender.

Kyūjō incident - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]