[WashingtonSource]

By your rationale, they could have saved thousands of lives but just surrendering to the Russians when they were still outside their borders waiting to begin the invasion

[BenLurkin]

I don't know if you guys know this, but MacArthur declared Manila an open city at the outset of WWII.

It remained intact until he retook it later in the war. The Japanese were not as civilized as General MacArthur.