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

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[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

they also kept the Jews in the prison camps for months and up to a few years, and thousands of them died of malnutrition and disease after the end of the war, while still in camps. Also, General Patton refused orders to keep the Nazi prisoners and Jews separate, because he thought the Nazis were the best suited to keeping Jews in line. This means that after the war, the Nazis were prisoners and capos in charge of all the Jews they hated.

We are the fourth reich

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Patton basically wanted to continue the war of extermination. from Losurdo's Stalin:

Take the example of general George S. Patton. He dreams of an immediate war against the Soviets: “We will have to fight them sooner or later [...]. Why not now while our army is still intact and while we can push all those damn Russians all the way back to Moscow in three months? We could easily do it with the German troops that we have, just arm them and take them with us. They hate those bastards." Unfortunately, according to the American general, it’s the Jews who oppose this project. Full of resentment toward Germany, they harbor sympathy for the USSR: the “evident Semitic influence in the press” aims “to promote communism." There clearly emerges a line of continuity with the Nazi understanding of communism as a subversive Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy: the enemies continue to be the communists, the Soviets and the Jews, the latter being “lower than animals."

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

"The United States didn't defeat fascism, it discreetly internationalized it": an all-time banger quote

[–] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months 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

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Salmarez@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And same thing on the Pacific Front: MacArthur kept most the murderous Japanese war criminals and Zaibatsu on the line. But hey, at least he executed Hideki Tojo and and some other war criminals who owned him too much on the Pacific.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Stocked the South Korean government full of imperial collaborators too

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

USA was a hesitant ally from the get-go, Japan just fucked up the game

The bombs were a revenge for forcing them to fight against fascists

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

and comand over NATO

[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

little tidbit about US and allies ordering Japanese troops to hold their positions in various parts of Asia to fight communism instead of returning to Japan after capitulation