You have 10 seconds to explain why pic related was not considered a war crime

You have 10 seconds to explain why pic related was not considered a war crime.

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Because it wasn't.

>you have 10 seconds
Go back to Sup Forums retarded faggot

Because it ended the war with minimal casualties to both sides

Fuck gooks
/thread

Declare it a war crime faggot we'll nuke you too. Pissant commie.

Ended the war to save lives custom faggot

After extensive federal studies, federal scientists have concluded that 'winners write history!"
Do you want to know more?

Because we won, simple as that.

Don't cry about Dresden then.

Kill thousands to save millions.

I don't, fuck the krauts they're the most arrogant pieces of trash on the planet.

because it was done by the winner side

only the loser can be condemned for war crime

Winners write history.

There are rules of war, you don't just nuke an entere city and kill millions of civilians to "end a war with minimal casualties"

Because
American lives > Nipos lives

I don't know. War is essential but at the same time very dirty. Most of us don't know yet. But we will soon

because war crimes are against humanity

>stop war, we have the bomb
>no
>stop war.
>no
>send troops and suffer casualties? nah fuck'em nuke.
>stop war?
>no you lie about this weapon.
>???
>drop second nuke, stop war?
>yes sorry

Show me those rules faggot.

Plus nukes were new to the world as soon as they dropped it so the devastating effects weren't entirely known.

>implying Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened

this

World war II was a TOTAL war. Thanks to those nukes, Japan's surrender was unconditional and they were colonized. (along with Korea, their colony)

chinks aren't people.

cuz they won n shit
#6trillions

I don't believe in war crimes.

Bc it took two.

Would you have preferred more conventional incendiary bombings?

The fact of the matter is that it made the Japanese disregard any notions of resistance or concessions to soviet demands. It forced them to negotiating table, forced the purge of extremist generals bent on a last stand, and forced Hirihito to essentially humanize himself in order to bring an end to the conflict on OUR terms without having to expend massive amounts of man power and material to achieve it.

Rule 1: Don't lose
Rule 2: See rule 1

Because "war crimes" only apply to the losing side.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

War is a crime.

And if you win no one will judge you.

>Start War
>Get BTFO
>Wait 72 Years
>Demand Explanation
>Get BTFO again

No, not that. The only thing Japan wanted was to keep their emperor and we let he. Do that anyway

Fuck it though who cares the real crime was fighting hitler

>not even good enough to be a shitpost

Some people say the moon landing never happened - I just go all in and say 9/11 didn't happen

The definition of war crimes is fucking retarded, but once I read the shit Germany was being charged with after WWI, there was no way I couldn't call the nukings a war crime.

I don't actually care about all the dead nips, though we should just have avoided that war and nuked commies instead.

...and only the victor gets to write history.

/thread

We won lol

>You have 10 seconds to explain why pic related was not considered a war crime.
they won

In June 1940, Henry L. Stimson, who had been secretary of war under Taft and secretary of state under Hoover, became secretary of war again. Stimson was a lion of the Anglophile, northeastern upper crust and no friend of the Japanese. In support of the so-called Open Door Policy for China, Stimson favored the use of economic sanctions to obstruct Japan’s advance in Asia. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau and Interior Secretary Harold Ickes vigorously endorsed this policy. Roosevelt hoped that such sanctions would goad the Japanese into making a rash mistake by launching a war against the United States, which would bring in Germany because Japan and Germany were allied.

Accordingly, the Roosevelt administration, while curtly dismissing Japanese diplomatic overtures to harmonize relations, imposed a series of increasingly stringent economic sanctions on Japan. In 1939 the United States terminated the 1911 commercial treaty with Japan. “On July 2, 1940, Roosevelt signed the Export Control Act, authorizing the President to license or prohibit the export of essential defense materials.” Under this authority, “[o]n July 31, exports of aviation motor fuels and lubricants and No. 1 heavy melting iron and steel scrap were restricted.” Next, in a move aimed at Japan, Roosevelt slapped an embargo, effective October 16, “on all exports of scrap iron and steel to destinations other than Britain and the nations of the Western Hemisphere.” Finally, on July 26, 1941, Roosevelt “froze Japanese assets in the United States, thus bringing commercial relations between the nations to an effective end. One week later Roosevelt embargoed the export of such grades of oil as still were in commercial flow to Japan.”[2] The British and the Dutch followed suit, embargoing exports to Japan from their colonies in southeast Asia.

An Untenable Position

Roosevelt and his subordinates knew they were putting Japan in an untenable position and that the Japanese government might well try to escape the stranglehold by going to war. Having broken the Japanese diplomatic code, the Americans knew, among many other things, what Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda had communicated to Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura on July 31: “Commercial and economic relations between Japan and third countries, led by England and the United States, are gradually becoming so horribly strained that we cannot endure it much longer. Consequently, our Empire, to save its very life, must take measures to secure the raw materials of the South Seas.”[3]
Because American cryptographers had also broken the Japanese naval code, the leaders in Washington knew as well that Japan’s “measures” would include an attack on Pearl Harbor.[4] Yet they withheld this critical information from the commanders in Hawaii, who might have headed off the attack or prepared themselves to defend against it. That Roosevelt and his chieftains did not ring the tocsin makes perfect sense: after all, the impending attack constituted precisely what they had been seeking for a long time. As Stimson confided to his diary after a meeting of the war cabinet on November 25, “The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.”[5] After the attack, Stimson confessed that “my first feeling was of relief ... that a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people.[6]
independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1930

Who said it wasn't? That doesn't change the consensus that a land invasion would have resulted in more deaths.

Whether or not the lives saved/killed in the no-nuke timeline had a greater impact in society is up for debate; one that I will not involve myself in.

You know that the use of Nukes was banned AFTER we blasted the Nips, right? You must be a Kraut or a Swede.

>Implying USA won
>Trying to take responsibility for the actions of men decades earlier by typing "we"
USA was barely involved, the ussr and the British were the main belligerents in ww2.

Destroying Dresden without nukes
Destroying Nagasuki with nukes.
>No real difference, both have been rebuilt

Because they won

youtube.com/watch?v=uRf8WfuKkEc

WWII was a time when people had to choose between the lives of their sons and the lives of someone else.

When it comes down to it, I would drop a thousand nukes on a thousand cities if it kept my family safe. Japan was a threat. Everything about them was a threat. They had already bombed Pearl Harbor and they weren't going to stop until the war was won.

The very idea of a "war crime" is absurd. Of course it was morally distasteful. All of war is morally distasteful. But as distasteful as the idea of a hundred thousand crispy Asians is, I would burn a hundred thousand more to protect my family.

Lmfao....

Pretty much sums it up

USA won

Checked!

it was an act of war
and a good one at that
bang bang fuck the japs
we win
we the best
fuck yeah
who next?
let's nuke germany

Because the Japanese tried virtually everything to unleash weapons of mass destruction themselves. Amongst other things i tried unleashing the Black Plague in the USA and actually did so in China.

What you should be getting your pnts in a twist about is that fact that many prominent Japanese war criminals have never been sentenced and are revered like heroes.

because it ended the war and the victors decide history, dumbass

...

>While the extent of the atrocities committed are still a matter for intense debate, there is little doubt the Japanese grossly violated the Geneva Conventions during the Second World War. The very same year they had agreed to stick to the rules, Japanese forces savagely brutalised thousands of American and Philippine POWs on the infamous Bataan Death March, killing more than 5,000 men through starvation, beatings and execution.
Because Japan totally respected the Geneva convention

...

fpbp
/thread
OP surrender your belt and shoelaces please.

>explain why pic related was not considered a war crime

Because Americans are innocent until proven guilty. Suck it, catholic pedophile.

War crimes a just a fancy word used to give America an excuse to invade your country and install a (((central bank)))

In the pacific you stupid cunt? We destroyed the japanese fleet. Go talk about the european theater elsewhere and try to fit in. You are a bastard for not reveling in your ancestors acomplishments.

Because America

Two words

PEARL

HARBOR

because war crimes don't exist

ECONOMIC

WARFARE

White people can't commit a crime, you squid fucking mongrel.

Two more words

FALSE FLAG

Because the Japs deserved it.
Because it was a crucial test of new war tech.
Because it was fucking awesome.
Because who cares who was the second nation to nuke another.
Because nukes are cool.

Can't believe no one has posted this yes.

USA did it because they wanted to test their toy and show the world their military power. The stop the war is jus bs.

It was war.

It got shit done

Very effective

and it completely beat the Japs. If they were worried about their country or citizens being attacked then they shouldn't HAVE JOINED A FUCKING WAR

it 4 ended the war, and the fire bombing of Tokyo was worse anyway. would have saved lives to drop it sooner and the last 70 years have been realatively peaceful because of the threat of nuclear war, probably the bomb has saved 10s of millions of lives.

>Don't really know why it isn't, so google for argumentations
>Read first article about subject
>Authors opinion is Truman should have negotiated Americas surrender
>Jacob G. Hornberger (Jewish) is an American academic, Lawyer and founder-president of the Future of Freedom Foundation
Erry fucking time

Sweatie, the war stopping before the mushroom cloud over Nackeredsaki dissapated was not a coincidence.

Because there was no law against it.

Cause Japan wouldn't surrender

Because we won.

Came here to post this (and did post it)

Not surprising this comes as news to the retard that is OP

Because we won.
"Warcrimes" are simply victors justice.

Because it gave us anime.

Because we won

Killing inocent civilians intentionally was baned from the beginning
Not an argument.

Us or them

The only crime in war is losing.

Saved millions of japs and The allies from throwing lives away. The japs would never have surrendered unless the emperor told them to. Sometimes you gotta nuke a few eggs to make an omlette

They had absolutely no reason to drop the second bomb.

these were japs

Japan starting bombing civilians in the Sino-Japanese war first. Ask the Chinese if they deserved it.

Because the side that did this was the winning side.

Because no one else had nukes to point a finger and try to charge them with a war crime

Jews

winners did it

Fuck off proud burgers, you're the only nation that has ever actually nuked someone
Not something to be proud of, and most definitely a war crime

It's not seen as a war crime because they won though

Just before we dropped those war stoppers we didn't know if those bombs would ignite our atmosphere. Risky shit

This. And we need another war, civil or world idgaf.

Please, let's stop with the fantasy that they were "civilian" targets.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
>At the time of its bombing, Hiroshima was a city of both industrial and military significance. A number of military units were located nearby, the most important of which was the headquarters of Field Marshal Shunroku Hata's Second General Army, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan,[110] and was located in Hiroshima Castle. Hata's command consisted of some 400,000 men, most of whom were on Kyushu where an Allied invasion was correctly anticipated.[111] Also present in Hiroshima were the headquarters of the 59th Army, the 5th Division and the 224th Division, a recently formed mobile unit.[112] The city was defended by five batteries of 7-cm and 8-cm (2.8 and 3.1 inch) anti-aircraft guns of the 3rd Anti-Aircraft Division, including units from the 121st and 122nd Anti-Aircraft Regiments and the 22nd and 45th Separate Anti-Aircraft Battalions. In total, an estimated 40,000 Japanese military personnel were stationed in the city.

>The city of Nagasaki had been one of the largest seaports in southern Japan, and was of great wartime importance because of its wide-ranging industrial activity, including the production of ordnance, ships, military equipment, and other war materials. The four largest companies in the city were Mitsubishi Shipyards, Electrical Shipyards, Arms Plant, and Steel and Arms Works, which employed about 90% of the city's labor force, and accounted for 90% of the city's industry.[188] Although an important industrial city, Nagasaki had been spared from firebombing because its geography made it difficult to locate at night with AN/APQ-13 radar

Because we won. War crimes are only for losers.

Dropping those two bombs on civilians was a hideous war crime and the worst act of terrorism in world history.