well thank you then.

I don’t think the war would’ve been over as quickly if we left it to the soldiers.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrific wastes of life, but it was a big enough power move to tell everyone else to back off.

Without this power move, millions more could’ve happened, but even with the power move other wars happened.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an overreaction. Admittedly out of self defense, but it wasn’t like they packed “Just enough to defend themselves”

Truth is, War is difficult.

It’s hard to point fingers.

And most wars pose the question:

What lives are more valuable than others?

Like, in WW1, a war America barely had anything to do with. It all started with an assassination of the Archduke (sure there were other factors, but this was a main one) was it really justified to start a war, over 1 person.

Is avenging one person really worth the millions who died for him?

It’s hard to answer.

Best thing is to move on.

Almost every country has done some terrible s#!t in the past.

War is impossible to be black & white.

Now obviously the Axis powers were in the wrong. Killing Jews for racist reasons is definitely a punishable offense, but it’s not like every Nazi did that.

Plenty of these soldiers were just young men forced into the war, but they died anyway.

Same goes for most sides. No one really wanted to be there, no one wanted to do what they were doing.

But when you fight for a cause, then the leaders expect you to die for it.

And that’s what’s f#%ked up about war.

All these men died for a reason, and some of these reasons are good! It’s good that you wanna stop genocide, but, to do that

You gotta commit genocide yourself.

Another thing is, Pearl Harbor was a wake up call.

Without this unwarranted attack, Britain might not have been a thing today.

The Americans wouldn’t have a concrete legal reason to enter the war.

And the British would’ve lost!

All these things form this cycle of bad events, that escalate and get more morally gray as you get higher.

YEAH

HISTORY IN A MATHS CLASS

I understand Prarl Harbour was a biggie but what I don’t under Is why.

America had been supplying Britain with recourses for the better part of the war and the Japs decided to attack an American harbour to halt that supply.

Yet for some reason, I’ve sen Americans treat it like it was a mass disaster when all that actually happened was some kamikaze pilots sunk some ships, no biggie.

Britain had its cities hammered with German boming runs yet everyone Just acts casual about it, like civilian lives don’t matter.

People treated as such because for the most part, the attack was unwarranted.

USA barely had any part in WWII up to that point besides providing Britain some guns (Which they technically weren’t allowed to do) but then Japan attacked.

That was the attack that gave America a full on reason to join the war, and them joining the war was honestly the best thing that could’ve happened.

USA talked Russia into joining them, and America and Russia have the biggest armies ever.

As distasteful as this may sound, the atom bombs saved millions. Their purpose of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was because they were military strongholds of Japan. War is in fact never pretty and it sometimes comes with sacrificing civilians to end a war. If the US hadn’t forced Japan to surrender by bombing those cities, it is said millions more would die.