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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by mywittyname on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:46PM (#26257213)
Americans are finally accepting the truth around Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Especially now that so many documents around the war on declassified.

But from the American perspective: it's easy to buy into the false narrative that the nuclear bombs "saved lives." We've all been raised with this notion that American is Inherently Good and that anything Bad America did was for the Greater Good.

The Post-911 world has made it more socially acceptable to say that the country isn't inherently good (well, maybe the Post-GFC world). We are allowed to acknowledge the atrocities perpetrated in the past and have more open and honest discussions about it.

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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by mlindner on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:06PM (#26259231)
> Americans are finally accepting the truth around Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Especially now that so many documents around the war on declassified.

I think portraying it as the "truth" isn't very accurate. There's many versions of history and none is the "truth".

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