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Something that I read recently highlighted the fact that the American Foreign Policy establishment has frequently believed, at least since August 1945 that it was "above the ( international) rule of law". In the same week that it was establishing a court tribunal in Nuremberg to meet out justice against the leaders of Nazi Germany, it dropped two
( unnecessary) atomic bombs on the civilian populations of Japan. No American politition has ever been brought to justice for that?
Its a truism that justice isn't blind and " winners are always the grinners". Another truism that we in the west fail to appreciate or are at least are not very wary about, is that " its the victors who get to write the history"!!

Scraggy 6 Aug 22
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It probably saved a lot of Japanese lives. Perhaps millions more lives in Europe as Stalin was preparing to invade Western Europe. It's complicated and the establishment is not always wrong.

The allies we not into saving Japanese lives in 1945. In August, Hiroshima instantly took out around 90,000 lives with some 40,000 casualties. Nagasaki killed around 37,000 people and injuring another 43,000. It's estimated that around 200,000 Japanese civilians were eventually killed all up.
Before that on 9-10 th March in the same year a monumental bombing attack on Tokyo killed around 100,000 people. Eleven weeks later on May 23, an even bigger monumental attack using 520 super fortress bombers unleashed 4,500 tons of incendiary bombs on the Capital.
I really can't believe a lot more Japanese ( and American) lives would have been saved by prolonging a war they had already won.
The Russians only joined the fight against Japan at the behest of America after Nagasaki was bombed. The Soviets were always keen to pick up the scraps on offer from the allies in WW2. But hey, who can blame them? They did make a huge contribution in winning the war against Germany!

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The hierarchy would tell you that the dropping of those bombs shortened the war by perhaps years and that it saved many thousands of American lives by not having to invade Japan.

So you believe what " the hierarchy would tell you" Angelo?. There is ample historical documentary evidence to show that Japan was making overtures for peace as early as April in 1945. The war was well and truly won BEFORE, those bombs were dropped. For me it was a war crime pure and simple...

@Scraggy

All war is a crime against sanity.

@wolfhnd
Totally agree!

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