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And Japanese cannibalism of executed POW's, and Ishii's biological warefare unit. War is Hell.
Yeah, so taking skulls as war trophies is fine
Maybe I have an edgy take but I really don't care about brutality against Japanese imperialists. I hold them as much more evil than the Nazis during the 20th century.
I don't care about the deaths of fascists. That doesn't make it less sick to take skulls as trophies.
The point is Amero-fascists are also barbarous and always have been. The "war is hell" handwaving getting invoked doesn't mean you can't talk about crimes. The sane way i wouldn't handwave away the many crimes of the Japanese fascists
That is edgy. Stalin virulently rebuked war crimes against Nazi Germany's civilians and POWs as it pushed them back.
By contrast, the brutality, starvation, and high death rates for nazi POWs held by the US in western europe during and after ww2 is not a story most ppl know about. Losurdo gets into this a bit, as well as contrasts the nazi's position that the slavic ppl must be eradicated and made into slaves, while the USSR's position was that germany and the german ppl will go on after the war, and efforts should be made to not follow the nazi's scorched earth policy.
I can just smell your armchair general smugness about saying that. You must feel very hardened and cool, calm, and collected watching explosions on screens.
The US was the model for biological testing and eugenics, that's not why they fought japan, nor was it even one of the stated reasons at the time.