> What color is the sky in your world?
Same as it is in yours, or we would not be able to converse.
Air-dropping humanitarian aid was not difficult to do, even if industrial capacity was still being hammered.
Personally, I don’t believe a blockade would have lasted very long.
Glad I didn’t have to make the call, though. Either way, a lot of people will reckon you a villain.
Have you really thought this through?
The islands are blockaded, famine and disease run rampant.
Then, food and medicine suddenly starts falling from the sky, marked “For Humanitarian Purposes Only”, in Japanese, and big red letters.
Do you seriously believe, for an instant, that the IJA wouldn’t instantly claim every bit of it for itself?
If you manage that willful suspension of disbelief, how would it even be logistically possible?
The Berlin Airlift managed to supply West Berlin, a city of a few million as opposed to a nation of 70 million, a 20-minute flight away rather than a 7-hour flight (3 or 4 if you’re trying to run it from Iwo). And that was “just barely” for a long time.
The unpleasant truth you’re doing your absolute best to ignore is that Little Boy and Fat Man saved the lives of tens of millions of Japanese.