re: Tucker Carlson has divided conservative social media with his take on the atomic bomb

I'm evil as frick then.

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We did what we had to do, Tucker is being a blowhard to get attention.

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We are literally living in a country with the greatest military ever to exist on this planet.

This is not an opinion.

No he hasn't. It's called critical thinking. I happen to disagree with him on this but agree with 90% of everything else.

While you dipshits are divided by ancient fricking history, Marxist are in lock step to destroy the future. All of you need to pull your heads out of your asses. This internal shite has become the new shitshow.

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We are literally living in a country with the greatest military ever to exist on this planet.

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Indeed.

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I question the premises of both presumption and necessity.

Why was it absolutely necessary that Japan be invaded by US Troops? Why was it necessary to force Japan to "surrender un-conditionally" AND be occupied?

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Somehow I missed this jewel.

First off, Japan did not surrender unconditionally.

Japan simply surrendered, and we categorized it as we liked. It's six and one half dozen though. Obviously any conditions they placed on surrender, such as preservation of their emperor, were practicably moot once occupation was in effect. Similar to Versailles, the terms struck after surrender could well have differed from preterm understanding. But, in this instance they really didn't. Nevertheless, Japanese surrender was not unconditional, though Truman termed it that way.

Why was occupation necessary?
Because our intent was to change the mentality of Japanese society from a state-devoted militaristic totalitarian accepting populace to a less threatening, more friendly democracy. Our hope was to not end up in WWIII 20 yrs later as had happened after "the war to end all wars" in 1918. That could not happen without occupation, removal of totalitarians, and prosecution of war criminals, combined with implementation of democratic processes.

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IF the US goobermint was truly worried about a Soviet invasion and occupation of Japan, why did the US overlords completely underwrite, FINANCE and EQUIP the big bad Soviet war machine?

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You took offense earlier when I noted you don't do history. But it's clear you don't. Sorry if that offends.

The "US goobermint" found itself on the oppositional side of the Axis Alliance.
Initially, the USSR did not.

In fact the USSR was happy to ally with Germany. Then things changed. Germany invaded the USSR. It was a big deal at the time. You should read about it. It was really cold, and bunches of folks were killed. That made Germany and the USSR enemies.

We were enemies of Germany as well.
There is an old saying, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Our relationship with the USSR epitomized that.
So "the US overlords underwrote, financed, and equipped the big bad Soviet war machine."

Toward the end of WWII, it was obvious that the USSR intended to maintain control over, and communize, the countries it occupied. It had those designs on Japan as well. In August 1945, with Germany subjugated, the USSR turned on Japan. The American public would have been fairly happy (in the moment) for the "US goobermint" to stand back and let Soviets get killed occupying Japan, as had occurred months earlier in Berlin. Fortunately, the "US goobermint" recognized the long game in terms of Soviet influence, and ended WWII before the USSR could turn Japan into a divided communist/non-communist state like Germany, Korea, and Vietnam.

Tucker is very anti-war. He has some 60's hippie tendencies.

He's wrong with this take. The alternative would have been worse for America and Japan. Many more people would have died including a lot more civilians. We already lost 400,000 soldiers before the atomic bombs.

No one is ecstatic about killing civilians or celebrating it.

Nobody argues that dropping the bombs were a good thing…the argument is that it was necessary and justified.

Carlson is almost dismissive of anyone that might hold the opinion that it was necessary to drop the bombs.

It’s almost like he’s just playing a part…

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I believe [Tucker] is getting closer and closer to the deep end for some reason.

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Tucker is wading into the "deep end" (see: tRabbit Hole) -- this is the primary "reason" for his "altered" positions:

He's merely he's pursued truth and opened his eyes to Reality for the first time in his DC-sheltered, indoctrinated life. AND NOW SHARING IT. It's a beautiful thing. (If 2020 didn't open eyes, NOTHING will.)

In his "previous life", he (like most of us) he merely swallowed same steady diet of whatever Indoctrination bullsh# and lies tElites have been flinging at us since its rotten Prussian school system took root.