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chainsaw

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  1. Then why were the same terms accepted after the bombs were dropped?
  2. Because he wanted to kill 200,000 civilians instead of end the war. Right? That's my point. It was completely unnecessary to end the war.
  3. This blogger seems pretty argumentative and not particularly scholarly, but even setting aside his tone and motivations his analysis is focused on discrediting two historians without addressing the others such as Dennis Wainstock and Edwin Hoyt, cited in this article from Mark Weber. It was pretty common knowledge that Japan was willing to accept any terms of surrender including the exact same terms that were accepted after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To bring us full circle, it was the onslaughts from the B-29s that truly won this war for the Allied Powers. Everything after that was garbage time and Japan was already completely desperate to cease hostilities and had conveyed via McArthur to FDR the same terms that were ultimately accepted after the nukes were used. https://ihr.org/journal/v16n3p-4_Weber.html
  4. Hard to accept for some but it's true. We are the only country ever to use nuclear weapons, and it was all completely unnecessary. Cope all you want, but it's true.
  5. I thought republicans were the party of religious freedom?
  6. Internet seems to think the Spurs have had an outstanding draft so I guess he's pretty good
  7. I'd be pretty pissed if I was a lottery pick and got stashed to the G-League
  8. I wonder if he'll contribute
  9. Do you know the terms of Japans offer? What about this offer was so unacceptable to FDR that we needed to kill 200,000 civilians?
  10. Does Shams have the advance intel?
  11. What terms were so important they had to kill 200k civilians?
  12. do we really need this shit?
  13. What do you think the difference is?
  14. FDR rejected the offer. If FDR had accepted the offer, the fighting would have ended without the need for atomic bombs eight months later.
  15. You're just wrong, but if you trust AI over historians I can't help you understand why
  16. Ask your AI about the memorandum FDR received on January 20, 1945, from Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
  17. I'm confused is this Houston's or Phoenix's pick?
  18. SEC overrepresented in the top 10
  19. Technically FDR rejected Japan's offer of surrender, but the a-bombs were totally unnecessary to end the war with Japan.
  20. Read up on it https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/atomic-bombings-japan-did-not-produce-its-surrender-204074
  21. Could have been worse but I don't love this
  22. any chance wizards pass on him?
  23. Jazz taking a bit of a gamble. I thought games of chance were forbidden by the elders in the LDS church
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