Comments by "115islands Compass" (@115islandscompass6) on "What If Operation Downfall Succeeded? | Alternate History" video.

It is a lie to have dropped the atomic bomb to end the war early. The purposes of dropping the atomic bomb in Japan: 1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people 2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body 3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
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@joshkardos1673 No atomic bomb was needed to end the war. In fact, it was the Soviet aggression that made Japan decide to surrender. The text below is an excerpt from: It’s Time to Confront Painful Truths About Using the Atomic Bombs on Japan | Debate Club | US News “As the National Museum of the U.S. Navy makes clear, the atomic bombs had little to do with the end of the war. The museum's display on the bombings unambiguously states that the atomic bombings "made little impact on the Japanese military. However, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria … changed their minds.“”
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@joshkardos1673 Japan had already informed the United States that it was willing to surrender. In April 1945, the Kantaro Suzuki Cabinet was built in Japan by the order of the Emperor, with the clear aim of ending the war. In May 1945, through the intelligence agency, the predecessor of the CIA in Switzerland, a senior Japanese government official told Truman: The only condition for Japan to surrender was to maintain the emperor system. This is because the existence of the emperor was indispensable for the leaders who govern the Japanese people while preventing Japan from becoming a communist country. However, the United States even refused to discuss the issue. At the same time as Japan consulted with the United States about surrendering, it had asked the Soviet Union, which had a Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty at the time, for arbitration. The Soviet invasion cut off the hope of arbitration, so Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration and surrendered. The damage caused by the atomic bomb was certainly enormous. However, the number of human victims reported from Hiroshima and Nagasaki immediately after the bombing was less than the 100,000 victims of the Tokyo air raid conducted by the United States before the atomic bombing. For these reasons, the Soviet invasion had a greater impact on the Japanese government than the atomic bombings.
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@joshkardos1673 One last thing I want to say to you. This is just my opinion, not blaming you. War is a battle between military personnel. For whatever reason or excuse, massacre of unarmed people is a genocide and a war crime. Even LeMay, who planned a city air raid, said, "It's a war crime." And they also violate international law. US military personnel were not judged because they belonged to the victorious country, but I think it is wrong to justice / correct it by not being judged.
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Full of lies. First of all, if you use the word Bushido, you should read "Bushido" written by Inazo Nitobe. You are using the word in the wrong sense.
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