hunter_alien said:
Wow... if you really do bealive that this is true, then my friend we have nothing to discuss because you are then probably the most blind person ever. The reason Japan surrendered was not because the atomic bomb... that was the final drop. They had nothing left to protect themselves, they where trully exhausted... and all they had left was their tiny island. Now do you trully bealive that dropping a nuclear bomb on Moscow ( a city that was in ruins btw) would have made the russians give up the entire eastern europe? The US barely had troops in mainland europe by the time the war was over. The russian army was by far bigger, and back then land combat was still arguably the dominative one during a war... If the US would have kept pushing the front in matter of months their already not stable economy would have went down the hill my friend ;) |
Well, only since you insist on bringing it up.
Of course Japan was exhausted near the end of the war. It took two atomic bombs to convince them that they were however. But once their navy and air force were destroyed and the US had island airbases within range of the mainland it was all over.
I’m not sure Eastern Europe was too keen on Russian domination. Sure it may have beaten German occupation, but I kind of think they would have preferred their freedom. The US once JP was out of the way, could field as much equipment, troops, and nuclear deterrent that it took to make Russia capitulate. Stalin wasn’t exactly loved so much as the Nazis were hated.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
