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

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The Japs were already dug in and loaded for bear on Okinawa (and island they Occupied before the US while The US invasion with it's massive armada and expeditionary force also came loaded for bear. So guess who got it in the shorts from both ends? Native Okinawans.

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Okinawa was a special case and in no way should its high % of deaths and casualties ever factor into any statistical correlation (21,000,000 deaths) that the US War Command claimed would be projected in defense of any Japanese Mainland invasion. These numbers seem obviously contrived only to help justify dropping the two A-Bombs on helpless citizens.

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You do realize what waited for us on Okinawa also awaited us on Kyushu, do you not. The Japanese had correctly guessed that we would strike that island first in an invasion of the home islands and had even concentrated their stoutest defenses in the exact area where we planned to land. What made Okinawa so deadly were the waves of kamikazes that came at our ships supporting the invasion effort off shore. The Japanese were planning to employ that same strategy though on a much larger scale.

They were also arming and training civilians to kill Allied servicemen. So while Okinawa was indeed a special case, it was a special case because we were attacking “sacred” soil. Imagine the special case that an invasion of the home islands would have looked like.