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Imperial Japan was as bad as Nazi Germany.
They were holding literally millions of people in slavery and had used biological warfare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
The Japanese high command knew that they'd lost the war after Midway, but kept fighting for 'reasons.'
Every day the war kept going, innocent people in the Japanese Empire were being raped and killed. If any of them had been given a chance to vote on the matter, they certainly would have okayed the bombing.
Thing is that Japan was already trying to surrender, and the US was well aware of the fact before the decision to drop the bombs was made. The only purpose of this crime against humanity was to show USSR what level of depravity the US regime was capable of.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220404122536/https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/15427-magic-diplomatic-summary-war-department-office
There's a whole book written on the subject by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa called Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. The fact that Japanese regime committed atrocities in no way justifies the atrocities committed by the US regime. Of course, I realize the concept that two wrongs don't make a right might be too complex of an idea for the liberal mind to comprehend.
You've marred your argument by devolving into mud-slinging.