Comments by "NSResponder" (@NSResponder) on "The Front" channel.

  1. Japan's defeat was inevitable, and if they'd caught the carriers in port on December 7, it would have bought them another year at the most. They had no hope of overcoming the sheer weight of the USA's industrial capacity, and their sneak attack fully motivated the USA to accept nothing less than total defeat of Japan.
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  2. Yamashita had opportunities to kill Hirohito, Yamamoto, and Tojo, and made no attempt to do so. A decent man in the military service of a criminal government has a moral duty to do all he can to decapitate the criminal government, or at the very least to escape that country and offer assistance to their victims. If Yamashita had defected to China, then he would deserve clemency. As it is, he got what he had coming.
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  3. Even if they had coordinated perfectly, Japan was doomed. There was no way they could possibly counter the USA's overwhelming productive capacity.
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  4. The USSR's greatest failure in WW2 was in not removing Stalin the day of Barbaross and replacing him with a competent leader like Zukov.
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  5. Japanese "soldiers" were owed no quarter, because 1) they started the war with a treacherous sneak attack, and 2) they ignored the Geneva convention and routinely starved, tortured, and murdered POWs and civilians alike. If they got some of their own treatment back at the hands of US marines, tough shit. Cry me a river.
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  6. He had the opportunity to be Gorbachev fifty years earlier and save the people in the Soviet empire from extreme suffering, but since he was a committed communist, he failed them. May he burn in hell with Stalin, Lenin, and Marx.
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  7. Hard to say who the bravest were, but the greatest cowards were Quisling, Petain, and the rest of the collaborators. The Allies should have hung them all.
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