Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
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To die for the Emperor was to live forever. Banzai! Yeah, those fuckers be cray-cray.
Their ideology and Stalin's aggression both against millions of his own people and millions around him identified Stalin and the Soviet Union as a threat to Western ideology.
One of the greatest movies ever made was Dr. Strangelove.
This guy has a problem trying to agree with you. Poor guy.
Religion seems to be more of a tool to motivate masses, not worth fighting for in itself. Simply justification to kill people and take their stuff. Don't forget to demean and dehumanize the enemy first.
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I'll never accept intentionally killing civilians. It's a principle that I have, and that we all should have.
The Charleton Heston one was better. Tora, Tora, Tora was very good from the Japanese side as was Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima".
"Letters from Iwo Jima" was fucking great.
The officers who ordered the Tokyo fire bombing are reputed to have said if America somehow lost the war, they would be tried as war criminals.
That is truly fucked up.
The Soviets defeated the million-man Kwangtung Army in Manchuria in about three weeks. It was unequivocally the worst Japanese battlefield defeat in their 1,500 year history. The Manchuria campaign gives some fuel to the argument that the Japanese military was utterly spent and its fighting capability severely degraded.
Too bad it only takes one asshole to disagree. This is why I keep telling the anarchists they're idiots. If there were 5 equal anarchist areas and one group began raiding the others, the others would be wiped out in sequence because they are against having armies.
Yes, avoid war. Yes, avoid killing civilians. Yes, avoid all unnecessary death....which is why a Hellfire missile 18 lb warhead is a preferable, more surgical way to remove bad guys than a B-52 strike on the village.
The outer most armies of a crumbling empire are the last to be supplied and the first to be conquered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwantung_Army#Surrender_of_the_Kwantung_Army
The quality of troops had fallen drastically, as all the best men and materiel were siphoned off for use in other theaters. These forces were replaced by militia, draft levies, reservists, and cannibalized smaller units, all equipped with woefully outdated equipment.[7] The Kwantung Army had also bacteriological weapons, prepared for use against Soviet troops (see Unit 731). The bulk of military equipment (artillery, tanks, aircraft) was developed in the 1930s, and very few of the soldiers had sufficient training or any real experience.
The final commanding officer of the Kwantung Army, General Otozō Yamada, ordered a surrender on August 16, 1945, one day after Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan in a radio announcement. Some Japanese divisions refused to surrender, and combat continued for the next few days.
Had the American Revolution failed, all of the Founders would have been hanged as traitors.
Most lived in wooden shanties. The place went up like a California forest fire.
Like this? Too bad for the homeless, eh?
They don't complain.
Or they you, Round Eye.
LOL. The first time I have heard of that slur was in Indiana Jones 2.