Today is the anniversary of one of the greatest crimes against humanity that was carried out against the civilian population against Japan by the US. The only country to date to use nuclear weapons (en.wikipedia.org)

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[-] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Exactly you have to look at it objectively. It's like the trolley problem bomb 2 cities killing ~240k people almost instantly or continue fire bombing and launching a land invasion for another year or 2 potentially killing millions.

Would I want to make that decision, fuck no.

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