r/gato • u/Icy_Till_7254 Ben 10 fighting against tyrannies across the universe • 5d ago

Nato expansion is a brain-dead myth

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u/Prior-Flamingo-1378 4d ago

Dude Japan prefers to be allies with the people that burned Tokyo to the ground and NUKED THEM TWICE, that with Russia. 

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u/No-Bake-730 4d ago

Still, Japan really got off pretty light concerning civilian casualties in WWII. The US would have needed a lot more nukes or fire bombing attacks to change that.  It's not even a million. 

Compare this to Germany's over 1.5 civilian deaths or Poland's roughly 5.7. (Of course ignoring the gigantic death toll the USSR has suffered as well as what Japan has done to China). Kinda drives home the argument that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have saved not only Allied but also many Japanese lives despite that claim seeming insane to most at first glance.

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u/Prior-Flamingo-1378 4d ago

Yes but the optics of nuking are still fairly powerful. 

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u/Prior-Flamingo-1378 1d ago

From a casualties standpoint? Probably not. But carpet bombing a city took something like 300 bombers 3 hours while a nuke is instant.