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Originally Posted by Norrin Radd
Since Japan was an island nation with almost NO natural resources, a simple blockade would have prevented them from re-arming. We could have plinked away at the remnants of their navy and clogged their shipping lanes, cutting off their forces that were in theater and preventing them from rearming.
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Oh, CYD, i am waiting for an answer to this one!
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Originally Posted by Norrin Radd
No one knows what would have happened if we had taken another approach to Japan back in 1945. We do know that they wanted terms for their surrender, terms to keep their emperor and to avoid occupation.
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The only terms acceptable to the United States would be a complete allied occupation of Japan, in order to make sure that Japan entered into the club of capitalist nations that do not seek to plunder through war. That is why those hundreds of thousands were vaporized: Western economic interests and the related issue of communist (mainly soviet) containment. The soviets were getting close, and we wanted to get there first. That sums up WW2: the soviets and the americans racing to the capital cities of the two principal aggressors in order to impose their own future there.
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Originally Posted by Norrin Radd
Yes, Japan did horrible things during the war, but these things were not done by women and children living in Japanese cities. In my opinion, stooping to their level was not the right thing to do.
Just my opinion.
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You are exactly right from my view. And to add further to this, all armies do terrible things in war because war is terrible. People just choose to pretend to ignore the terrible things their own country does to other, and they invent narratives of justification that drift away from competent use of facts. War and armies are some of the most mythologized entities in nationhood. it sickens me.