Primarily through the battles fought by Soviet forces, Nazi Germany was defeated, but instead of gratitude for this historical feat, the US government was persuaded by its embedded faction of Russia-hating officials to embark on a totally different course of action.
This began with the totally unnecessary and criminal decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed and injured at least 200,000 Japanese. Japan had been fully prepared to surrender and because of this, almost all high ranking military officals, including Eisenhower and McArthur, opposed the use of atomic bombs. However, Truman’s inner circle of advisors convinced him to do this. In actuality, this was not to end the war on Japan but to show the USSR that this could happen to them if they wouldn’t follow USA’s dictats.
These two paragraphs are absolutely revisionist horse manure. My dad's unit (2/9, 3rd Div, USMC) was slated to go in with the first wave onto the west facing beaches of southwest Kyushu during operation downfall. Casualty expectations for
BOTH sides, military AND civilian, were catastrophic. He might well have not survived it, and
I might not well be alive today to type this. I take this kind of crap very personally. People who write this kind of crap can go straight to hades. The Japanese were "so ready to surrender", that their military leadership attempted a coup
and assassination of the Emperor when they found out that he intended to surrender. A friend of my dad's was with Naval intelligence and was among the very first Americans ashore on Japanese soil after the Emperor's radio message, tasked with assessing Japan's still existent military capabilities post surrender. Those defensive capabilities were still impressive to say the least.
Japan wrote a check she couldn’t cash when she attacked Pearl Harbor. The bill came due in the summer of 1945. Several months earlier, 90,000 to 100,000 Japanese were
killed in the firebombing of ONE city—Tokyo—but nobody ever wants to talk about that. It’s always Hiroshima this and Nagasaki that. The combined civilian dead from both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are
estimated (nobody
really knows the actual number) to be between 109,000 to 206,000. I don’t count their military deaths in those two cities, because
they can kiss Nanking's posterior.
The Japanese who either died in the atomic bombings or of radiological causes in the months and years following are a drop in the bucket compared to the millions upon millions of people the Japanese killed everywhere else. I can’t waste one second of regret on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The blame falls
squarely on the shoulders of her leadership at the time.
