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2025-08-07 China-Japan-Koreas

Europeans on the bombing of Hiroshima: There is no moral justification for it

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Posted by badanov 2025-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [272 views ] Top

#1 They'd have danced with joy if the A bomb had been ready to use before Berlin fell to the Russians.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-08-07 00:05|| 2025-08-07 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 And here you thought they only hate Israel and Russia.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-08-07 02:07|| 2025-08-07 02:07|| Front Page Top

#3 What happened at Hiroshima?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-07 04:17|| 2025-08-07 04:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Another encore

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-07 07:18|| 2025-08-07 07:18|| Front Page Top

#5 European elites are self-loathing. Anything that benefits western civ is bad to them.

Posted by Harcourt Brown2358 2025-08-07 10:04|| 2025-08-07 10:04|| Front Page Top

#6
Let's see Europe 1930-1945
Europe National Democratic Socialism scorecard:
6+ million Jews babies to adults murdered.
Europe hands over 10 and 12+ million Gypsies, Russians, Poles, mentally ill, mentally retarded murdered to be put to death.

JAPAN
Japan sided with Hitler and in a sneak attack, bombs the US, thus bringing the US directly into the war.

Japanese military massacre millions of Chinese, fellow Asians, Europeans.
Japanese troop rape prisoners, some as young as <-12.
Japanese even set up SEX stations in prisons for troops in invaded areas.
Japan set up Chem and Bio Labs to kill more.
Nazi Germany and Japan scientists start work on Nuke weapons designs.

Japan Military warns it will NOT surrender and all troops must fight to the death.
ALL Japanese citizens are told they will do so also.

After the 2nd Nuke, even the Emperor knew it was over.
Given, in 1944, the population of Japan was approximately 72 million people.
So I look at those 2 dropped nukes as actually having saved 100x's more lives.
Then if every Japanese citizen followed the Nippon edict of being expected to die defending the land.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-08-07 11:34|| 2025-08-07 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds like asking a European an opinion question about USA, especially right now, will return with a negative.

What do you think about Bell inventing the Telephone?

Well it just goes to show the capitalist greed to work the stocks on Wall Street plunge the world into wage slaves, making communism and the metric system necessary cures for them.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-07 11:46|| 2025-08-07 11:46|| Front Page Top

#8 It is very plausible that more Japanese would have died if the atomic bombs had NOT been used - either in Okinawa-like defense to the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians and ill-trained/equipped militia, if the US invasion plans were followed, or by mass starvation if the naval blockade had continued and tightened. (Not to mention the continued losses to the convention air attacks or to conventional combat in China etc.)

Posted by Glenmore 2025-08-07 12:36|| 2025-08-07 12:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Do the Europeans have an opinion about Pearl Harbor? Is that another "America had it coming" situation?

Posted by Matt 2025-08-07 13:44|| 2025-08-07 13:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe we should nuke Europe next time.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-08-07 14:07|| 2025-08-07 14:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK

Oh, Germany and thus Italy definitely had an opinion about their ally. A favorable one.

France and Spain didn't exist, so pooh on those responses.

Which leaves the UK, whose period citizens could talk all about Singapore, Prince of Wales, Repulse, and all those other loses which flooded the Japanese POW camps.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-07 15:23|| 2025-08-07 15:23|| Front Page Top

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