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ORIGINAL: Irishknight

MC, we dropped the bomb on Japan to warn Russia?  You mean it had nothing to do with ending wwII?  It had nothing to do with avoiding what would have been the longest and bloodiest land battle in world history?  I think I missed something.

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

One can't look at history as one event. Japan wanted to be left alone in the 19th century, the US forced Japan to open its ports and sign what became known to the Japanese as the humiliation of the unequal treaties. Britain was another western country involved, they forced treaties on China. That is the seed from which Japanese militarism grew. Japan could see that if it didn't modernize, it would become a western colony. Once Japan got to some strength, it wanted what western countries had, empires and it wasn't just Europe that had empires, the US made imperial expansions into the Pacific. So the idea that the Japanese invasion of Mancuria was bad, what are we to make of western imperial powers (US included) subjugating lands in the Pacific? Western countries portraying themselves as victims of Japanese aggression while not accepting their own aggression is a refusal of western countries to take a good look at themselves. The US was an aggressive power, as was Britain, as was several European countries. What the fuck was all these western countries doing in that region of the world, setting up vacation destinations or ripping off the locals? The mistake Japan made was to be more brutal to the people in lands they conquered than westerners, otherwise they would probably have been welcomed as liberators.

This Japanese officer is doing exactly the same as westerners do, Europeans and Americans, pretending to be innocent victims when both were as bad as each other.

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Hey Meat....war is hell.And in actuality the only justification Truman needed was the projected numbers of American serviceman who would have died.Truman was the American President,not the protectorate of innocent Japanese civilians.Total war is just that total....When America is attacked prior to a declaration of war,she tends to get pissed,not a good idea to piss off America  meat,perhaps you should keep this in mind....

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Well if you don't mind Northern Gent we in the former colonies would prefer to muddle along as we have been doing searching for our own unique destiny,despite the dire predictions of others.

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

we shall keep propping up the U.K. while we are at it......

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

That we will do Gent guy,as allways.When we find time, and as it becomes inevitable ,we shall keep propping up the U.K. while we are at it......