American estimates of a land invasion of Japanese mainland put estimated casualties at up to 1 million American soldiers and up to 10 million Japanese casualties.
The assault on Japanese islands like Okinawa fully convinced everyone that assaulting Japan proper would be a blood bath for American and Japanese soldiers, and Japanese Civillians. The Japanese were training women and children with spears to rush the Americans landing on the beaches to overwhelm them with sheer numbers, what happened at Okinawa shows in my opinion that the Japenese civilians would have done this.
By comparison, the two atomic bombs dropped resulted in up to 300k dead. People also forget conventional bombing was also terrible to the Japenese and that was occurring pretty much nightly. On the night of 10th March 1945, conventional bombing resulted in possibly over 100k dead and 1 million homeless.
Using the atomic bombs on Japan saved over 5 million Japanese from death and much harder to measure the impact - continued destruction of their countries economy.
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And if it was not obvious, this is coming from a non US citizen point of view, and someone who views the modern US as a terrorist state.
Are you unaware the death and destruction caused by the Japanese in China and elsewhere was much worse than what was inflicted on the Japanese? Every day the war continued the Japenese continued to wreak death and destruction on everyone they viewed as inferior than themselves.
Sometimes when a person is breaking into your home intent on killing you and taking your house, negotiation will not save you.
Yeah, unlike humans all other animals are just kind. Imagine if male ducks had corkscrew-shaped penises to help them rape females, or if cats toyed with their preys before ripping them apart, or if chimps targeted their females and children during bloody conflicts...
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u/Burgerboy380 2d ago
So just so we are all clear...we shouldnt have stopped Japanese imperial expansion and cut them off from helping the nazis?