https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1506095895577870341?s=21

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    It wasn't even set after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There were discussions apparently about using nukes in Vietnam (apparently against both the North and the South), and Curtis LeMay (an air force general) had been pushing for nuking Russia before they could develop nuclear weapons and found concerns about civilian casualties a joke.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.

      ---Curtis LeMay

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Good ol' Curtis "Bombs Away" LeMay, genuinely one of the most ghoulish Am*ricans to ever live.

        spoiler

        “If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.” - Curtis LeMay

        “If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.” - Curtis LeMay

        “If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.” - Curtis LeMay

        “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.... Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?” - Curtis LeMay

        “Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.” - Curtis LeMay

        “I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.” - Curtis LeMay

    • Tapirs10 [undecided,she/her]
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      3 years ago

      In the Korean war some us general wanted to nuke the entire border between China and dprk so they could not send troops through