Comments by "King Orange" (@kingorange7739) on "US considering responses if Putin uses nuclear weapons" video.

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  15.  @_the_watcher_2089  Though I will agree that the testing nukes has its own share of issues, I don’t think u can even say that is comparable to using them in an invasion Russia started. Also the United States using nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki even ignoring the amount of time since then was done under a vastly different set of circumstances. 1. Japan attacked the United States, not the other way around. The United States was operating in a defensive war and not a war of aggression. 2. By the time the nukes were used, the United States was already fighting Japan conventually for almost 4 years. During that time, the US tried to get Japan to surrender time and time again, something they refused to do. 3. The only viable alternative would of been an invasion of the Japanese mainland. However such an invasion was estimated to result in over a million US Casualties and cause the near population cleanse of the Japanese due to them drafting nearly everyone. Also to note that if the US invaded the mainland, Japanese soldiers were ordered to execute all POWs. So that would of added to the blood. So we are talking a range of 5 to 20 million causalities compared to the nukes which only ranged in the 100 of thousands. Still regrettable but saved far more lives than what the alternative would have done. 4. The US did everything in its power to keep the nukes at exclusively military targets and tried giving civilians time and opportunity to leave before dropping them. Including dropping paper flyers of warnings of the bomb. Now of course, sadly civilians got caught in the crossfire, but almost every measure was taken to reduce the deaths. In fact if u wish to go technical, firebombings killed more Japanese than the nukes did.
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