LDarrell

LDarrell t1_j99x2ou wrote

Reply to comment by TinKicker in Nuclear shadow, Nagasaki by allez05

You are not addressing the death and destruction that an invasion of the Japanese main island would have caused. The estimate is that a million death would have occurred had there been an invasion and most of those deaths would have been Japanese civilians caught in the middle of all the fighting.

After the Hiroshima bomb the Japanese military was not interested in surrendering. After the Nagasaki bomb, they were still not interested in surrendering and it was only the intervention of the Emperor that caused the Japanese Military to lay down their arms. An invasion of the Japanese mainland would have been a blood bath on all sides.

Again, please do not dismiss the millions of people (military and especially civilians) killed either directly or indirectly by the war started by Japan and its allies.

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LDarrell t1_j96l3ia wrote

Reply to comment by RemRose in Nuclear shadow, Nagasaki by allez05

No the answer to stop the war. Would it have been better to invade the island of Japan and kill maybe a million more military on both sides and main land Japanese civilians?

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LDarrell t1_j9659y5 wrote

Reply to comment by DrewbySnacks in Nuclear shadow, Nagasaki by allez05

And what about all the innocent civilians killed by the Japanese in the various countries the Japanese caused all the death and destruction? Killed by the Japanese by the millions.

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LDarrell t1_j95ro0s wrote

Maybe Japan shouldn’t have attacked the US in the first place. BTW what about the millions Japan killed in China and Korea? Together Japan, Germany and Italy were responsible for the deaths of between 50 and 60 million people. Hard to feel sorry for them.

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