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by kortilla8 hours ago |
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upvoteby mooktakim8 hours ago|
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Are you saying USA cared about the Chinese? Japan had already surrendered before US nuked them
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upvoteby kortilla7 hours ago|
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No, Japan had not surrendered before the bombs. There is no evidence of that in Japanese or western history. Where are you getting that from?

> Are you saying USA cared about the Chinese?

I’m saying it was not beneath Japan to commit horrific atrocities on civilians. You can’t pretend they were some high moral actor that was only performing a military action to defend themselves.

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upvoteby mooktakim7 hours ago|
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Did I say the Japanese were good guys? Everything the Japanese did, UK, USA and other European countries have done worse. They're still doing it. Going back to the original reply, US Navy only benefited the US by screwing over the rest of the world
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upvoteby Jensson5 hours ago|
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It was the US that made all these countries stop committing atrocities, so they are the good guys.

World war 2 was the war of 3 different evil ideologies, you had the fascists vs the communists vs the imperialist England and France. The war ended with both the Imperialists and the Fascists defeated so European imperialism ended there, England and France had to give up their colonies.

If not for USA likely Europe would still have colonies and just be as imperialist as they used to be, same with Japan. USA might not be as good as these defeated imperialists, but it was still USA that ended the age of European imperialism that was so much worse than anything USA has done since ww2.

(I'm a European)

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