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Wutobliteration posted...

That's only war. Countries target civilians since that is the population that makes up a country, not soldiers. Not to mention, civilians would all be behind the war effort, especially in Japan where nationalism was fervent sky-high to the point of what escalated in their aggression in the first place, similar to the Nazis.

My point is, there's no need for some apology for the nukings. And even less should you, when Japan is the only Axis country till today that remains adamant about their actions in WW2, it's disgusting. Koreans still cry about comfort women and Japan for decades, refused to acknowledge it. Then their PM even goes to a war shrine to pay respect to their rapist mass murdering soldiers. Even the younger politicians now think the war was one big saving grace. That's how much they whitewash their country from the real history of the war

Oh, Japan's stance is disgusting I agree. But I disagree on the rest of your post. I understand why civilians might be targeted but I don't think that makes it any less a disgusting act - the indiscriminate mass murder of the nukes or fire bombings two prime examples of the "good guys" not really being good in ww2 It can be easy to brush it aside with "oh, they are supporting the enemy soldiers" but they are people who likely had little to no say in what was going on and probably just want to go on with their lives without this bloody war - much like civilians in your own country.

If you are holding the enemy to a standard, you can't just not hold yourself to it without being a hypocrite.
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