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__Bonk__
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Wish FDR lived. He was much wiser than Truman. Such a shame. The world wouldve been a better place if he lived a few more years.
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Groucho48
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Personally, I think it was a bad call, but, I can't really condemn Truman for making it. There were good arguments for and against.
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Yukishiro1
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__Bonk__ posted:
Wish FDR lived. He was much wiser than Truman. Such a shame. The world wouldve been a better place if he lived a few more years.
I dunno if that would have been better or worse overall but clearly FDR wouldn't have felt as much need to overcompensate or as much need to try to impress Stalin.
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ZigmundZag
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Yukishiro1 posted:
They could have easily worked something out then. All they had to do was tell the Japanese "psst, we promise to let you keep the emperor if you surrender 'unconditionally'" and that would have done it without killing 250k innocent civilians.
I thought they tried this, but it was taken as a sign of weakness and the Japanese opted to press onward.
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NuEM
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Hell I'll nuke it today if you show me the button.
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Fat_wong
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people are worthless. that is all
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Yukishiro1
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ZigmundZag posted:
I thought they tried this, but it was taken as a sign of weakness and the Japanese opted to press onward.
That's the first I've heard of it. And "press forward" with what? At that point Japan had no navy and no air force and the army in asia was being rolled up like a carpet by the soviets in korea.
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DemonicXH
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AzureTyger
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It was an appropriate action in its time and context and no morally worse than other firebombings and civilian massacres.
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ZigmundZag
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Yukishiro1 posted:
ZigmundZag posted:
I thought they tried this, but it was taken as a sign of weakness and the Japanese opted to press onward.
That's the first I've heard of it. And "press forward" with what? At that point Japan had no navy and no air force and the army in asia was being rolled up like a carpet by the soviets in korea.
I'm trying to find where I heard this...I think it was in the BBC documentary on Hiroshima, which is on Netflix. And "press on" was just a poor choice of words.
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