“This is staged to open the door for Obama to apologize for the atomic bombs.”
A couple of hundred thousand deaths by atomic bombs, an estimated 1,000,000 allied casualties via invasion of the home islands or a million or two Japanese deaths by starvation had we waited it out.
No brainer on the A-bombs.
IIRC, estimates had it between 5-10 million and ‘we’re going to be forced to kill every Japanese on the islands’ for casualties on the Japanese side if the US had been forced to invade.
The atomic bomb, as terrible as it was and is, was a *mercy* because it gave the Japanese leadership an out that their value and honor system had precluded before.