G8 Summit and Russia's Prez

Actually, if I can dwell on that last point of yours. There is much debate on the necessity of dropping the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bomb. At that point in the war Japan was losing on all fronts: Germany had surrendered and USSR had just declared war on Japan. USA had invaded Okinawa and were at the doorsteps of Japan. Japan was close to surrendering. So why drop the bombs? Several reasons: yes to end the war a little sooner, avoiding the need to invade Japan, possibly losing many valuable soldier's lives. A couple of hundred thousand civilians will make Japan think twice. Most importantly it was to test the nuclear bombs, after all they have never been used before in combat. That is why they used two different bombs. Thridly, and the main reason: To scare the living daylights out of the Russians. A new, super weapon the world had never seen before. Prove American superiority and prevent any monkey-business from Stalin.

All this for the cost of a couple of hundred thousand Japanese civilians! Not a bad deal, eh?

:roll: Well geez at least we didn't deliberately go out of our way to assemble missiles 90 miles off your coast.

Anyway, it's late here and I gotta go. Goodbye until tomorrow...

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Originally Posted by RusskiSlav

:roll: Well geez at least we didn't deliberately go out of our way to assemble missiles 90 miles off your coast.

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You mean trying to assemble missiles within somebody's coast is the same as using 'em or droping nuclear bombs on civilians?

At least we can be content that USSR never used it's nuclear power killing innocent people. You obviously can't say the same.

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Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

You mean trying to assemble missiles within somebody's coast is the same as using 'em or droping nuclear bombs on civilians?

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No, I wrote that to counter kalinka's point that we tried to scare the Russians by using an atomic bomb. I was just saying that you scared us with missiles.

Anyway, how could we have been sure that the Japanese wouldn't have killed more of our innocent soldiers if we didn't drop the bomb? Still though, maybe we should've just dropped it on a Japanese naval base or something instead of on a city full of civilians. :|

:lol: That's the first time I heard the term "innocent soldiers"! A soldier, by definition, can not be innocent! His main purpose, after all, is to kill.

But I understand your point, it was obviously going to be a difficult invasion of the Japanese isles and to brandish this new weapon made everybody stop and think (and surrender).

I personally believe all this mutual missile building is based on silly paranoia that the other is out to get them. USA was so scared of the USSR that they formed NATO (1949), which made USSR scared and they formed the Warsaw pact (1955), USSR was afraid of capatilist swines having nuclear weapons bent on destryoing them so they built their own, which made USA more scared of the commie bastards and deploy missiles in Europe, which made USSr scared and deployed missiles in Cuba etc. etc. It was a silly viscious cycle. You can hardly blame either part.

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Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

I personally believe all this mutual missile building is based on silly paranoia that the other is out to get them. USA was so scared of the USSR that they formed NATO (1949), which made USSR scared and they formed the Warsaw pact (1955), USSR was afraid of capatilist swines having nuclear weapons bent on destryoing them so they built their own, which made USA more scared of the commie bastards and deploy missiles in Europe, which made USSr scared and deployed missiles in Cuba etc. etc. It was a silly viscious cycle. You can hardly blame either part.

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I suppose so, that makes sense. So maybe gRomoZeka and I should call a truce here. :)

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Originally Posted by RusskiSlav

I suppose so, that makes sense. So maybe gRomoZeka and I should call a truce here. :)

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+1

Its pretty clear that if the United States would have invaded Japan, more civilians would have died in the fighting that would have taken place as opposed to how many died in the two bomb explosions. We did them a favor, who else was gunna get them off their high horse.

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Originally Posted by Dogboy182

Its pretty clear that if the United States would have invaded Japan, more civilians would have died in the fighting that would have taken place as opposed to how many died in the two bomb explosions. We did them a favor, who else was gunna get them off their high horse.

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Uhh... what, why would more civilians die if we invaded Japan? Are you saying that the American soldiers would go and kill civilians?

70 000 killed instantly in Hiroshima alone. Similar number injured. Then the countless of people who died later of radiation and babies born mutant... Similar numbers in Nagasaki... I don't think you can justify it by saying we did them a favor!

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Originally Posted by RusskiSlav

I suppose so, that makes sense. So maybe gRomoZeka and I should call a truce here. :)

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Fine with me. :)
Now after that posts race we know how arms race worked. :wink:

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Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Uhh... what, why would more civilians die if we invaded Japan?
Are you saying that the American soldiers would go and kill civilians?

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Yes. For a few reasons. Civilians were known throughout the war to be just as hostile to the Allies as the regular army. When Allied planes were shot down, farmers would flock to the site of the crash and immidiately kill any survivors with pitchforks or shovels. It is most likely due to the propoganda spread by the Japnanese goverment, warning the Japanese population that Americans were bloodythirsty cannibals, and would kill their families, eat their babies... etc... But this is what happend. Havnt you ever seen those videos when from when americans landed on Okinawa, they approach villages and the civilians throw their children off of the cliffs and drown them in the ocean because they were afraid that the Americans would kill them and eat them? When in reality they were just medics, or supply units trying to liberate the villages, and look for wounded. Its on the history channel all the time.

Second, The same thing that happend in Germany would have happend in Japan... All civilian males who could pick up a rifle, or sword or shovel, would have been mobilized, and probably every teenage girl age 16+ who could carry a weapon would have been rounded up and ordered to fight along with the army. They would have found untill American forces reached the steps of the goverment building and draped the American flag off of the balcony, Much like the Soviets did to the Reichstag. Ever seen pictures of the Reichstag? The Soviets hanging their flag while buildings burn and fighting rages in the backround?

It would have been a simalur scene in Tokyo, or wherever the emperor was giving his orders.

Official publications from the American side estimate AT LEAST 1,000,000 dead US soldiers, twice that wounded, and an uncountable number of Japanese army, civilian deaths within the first DAYS of the invasion of mainland Japan.

Every able Japanese person would have fought to the death, weather because they were scared of the Americans, or because they were following their "Samurai" (Spelling) code.

Sure 70,000 is a lot, and deing in a nuclear bomb must not be the best way to go. But I assure you, Dropping the 2 bombs did both sides a favor in the long run.

-Now I am going to quote the Beastie Boys and go ahead and say
"Yeah, You can't front on that".

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While we're on the subject.

No. You can not go from the supposition that a civilian is a potential military threat and therefore must be wiped out, that sounds a little like a moustached teetotal vegetarian in leather boots would say. You can't morally justify killing a thousands of 1-year-olds because their mother might have drowned them anyway if we came knocking on their door.

Here is a quote for you:

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, after interviewing hundreds of Japanese civilian and military leaders after Japan surrendered, reported:
"Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USS ... tml#jstetw

Based on a purely military standpoint of view, the bombings were unnecessary.

Besides, if the Germans had dropped a nuke on Miami, wouldn't we have treated that as a warcrime? The winners always write the history! :)

Well that's one hippies opinion. But the true facts are there. Japan would have fought to the death just like their allies Germany did.

Besides, thats germanies fault for not figuring out how to use heavey water properly to build an automic bomb. All is fair in love in war untill you say it isn't, but you're wrong.

LOL, did you just call me a hippie or the US Strategic bombing survey? This hippie's ass is helping YOU in the Air Force, buster! :lol:

On topic, so we agree to disagree :)

babykiller!

The brigader general who wrote that survey. Hes probly a hippie.

Anyways, Its dumb to argue about things that never took place. But Uh, i dont know how its plausable to assume that the second US forces set foot on Japanese soil they woulda just gave up and embraced us when every single battle that took place on the defenders homeland in the history of the world proves otherwise.

But whatever, there no prerequisite for non hippies in the air force so im sure everyone's oppinion is out there somewhere.

Guyz, you never should be left alone for the weekend. 3 damn whole pages to read! :)

..EAST is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet...
(Rudyard Kipling)

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Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Now after that posts race we know how arms race worked. :wink:

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LOL :lol:

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Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

LOL, did you just call me a hippie or the US Strategic bombing survey? This hippie's ass is helping YOU in the Air Force, buster! :lol:

On topic, so we agree to disagree :)

babykiller!

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You're in the USAF?

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Originally Posted by "kalinka_vinnie":2kazl0z2

LOL, did you just call me a hippie or the US Strategic bombing survey? This hippie's ass is helping YOU in the Air Force, buster! :lol:

On topic, so we agree to disagree :)

babykiller!

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You're in the USAF?[/quote:2kazl0z2]

I thought you were Russian :?