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Japanese cultu(rul)e (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Fawei_@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] Liz@midwest.social 12 points 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.

[-] CertifiedBlackGuy@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

3 prongs.

It was also to show off the nukes to the Russians

[-] LordGimp@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Why do one thing when can do many thing same time

[-] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 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.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 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.