They are piling on now. They’re going for the kill.
Exactly. They want to destroy him now so he can't run in 2024. That seems to be dawning on some Dems that this all out attack will undermine the "credibility" of their 1/6 inquiry, which in truth is part of the same attack campaign.
Japan was finished and the blockade was stopping virtually all food supplies. From that, many senior US leaders, especially Navy, thought they would have to surrender. But that view was wrong. They were viewing this as a rational Westerner, not as one of the Japanese commanders, especially Army, in 1945.
The Japanese view is that if they spilled enough American blood, the American people would demand a negotiated peace. They hoped that would leave their government in place and maybe even part of their empire, like Korea and Manchuria. They were willing to sacrifice unlimited military and civilian personnel to accomplish this.
The key was Okinawa. Anyone who survived Okinawa knew this about the Japanese. Project the American casualties, Japanese casualties and civilian casualties through the lens of the population of the Japanese home islands and you understand the horrific casualties they were willing to take to accomplish this goal.
And they were prepared to lose Tokyo and fight on in the mountains. They were preparing mountain bunkers for the royal family and senior military for this phase.
People need to understand the bombs actually saved Japanese lives, not just American. The Emperor only considered forcing the military to surrender after the bombs, never before.