re: do you think it's possible to win a war without putting boots on the ground

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Japan surrendered before troops set foot on the mainland.

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Terrible analogy.

Japan's navy was decimated, their army had been pushed back to the mainland after 3+ years of ground war and were sick and starving, an allied invasion was imminent and then the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima served as the coup de grace.