• Liz@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    There’s strong arguments to be made that we nuked them so that they’d surrender to us instead of the Russians.

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      8 months ago

      The Russians had zero ability to invade the Japanese home islands. The Russian official declaration of war only cut off a potential way for the Japanese to broker a peace through a neutral Russia.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        8 months ago

        I suspect they could’ve gained a limited (big emphasis on limited) ability to invade the Japanese islands if/once they seized coastal Chinese and Korean regions that were under Japanese control, some ships might’ve been around.