Obviously. But it would mean tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans dying instead of guilty Japanese whose nation started the war and set records for military atrocities . BTW Are you volunteering?https://twitter.com/CaitlinPacific/status/1203379059503198208 …
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Nonsense. Tell them they could keep their emperor, and they would have surrendered anyway to avoid being overrun by the Russians, who were rolling them up in Manchuria.
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Right. The eventual post-Nagasaki surrender terms had already been agreed to but FDRs SoS rejected them. But after the bombings suddenly they were reasonable.
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Replying to @yourlyingeyes @horowitz39
Because the USSR had declared war against them and invaded Manchuria. Had they not surrendered to the U.S., they would have been invaded and occupied by the Soviets.
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Which would considered an upside by FDR...
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