Post #1122892
2026-04-07 20:39 UTC
By the way: one very specific thing we learned from WW2 is that bombing civilians of a totalitarian regime does *nothing*.
There is no "morale" to destroy, they can not pressure their government to stop the war. It's just needless cruelty, fostering never-ending resentment (ask the people of Dresden).
There's a reason (well… debatable) the US dropped *two* nukes, three days apart: the Japanese regime didn't care about one of their cities getting wiped out.
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@dahie@chaos.social 2026-04-07 21:15
@Merovius Absolutely right and even leading up to the nukes in Japan, there were months of fire-bombing Japanese cities, killing between 2-6 times as many people as the nukes themselves, and Japan's leadership would just continue the war like nothing happened. In this light, the nukes could be considered desperate measures to make the Japanese government stop the war quickly, instead of drawing it out longer - killing more. Source; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan and https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-67-supernova-in-the-east-vi/