there is no negotiation that would’ve granted the soviets an occupation zone where they had no armies. and i don’t know what you mean by the soviets/china being kept “out” of the peace, they signed the surrender too
I mean the US functionally had three choices
Broker a peace with Japan quickly which would have kept a large scale US occupation off the home islands and Japanese domestic leadership free to triangulate between remaining rival powers. (No good, Americans wanted unconditional surrender)
Wait for the Soviets to mass in East Asia and threaten an invasion of the home islands to compel unconditional surrender. (No good, Americans didn't want to share the home islands)
Bomb Japan into a hasty surrender, rush US Marines and Infantry onto the mainland and invite foreign commanders in for a photo op after the fact. Then crush local dissident groups sympathetic to opposition government. (The Western Europe / South Korea / South Vietnam model)
One of these involved slaughtering a lot more of the civilian population than the other two.
No good, Americans Everyone wanted unconditional surrender
No good, Americans didn’t want to share the home islands
why would they have to do this. where is stalin pulling thousands of landing craft out of thin air? how many times can i reiterate this crucial point to you?
I mean the US functionally had three choices
Broker a peace with Japan quickly which would have kept a large scale US occupation off the home islands and Japanese domestic leadership free to triangulate between remaining rival powers. (No good, Americans wanted unconditional surrender)
Wait for the Soviets to mass in East Asia and threaten an invasion of the home islands to compel unconditional surrender. (No good, Americans didn't want to share the home islands)
Bomb Japan into a hasty surrender, rush US Marines and Infantry onto the mainland and invite foreign commanders in for a photo op after the fact. Then crush local dissident groups sympathetic to opposition government. (The Western Europe / South Korea / South Vietnam model)
One of these involved slaughtering a lot more of the civilian population than the other two.
why would they have to do this. where is stalin pulling thousands of landing craft out of thin air? how many times can i reiterate this crucial point to you?
im tapping out this is just :wall-talk:
They wouldn't, because they forced unconditional surrender quickly.
Off the shores of the East Asian Coast, where the Japanese left them when they surrendered.
Our of the docks of the Russian Pacific Fleet.
You can say the same words as many times as you like.
You're still not going to justify politically expedient genocide.