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I would argue that the Chinese Communist Party and not the people of China are the problem. No Germans were treated likewise, because there was no threat from a German invasion. This is the reason why FDR in early 1942 placed 100,000 Japanese “Americans” into camps. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.” She would have been met, as it is rumored to have been said by Yamamoto himself, that “You cannot invade mainland United States. Germany did not have the strategic reach to threaten the US mainland. It had been an assumption of Hitler’s since the 1920s that Germany would at some point fight the United States.” “The reality is that war with the United States had been included in Hitler’s agenda for years, that he had deferred hostilities only because he wanted to begin them at a time, and under circumstances, of his own choosing, and that the Japanese attack fitted his requirements precisely. The declaration was unnecessary, and made the war a world war. Germany’s declaration of war upon the US on Decemalso insured Germany’s destruction. She was years from anything like a nuclear bomb, and such a fantasy never entered into her military equations. Pearl Harbor was a tactical victory for Japan, but a massive strategic defeat-a defeat that led directly to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And, of course once the Emperor made this proclamation, they all fell in line There would be no dishonor or cowardice to bow down to such a thing, any more than it would be to flee to higher ground after a tsunami warning. It was an unprecendented natural cataclysm.

Then along comes something so horrible and immense that it was basically outside human civilization. They were so terrified of the pathological levels of shame which would accrue from the cowardice of surrendering to other men whom they had deemed inferior in terms of courage and honor, they would have endured anything This nation had devolved into the most extreme Honor based culture ever seen.

My theory about why the atom bomb led to Japanese surrender is that it ALLOWED this society to surrender. We might have set up a impermeable blockade of the Japanese Home Island, but then millions of them might have starved. Seems as if the numbers would have been measured in millions. It took the fires of Hell to remove the horrors in the Japanese soul. Hundreds of thousands would have died in service to their emperor. The US Marines in just one planned landing site would have had to deal with thousands of rabid schoolgirls and schoolboys charging at them. So it commanded every citizen of Japan to arm himself with bamboo stakes to as to meet any invading US troops with swarms of millions dedicated to dealing and accepting death. After the 1945 Battle Okinawa Japanese leadership knew the war was lost. Every one of them, from young kids to mature adults, bought into the nightmarish and totalitarian program of bushido and the religion of Shinto-emperor worship. One can make no such argument regarding Japan. One can make the argument that not every German believed in Nazi propaganda, that not every German agreed with the SS. Auschwitz was a slightly restricted summer camp compared to what the lunatic Japanese militarists did to everyone they got their hands on. Whatever the Nazis did, the Japanese did far worse. Most folks know about Nazi Germany, but Japan was much crazier. Nations as well as men can go bat-shit crazy.

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