Posted on 12/07/2022 8:40:19 AM PST by bitt
To commemorate the 81st anniversary, here’s a look back at a collection of Associated Press photos of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Warning: Some photos contain graphic content.
I got another question for those on here that relish war.
Why is it the allies declared war on Germany after they invaded Poland but not Stain’s Russia?
I don't. Not for a second. You keep shooting until the threat is neutralized. Imperial Japan wasn't neutralized.
the oh so great scientists
Please stop using anything that is the result of scientists doing their work. You can start with the computer you're typing on.
A blockade is only meaningful when the blockaded country has a functioning merchant fleet.
Imperial Japan’s merchant fleet was at the bottom of the Pacific, entertaining the fishes ... courtesy of certain US Navy assets that happened to be named after fish.
Because many people within the Roosevelt Administration were communists and a significant number were actual Soviet Agents.
Chunga85,
Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t recall ever seeing you rebuke Russia for threatening to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Sweden, Finland, or NATO.
So pardon me if your pearl clutching over Hiroshima and Nagasaki is laughable to me.
War never happens the way we think it should begin nor how we think it should end. All the space between those bookends can pretty much guarantee destruction and loss of life.
Gosh... THE MEDIA said using a military weapon was wrong??? Well, I guess that settles it. We know THE MEDIA would never be against the USA.
And yet, with a full realization of the destruction of just one bomb, Japan did not surrender, and it took a second bomb three days later. And formal surrender wasn't announced by the emperor until nearly a week after that.
And they forget that even after the FIRST nuclear bombing, they refused to surrender.
Do you think you can naval blockade an entire country with thousands of miles of shoreline, thousands of miles away from our supply lines?
You need face reality. Even after the first bomb they refused to surrender.
Stone is wrong. Again.
We had an agreement with Stalin and the Soviet Union that they would actively enter the fight three months after the Germans surrendered. The Soviets saw an opportunity to grab some territory in the Far East and probably sought some kind of accommodation in occupied Japan too. Which thankfully they did not achieve.
The Japanese still had over one million troops in China and throughout Asia. A blockade of the Home Islands was not going to cause them to lay down their arms.
Today is the day to remember the horrific attack on our fleet and the chicken$#!t way it was done.
Did Hoover decry the carpet bombing of Japanese cities that killed far more?
“Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t recall ever seeing you rebuke Russia for threatening to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Sweden, Finland, or NATO.”
I won’t assume the task of correcting all the wrong things you say or can’t remember, but Russia never said that. If you are worried about nuclear disasters you might focus your attention towards the US backed former state of Ukraine, that has taken to shooting at a large nuclear power plant.
The US, and many of you here, are in full song supporting the US govt.’s attempts to instigate WW III, on Russia’s border.
Russia knows there is only one country that has dropped nukes on another, and in the case of Japan, many, many, civilians were unnecessarily killed.
They attacked us. Anything that happened to them after that was their own fault. It really is just that simple.
The war declarations occurred a couple of days after the Germans invaded Poland. The USSR did not invade Poland until September 17th, by which time Poland was almost completely defeated by the Germans. The French and British were not interested in throwing the USSR into the mix at that point.
Well, David Lawrence has his opinion, but it’s not a fact.
The deciding factor was what the leadership thought at the time. The Japanese military was a formidable opponent, and the leadership knew and appreciated this fact.
That they were ready to give up is more apparent AFTER the war and the surrender, but not on the face of things AT THE TIME. It was certainly debatable at the time... Truman made the decision based on what he thought would be the most likely outcome.
I disagree about your belief of us “shamelessly justify(ing) our behavior and self appointed role of World Police.”
This was not the case right after the war was over, at least in 1945/46. Up until December 7th 1941, there was a considerable part of the American politic that was isolationist. We could easily have returned to that if the Soviet Union had not started national communist movements and governments in Europe and Asia. Some people (politicians looking to win, as always), said our isolation “caused” Hitler, because appeasement led him to become bolder. They used that to try to prove the Isolationists were wrong and foolish.
I can’t say I blame the Soviets after what happened to them at the hands of the Nazi’s, and we could have advocated for a more peaceful world. Some say this was Roosevelt’s goal considering how much he “gave” Stalin at Yalta, but he died and a totally new and less experience American president had other ideas.
In any case it takes two to tango as they say. For every action there is a reaction. Things could have gone totally differently than what they did. The world we look back on is not familiar to those who go through things in the present.
I’m not going to argue with you people any longer.
Yep, this questions ruined your argument. Now run away.
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