The level of propaganda to not only justify turning innocent civilians into dust and basically fuck the land for the next life, but to also convince your population that it was necessary is something else
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Honestly it doesn't take any convincing to make Americans support atrocities. The US can just do them and Americans will invent justifications all on their own.
I think it's because of patriotism "oh the US did this atrocity? Well I am usonian and I did nothing wrong, therefore the atrocity was ok".
Yeah people here take things very personally even though no one supports the government much? I don't get it
Every aspect of culture and education in the US is dedicated to drilling into the minds of people that the US are the most good, the most just, the most honest, that their systems of governance are based on these values, and the majority of people work hard towards maintaining that.
So when a USonian is faced with this narrative being broken, they fall back into cognitive dissonance. It's only recently we've seen a reversal of this to a significant scale, but ask anyone and they'll likely tell you that they still believe these things were true a couple decades ago and it's only now that the US has become bad.
Whatever the US has accused communists of doing to their people, the US has already perfected it.
Moral superiority over even their alleged hwite brethern in Europe, is a FUNDAMENTAL part of the American Empire. Almost all things are seen by a Americans, through a lense of self-superiority. Every falling that an American espouses suddenly becomes a moral virtue that should be celebrated.
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One thing missing from a lot of the dialogue is choice of targets because they wanted to perform bomb blast studies on virgin targets
Roll that over in your mind for a minute
They went as far as intentionally not bombing certain cities, to encourage refugees, industries and military offices to relocate there, so when they did bomb them later they'd inflict greater casualties and damage. They didn't do this explicitly to drop nukes, but the list of targets largely contained these cities.
That isn't taught in Burgerland schools and as far back as I can recall, it never has been. 
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but le internet historian guy said muh both sides.
if you want an even deeper dive Shaun made an amazingly bluntly horrifying video about the same topic that is 2 hours long and very very detailed!
Geopolitical Economy Report is so good...
video summary: https://www.summarize.tech/youtu.be/5vMEgneKF10
there is a famous youtube video on this that go through all the military personnel memoirs and other documents about the lead up to the bombing. https://youtu.be/RCRTgtpC-Go
also watch oliver stone docuseries on american history (first 2 episodes)
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