you have 10 seconds to explain to me how pic related is

It was necessary, the Japanese wouldn't quit and the fear of the Soviet invading west Germany/Europe

Japs were the "victims".

>>3331329
That's not the question you want to ask, the question you want to ask if "So what if it was a war crime?"

>>3331350
>it was "necessary" to win the war faster so it wasn't a war crime
>we're not like those other guys who just commit warcrimes because they enjoy being evil and cruel

>>3331329
Strategic bombing was not considered illegal.

>>3331364

>have an entire division made up of convicted murders, rapists and paedophiles who are told to just go nuts on the locals
>th..they only did b..bad stuff to end the war. They didn't enjoy it!!!

>>3331329

Why is blowing up a city with 1 bomb on 1 plane worse than blowing up a city with 5000 bombs on 300 planes?

>>3331329
The Japanese entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Shanghai, Chongqing, Pearl Harbor, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

>>3331329
It saved lives. Firebombing campaigns killed more civilians.

>>3331449
Because Japanese and Soviet post-war propaganda claimed that it was.

>>3331467
Cringe. Did you steal this from reddit by any chance?

The winners were the lawmakers.

>>3331329
Because americans were on the winning side. That's all.