We will not forget the casualties, pain, and suffering that the Japanese imperialist regime imposed on the Chinese people. Any attempt to deny or cover-up this tragedy will be met with strongest condemnation.
We will not forget the casualties, pain, and suffering that the Japanese imperialist regime imposed on the Chinese people. Any attempt to deny or cover-up this tragedy will be met with strongest condemnation.
I get the visceral reaction to the Japanese atrocities and wanting some kind of punishment, but the bombs and the firebombing campaign weren’t it man. Some factory worker or some housewife in Hiroshima didn’t deserve it any more than their counterpart in Nanking. We should’ve let the USSR invade in the north while we blockaded the south and then hosed the entire imperial government along with the fucking emperor. We didn’t do enough to kill fascism in Japan, we just waged a genocidal campaign against the people because Curtis LeMay was a psycho.
If you think that a civilian in Hiroshima suffered equally as a civilian in Nanking then you're insane and even worse, a centrist.
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.