RE: Another little tidbit the biased left wing media forgot to mention
September 17, 2016 at 2:13 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2016 at 2:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 16, 2016 at 7:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote: 3. At Yalta, Stalin had agreed to attack Japan 3 months after Germany surrendered. That date was August 8th, 1945. Do you think it was a coincidence that the first bomb was dropped on August 6th?
I'm not sure what I'm being asked. Are you asking me whether or not we wanted to end it quickly, end it before the soviets could, end it in a way that would send a message to the soviets? Yes to all three.
The soviets long claimed that the bombs had been pointless...a message to the Soviet Union (though we had been encouraged to use them -by- Stalin himself). Had we let them invade they would complain about the half a million plus soviets we allowed to bleed out in the assault (further adding to the tally of human waste already incurred) by holding back on them with the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen, which they certainly knew that we possessed.
There was no choice, in context, the bombs would be deployed. Anything and everything would be done to end the war quickly. The japanese were not planning to surrender in the fashion that we are clearly imagining. They were going to fight to the death for a better position at the inevitable table. There would be no unconditional surrender (a policy not designed for them any more than the bombs were). They would surrender conditionally, by means of resistance of the sort we had encountered at iwo jima...only far, far more intense had we reached the mainland. This was an unacceptable alternative to the use of the bombs, as american decision-makers then saw it.
We ended up accepting a conditional anyway, just without the carnage of the invasion. Those two factors I listed lead, primarily and compelling, to the bombs being dropped. Yes, the anti-soviet interests within our government hitched a ride. It would have been ludicrous for them to pass up on the opportunity it presented. That's not -why- they were dropped. Had there -been- no soviets in the world we still would have dropped those bombs.
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