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The Japanese bombed civilian boats that happened to be out on the water near pearl harbour before their surprise attack. Their reasoning was that these boats c
by aussieguy1234 1y ago
The Japanese bombed civilian boats that happened to be out on the water near pearl harbour before their surprise attack.
Their reasoning was that these boats could have alerted the Americans about the impending attack.
It's interesting to see the US more or less committing the same crime, even if it was just a bug planting mission.
- scarecrowbob 1y agoIf you're interested in "crimes committed by the US war machine which mirror similar crimes by the Japanese", there is a lot written about the US use of biological weapons on the peninsula in late 1951. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_biological_warfare_in_the_Korean_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_biological_warf...
- aussieguy1234 1y agoThere was quite alot including actual massacres of civilians in Vietnam. The US where not the good guys in that war.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoIn what wars were either side free of innocent blood? Where there were actually good guys rather than maybe just morally better than the other side?
- scarecrowbob 1y agoOh, yeah, I was just picking one thing at random- there are literally millions of murders done by the US war machine. The US generally aren't the good guys in any war. Heck, I think that the US treatment of the Nazis after the second world war should make it pretty clear what "side" of that conflict they were actually on.