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!historychads we should celebrate this !ifrickinglovescience achievement
!historychads we should celebrate this !ifrickinglovescience achievement
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To be fair I don't either.
Interesting idea. Like bomb the middle of nowhere and show what could be done to your cities if we wanted?
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Or a location directly outside of a major city as a similar show of force/terror, or a location of greater military significance rather than a civilian population, etc.
Why wouldn't that have been an option? We only had two bombs and were dead set on maximizing them? I feel as though our kneejerk justification of Allied war practices is rooted more in tribalism than in consistent moral principles. I have no love lost for Nips/Nazis and am not an integralist (fascist) or whatever.
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It wouldn't have worked because the allies main objective was regime change in both Germany and Japan. After 1943 they wouldn't accept anything but unconditional surrender and the Japanese High Command never offered reasonable terms anyways (they wanted to preserve the Meiji constitution and dominions like Korea and Formosa).
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