Re:Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre
by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:39PM
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> "But once the dust settled...would the US hold the same moral high ground that it has today had it used 20 atomic bombs?"
About 2.5 times as many people in Asia were killed by the Japanese as died in the German Holocaust. Let that sink in.
Anything the US did would have been seen as negligible in comparison.
Re:Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre
by Smithalicious on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @11:24PM
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It's not fair to equate war deaths with genocide deaths
Re:Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre
by CamperBob2 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @12:25AM
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What do you think the Japanese were planning to do, exactly?
Re:Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre
by ThrowawayR2 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:50AM
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War deaths? Surely you jest. Most of that 2.5x were civilians and were killed by the Imperial Japanese Army in ways a lot nastier than the concentration camps; it was genocide in all but name. The depth of hatred for the Japanese among older Asians is staggering for that very reason.
Re:Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre
by hnzix on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:49AM
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Japan's wartime actions in Manchuria were a genocide, they followed the "Three Alls" policy: "kill all, burn all, loot all". Arguably responsible for the deaths of more than 2.7 million Chinese civilians.
And would the US be so magnanimous in victory had the toll been higher due to Axis victories on all major fronts (meaning that the human losses of the Axis were transfered to the Allies) up to the Atomic bombs use?