StickmanPirate [he/him]
If it spikes again I’ll sell and do the same. I might be banned from main but I still like what this site is.
For what? Soviet Naval capacity? Well there’s Project Hula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hula where the US had to provide naval vessels to the Soviets. Not to mention that even after that there was no guarantee that the Soviets would have been able to protect a naval invasion.
For the Japanese not wanting to surrender, they were refusing to surrender after the second nuke and threatened to overthrow the Emperor if he tried to surrender. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyūjō_incident
It’s not about punishment, it’s about the reality of it. The US maybe should have allowed for an invasion of Northern Japan, although that would likely have been horriffic and brutal street fighting and anti-insurgency warfare, also starving out the south would have led to mass starvation and death of the civilian population as the military wouldn’t have surrendered.
Because at the time there were no other nukes. I don’t support nuking anywhere now, but at the time, in that exact circumstance, I believe it was the best option.
Less suffering that allowing the occupation of Manchuria to continue
Less suffering than an invasion of Japan
Less suffering than blockading and starving them out
A brutal and horrible thing, but ultimately necessary.