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    8 months ago

    It did save the lives of the soldiers who were going to invade Japan. Its fine to call sacrificing several hundred thousand lives unjustified but that was the rational at the time.

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      8 months ago

      Not only those soldiers though. Japanese soldiers as well, and don’t forget they convinced local communities to commit suicide ‘to save themselves from the brutality of US soldiers’