Same here. I have read accounts, but did not expect this. Seemingly demonstrates how little we have been shown in the west. An important note is that many if not most anti-nuclear activists were motivated by the fact that the types of power reactors in use are also useful for atomic weapons. There are many other designs that are less useful or even not at all for fission or fusion weapons, but strangely these are rarely built.
“Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance” by the Jewish writer Sara Roy. June 20 2021 Sara discusses the connections between Gaza's history and her own as a child of Holocaust survivors.
@@brianburgess3231 helping others !!? You have a lot of work to do inside your own country, like Philadelphia, New-York, Florida etc.... AMERICA!!!!! FUCK YEAHHHH !!!!
Biden: You gotta stop these war crimes. Bibi: Or else what? Biden: Or else we'll look bad. Bibi: And??? Biden: C'mon man... Bibi: Just shut up and give me your credit card! Biden: **licks ice-cream**
Trump also is extremely good friends with netanyahu . He is even more dangerous than Biden . He will openly say go attack Iran start more wars . Trump is also racist did you actually see what he said on the first debate ? He called Biden the Palestinian . Well what about all the Palestinian Americans listening to that in all the rest of the world That's not right. After this major hurricane we had instead of concentrating on helping people in Tennessee in North Carolina . What was Trump doing that week ? Oh he was campaigning around the country and he was even praying with the Jews . Oh isn't that nice how about the American citizens that needed help and you're going to pray with the Jews . I'm waiting to vote for Trump for 4 years and I have changed my mind now not going to do it . Trump is also bragging on TV how he gave Israel billions and billions and billions when he was president it is not his money to give away That's the American taxpayers money 💰. It's not supposed to be a dictatorship or a ruler That's not what kind of country we're supposed to be.
Trump: “just finish the job quickly.” This is an actual quote, though, when trump was asked in an interview a couple of months ago “what would you say to Netanyahu about Gaza?”
@@largol33t1YOU are just trying to be upset about something. These survivors have nothing to do with the atrocities the Japanese or American government has done. Grow up
“The Americans dying because they can't afford medical care” the Guardian “The Uninsured - Healthcare Crisis” PBS, About 44 million Americans have no health insurance, and another 38 million have inadequate health insurance. “Israel says it has secured $8.7 billion U.S. aid package” Reuters , September 26, 2024
@@AngryGnome87what does religion have to do with it? I’m Christian and I hate the ZOG. Trump WAS different in 2016. Now he’s cashing 100 billion dollar checks from Mariam adelson.
@@joeboudreault4351 I understand stand the concept. I was talking about someone using the weapons, not just using them as deterrents. Thanks for the explanation, though.
What has Japan learned about admitting their crimes? The millions of innocent who died under Japanese occupation and ethnic cleaning. Where are the tears for the South Korean elders?
Nothing has really changed. There is the UN etc. making rules about war and not always enforcing them. Nuke competition is more of a thing now. How can nations even think of using them again??!
Nothing was gained by their use. The excuses were thin lies to cover the fact that we did it to prove that we could. Nothing more. Japan was as ready to surrender before as they were after.
The people, maybe, but not the military. Millions more would have perished on both sides if the war had not ended. A really cruel choice by Truman but the right one, I think...
The Japanese military machine was falling apart too. There were many other ways to end the war, the bomb was dropped as a statement and just to scratch an itch, nothing more.
The movie "The Day After" actually gave me nightmares. People love talking and joking about nuclear bombs. There's even a video game! I find it disgusting, disturbing, and disrespectful at the highest order. Hopefully, by spreading awareness, World War 3 never happens. !VOTE BLUE!💙
“The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.
@dhariniparthasarathy3901 can you imagine what the Hamas has done to the Palestinian people? .. what the Japanese did to the rest of Asia? Can you think outside of your box of indoctrination at all?
@leviashanken7281 Really there's been a lot of debate on that .. even though Einstein really didn't have a hand in the development of the bomb itself .. he said after the fact that . If we had just shown the world the effect of the nuclear testing in Nevada, it might have been enough to end the war right there .. and it wasn't an easy decision either .. especially given the fact that it took two to convince them to surrender.. and that's after the concession to allow them to keep the emperor .. basically it came down to Sheer numbers .. the US would have likely won eventually anyway .. but at the cost of many more lives .. so if you're asking me my opinion of warfare .. it's all really a silly idea .. and we're human we are silly, especially the militaristic ego Maniacs 😞
It was sad to see these places like Nagasaki where ordinary Japanese civilians paid the ultimate price and suffering for the horrendous war crimes and brutality committed by the brainwashed monsters in the Japanese Imperial armies starting in Korea, Nanjing China and continuing through WW2. Their military committed horrendous acts that are on par with the Nazi, including chemical and biological attacks on the chinese. They continued bombing so many countries in USA, South East Asia, Australia etc. and mistreated, tortured and killed so many innocent military nurses, women, children and prisoners of war. Hundreds of thousands of victims and dead worldwide. They never wanted to surrender and the last resort of using the atomic bomb actually put an end to their Asian, South Pacific Holocaust. Thank god the Japanese imperial forces didn’t have an atomic bomb as no doubt the Hirohito disciples would have used it much earlier. I pray for those innocent Japanese people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and hope we never see such blind devotion to an emperor again.
This is simply not true. If you look at the records (more than a casual glance, that is), you notice two things: 1) The Japanese leadership were looking for a conditional surrender before the nukes. 2) The Japanese leadership's strategy didn't change from the bombs. As for point 1, the Japanese were in a bad position before the nukes. They had no air force left, they were under an American sea blockade and they knew they had lost the war. There were two factions in the leadership council, caught in a deadlock; one that wanted a negotiated peace that kept the military intact (those were the generals wanting that) and one who didn't. Both factions wanted a guarantee of the safety of the emperor, given that he was a religious figure. They made several attempts to communicate this, mainly through the Soviet Union, but the Americans refused every time. After all, Truman knew that he had the bomb, which he hoped would deter the Soviets and/or force an unconditional surrender before the Soviets could make land grabs in Asia. Soviet, on the other hand, were moving troops to do just that and thus stalled on their end. For point 2, after the bombs fell the deadlock in the Japanese council remained. They kept looking for a conditional surrender, because they were a fascist state; Why would they care about their people? It was only the interjection of the emperor, who was worried about religious objects being lost or destroyed in a potential land invasion, that broke the deadlock. Even then, the Japanese still only surrendered when finally given the go-ahead from the Americans that the emperor would indeed remain safe (probably because the Soviets had declared war on Japan at this point and started their invasion of China). Basically, the bombs did nothing. The Japanese would have surrendered without them, and they didn't really speed up the surrender. In fact, a more direct diplomatic process would probably have ended the war sooner. What is true in your statement is that the Japanese military were monsters that committed horrific crimes in the rest of Asia. Less known is that the Americans gave the high command, the people behind the chemical/biological/surgical experiments, immunity from prosecution in exchange for their research results. The fact that those scum of the earth, those inhuman bags of filth and refuse, were not punished in the slightest is the biggest scandal of WW2 imo. Reading what Unit 731 did is haunting. If those dung stains would have been killed by radiation poisoning, instead of thousands of innocent people, I would have had no problem with that.
To be fair, animals kill their own kind all the time Just look how often amphibians, reptiles, fish, and arthropods cannibalize each other. Hell, meerkats are so vicious to each other, that 1/5ths of deaths among them are caused BY them.
In 2022, the military spending worldwide amounted to 2.24 trillion U.S. dollars, As 9,000 people die from conflict-driven hunger every day. A child dies from hunger every 10 seconds.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE OFTEN APPEARS AS A WESTERN NARRATIVE BADGE, REWARDING THOSE WHO ADVANCE WESTERN INTERESTS RATHER THAN GENUINELY ACKNOWLEDGING TRUE PEACEBUILDING EFFORTS.
Congratulations to Nihon Hidankyo on the Nobel Peace Prize! The solidarity with Palestine is really inspiring. Even more so since the US government boycotted the 79th anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing because Israel wasn't invited. We Americans are ashamed of our government.
Question: Why were all the past Nobel Peace Winners going only to citizens who are pro Western countries and their allies ? Or those citizens of anti West countries like Russia and Iran that criticises their country's leaders ? But never to those that opposes Israel's current bombings of innocent civilians in Gaza and Lebanon ?
“Gaza is like in Japan 80 years ago” - Americans supplying weapons of war is a given. But Germany, supplying 30% is beyond understanding. You think they’d know better. Lebensraum or Redemption! Who can say?
We'll never rid ourselves of terrible weapons because, we are too terrified of one another. Too hateful, too petty, too small. It is the twenty-first century, and what progress have we actually made when the only peace most of us will ever know is the peace of the grave.
Why don't they talk about about the millions of civilians killed by the Japanese in China, the Philippines, Singapore, etc.? Far in excess of the Japanese civilians killed by the atomic bombs or other American air raids on Japan.
Uh.....no lol. Japan were imperialists and colonizers. The Chinese, Koreans and other Asian victims of their aggression were more akin to Palestinians.
😥 como dice … Nunca sería más acertado. Ahora que las potencias armamentistas ven con desprecio con irresponsabilidad a una humanidad que lucha por sobrevivir 😢 ⚖️🕊️🏳️
Congratulations on the Nobel, I am in solidarity with the cause, but to compare WWII Japan to Gaza is to do a disservice to the Palestinian cause. The atomic bombs should never have been deployed but Japan in WWII was a horrible place, their biggest ally was Hitler, they invaded several countries, had imprisonment and torture camps. they killed some 20 million civillians in other countries. The difference with Gaza, which wants to have its own territory, is huge.
Am i missing something? Are people forgeting the point of what caused Americans to resort to nukes? It was a very different Japan back then. And correct me if im wrong, but hasnt there been peace between the countries ever since?
the US has been involved in like 30 wars since WWII. And the lie that the nukes were needed to stop Japanese attacks has been proven propaganda by the US government. The Japanese were already looking for a way out of the war so its entirely possible peace talks would have worked amd achieved a surrender. Also it is never justified to murder civilians in a war, It has been agreed on by the nations of the world that only combatants military interests are to be targeted. This is widely understood, which is why many nations are standing with Gaza.
@nercksrule America hasnt occupied Japan since the 50s, thanks to the Treaty of San Fransico. The two countries have had a perfectly cordial relationship ever since. And Americas "blockade starving Japan" was actually a complete myth by revisionists. A report was made back in 1947, the Japanese wartime standard of living and utilization of manpower, showed that the blockade actually had serious difficulties cutting off japanese food supplies. They were largely self-sustaining agriculturally. Point being; when a country declares war on you and refuses any compromise, the only true path to peace is for you to win completely and utterly. Then peace can be made and healing can begin. Whens the last time you heard of japanese terrorist cells lurking anywhere in the world?
Nuclear weapons were invented to prevent a world war 3. They wanted to make world war 2 the last. The US was just waiting for the first chance to drop those bombs. The Japanese were just the first to anger the US government enough and they paid the ultimate price.
Never will be such a place The "False-tinians" must acknoledge history first that they didn't exist until the 1960s and they're just a fib. Japan must take responsibility for the millions it murdered. Don't side with Nazis. Stay in school (not UNWRA one)
What??? Innocent civilians that were ruthlessly slaughtered DID NOT start the war? If us Americans were attacked based on the evil actions of our current leaders we would've been bombed out of existence by every country we've wronged!!!
The people getting the peace prize were children at the time. Children. Who were harmed and traumatized from witnessing it and being struck. Who since then have not been bitter or turned to terrorism but work for the cause of peace and banning of the horrible weapons.
@@leviashanken7281clearly this person is one of those that think todays Gazans are the ones who voted in Hamas even though over 75% were either not yet born or if born not old enough to vote but still their fault just like they think the children of the aftermath of nuclear attack was their fault as well. Clearly an example of how much our education system has failed us by producing people with zero critical thinking skills. God help us
I don’t believe many, if any, are pro Hamas. They’re pro civilian. A small fraction of people in Gaza are Hamas, yet everyone has been indiscriminately bombed and sniped.
What do you have against boomers? Our parents fought the very war that you're speaking about for the USA. You must be a Russian bot, and you're doing a lousy job at trolling!
The survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had nothing to do with Nanking. It’s like you’re ok with condemning random people because they happen to belong to a particular race, isn’t that the rationale behind those who actually perpetrated the Nanking Massacre? Look in the mirror.
In terms of studying history, why do you stop with Nanking Massacre? How about Boxer Rebellion when US, G. Britain, France, Germany, Italy & Russia deployed troops in mainland China? They all looted & committed atrocities while pointing their fingers at soldiers from other nationalities, claiming they weren’t as bad as others.
A good report on a critical issue. It had to have been the toughest call of any world leader in the last century for Truman to decide on dropping those bombs. By and large I tend to agree with what he did. I sympathize with this Japanese group, but I'm puzzled, not to their opposing nuclear weapons (a good stand) but with why they would remotely think that Netanyahu may be imperiling the world with "more atomic bombs" when in fact he is doing the opposite of Truman: he is determined to destroy Iran's ability to even use a bomb. He deserves this Nobel prize for that and for the Abraham Accords in the Middle East. And Trump, the only US president never to start a conflict, should have received one, if not more, Nobel Peace prizes. Obama, that traitor, DIDN'T deserve his. In essence, the Peace Prize is a piece of crap, but I like what this group has been doing.
You're actually insane with this reply. 1. Truman didn't have the intellect to understand what nuclear radiation fallout would do to people, generationally, because if he did he, well, he probably still would have dropped those bombs, because he was an insane southern redneck anyway. He continued being so callous and racist of the Japanese after the tragedy also. 2. Netanyahu is currently overseeing what can only be characterized as a GENOCIDE of Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is not defending itself at all, it's offending as much as possible, as evidenced by continued bombings of safe zones in Gaza, and unprovoked bombings in Lebanon. Netanyahu is a madman, and only sociopathic people would ever support any of what Netanyahu is doing at this point. 3. However, it is Vladimir Putin who is keeping the nuclear option on the table, provoking the international community by doing so. Iran certainly has nuclear capabilities, but the claim that they intend to build and then use such a bomb is insane and Islamophobic. 4. Donald Trump has lied so much about his impact on social stability during his own Presidency, but he has never shied away from starting provocations in other countries using force. Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian general who was assassinated by an American drone in 2020, would never have happened without the go-ahead from Donald Trump. Trump claims that he would have been able to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which is ridiculous. He also claimed that he would have stopped Israel's conflicts in Gaza and the Middle East which is also insane. And, so, you sir are also pretty insane to think highly of any of these assholes.
@losnino4515 umm yes I have . Why the assumption? , I actually know the history before this as well .. there is absolutely no comparison at all to what is happening in Gaza right now that Hamas cause not Israel .. so get over your total load of BS .. not even the Japanese can make that kind of a comparison and they know that in the past .. just go back and read history you weird hateful lunatics .. this is beyond Bazaar that you can draw parallel between what happened in Japan what they did to the rest of the world what Hamas did the Israel .. or what anybody else did to either Japan or Israel in their Defense .. your INSANE to even think that there could be any degree of comparison there
@@losnino4515 - That's one of those Jimmy Dore simps. That's the only person that came after Amy on some BS and his sycophants continue to do it to this day. To the others running across this: The OP posted that BS about 2 minutes after a 9 minute video went up. This is how you spot dishonest actors in the chat.
Thank you for your excellent reporting, integrity and professionalism. I count on ethical news outlets like you to know what’s going on!
@@RashaandLife sorry, you've been misled on all counts there
One of the best news sources democracy now
@@Chicag343 Most selective and second most biased (behind Fox News) .. sorry guys, you ain't ever getting the whole picture on this channel. 😞
@@brianburgess3231 you don't believe the US used nuclear bombs on Hiroshima??
@brianburgess3231 ok let's go watch fox ABC NBC msnbc these are absolutely garbage and all American mainstream media are trash period
The testimony of Setsuko Thurlow has left me transfixed.
Same here. I have read accounts, but did not expect this. Seemingly demonstrates how little we have been shown in the west. An important note is that many if not most anti-nuclear activists were motivated by the fact that the types of power reactors in use are also useful for atomic weapons. There are many other designs that are less useful or even not at all for fission or fusion weapons, but strangely these are rarely built.
“Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance” by the Jewish writer Sara Roy. June 20 2021
Sara discusses the connections between Gaza's history and her own as a child of Holocaust survivors.
This is the history of America !!!!!!
yep, helping others .. the Curse of being the only superpower .. the responsibility of caring .. sometimes we are too little too late
@@brianburgess3231 helping others !!?
You have a lot of work to do inside your own country, like Philadelphia, New-York, Florida etc....
AMERICA!!!!!
FUCK YEAHHHH !!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣@@brianburgess3231
Biden: You gotta stop these war crimes.
Bibi: Or else what?
Biden: Or else we'll look bad.
Bibi: And???
Biden: C'mon man...
Bibi: Just shut up and give me your credit card!
Biden: **licks ice-cream**
@FR33_PALESTIN33 they are trying to stop the war crimes what do you think they're doing with the three H's and Iran!!
Trump also is extremely good friends with netanyahu . He is even more dangerous than Biden . He will openly say go attack Iran start more wars . Trump is also racist did you actually see what he said on the first debate ? He called Biden the Palestinian . Well what about all the Palestinian Americans listening to that in all the rest of the world That's not right. After this major hurricane we had instead of concentrating on helping people in Tennessee in North Carolina . What was Trump doing that week ? Oh he was campaigning around the country and he was even praying with the Jews . Oh isn't that nice how about the American citizens that needed help and you're going to pray with the Jews . I'm waiting to vote for Trump for 4 years and I have changed my mind now not going to do it . Trump is also bragging on TV how he gave Israel billions and billions and billions when he was president it is not his money to give away That's the American taxpayers money 💰. It's not supposed to be a dictatorship or a ruler That's not what kind of country we're supposed to be.
Trump: “just finish the job quickly.”
This is an actual quote, though, when trump was asked in an interview a couple of months ago “what would you say to Netanyahu about Gaza?”
@@lindseystein9676 What Trump says or does, doesn't excuse what Biden and Harris have done. None of them have an acceptable stance on the issue.
Thank you to the world for recognizing these survivors to receive the Nobel Peace Prize!
And YOU have no issue with what they did to POWs in their country...
Look up room 731 but I know you won't.
@@largol33t1and these individuals have something to do with that how? You sound kind of racist, buddy.
@@largol33t1YOU are just trying to be upset about something. These survivors have nothing to do with the atrocities the Japanese or American government has done. Grow up
@@largol33t1 They are civilians and were children at the time. So you don't think they are heros for advocating against their use ever again?
@@largol33t1 No idea what youre talking about. What's room 731?
“The Americans dying because they can't afford medical care” the Guardian
“The Uninsured - Healthcare Crisis” PBS, About 44 million Americans have no health insurance, and another 38 million have inadequate health insurance. “Israel says it has secured $8.7 billion U.S. aid package” Reuters , September 26, 2024
Karma see California that city specifically treat black peoples very bad!
but Obama Care😂
@@woodjunkjrjr2689 you are special😂
@@woodjunkjrjr2689you say that like you think Trump is any different 😂🤣😂 you sound religious😂
@@AngryGnome87what does religion have to do with it? I’m Christian and I hate the ZOG. Trump WAS different in 2016. Now he’s cashing 100 billion dollar checks from Mariam adelson.
Efing horrifying description. Just brutal honesty.
I saw pictures and heard stories about all this. How can anyone countenance nuclear war other than in complete insanity or in complete ignorance.
Its called Mutual Assured Destruction. I learned that in the military. Both sides so terrified of using these weapons that nobody woukd.
@@joeboudreault4351 I understand stand the concept. I was talking about someone using the weapons, not just using them as deterrents.
Thanks for the explanation, though.
America did it 80 years ago!!!!
What's changed? What did they learn? Rhetorical questions!
What has Japan learned about admitting their crimes? The millions of innocent who died under Japanese occupation and ethnic cleaning. Where are the tears for the South Korean elders?
But that is the kind of talk that is going to get Trump back in office! We need to find the personal strength to unburden ourselves of what has been.
@@buddygrimfield7954 "unburden ourselves of what has been"? And keep committing atrocities like nothing happened? Is that what you're saying????
@@grzegorzgreg09NO ! 🤪😫😤😳🤥
Nothing has really changed. There is the UN etc. making rules about war and not always enforcing them. Nuke competition is more of a thing now. How can nations even think of using them again??!
A madman (Netanyahu) is leading us to the edge of the abyss while US obediently follows.
LOL! nope.
Nothing was gained by their use. The excuses were thin lies to cover the fact that we did it to prove that we could. Nothing more. Japan was as ready to surrender before as they were after.
The people, maybe, but not the military. Millions more would have perished on both sides if the war had not ended. A really cruel choice by Truman but the right one, I think...
私は日本人です。日本の凶暴な軍隊は天皇の命令によって降伏しました。それは 原爆投下 が原因ではなく天皇制がかろうじて保持されると天皇がアメリカからの返答で確信したからでした。原爆を落とす前にもう少し早く天皇制 保持をはっきりと表記していれば日本は降伏していたでしょう。原爆投下をする必要はありませんでした@@joeboudreault4351
The Japanese military machine was falling apart too. There were many other ways to end the war, the bomb was dropped as a statement and just to scratch an itch, nothing more.
History always repeats itself
History always repeats itself more miserable
Today the perpetrator of Nagasaki Hiroshima is lecturing the world
...and keeps committing other atrocities!
@@sayedibrahimameermeea3537 from the grave ?
@@grzegorzgreg09 like?
What perpetrator is that, pray tell?
I just looked it up, looks like it was the United States that nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki
He is right
Blessings to you all, nukes have scared me stupid with lots of nightmares. AGAING HUGE BLESSINGS
The movie "The Day After" actually gave me nightmares. People love talking and joking about nuclear bombs. There's even a video game! I find it disgusting, disturbing, and disrespectful at the highest order. Hopefully, by spreading awareness, World War 3 never happens.
!VOTE BLUE!💙
“The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe
Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.
@@Davidpath9127 go back 400 yrs UNTIL NOW ..jeez
@@Davidpath9127 all that by terrorists, not by israelis
@@brianburgess3231 those are not mutually exclusive concepts
I just bought this book and am reading it now.
@brianburgess3231 the irgun gang..the hagaana gang all Israhell jaws..that was the beginning of ter..ro..rism
What a powerful testimony by Setsuko. Chills. Cannot imagine Palestinians are now being subjected to this today
@dhariniparthasarathy3901 can you imagine what the Hamas has done to the Palestinian people? .. what the Japanese did to the rest of Asia? Can you think outside of your box of indoctrination at all?
@@brianburgess3231 do you think it justifies using a nuclear bomb? Really, just curious.
@@brianburgess3231Brian is right. Thank you, Brian.
@leviashanken7281 Really there's been a lot of debate on that .. even though Einstein really didn't have a hand in the development of the bomb itself .. he said after the fact that . If we had just shown the world the effect of the nuclear testing in Nevada, it might have been enough to end the war right there .. and it wasn't an easy decision either .. especially given the fact that it took two to convince them to surrender.. and that's after the concession to allow them to keep the emperor .. basically it came down to Sheer numbers .. the US would have likely won eventually anyway .. but at the cost of many more lives .. so if you're asking me my opinion of warfare .. it's all really a silly idea .. and we're human we are silly, especially the militaristic ego Maniacs 😞
@@dhariniparthasarathy3901 supposedly the Hamas were elected by the Palestinians as well .. irony
Well said
Thanks, Amy.
It was sad to see these places like Nagasaki where ordinary Japanese civilians paid the ultimate price and suffering for the horrendous war crimes and brutality committed by the brainwashed monsters in the Japanese Imperial armies starting in Korea, Nanjing China and continuing through WW2. Their military committed horrendous acts that are on par with the Nazi, including chemical and biological attacks on the chinese. They continued bombing so many countries in USA, South East Asia, Australia etc. and mistreated, tortured and killed so many innocent military nurses, women, children and prisoners of war. Hundreds of thousands of victims and dead worldwide. They never wanted to surrender and the last resort of using the atomic bomb actually put an end to their Asian, South Pacific Holocaust. Thank god the Japanese imperial forces didn’t have an atomic bomb as no doubt the Hirohito disciples would have used it much earlier. I pray for those innocent Japanese people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and hope we never see such blind devotion to an emperor again.
This is simply not true. If you look at the records (more than a casual glance, that is), you notice two things: 1) The Japanese leadership were looking for a conditional surrender before the nukes. 2) The Japanese leadership's strategy didn't change from the bombs.
As for point 1, the Japanese were in a bad position before the nukes. They had no air force left, they were under an American sea blockade and they knew they had lost the war. There were two factions in the leadership council, caught in a deadlock; one that wanted a negotiated peace that kept the military intact (those were the generals wanting that) and one who didn't. Both factions wanted a guarantee of the safety of the emperor, given that he was a religious figure. They made several attempts to communicate this, mainly through the Soviet Union, but the Americans refused every time. After all, Truman knew that he had the bomb, which he hoped would deter the Soviets and/or force an unconditional surrender before the Soviets could make land grabs in Asia. Soviet, on the other hand, were moving troops to do just that and thus stalled on their end.
For point 2, after the bombs fell the deadlock in the Japanese council remained. They kept looking for a conditional surrender, because they were a fascist state; Why would they care about their people? It was only the interjection of the emperor, who was worried about religious objects being lost or destroyed in a potential land invasion, that broke the deadlock. Even then, the Japanese still only surrendered when finally given the go-ahead from the Americans that the emperor would indeed remain safe (probably because the Soviets had declared war on Japan at this point and started their invasion of China).
Basically, the bombs did nothing. The Japanese would have surrendered without them, and they didn't really speed up the surrender. In fact, a more direct diplomatic process would probably have ended the war sooner.
What is true in your statement is that the Japanese military were monsters that committed horrific crimes in the rest of Asia. Less known is that the Americans gave the high command, the people behind the chemical/biological/surgical experiments, immunity from prosecution in exchange for their research results. The fact that those scum of the earth, those inhuman bags of filth and refuse, were not punished in the slightest is the biggest scandal of WW2 imo. Reading what Unit 731 did is haunting. If those dung stains would have been killed by radiation poisoning, instead of thousands of innocent people, I would have had no problem with that.
Timely presentation. Thankyou
"Why Nihon Hidankyo?" Just take that in for a moment.
So humble…
humans: killing other humans for as long as we have occupied this planet
We are the most violent species.
It all started with Cain killing Abel.
To be fair, animals kill their own kind all the time Just look how often amphibians, reptiles, fish, and arthropods cannibalize each other. Hell, meerkats are so vicious to each other, that 1/5ths of deaths among them are caused BY them.
In 2022, the military spending worldwide amounted to 2.24 trillion U.S. dollars,
As 9,000 people die from conflict-driven hunger every day.
A child dies from hunger every 10 seconds.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE OFTEN APPEARS AS A WESTERN NARRATIVE BADGE, REWARDING THOSE WHO ADVANCE WESTERN INTERESTS RATHER THAN GENUINELY ACKNOWLEDGING TRUE PEACEBUILDING EFFORTS.
How would they do that, please?
@@leviashanken7281Like anything that actually brings peace...
@@joeboudreault4351 and rainbows and unicorns...
did seem coincidental, the 2 asian “partners” of USA in Asia against China….South Korea writer and now Japanese Nuclear survivors…
Congratulations also to the future recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize fihgting today for justice and free 🇵🇸!
Congratulations to Nihon Hidankyo on the Nobel Peace Prize! The solidarity with Palestine is really inspiring. Even more so since the US government boycotted the 79th anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing because Israel wasn't invited. We Americans are ashamed of our government.
It’s so ironic ; As soon as Iran showing progress on atomic power the Nobel Committee praise the anti-atom activists.
God bless these brave survivors❤
ONLY 80 YEARS AGO. NEVER AGAIN!
Question: Why were all the past Nobel Peace Winners going only to citizens who are pro Western countries and their allies ? Or those citizens of anti West countries like Russia and Iran that criticises their country's leaders ? But never to those that opposes Israel's current bombings of innocent civilians in Gaza and Lebanon ?
“Gaza is like in Japan 80 years ago” - Americans supplying weapons of war is a given. But Germany, supplying 30% is beyond understanding. You think they’d know better. Lebensraum or Redemption! Who can say?
I simply don't understand how the government can ever be forgiven; but the do, I don't know how but they do.
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Congrats to you
As Japan had it coming, so does Gaza.
the old grey mare she aint was she used to be.
Soon Benjamin netanyahu will win the Nobel peace prize
It's so very very very bad.
We'll never rid ourselves of terrible weapons because, we are too terrified
of one another. Too hateful, too petty, too small. It is the twenty-first
century, and what progress have we actually made when the only peace most
of us will ever know is the peace of the grave.
There is the peace beyond all understanding, with Jesus.
Fact-US always shame for humanity past and now present.
Stop the genocide.
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According to a Obama I wouldn't accept this prize
Why don't they talk about about the millions of civilians killed by the Japanese in China, the Philippines, Singapore, etc.? Far in excess of the Japanese civilians killed by the atomic bombs or other American air raids on Japan.
You didn't get the main point, did you?
@@MarkBigelow-p9c 👏exactly
thanks to usa, japan became a peaceful country.
Thanks mr.Human. And also, this is the second holocaust we are seeing.
I think covid19 was an attempted holocaust...
Uh.....no lol. Japan were imperialists and colonizers. The Chinese, Koreans and other Asian victims of their aggression were more akin to Palestinians.
DO YOU THINK COUNTRIES LIKE THE US, CHINA, RUSSI, IRAN and NORTH KOREA?
😥 como dice … Nunca sería más acertado. Ahora que las potencias armamentistas ven con desprecio con irresponsabilidad a una humanidad que lucha por sobrevivir 😢
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Israel is right now fighting for its very existence. Think about that.
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Congratulations on winning the Noble Peace ☮️ Prize ™[{ 01758^°St.Lucia
I can assure you the voice that lady heard in total darkness was Jesus' voice, Lord thank you for your mercy. Amen.
welcome to clown world.
How dumb
I just wanted to comment on the importance of Canadian culture and the continuing teaching of Remembrance Day lest we forget , Thanks grapes
wish Canadians had same appreciation for your indigenous peoples’ culture…
Congratulations on the Nobel, I am in solidarity with the cause, but to compare WWII Japan to Gaza is to do a disservice to the Palestinian cause. The atomic bombs should never have been deployed but Japan in WWII was a horrible place, their biggest ally was Hitler, they invaded several countries, had imprisonment and torture camps. they killed some 20 million civillians in other countries. The difference with Gaza, which wants to have its own territory, is huge.
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor by surprise in the morning on Dec , remember?
@@maria1060-f1q thank you
"The atomic bombs should never have been deployed" LOL, and then you go on to explain exactly why it was deployed.
@@srsmopar3808 exactly I'm all that over for a while and maybe you'll get it
@@brianburgess3231 LOL, you just proved why your own opinion is wrong. Hilarious!
Wrong comparison whit gaza
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Am i missing something? Are people forgeting the point of what caused Americans to resort to nukes? It was a very different Japan back then. And correct me if im wrong, but hasnt there been peace between the countries ever since?
the US has been involved in like 30 wars since WWII. And the lie that the nukes were needed to stop Japanese attacks has been proven propaganda by the US government. The Japanese were already looking for a way out of the war so its entirely possible peace talks would have worked amd achieved a surrender. Also it is never justified to murder civilians in a war, It has been agreed on by the nations of the world that only combatants military interests are to be targeted. This is widely understood, which is why many nations are standing with Gaza.
Peace enforced by military occupation and the threat of starvation isn't peace.
Doesn't that ring a bell?
@nercksrule America hasnt occupied Japan since the 50s, thanks to the Treaty of San Fransico. The two countries have had a perfectly cordial relationship ever since.
And Americas "blockade starving Japan" was actually a complete myth by revisionists. A report was made back in 1947, the Japanese wartime standard of living and utilization of manpower, showed that the blockade actually had serious difficulties cutting off japanese food supplies. They were largely self-sustaining agriculturally.
Point being; when a country declares war on you and refuses any compromise, the only true path to peace is for you to win completely and utterly. Then peace can be made and healing can begin.
Whens the last time you heard of japanese terrorist cells lurking anywhere in the world?
Nuclear weapons were invented to prevent a world war 3. They wanted to make world war 2 the last. The US was just waiting for the first chance to drop those bombs. The Japanese were just the first to anger the US government enough and they paid the ultimate price.
@Cooler7328 thank you
thanks to usa japan became a peacful country.
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Japan must recognise a Palestinian state
Japan (correctly) won't even allow Islam in their country, let alone the Palestinian murderers and genociders.
Never will be such a place The "False-tinians" must acknoledge history first that they didn't exist until the 1960s and they're just a fib. Japan must take responsibility for the millions it murdered. Don't side with Nazis. Stay in school (not UNWRA one)
The people starting the war get a peace prize? Moral of the story: Don’t start fights you cannot win. You poked the bear and paid for it.
What??? Innocent civilians that were ruthlessly slaughtered DID NOT start the war? If us Americans were attacked based on the evil actions of our current leaders we would've been bombed out of existence by every country we've wronged!!!
The people getting the peace prize were children at the time. Children. Who were harmed and traumatized from witnessing it and being struck. Who since then have not been bitter or turned to terrorism but work for the cause of peace and banning of the horrible weapons.
@@leviashanken7281clearly this person is one of those that think todays Gazans are the ones who voted in Hamas even though over 75% were either not yet born or if born not old enough to vote but still their fault just like they think the children of the aftermath of nuclear attack was their fault as well. Clearly an example of how much our education system has failed us by producing people with zero critical thinking skills. God help us
@leviashanken7281 good point.
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Pro-Hamas are going crazy, UNRWA didn’t win the award 😂
I don’t believe many, if any, are pro Hamas. They’re pro civilian. A small fraction of people in Gaza are Hamas, yet everyone has been indiscriminately bombed and sniped.
What a useless comparison. May as well say Dresden. How is this channel even operating on this boomer propaganda format?
Get gone ya zionist bot 😂
What do you have against boomers? Our parents fought the very war that you're speaking about for the USA. You must be a Russian bot, and you're doing a lousy job at trolling!
Nanking has a word with your hypocrisy
The survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had nothing to do with Nanking. It’s like you’re ok with condemning random people because they happen to belong to a particular race, isn’t that the rationale behind those who actually perpetrated the Nanking Massacre? Look in the mirror.
Yep…their war crimes were equal to if not worse than the nazis.
In terms of studying history, why do you stop with Nanking Massacre? How about Boxer Rebellion when US, G. Britain, France, Germany, Italy & Russia deployed troops in mainland China? They all looted & committed atrocities while pointing their fingers at soldiers from other nationalities, claiming they weren’t as bad as others.
What did i learn here?
F around and find out
A good report on a critical issue. It had to have been the toughest call of any world leader in the last century for Truman to decide on dropping those bombs. By and large I tend to agree with what he did. I sympathize with this Japanese group, but I'm puzzled, not to their opposing nuclear weapons (a good stand) but with why they would remotely think that Netanyahu may be imperiling the world with "more atomic bombs" when in fact he is doing the opposite of Truman: he is determined to destroy Iran's ability to even use a bomb. He deserves this Nobel prize for that and for the Abraham Accords in the Middle East. And Trump, the only US president never to start a conflict, should have received one, if not more, Nobel Peace prizes. Obama, that traitor, DIDN'T deserve his. In essence, the Peace Prize is a piece of crap, but I like what this group has been doing.
You're actually insane with this reply. 1. Truman didn't have the intellect to understand what nuclear radiation fallout would do to people, generationally, because if he did he, well, he probably still would have dropped those bombs, because he was an insane southern redneck anyway. He continued being so callous and racist of the Japanese after the tragedy also. 2. Netanyahu is currently overseeing what can only be characterized as a GENOCIDE of Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is not defending itself at all, it's offending as much as possible, as evidenced by continued bombings of safe zones in Gaza, and unprovoked bombings in Lebanon. Netanyahu is a madman, and only sociopathic people would ever support any of what Netanyahu is doing at this point. 3. However, it is Vladimir Putin who is keeping the nuclear option on the table, provoking the international community by doing so. Iran certainly has nuclear capabilities, but the claim that they intend to build and then use such a bomb is insane and Islamophobic. 4. Donald Trump has lied so much about his impact on social stability during his own Presidency, but he has never shied away from starting provocations in other countries using force. Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian general who was assassinated by an American drone in 2020, would never have happened without the go-ahead from Donald Trump. Trump claims that he would have been able to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which is ridiculous. He also claimed that he would have stopped Israel's conflicts in Gaza and the Middle East which is also insane. And, so, you sir are also pretty insane to think highly of any of these assholes.
thats about the most over the top total BS you've given so far there Amy
You haven't even watched the video keep talking
@losnino4515 umm yes I have . Why the assumption? , I actually know the history before this as well .. there is absolutely no comparison at all to what is happening in Gaza right now that Hamas cause not Israel .. so get over your total load of BS .. not even the Japanese can make that kind of a comparison and they know that in the past .. just go back and read history you weird hateful lunatics .. this is beyond Bazaar that you can draw parallel between what happened in Japan what they did to the rest of the world what Hamas did the Israel .. or what anybody else did to either Japan or Israel in their Defense .. your INSANE to even think that there could be any degree of comparison there
@@losnino4515 - That's one of those Jimmy Dore simps. That's the only person that came after Amy on some BS and his sycophants continue to do it to this day. To the others running across this: The OP posted that BS about 2 minutes after a 9 minute video went up. This is how you spot dishonest actors in the chat.
Israeli bot
You're a paid troll
Nobel Peace Prize is political and has lost its worth.
They gave one to Obama...LOL!
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How dare they go against Jews?! They will be punished and forced to worship Lord Jew!!
😭😭😭😭 everyone look up victims the USA government don't want you to know how bad it is!!!
That’s very kind of the man to give credit to the workers in Gaza even though he won the award. 🫡