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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 9 Aug 2018
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      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Alex Wellerstein

      1. This is an even-tempered thread with some important context on the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings, but it is also missing several kinds of crucial context on where "unconditional surrender" came from & why it stayed U.S. policy to the bitter endhttps://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1027574355205779456 …

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      Alex WellersteinVerified account @wellerstein
      In one of the few remarks he made about this, he emphasized that "unconditional surrender" was essentially required to offset the Japanese perfidy of Pearl Harbor — that he wanted them to grovel. For whatever that is worth.
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 9 Aug 2018
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      2. "Unconditional surrender" wasn't Truman's idea; it had been FDR's publicly declared policy for over 2 years of war, and had been followed to the bitter end with the Germans. Truman had been in office 4 months.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 9 Aug 2018
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      3. Truman certainly wasn't shy about making his own decisions, but there was a lot of policy inertia behind unconditional surrender. FDR had seen it as important to secure Stalin's confidence in US commitment. Fear of a separate peace has haunted wartime alliances for centuries.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 9 Aug 2018
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      4. FDR, in turn, had drawn "unconditional surrender" from Lincoln's policy towards the Confederacy. As the leader of the party of the South, FDR was well aware that the crushing of the Confederacy had been key to why we never had another Civil War, Lost Causers notwithstanding.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 9 Aug 2018
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      5. By contrast, the whole generation of 1945 was haunted by the fact that the charnal house of WWI had been insufficient to convince the losers to never take up arms again. Nobody wanted another German or Japanese Dolchstoßlegende.

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      Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 9 Aug 2018
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      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Japan wasn't a U.S. enemy or loser in WWI. Actually was rather unheralded and without much effort a big winner. The problem they didn't want to repeat was Versailles and Germany's eventual reaction to it. They figured it was wise apply the policy also to Japan as enemy in WWII.

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        1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 9 Aug 2018
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          Replying to @NickSzabo4

          Correct.

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