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Another time the U.S. dropped a Nuclear Weapon (Original Post) tomhagen Jan 2018 OP
Unthinkable. democratisphere Jan 2018 #1
Wow! RT is still being used as a source here on DU Major Nikon Jan 2018 #2
Anything untrue in the video? How is it a thank you note to anyone or anything but evil?? Fred Sanders Jan 2018 #3
Sure, no reason the same argument can't be used for channeling Stormfront Major Nikon Jan 2018 #4
Nonsense. OnTHIS topic if Satan himself did the video there is still no error. Americans hate it Fred Sanders Jan 2018 #7
... Major Nikon Jan 2018 #8
p.s. the video is not a link so....no "traffic". Fred Sanders Jan 2018 #9
... Major Nikon Jan 2018 #10
I can think of one thing Lokilooney Jan 2018 #5
Why Nagasaki? Deacon Blue Jan 2018 #6

Major Nikon

(36,814 posts)
2. Wow! RT is still being used as a source here on DU
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:14 PM
Jan 2018

Might as well send a thank you note to Putin for his success in the last election.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. Anything untrue in the video? How is it a thank you note to anyone or anything but evil??
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:44 PM
Jan 2018

Fact: Only country to drop nuclear weapons on civilians is America....which was before Putin was born!

Major Nikon

(36,814 posts)
4. Sure, no reason the same argument can't be used for channeling Stormfront
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 02:01 PM
Jan 2018

...or any other nefarious source. So long as you like what they have to say, what's the harm in sending traffic their way?

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
7. Nonsense. OnTHIS topic if Satan himself did the video there is still no error. Americans hate it
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 08:16 PM
Jan 2018

when it is pointed out they slaughtered hundreds of thousands of folks with two nuclear bombs.

What is the error or misinformation?

Lokilooney

(322 posts)
5. I can think of one thing
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:48 PM
Jan 2018

The implication it was to "test" the bomb, that's just tinfoil hattery. Also people seem to ignore the fact that after Hiroshima they were asked to surrender or face more like attacks...Japan refused. Then the is Russia, who just declared war on Japan and started the invasion into Japanese held Manchuria, that might have been a reason we didn't need to drop a 3rd bomb.

Deacon Blue

(252 posts)
6. Why Nagasaki?
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 07:23 PM
Jan 2018

Millions of gallons of ink have been spent debating this one, a question particularly unsuitable for this small-talk (no offense) forum. Many Very Serious People have opined about the use of the Bomb and whether it ended the war, pro and con. But consider that we fire-bombed most of urban Japan without much hand-wringing, and a sense that they were getting what they deserved after Nanking, Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Manila etc. We were not imminently threatening the Home Islands with invasion; the Japanese may have been more worried about Russian occupation. Despite his promise to enter the Pacific War as soon as things had been settled in Europe, Stalin took no action for 3 months, at which time he launched a large offensive against Japanese forces in Manchuria the same day we successfully detonated our third nuclear weapon (Trinity was the first, mid-July 1945). Message was to Stalin as well as the Japanese War Cabinet: we have it, it works every time we use it, they’re rolling off the production line just as quickly as the B-29s which delivered them.

But the narrative from every GI was that the Bomb saved their lives, and the lives of millions of Japanese citizens. May be...

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