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| Yeah, you should stop your whining.
Yes, the Russians attacked on August 9. And they wanted a piece of the pie in a mainland invasion, even though they had nothing like the amphibious capability to do so. Having Stalin with a foothold in Japan proper would have been a humanitarian disaster compared to the way things worked out with Hirohito and MacArthur postwar developing a very peaceful and prosperous alliance.
It’s also true that the shipping blockade by submarines and carrier strikes was crippling by spring 1945 and eventually might have forced an end to hostilities, but millions of Japanese would have starved to death in the meantime.
And you are completely missing the political realities of the day. There would have been serious outrage in the Allied countries when it became known there was a weapon capable of ending the war in a couple weeks, but instead it was decided to spend two more years fighting and incur hundreds of thousands more casualties. | |
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Hiroshima
