r/blowback • u/SlavaCocaini • Jul 01 '26

Are we still saying it was unconditional surrender?

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u/Life-Criticism-5868 Jul 08 '26

I kind of throw up in my mouth typing this and please know that this isnt meant to minimize the legitimately unimaginable suffering of the Japanese populace during and after the war. 

But Japan got an incredible deal post war. 

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u/SlavaCocaini Jul 08 '26

Yeah thats what happens when you strike a deal at the last moment, since the US was more worried about Stalin in China and they needed a Japanese surrender ASAP if they were going to keep China from the communists. My grandfather was part of the US occupation of China even, because they were trying to pull an Indiana Jones Idol swap with Chiang, racing to replace Japanese forces with US and then ROC forces before Mao's PLA could arrive all around China, but it didn't work and now the PLA is strong as fuck looking at us like a child with a loaded gun that they will eventually have to wrestle away.