80 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan continues to hold its hypocritical ceremonies, as the former genocidal militarists pretend they were innocent pacifists, the media bemoans the use of atomic weapons as a war crime and some voices who were once on the right, like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, denounce America for defending itself and bringing WWII to an end.
The basic facts are simple though.
Conventional weapons, including the firebombing of Tokyo, took more lives than the use of the atom bomb. Had the United States been forced to engage in a conventional invasion of Japan, far more American and Japanese lives would have been lost.
The Japanese leadership was preparing the civilian population to engage in suicide tactics, including attacking American GIs with blades and spears, and its soldiers were prepped to fight to the last.
1.5 million Purple Hearts were prepared for an invasion of Japan. As of a few years ago, they were still being awarded.
Millions of Japanese would have died as a result of such an invasion. It took the atomic bomb to shock the Japanese leadership out of its suicidal frenzy and to force the emperor to intervene.
The only people in denial about these basic facts hate America. And there are plenty of them around these days.
