I'm handing out some free red pills on this "infamous" 80th anniversary:
-FDR was informed about the attack on Pearl Harbor well in advance but just let it happen because he was in bed with Stalin, and he'd let his whole state apparatus get infested with hordes of commie roaches. Conveniently, all the most important assets like aircraft carriers were off on a training exercise that day. He repeatedly snubbed requests from Japanese diplomats for a meeting in the preceding days.
-Japan definitely overplayed their hand, it must be said. Who knows what political landscape we'd be living in if they'd simply declared an end to their imperial ambitions and settled for the territories they held at the time.
-The atomic bombs had basically nothing to do with Japan's surrender years later. The US had already razed 58 large cities with plain old fire over the summer of '45. What difference would razing 2 more cities with special fire that also causes cancer make in that situation? Japan surrendered because Stalin declared war and threatened their western border while they were entirely deployed in the south and east. All they were hoping for was something better than an unconditional surrender. Good thing they sided with US.
-WWII was nothing like the comfy morality tale they sell normies in high school.
-At least we got anime, which is now one of the last remaining beacons of western civilization.
Edit: I'm glad this generated some friction. My mind isn't changed, but my thanks to everyone who brought differing opinions.
Those two bombs cost about 30 billion USD in 2021 dollars. How many more do you think the war-torn US economy could have come up with on short notice, especially cloaked in total secrecy?
Japan was basically out of well-trained pilots and instructing their noobs to just smash into ships with plain old TNT.
It's a cool story that may have saved the world from communism, but it's time for the rest of us to grow up and reevaluate the facts.
So Japan could build airplanes but they had not the faintest idea of the current state of nuclear physics?
If I was an SJW I'd call you racist.
The dollar amounts are an exaggeration, but they absolutely did not know how many bombs the US had. The more militant faction of their government wanted people to die honorably by the bomb and was hoping that more cities would disappear under the glorious flower of a mushroom cloud, while the Emperor's faction was convinced to end the war primarily because they didn't want any more cities to suffer the same fate. The firebombing of other cities like Tokyo did more damage but the extremists were still ready to hold out in caves forever. It took the psychological impact of the atomic bomb to end the war when it did. (at least the first one, the second one was probably unnecessary and the Emperor had already made up his mind)
Of course they didn't. America provably knew more about the contemporary state of nuclear physics because they were the ones who knew how to build an atomic bomb.
Reality often matters less than what people perceive to be reality.
If there's one thing the US was not, it's "war-torn." It suffered a single attack on an isolated harbour.
I agree that was a poor choice of words on my part. Maybe "strained?"
Strained? You mean booming. We were turning out Shermans and Mustangs like mad and selling material to the allies.