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Originally Posted by Robbie
I think history is gonna look at us very badly...starting with us being the only country in history to use Atomic weapons (and we didn't even use them on military targets...we mass killed two entire cities full of women and children)
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I have to disagree, in looking at the events of the war up to the dropping of the bombs, the alternative would have been much worse. for instance, the battles leading up to this, iwo jima and okinawa, we had to kill every single japanese, they did not and would not surrender. + we had already carpet bombed every city in the entire country except a few left for the atomic bombs. and these were incendiary bombs dropped on cities made of wood and paper- every city, yet no surrender. we had run out of targets, the japanese had lost the war a long time ago, yet they refused to surrender.
Moreover, combined with a imperial order for all civilian japanese to kill one person as they die during an invasion. 10s of millions of people brainwashed to choose suicide + 1 kill over surrender.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
When we entered WW2 we weren't prepared for it. But we mobilized and within weeks we built a huge military force. There was no need to spend ridiculous amounts to be "ready".
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actually, with the lend-lease program operating at 100%, our manufacturing capability was fully operational by the time we entered the war. even so, it took us ~4 more years to ramp up production to full wartime manufacturing.