Russian attack on country of Georgia

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Japanese culture has very little to do with this.

The fuck it doesn't, it's got everything to do with it. It was a culture of followers, order takers, don't rock the boat, don't make waves. The Japs did what they were told without question.

The Japanese leadership knew they could not beat the United States from the beginning and after Okinawa, many saw the war as a lost cause. The general population would have kept on fighting, but the leadership, while making some really stupid decisions, for the most part did not believe they could hold off the United States and Soviet Union without any oil.

Leadership? The military was leading the country, you think they started a war they knew they could not win? For what purpose?

It is shown that the Japanese went to Soviet Union many times looking for peace and were extremely divided themselves on the issue. The point is that the Japanese would seem to accept conditional surrender but not unconditional.

It is shown the Japs were in Washington looking for peace when Pearl Harbor was bombed. The duplicity of the japs in morning coats is well know. They pulled the same shit destroying the Russian fleet in 1908.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_War_Council_(Japan)

Nice link.

At the ending of the war, three wanted to surrender and three wanted to keep on fighting. Guess which ones were on which side.

Two atomic bombs and half wanted to keep fighting. I guess we forgot to say "Simon Says, give up".

To the general public, yes, the military had complete control but not in the government. Japanese leadership was extremely divided on the issue and many in the military did not want surrender even after the emperor changed his stance, hence the attempted coup.

When the teacher wants to do math, it doesn't fucking matter that the first graders want recess.

Besides the million men they could have contributed to the front....

Wrong, they couldn't hold on to Manchuria if they moved those soldiers out, but it's a moot point because they didn't have the food or supplies to support them. The Russian soldiers have to live off the land like Sherman in GA.
It's a long swim to Japan, the only way the Russians could have gotten there is if we moved them and that wasn't going to happen. They might have been able to get something going in '47, maybe even late '46, but not '45.

End of the war.