‘US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington’s Cold War on the Soviet Union. Ben Norton reviews the historical record.’
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
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”.
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)
This video says a whole lot of nothing. It took 6 minutes to finally talk about people regretting, and that lasted another 5 minutes.
Pro tip: you need to unmute the audio. He starts going through the evidence after less than three minutes
