Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Oppenheimer" video.

@Turagrong Anyone with a fraction of knowledge on Japan during WW2 would tell you how utterly braindead that idea would be. Wasting an A bomb on a deserted island would have only proved to the Japanese that the US was weak willed and the Japanese could bleed the US dry to force it into making a ceasefire instead of surrender. The entire Japanese plan post-fall of Germany was to lower US morale to peace it out. It planned to literally throw its entire population into the meat grinder to do this. This plan was only ruined when the Japanese came to believe that it had a bunch of nuclear bombs to throw at the Japanese islands which nullified the threat of throwing civilians at the soldiers.
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@justincholos.balisang6884 Literally half of US education is shaming people for the US' actions from the 17th-20th century. Meanwhile the rest of the planet glorifies their conquests, colonialism, and genocides. Your hypocrisy is pathetic, really.
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@zacharylaw9513 Those scientists, as always, were idiots when it came to public policy. Japan almost didn't surrender with both bombs, and only did so ultimately because they believed that the US had a bunch of them. Heck, the original Japanese belief was that the US was too much of a cowardly nation to use such weapons on cities.
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Just because you're ignorant, doesn't mean everyone else was. Even after both bombs Japan still didn't surrender until Emperor Hirohito forced it to do so; all under the assumption that the US had a large stockpile of nuclear bombs.
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@mete7570 Truman glorified ending the war quickly and not mass slaughtering the Japanese people to do so. He's got more to be proud of then people like you, who would genocide the Japanese and act like you're moral after the fact.
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@LeBreads Psychopaths unironically want Japan to get genocided rather than use the nukes.
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@mah2418 Most concern of the US today has to do with the consequences of braindead fascists, colonialists, and marxists mucking things up throughout the planet. The only way you can unironically argue that the US created most of its own issues is by ignoring literally all other factors. Best example being Al Qaeda, which was formed from the Mujahideen in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. US itself didn't create it, but people act like it did because they ignore everyone except the US in the equation.
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@lordquaz7154 People like you are far more evil than men like Truman; your ignorance will get millions killed for the sake of your braindead moral hiccups and you will pat yourself on the back after the fact. You don't even know jack all about why Japan even surrendered. Even after BOTH bombs dropped, Japan still didn't surrender; Emperor Hirohito was the one that did so, and he almost got couped as a response.
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@smtandearthboundsuck8400 "The looming Soviet threat" that had zero means to actually invade the Japanese main islands without US support. At no point did Japan consider the USSR a threat beyond ideology. And the USSR was by far a bigger mass murderer and imperialist than the US, literally occupying and ethnically cleansing vast parts of Europe. Spare us the hypocrisy.
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@LeBreads The Japanese Army refused to surrender and the Japanese government was mobilizing every single able bodied youth to fight the US in an effort to literally bleed the US dry. The nukes prevented this strategy, and prevented the genocide of the Japanese from using this tactic.
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@smtandearthboundsuck8400 Yeah, pressuring the Japanese on the mainland; not their literal home islands, genius. With what ships were the Soviets going to be able to do a US-style D-Day? You can't really go crying about overthrowing governments when the USSR initiated that kind of behavior when it overthrew every single Eastern European government to give them genocidal Marxist ones. Ones in which thousands fled towards their Western counterparts forcing East Germany to build a literal wall to *keep people in*. And yes, the US was founded on genocide. So was Russia, and the USSR for that matter. Most national histories are founded by genocide. The US didn't continue it, while the USSR did; must be proud in how genocide happy the USSR was, eh? Uh, most major nations were at war for almost all of their histories, genius lmao
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@smtandearthboundsuck8400 Russia is doing a genocide as we speak, China is as well; both have made their public policy quite open about it. Israel, in contrast, is fighting in self-defense after Oct 7th. If that is genocide, then every war that the USSR has ever fought is now a genocide. Sorry, but you need intent to exterminate a people for it to be a genocide. Palestinians are still quite a large minority group within Israel to make that a laughable concept.
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@smtandearthboundsuck8400 Objectively speaking, the world has become much more peaceful with the collapse of the USSR. Also, you know, half a continent was freed from slavery.
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@TaRAAASHBAGS Many times in history its been noted that the more ruthless and "evil" faction won. Fascists try and play the "winners write history books" schtick to gaslight people into thinking that their favorite genocidal regime wasn't so bad though.
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@leonc4653 For the record, the USSR supported a bunch of religious fascist states in the MENA region as well -so it seems even the USSR disliked communists when they don't fall in line.
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