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Originally posted by sperbonzo
Actually all the estimates of projected casualties at the time if we had had to invade Japan were in the millions. This to finish a war with a country that had committed so many horrific slaughters throught southeast asia and china that it makes the germans look kinda' civilised.....
But anyway Colin....you should know better.....there's no room for the use of historical fact and logic on this board!
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Yup. I didn't mention that because I know the counter-argument. "Maybe the estimates were wrong. Look who made them"
Of course, it doesn't really matter what the estimates were. You'd have to be pretty nutty to think the USSR and Japan wouldn't have inflicted far more casualties on each other than those that died at N. and H. The continued US bombing of Japan alone wouldn't have killed any less than at Hiroshima or Nagasaki either.
Oh, yeah. The US had to end the war before the USSR got to Japan. In retrospect that was a fine idea. Japan has the world's second largest economy in the world and is a strong ally of the US. Only Japan and the US have economies > $2 trillion US.