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People often justify the fire bombings and atomic bombings on Japan by saying that the US would have had to invade the mainland, but why would they have needed to? It was an island nation invading places it had no land connection to, with a lack of fuel and a defeated navy

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People often justify the fire bombings and atomic bombings on Japan by saying that the US would have had to invade the mainland, but why would they have needed to? It was an island nation invading places it had no land connection to, with a lack of fuel and a defeated navy	258