Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Ukraine says Russia is storing weapons at Europe's biggest nuclear plant | DW News" video.

you should put that question of whether ukrainian morale is breaking because of missile strikes against civilians into historical context. that sort of thing has been tried before, and on much bigger scale. they called it "strategic bombing" in WW2. the london blitz didn't break england's morale, and the firestorms in hamburg, the rhineland or tokyo didn't break german or japanese morale either. such attacks mostly make people angry, and they get angry at the enemy, at the ones who are doing the bombing. even when their own governments are much more responsible for the state of war than the ukrainian government, like the WW2 governments of germany and japan were. it's not like those sporadic killings of civilians throughout ukraine are doing anything to convince people that ukraine can't win, which is what it would take to make people want to give up. it's rather convincing people that ukraine should fight because russia is evil. it's probably making the ukrainian public less supportive of negotiations with russia, since it makes russia seem less trustworthy.
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Glinton Gordon the nuclear bombings didn't break japanese morale. it was the emperor who decided to surrender, and that was largely because the war was already lost by other means. a big factor was that the soviet union had just declared war on japan and had a whole lot of capacity to relocate military forces out of europe where the war was won to asia. the emperor also may have simply seen a potential third nuke with the americans having free reign over japan's sky as an unacceptable risk to his own safety, since he'd probably not have been comfortable relying on any sort of bunker to actually protect him from that new-fangled super bomb.
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Aleksandar Jokić britain was already shipped material by the US during the london blitz similarly as ukraine is supported today, but america only entered the war like a year or two later, and at the time of the blitz, it wasn't at all clear that the US would enter the war.
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Maxwell Mustaffa Alick Alick russia IS evil. the government is evil and the people support it. putin and the war have like 55% support, 30% ambivalence, and 15% opposition (much more support according to polls, but it's pretty certain that the pollsskew in favor of the government even when they're conducted independently like by levada). that's how evil countries that do evil things work. the governments spin lies and the people enthusiastically support them.
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ThePuppyman12 I would have assumed the same thing, but in recent weeks, russia has clearly been using guided missiles against civilian targets in an apparent attempt to make civilians feel unsafe even far away from the front. there have been missile strikes in places like vinnytsia and mykolaiv where multiple guided missiles hit very close to one another, proving that that's where they were meant to go, and there was nothing but civilians around. a missile strike on munitions is pretty recognizable, that certainly wasn't the case there. there have also been other cases like the tochka-u cluster missile attack on the civilian evacuation at the kramatorsk train station after the russian retreat from kyiv and chernihiv that was very clear targeting of civilians with a guided missile (though in that case it was a much denser civilian target, so more trouble for your ruble).
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@aleksandarjokic2918 no, the nuclear bombings were just one factor that ended the war. they didn't cause more damage than conventional firebombing did to the wooden houses of japan, the firebombing of tokyo did more damage and killed around as many people as either nuclear bombing. the only thing the nukes may have done substantially different was that they would have destroyed the emperor's confidence in his bunkers, which influenced his personal decision to surrender (the military and population were generally very opposed to surrender). one factor that was at least as big as the nukes was the recent declaration of war by the soviet union on japan. the americans were willing to make concessions to the japanese for a surrender, the situation would have been very different if the soviet union had conquered japanese territory. basically the cold war was already bleeding forward into the second world war, with the japanese and americans joining forces in limited ways to contain communism. for example the americans arranged a continuation of the japanese military occupation of some territories like korea after the surrender to keep a lid on local communist movements (a rather questionable course of action considering the fact that the japanese occupation forces were about as fond of atreocities as the germans on the eastern front).
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