Comments by "HunterShows" (@HunterShows) on "Why the US didn't Nuke Tokyo" video.

  1. Before Britain declared war on Germany, Germany was proceeding with its plans to snuff out all the problem groups like Jews, Gypsies and communists. Japan was slaughtering the Chinese and other groups. No one else cared. The war wasn't about THAT. Before and after the war, the Soviet Union continued its policy of genocide against various groups Stalin didn't like and shipping them to wastelands to die. No one said much about that either. It was just some stuff in the newspaper. The war wasn't over that either. Individuals recoiled at the starving and diseased victims of concentration camps, but there wasn't much to say about burning people alive in their homes, you know, to lower morale. It seems hard to imagine how morale could have been lower, and yet all that really mattered was finding some more cities to burn to the ground and innocent people to slaughter to advance the morally bankrupt theory that it was saving someone else's life. So to say, the victors and the conquered, were not so different, and in the end the victors lowered themselves to the level of their morally bankrupt foes. Germany tried to destroy London; they were famously incompetent at it. Stalin murdered about as many German communists (who were his guests) as Hitler did (his enemies). But it wasn't Russians who burned central Europe and Japan to the ground. They were more into bloody retribution, which was no secret. They robbed, raped, and murdered or deported any Germans on land they captured, much as the Nazis had done. When Hitler kept the war going after losing it, he designated German cities "festungen" so that everything would be destroyed and every last German could be killed before admitting that fact. The collapse of the Japanese empire brought about an opportunity for Stalin to advance global depravity. He supported Mao against the similarly depraved Chinese nationalists, who had gotten themselves killed trying to keep the Japanese from taking everything in China. Mao went on to starve millions and smash anything in China that was old which was most of it. But at least Mao could claim it was unintentional, if he were ever to admit that it had happened. What the Germans and Japanese did was unforgivable. The allies then paid that favor right back with their own unjustifiable atrocities against humanity and world culture. All was fair it war, it was said. They came up with that phrase before they had fleets of bombers murdering hundreds of thousands of people uninvolved in the military for the crime of belonging to the nations which had committed aggression. Then after the war, the allies whitewashed the crimes of their defeated foes - perhaps a clever way to gain their cooperation, to sanitize the documentation of their actions. Because just like in the case of the war, it wasn't about morals. The liberation of the Jews and others was a side effect of the main point - to assert power. I'm not sorry the Axis lost, but it was a very hollow and amoral victory; a triumphal arch built on the corpses of innocent victims.
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