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submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hey USA why did you drop an atomic bomb on a defeated country that was ready to surrender, anyway?

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

USA not beating the allegations that the only reason it joined the war was to get footholds in Europe and Asia against communism.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

I've pointed this out to libs and some have told me "yeah but it doesn't make the institution fundamentally bad".

what-the-hell

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

America's clash with Japan (before and after Pearl Harbor) was always better explained by the phenomenon of two empires expanding into the same place. Like the Romans and the Carthaginians fighting over the Mediterranean.

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