If 30% of the army was occupied in the west they would be the 30% sprinting to surrender to the Americans so they could continue to re-establish the fascist order in Western Europe together after the war. It was not a decisive theater of war. No matter how many times you study the documentary saving private ryan.

Ha, we might be the only two people that agree with each other in this thread. But yeah what percentage of Japanese soldiers were defeated by red army on the mainland of Asia? Way more than half.

Oh I think the percentage is way higher than that. Practically all of the fighting capacity of the german nation was spent on the eastern front. And one hundred percent of the decisive actions occurred there. The Normandy landings were an irrelevant sideshow. Only important in determining who would rule in europe after the war.

In a radio interview after his final term in office Truman would claim he had been misled about where they were going to drop the atomic bombs. He said he was told they would be dropped on Japanese naval bases, rather than on the residential areas almost entirely filled with sleeping women and children. I think this indicates that he did in fact experience remorse for what he and many other men were responsible for doing.

Even the most cursory reading of modern military history will show that there was no good reason at all to murder all these hundred of thousands of civilians when we did. And that’s not some liberal revisionist history. It’s the assessment of scholars at places like the army war college in Carlisle. It was a repugnant and unnecessary act.

That’s a really interesting article. Thanks for posting it.

If a researcher were to ask me if I experience these symptoms regularly I would absolutely say yes. I do. I’ve never had Covid. These are very difficult feelings to separate out from a background level of ill health.