"The atom bombs didn't even really do as much damage as our non stop fire bombing campaigns did."

"The bombs had no affect. By the time we dropped the atom bombs we had already fire bombed 90% of the cities to dust."

:cringe:

fyi the first hour of this video is about how terror bombing is fucked and completely militarily useless

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
    ·
    4 years ago

    I mean, firebombing was a war crime, and it did kill tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of civilians.

    You don't absolve one crime by confessing to another.

    • QuillQuote [they/them]
      hexagon
      ·
      4 years ago

      Yeah exactly, you'd have to have actual hatred for japanese civilians and think they're worthy of death because of the imperial war machine they were enslaved by, which is, uh, yikes

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
        ·
        4 years ago

        What's far worse is the idea that "they would have fought to the last man".

        It's crazy what people believe anout what other people believe.