You can’t get liberal feel-gooders to care that it might have cost a half million American lives or more. For them it’s all about the poor Japanese. What the idiots can’t fathom or won’t admit is that there would barely be a Japanese people now if we had fought a ground invasion instead. One that the Soviets would have probably joined in on.
Japanese women training to defend Japan with bamboo spears.
At Saipan hundreds (maybe even a few thousand - no one knows the real number) of Japanese civilians committed suicide by throwing themselves from cliffs, rather than surrender to the Marines, because of the propaganda they had been fed. Had the U.S. invaded Japan the civilian deaths would have been astronomical.
The poor Japanese... it’s meant to be a finger-point from a leftist about supposed racism, even when those bombs were being made to drop on Germans (but Germany surrendered before they were ready). And it’s surprising how many people don’t consider how those two bombs, while taking so many Japanese lives, saved so many American (and more Japanese) lives.