Talk like "chunk of your soul" wank sounds nice and flowery when you're nowhere near any actual fighting, but if you asked any of the teenage marines who had to fight in Iwojima or Okinawa or any other useless battle when the war was already clearly over they'd probably say "fuck that nuke em again".
Yes! Except the battles weren't "useless" they were required to set up the invasion of the Home Islands.
Aside from liberating the Philippines, THAT was useless! McArthur had deserted his troops in disgrace & it was his vanity alone that required the Philippines to be liberated.
Every Allied soldier looking into the meatgrinder of Operation Olympic would gladly keep dropping atom bombs until the cows came home.
Talk like "chunk of your soul" wank sounds nice and flowery when you're nowhere near any actual fighting, but if you asked any of the teenage marines who had to fight in Iwojima or Okinawa or any other useless battle when the war was already clearly over they'd probably say "fuck that nuke em again".
Yes! Except the battles weren't "useless" they were required to set up the invasion of the Home Islands.
Aside from liberating the Philippines, THAT was useless! McArthur had deserted his troops in disgrace & it was his vanity alone that required the Philippines to be liberated.
Every Allied soldier looking into the meatgrinder of Operation Olympic would gladly keep dropping atom bombs until the cows came home.