Just a few days ago, it hit me on some new level that we fucking NUCLEAR BOMBED a country. TWICE.
We are literally the only country that has done that. And it’s just sort-of this fun footnote of history. “Fine, maybe that was a whoopsie, but blah blah blah something about land invasion blah blah blah. Our baaaaad!”
I mean tbf, while I do hate how civillians die from it, it was mostly the imperial japanese government’s fault.
The japanese soldiers were committing massacress on my homeland (China) and if the US hadn’t nuked japan, a lot more people would’ve died by the hands of those imperialist pigs (the soldiers i mean, I have nothing against japanese civillians). It would’ve takes months and perhaps years to actually invade japan, all that while japan commits mass rapes, pillaging, looting on my homeland. I mean national pride and “honor” is a strong thing in many East Asian countries, even in current timeline, we still had a lot of Japanese Holdout, without the nukes, Japan would’ve not surrended for many years and all those years of suffering for all those people in occupied areas by the imperial japanese military around Asia. And even with the first nuke, they didn’t fucking surrender until the US had to do it again.
RIP to the innocent civillians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but its their government’s fault for waging this war of destruction.
Just a few days ago, it hit me on some new level that we fucking NUCLEAR BOMBED a country. TWICE.
We are literally the only country that has done that. And it’s just sort-of this fun footnote of history. “Fine, maybe that was a whoopsie, but blah blah blah something about land invasion blah blah blah. Our baaaaad!”
France nuclear bombed Algeria lots of times and nobody makes such a big deal of it.
Maybe because instead of dropping them on cities they dropped them in the Sahara desert?
Meh. Details!
TIL.
It’s called bigger gun diplomacy
I mean tbf, while I do hate how civillians die from it, it was mostly the imperial japanese government’s fault.
The japanese soldiers were committing massacress on my homeland (China) and if the US hadn’t nuked japan, a lot more people would’ve died by the hands of those imperialist pigs (the soldiers i mean, I have nothing against japanese civillians). It would’ve takes months and perhaps years to actually invade japan, all that while japan commits mass rapes, pillaging, looting on my homeland. I mean national pride and “honor” is a strong thing in many East Asian countries, even in current timeline, we still had a lot of Japanese Holdout, without the nukes, Japan would’ve not surrended for many years and all those years of suffering for all those people in occupied areas by the imperial japanese military around Asia. And even with the first nuke, they didn’t fucking surrender until the US had to do it again.
RIP to the innocent civillians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but its their government’s fault for waging this war of destruction.
Deserved
Still a war crime against civilians.
US dropped notices for days ahead of the bombing. warning of the imminent danger and horrific results of a nuclear bomb.
many didn’t believe in the warnings as they had been disillusioned by their government.
the rest is history.
edit: looks like I touched a nerve but you can’t argue facts.
https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/warning-leaflets/
I wouldn’t say “deserved”, civillians don’t “deserve” dying in a destructibe war waged by their government. It was just a lesser evil.