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[@nigelbaddock]

Oppenheimer is more about Oppenheimer and his feelings to the bombs, than the actual atomic bombs.

[@Darklandershorts]

Feelings*

[@angelicart.6]

which, for me, makes the bomb itself even more terrifying

[@alyassuppaleridhil7892]

Yeah, it is for the dude, not for the bomb, its litteraly called "Oppenheimer".

[@WaifuSeeker]

well... its the name of the movie

[@Fudgeking21]

yeah man the whole thing was legit about oppenheimer's POV about the whole bomb thing

[@kimichan5008]

in indonesia we say "350 years of Dutch colonization is better than 3.5 years of Japanese colonization"

[@yuyoshida7359]

Unfortunately not everyone 😔

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

As a Dutchman that scares me. Also, may I apologize for those 350 years of colonization and the stupid attempt to get the empire back? I know it achieves literally nothing, but I'll feel better after having done it.

[@chiraggupta7953]

Are you serious european colonization has had much more dire consequences than the japanese ever could bring

[@chimera9818]

@@chiraggupta7953yes in some aspects but they killed less people than what Japan killed in ww2 (when group prefer their old colonizers on the new conquerors you know the new suck)

[@kv4648]

The Dutch were absolutely not in any way good or even close

[@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508]

Bro was so triggered he forgot to advert his new plushies

[@angelicart.6]

war is more important than plushies 😤

[@gamera5160]

Would have been wildly inappropriate.

[@charmander3594]

True​@@angelicart.6

[@BiscuitisCool]

@@angelicart.6we aren’t saying it is’nt

[@angelicart.6]

@@BiscuitisCool isn’t*

[@luanasari5161]

2:03 hes so mad that he used the word "nazi" instead of "no no germans"

[@richardhobbs7360]

demonitisation be damnded

[@angelicart.6]

I mean it iz what it iz

[@MichaelSHartman]

Censorship, and cancellation. People who know history, especially under communism are upset. Those that understand the direction America is taking are terrified. Those that have lived through it are warning. Younger generations haven't even read "1984", or realized it was based on actual events. They don't know how it came about, or see it happening around them. We are in the lion's mouth.

[@pulsarnova099]

cry

[@Pres44]

Good for him, not caring about the crybabies at KZbin.

[@Squidboi6677]

I can’t believe I’m siding with the Americans in a political argument

[@AB45469]

Same here

[@toywang7784]

And that shows the level of this bs

[@Useless_edits]

same

[@bigtex4864]

What about side by side with a friend?

[@NotMe-f5l]

Seems you haven’t meet a lot of Americans outside the internet my friend (lol)

[@azravalencia4577]

"Its actually in line with the US Refusal to confront crimes committed agains Japan and the justification that the bombs were necessary to end the war" DID SHE EVER WATCH THE F*CKING MOVIE?

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

I think she was already quite set in what she thought about the movie either before or during the first part, so she couldn't she what the movie was ACTUALLY SAYING. Anyways, bad journalism.

[@Frogboyaidan]

Real 🤓

[@deadteddybear2423]

To be fair, they weren't quite as necessary, but not the point of the movie Oppenheimer. It wasn't necessary since the Japanese surrendered as soon as the Soviets invaded and feared a Soviet invasion. Thinking that the nukes was what ended the war is a misconception

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

​@@deadteddybear2423 I'm pretty sure that the bombs AND the Soviets were important. They used the bombs as the reason to surrender for the civilians. And the Soviet threat for the army. Because the army would have otherwise ignored orders and kept on fighting, because they didn't understand the devastation of the bombs unlike the civilians. But all the civilians heard was that they were winning the war, so they didn't understand the Soviet threat. So the bombs was a good explanation for the civilians, but not the army. Yet the Soviet invasion worked well on the army, but not the civilians. Though there is an argument to be made that the second bomb was less necesary. As it could complete it's main function of signalling that the US had multiple by being dropped somewhere with less/no civilian casualties. Though the counter argument would be that they didn't know wheter that would be enough to make Japan surrender. But that's disputed. So then we transition into an entirely differant conversation which I don't know enough to comment about. Anyhows, the key thing is that BOTH were important for Japanese surrender.

[@deadteddybear2423]

@@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV I could agree with that, but if one of the two haven't happened in our timeline, the Japanese would have surrendered anyway

[@JobEstrada-o1k]

You know Drew is fired up when he says Nazi instead of no-no German

[@unitedfoxesofyoutube3283]

Timestamp?

[@95ball]

@@unitedfoxesofyoutube3283 2:05

[@dizzy_jump]

he, uh, didn't

[@titiwa632]

​@@dizzy_jump 2:05

[@dizzy_jump]

@@titiwa632 oh

[@t.i.3416]

German cities were also bombed, civilians were killed but today's Germany were not viewed as victims unlike Japan. I guess Japanese people and weebs were triggered because the movie was all about a man who caused their victim mentality.

[@LuDa-lf1xd]

It always comes to my mind that the german women where victim of sexual violence, from the allies and the axis. When it comes to civilians, people tend to dehumanize them.

[@lightningfletch5598]

@@LuDa-lf1xd Especially if those civilians belong to an enemy nation.

[@vladprus4019]

There was like one time in history when Japan was a victim without any string attached: when American admiral forced the Bakufu to open the country. This is the only time when I can say Japan was 100% a victim without any "but". And that time is... few uneuqal economic treaties. And theyve managed to make the use of them anyways. I am interested in Japanese culture and history, but when it comes to stuff like WW2 I have as much sympathy for them as I have for the Germans. And I think about apologists of both of them (when discussing that period) as morally equivalent.

[@JmKrokY]

🤔

[@EddSall]

​ Targeting civilians is a war crime no matter who did it, no matter what context or excuse, no one can justify it. Japanese are not an exception those in Hiroshima and nakazaki were civilians men women children babies... It's disgusting to think that by giving a context it's not a war crime or for someone to say they have no sympathy for them.

[@dragontemplar4561]

When drew gets so triggered he posts at 1:40 am.

[@RichardMontgomeryYT]

7am in england lol, perfect morning video!

[@dertotschlosslp4840]

@@RichardMontgomeryYT 8am in Germany

[@IAteAJarOfPickles]

11.17 am, drew released this video

[@marekserocki974]

7:40am here, good video to watch while going to uni

[@ibro8855]

Yeah. Eleven past Ten in the morning currently I my timezone.

[@NEWCJONGTONGSHYPEBOY]

As a korean Its hillarious just seeing japanese people whining about getting nuked and complaining its war crime while not even knowing anything about what they did to us. I mean i guess its not exactly their fault their government intentionally covers that particular part of their history buts its always just funny how they actually seriously think they're the victims.

[@ojisanhoward8940]

And they did a LOT to the Koreans! One example is "Comfort women."

[@sl-pw7qn]

exactly

[@kulkuljator]

And this is not like these are top secret documents either. Their warcrimes are all over the internet with articles and research papers. All you need to do is google Japanese history a little earlier than 1945 and thats it. You can find it on accident even!

[@thisisnot11]

Yeah it's like they forgot about all the civilians killed in korea, china, indonesia and on and on

[@Walker-84473]

One of the few times Chinese and Koreans unite I guess

[@Pancasilaist8752]

As an southeast asian, i will say that I don't think the japanese have the right to demand apology from the US for atomic bombing when they not even apologize to korean,chinese,taiwanese, vietnamese,burmese,malaysian, the Philippines,indonesians and others.

[@1dkWhatToWrite]

As another Southeast Asian, I do have to agree.

[@thea6573]

I have the same idea, what about poor souls who died for Japanese to build their empire with slavery and to this day still honoring the war criminal and didn't do the same like German to teach next generation what they doing in the past, some people who likely Japan say it's to me "The Japanese people just except and move on they didn't want to stuck with the past like many other, and that is what their ancestors did. We are no longer part of them." that's it.

[@dylainchiv1169]

Same here brother 🇰🇭

[@edithwashington]

this comment is more than enough to debunk that playing victim japan.

[@jorgovan-ni9kz]

They apologized for nanqing or however the city is called r*pe crimes

[@highground2688]

Yes unit 731, no war crimes here

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

Glad someone else knows about this one. Have you also seen that video by Hello Future Me?

[@so_whatLol]

About unit 731 not gonna defend but atleast they got some disturbing info so its better than just torture for nothing but yeah japanese have that

[@bomoose]

not the water fact

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

@@so_whatLol Two words, pilot sashimi........

[@YogBaranwal]

No They were just testing some different ingredients for susi

[@DavidYu-uo6do]

Sad that Germany has to keep apologising, yet japan has yet to even recognise their crimes but is loved globally. Crazy how much soft power can do to reputation.

[@NyakoLeaf]

The power of anime

[@richardhobbs7360]

Yeah, I knew what path it was going down when she said "they don't want to challenge the notion WW2 was a good war" Its one of the only wars, in history, where you have an objective good and bad

[@soldatenkonig383]

@@richardhobbs7360 as a german, i agree.

[@marialourainebanosia26]

And people try to defend japan even though they are worse than germany

[@angelicart.6]

@@marialourainebanosia26which pains me because I really love germany’s culture and language (I love the country in general). and I really like japan as well. let’s praise also what germans have done after the war, can we?

[@UlyseesSGrantGaming]

Japan stans be yapping until you mention Nanking

[@dino.niichan1991]

And Nanking is just the very very tip of the iceberg....

[@gabesisneros136]

A very red liquid iceberg

[@BingoGo2Space]

Indeed, a country honors porn stars as celebrities. How good you expect it to be.

[@ADMICKEY]

So red it turned into a terraria crimson biome

[@avery1012]

Unit 731 as well

[@goodpol5022]

“Do you feel like… The US ever took accountability for what they’ve done?” Dear lord this is truly a peak Al Jazeera moment.

[@awakenmaster]

nah al jazeera at least has standards most of the time

[@dipanwitamandal7289]

​​@@awakenmaster "most of the time" yeah nah I prefer a good news source... can you guess what it is? THATS RIGHT ITS Fréttablaðið (Iceland News)

[@danielhanna19]

​@dipanwitamandal7289 only news I care about is the onion (it's a satirical news channel)

[@Ijst19]

Yes Drew!! Thank you for bringing this into light, Japan completely brushing aside and outright denying some of the irreversible crimes they committed like come on, isn’t it ironic that you’re holding a grudge while half of Asia haven’t even been compensated from Japan!! Don’t forget they didn’t even get punished like Germany after WW2 who got completely dismantled

[@moontworks2232]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were warcrimes, unjustifiable atrocities that should have never happened. The US is the only nation in the world that has ever used the atomic bombs on civilians, the soviets, chinese, not event Kim Jong Un, and he really seems like he wouldn't care seeing his whole nation get erased just to masacre US civilians.

[@pixelboy3325]

I agree that Japan's crimes should get more recognition and that there should be something like reparations for the victims, but the US were responsible for prosecuting these crimes and instead they even helped the Japanese in covering up.

[@skullrevenant9573]

Yeah Germany was punished for their crimes while Japan was rewarded for them by the US.And they refuse to acknowledge the fact that they did all those crimes.It's disgusting for the victims

[@dddbbb6940]

⁠​⁠@@pixelboy3325Japan actually paid war reparations to east asia and south east asia

[@charluu1929]

I agreed.And I don't like Japan for it.

[@ethansphotoshop2773]

As an Australian, I can totally see why Asia hates Japan considering that Australia was bombed by Japan and had thousands of our own country tortured by the Japanese during and after the war including my family who had one member executed by the Japanese AFTER the war. NOT DURING BUT AFTER

[@titosyettos2689]

How the hell did they excute someone after the war?

[@ethansphotoshop2773]

@titosyettos2689 well, my uncle Tommy (great uncle) was captured in the fall of Singapore along with his brother. His brother was sent to Changi while he was sent further north to one of the camps closer to Japan. After the war when the camp learnt of the surrender of Japan. The officer in charge became so infuriated that he ordered the round up of the camp and selected 3 prisoners at random. One of the 3 selected was my uncle, he and the 2 others were marched to the front of the camp, forced to dig their own graves before being beheaded.

[@adamelghalmi9771]

bro lol?? US used u as a base it's fair game

[@bradleykhoury2102]

@@adamelghalmi9771 wtf u implying ?

[@delrunplays2903]

@@adamelghalmi9771 What do you mean? Australia likely would have been bombed regardless of the US being in the war since Australia was a part of the British Empire at the time (a Dominion, if I recall).

[@hanswurst5109]

When I'm in a "denying warcrimes" competition and my opponent is Japan: 🤯

[@vladprus4019]

Japan doing colonization: "it was a long time ago" Japan brutally persecuting religious groups: "they deserved it" Japan commiting war crimes: "Yeah war is bad, in general. We suffered so many loses as well. " Japan has fascism dismantled after losing war of aggression: "We were colonized! They hate us!" Seriously, if anyone talked abou history of Germany as history of Japan is sometimes talked about, they would be called nazi sympathizer (at least)

[@delrunplays2903]

Easy A

[@breathair69420]

Sorry bruh you can't win. Japan is the master of that game.

[@dipanwitamandal7289]

:squiqeard emoji:

[@HenryPlays923]

They made that game

[@bigbraintime8010]

“They used victims as research subjects” Japan doing “research” in unit 731 🤫

[@HenryPlays923]

What is that?

[@ryanhughes6405]

Basicallya unit that's tried to do scientific studying.....through human testing....often times leading to alot of humans dieing...from horrific and downright evil experimentations

[@melancholymelon5316]

​@@HenryPlays923 horrific Japanese lab where they conducted unspeakable experiments on Chinese Civilians. The US covered it up after the war and took the information from the experiments.

[@JullianCassus]

@@HenryPlays923think of the most horrific torture you can imagine, they probably did it.

[@HenryPlays923]

@@JullianCassus I have learnt what 731 is and did you know that the human body has around 60% water

[@Hydra_2-6]

“It’s actually in lime with the US refusal to confront crimes committed against Japanese civilians”. *Coughs in unit 731*

[@gabesisneros136]

Lol the end of her video is even dumber somehow, not only did we acknowledge our usage but we never used them in war since , one of our generals wanted to spam them but we was fired becuase that plan was insane.

[@lightningfletch5598]

Ah good ol General MacArthur. I’m glad President Truman rejected his nuke plan.

[@Napkin24]

Ya she is worrying about how the US will you use them even though countries like France have a “warning shot” that involves firing nukes at the enemy, while US wouldn’t fire nukes unless hit by nukes first.

[@BiscuitisCool]

@@lightningfletch5598It was only cause the soviets had the bomb which is why nuclear war won’t happen cause a country using it always will have fear of retaliation. (Not defending japan)

[@lightningfletch5598]

@@BiscuitisCool I am aware. That’s why I said I’m glad his plan was rejected.

[@banaanbosse2565]

yeah the japanese aren't exactly in the position to be talking about this through a victim-role. And definitely not about experiments on human beings because Japan has a history on that which may be even darker than Imperial Japan's war history.

[@yuyoshida7359]

Neither do the Americans, so… People should start working on their own nation’s problems before criticising others I’d say.

[@charluu1929]

​@@yuyoshida7359but how do we fix the nation's problems?I don't really know

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

@yuyoshida7359 Medude. The US helped cover up Japans war crimes! And anyway, it's not that hard to say sorry and build a museum or something. If Germany can do it, Japan has NO excuse.

[@yuyoshida7359]

@@BasicallyBaconSandvichIVIt’s not that hard when the population supports the construction… A loud minority are going to do everything in their power to prevent that from materializing

[@angelcabeza6464]

​@@BasicallyBaconSandvichIVno we didn't we even left the other nations know what Japan did after the war wy do you Japan keep lying

[@Walker-84473]

As a Chinese guy, these type of “opinions” makes my blood boil every single time

[@mobiletaskforceepsilon1172]

As a Filipino, same here.

[@roshasensi2220]

@@mobiletaskforceepsilon1172 same, every time i hear "tHe US bAAAD cUS nUcLeeere BAMMING" i get so angry i dont like the us but if you're gonna hate on the us it better be for a good reason cus this aint it

[@Alledgreedystudio]

Same here.

[@AlexG3Z]

@@mobiletaskforceepsilon1172 this is THE thing that unites us, haha Cheers from the other side of the south sea

[@Sceptonic]

​@@roshasensi2220im an American but thats based

[@darusus457]

I am german and I recently had to leave my house for an afternoon because of an unexploded WW2 Bomb (happens all the time in germany): do you really think I was cursing out the Allies during it? No of course not we were at war... it was warrented

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

You guys were taught what you did during the war. Ironically Japanese were also taught what you did during the war, just not what they did. Is there any surprise why you and the Japanese would think so differently?

[@jbvalentin854]

Ok the fact they said they used victims from the boobs as Guinea pigs is insane?! They simply followed their life due to irradiation to see the effect on human! This saved thousands of life by getting a good idea of what dose is safe

[@gabesisneros136]

Lol u accidentally put boobs. But true

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

Victims from the boobs? 😳

[@iamjohnfarlow]

“Victims from the boobs” is not a phrase I expected to read this morning.

[@UltraProchy]

@@iamjohnfarlow i had to triple reread that to be sure im not reading wrong, would give more context to their more recent art tho

[@dl2839]

​@@iamjohnfarlow Atomic Boob victims.💭💥🌔🌖💥💭🤕

[@bigboymuslim9272]

You know it's serious when Drew doesn't say 'no no Germans'

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Man got so triggered he uploaded earlier than usual

[@DeflatTheGaming]

It should also be noted that the historian’s official credentials listed gender and racial studies as majors in the US. That already had some people iffy on her opinion and it didn’t help that she blames modern American politics for why we don’t talk about the bombs.

[@kulkuljator]

I have never seen Drew so triggered and rightfully so, if they demand apologies for the bombs, then why not apoligize for Unit 731 first?

[@BiscuitisCool]

and much more

[@justcallmehaterik]

People like this will deny the existence of Unit 731, and even if they acknowledge it they just gonna shrug it off as "ehh they were logging facilities" i swear.

[@mobiletaskforceepsilon1172]

Accurate because the people who participated in Unit 731 referred to their live test subjects (Chinese civilians) as logs. The contrast is insane when the Japanese believed they wanted to liberate all of Asia from colonization when they're worse than the colonizers.

[@ChrisWatermelone]

Say whatever you want about Elon taking Twitter, but this 'reader added context' is the best upgrade ever added

[@Pixel22-fs3tt]

Oh most definitely

[@Ahyesveryinterestingname]

These people melt my brain as a Vietnamese 💀

[@Godzillaminusone70]

sorry for war crimes my country did.

[@poglup1551]

Bro mixed up am and pm 😂

[@-.-.-.-258]

Fr

[@ahha6304]

Oh it's PM here

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

I mean, Australia W Dropped at 4:30pm instead of 4:30am

[@joelgarcia9970]

Fr

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

Dropped at 08 instead of 20.

[@hemanthp3610]

the reason why nagasaki and hiroshima were chosen was because of their military industries also US literally sent flyers warning the japanese population about an attack but the japanese leadership convinced them that it was a lie if why do they think tokyo wasn't attacked?

[@ps2progamer814]

Tokyo already destroyed

[@Echoak95]

the first target was Kyoto, but one american general did not wanted to get a the historical city bombed which he visited before, so they chose Nagasaki instead.

[@celhesdeleon160]

Hiroshima was 80% Civilians and 30% Military. Basically probably one person pressured the president to bomb Hiroshima.

[@cringe_lord5762]

​@@ps2progamer814 is it because the Doolittle raid or something with napalm bomb?

[@ps2progamer814]

@@cringe_lord5762 napalm bombs and raids quickly destroyed all the buildings so dropping a nuke there would not showcase the power very well

[@Eed-gr5mr]

He got so mad at this person he had to make a video this late, but it's justified so...

[@dyawr]

AJ+ is Al-Jazeera. Which is a Qatari publication, with a lot of propaganda against Israel and a strong interest/tendency to adopt an anti-Western angle... whether it's legitimate or not.

[@marialourainebanosia26]

I see no wonder why this video about Oppenheimer sucks

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

I mean, you don't get more anti-Western than China, but I doubt any self loving Chinese is gonna agree with their bullshit. The key word being self loving.......There are the odd weebs out there, but they are few and far between.

[@dipanwitamandal7289]

​@@LibeliumDragonfly I think Russia is more anti West these days, China's pretty chill

[@user-kung_nyang]

As a korean kid of 11 years old, one fact I heard 1000 times is the fact that Japanese put Korean, Chinese and Southeast Asian girls into mocking labor and not apologizing!!

[@権兵衛-e8u]

we apologized many times but your government doesn't want a period to the drama because they profit from it

[@user-kung_nyang]

I know people are apologizing, but your government ain't. T.T I hope Japanese apologize directly and the Koreans accept it

[@権兵衛-e8u]

@@user-kung_nyang The government apoligized a lot. There's even a wiki about it and its only covering 50% of apologies.

[@SwampThing585]

“war crimes” Bro is going to be shocked when they find out about unit 731

[@G-B-F123]

Japanese crying about the bombs when in reality it was a sad but necessary thing. I mean just look at the fact that they didn’t even give up when ONE atomic weapon was detonated that completely flattened cities that the US had to send a SECOND one. WW2 Japan was as evil as they come, but of course they would rather hide that and play victim

[@yuyoshida7359]

‘Had to send’ is also a victimised phrasing, should be ‘decided to send’

[@hahaxxx5043]

Idk if it was necessary but I totally agree that the Japanese government did not intend to accept defeat. In that means it might seem necessary but could that not be achieved by invading? Ofc one could come and say that this would cost many americans life’s and I agree. But would it be the same number of loss like the tragic atomic bombs? We have also to think that the Soviet Union would help (like they promised to) if they would not chose to drop the bomb. So maybe it was unnecessary but that might also not be the case as maybe the outcome would be different (Japanese government not accepting defeat). What I want to say is that in my opinion talking if something was necessary or not is not an easy thing to do. In the end it’s just some thoughts that came into my mind. Pardon my English I’m not a native speaker.

[@honghongkohan]

"necessary" is quite a strong word when in reality the us just wanted to test the bomb and also show power to the soviet union

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

​@@hahaxxx5043 "Pardon my English" he said. "I'm not a native speaker." he said. MEDUDE, As if I could bloody well tell, mate! Your comment is written EXACTLY like someone who's spoken English, and only ever bloody English, their whole bloody life would write! "Pardon my English" me arse. I'm not gonna pardon something which need not be asking for a pardoning!

[@deadteddybear2423]

@@honghongkohan And the Japanese surrendered because the Soviet Union invaded them, and not because of the bombs.

[@thirg424]

My grandfather fought in the Pacific Theater during WW2. If there had been an invasion of mainland Japan, he probably would have been one of the ones sent. He probably would have died. I probably wouldn't be here. AJ+ can kiss my rosy red rear end. Yeah, we killed 200,000+ civilians, and that is regrettable, but I'd argue that act saved thousands more. Also the question is asked about future use. I'd posit the horror the world saw there may have had a hand at keeping the nuclear powers from using them more.

[@zombieoverlord5173]

Wasn't the simulated casualties something like 10 million? It's grim and regrettable but sacrificing 200K to save 10 million seems worth it

[@thirg424]

@@zombieoverlord5173 I'd have to look it up. But we were predicting massive US and civilian casualties. The math is regrettable, but sometimes the math has to be done.

[@chimera9818]

Bro that’s Al Jazeera, the news c channel is joke for decades

[@cringe_lord5762]

​@@zombieoverlord5173 yeah its around 10-15 million cassualties, and it will make Japanese split half like germany because the soviet preparation and possibly no japanese left on that island

[@Leafsdude]

So a few things about the numbers: 1) 200 000+ is the estimate for direct, immediate deaths from the bombs. It doesn't include the deaths from leukemia and other after effects. 2) As many as 30 000 of those immediate deaths were not civilians, or at least not combative civilians (eg: Japanese citizens). A lot of them were soldiers, especially in Hiroshima, and a lot of them were slave workers including Koreans and Chinese. Also, 25 were Allied soldiers (a number that probably would have been higher if Japan didn't summarily and systematically kill POWs). 3) As per the above, neither were targets chosen for their capacity for civilian casualties, but were instead chosen primarily for their strategic and military capabilities, with both being port cities with significant shipyards. The civilian casualties were a necessary evil, but they weren't gratuitous.

[@YogBaranwal]

It's Al Jazeera They will talk about everything except there own country

[@NotFM]

The always portray US as the baddies, great video drew :) but it sucks how innocent civilians in both sides of the war had to suffer

[@ADMICKEY]

That's just war in general throughout history tho

[@jukab9292]

“This is war! This is not a game of cricket!”

[@abaxoth1488]

Japan: what war crimes? The US: it was for the world peace! Germany: yes, we are truly sorry. Serbia: MY DAD IS A WAR CRIMINAL AND NOONE HAS BALLS TO TAKE HIM TO THE COURT😊

[@AugustusOptimusInvictusDominus]

Good video! It amazes me how many people are completely unaware of this type of history regarding countries in the Eastern hemisphere and how quick they are to create their own narratives. We're all aware of how weird it is that Türkiye doesn't acknowledge its past treatment regarding Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds & Pontic Greeks, so it really baffles me when other countries do the same.

[@av_08_]

I just hate when people post videos like this defending an argument or pov and not mentioning like half of the topic and taking it out of context just to make their argument seem "right". thanks for talking about this vid, Drew:)

[@gerardkhachaturyan4814]

We still want people like Kaho Shibuya, Eimi Fukada, Momona Kitó (Yua Mikami) and many others to talk about what happened in Nanking.

[@ThePlasticBaron]

When she says America refusal to confront crimes against the Japanese didn’t Obama go on a apology tour and went to Japan also is hypocritical when they deny war crimes

[@delrunplays2903]

It seems like Obama did go on an apology tour of sorts, but from everything I've found from at a quick glance he stopped short of apologizing to Japan, so good on him I guess.

[@FrangkyMind]

Wrong. He never apologize

[@prion42]

We've never tried to shy away from discussion of these bombings.

[@ObliviousNaga]

What a lot of people don't realise is how stubborn Japan was during that time. The war would not have ended for a long time if they weren't used.

[@Af-Ar-Ak]

but the point is even if millions of soldiers died invading Japan, that's still just soldiers who know that's there's a chance they will die, but buy nuking a city full of innocent people, there killing people who had no reason to fight America, and most of them never would, doing something which is so evil that it doesn't even feel right to call it just a war crime, because it'll make it easier for you to beat your enemy in a war isn't a thing which should be waved away bye saying it would have taken longer for them to surrender if they hadn't

[@so_whatLol]

​@@Af-Ar-Akdirect invasion might have less civilian deaths but soldier deaths is gonna be crazy a side from that japan might get divided like korea and more war would happen in cw

[@ASocialistTransGirl]

thats not true

[@delrunplays2903]

Not entirely true. If I recall, the Japanese were open to peace negotiations, but the Allies (I think mainly the US) wanted an unconditional surrender. Though Japan is far from being owed an apology.

[@marialourainebanosia26]

​@@delrunplays2903what was the unconditional surrender the americans wanted with japan

[@kfiraltberger552]

Thing is, Oppenheimer did in fact talk about the decision to drop the bomb in a critical way. Oppenheimer hates himself after the bomb is dropped, sees bodies wherever he goes and believes he destroyed the world. It's just that the specific bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are nothing in comparison to what they led to

[@yuyoshida7359]

What did they lead to? Oh wait nvm I’m guessing you’re referring to the Atomic Arms Race

[@azravalencia4577]

every scene after the Gadget detonation (except drama behind The Hearing) is basically Oppenheimer blaming his for the bomb. Hiroshima and Nagasaki is one case, what he even worried is he lead Humans to its own extinction gadget.

[@kfiraltberger552]

@@yuyoshida7359 exactly

[@kfiraltberger552]

@azravalencia4577 EXACTLY. The movie shows Oppenheimer desperately trying to excuse the bomb to ease his raging guilt for doing what he did, and for the repercussions of his actions

[@agentg7227]

There is a reason why the movie is called "Oppenheimer" and not "the way to the atomic bomb". It talks about...idk what his name is... oh right, OPPENHEIMER!

[@whywouldi603]

Alternatively the US and the allies planned to launch a direct invasion on the Japanese to get them to surrender, though the atomic bomb is horrible, it also saved more lives on both sides if you think about it

[@BlackPrism0]

This is a myth. Military documents from the war have shown that the Truman administration had no plans for an invasion of the Japanese home islands even before the successful Trinity nuclear tests.

[@gamera5160]

The casualty estimates for an invasion of the Japanese home islands are in the millions.

[@bladestorm337]

And let's not forget Unit 731 or Operation Cherry Blossom at Night

[@kntftw7]

Thank you so much Drew for putting this out. Everyone needs to watch this

[@Franz6626]

The war crimes alone that the Japanese Empire committed in my country, the Philippines, are pretty horrendous. The massacres of The Battle of Manila in 1945, estimated to have casualties of up to 100,000, the Bataan Death March, in which 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers marched to Japanese imprisonment camps where many died of hunger, dehydration, and the brutality of the march, the looting and destruction of our cities, the medical experimentation conducted by Japanese scientists, the sexual violence committed by soldiers which resulted in thousands of Filipina women being turned into comfort women, forced labor for building fortifications and military infrastructure, and finally, the torture and execution of soldiers and civilians-all of this happened in just three years. I mean, this is true war crimes. In my personal opinion, though I do not harbor much hate for Japan now, they should acknowledge what they did. Watching videos like that triggers me.

[@worminaround]

Legit, The south East of asia suffering hard not to mention China and Korea as well 💀, and yet no matter how many people will know, Japan won't say one sorry.

[@StephenParlow]

Triggered him so hard he had to upload at this hour. I do believe the US needs to reflect on its history and the justification of the bomb, but it does trigger me too when they make a false equivalency like this

[@kit_the_crab]

exactly! we can reflect on our actions and apologize while not defending the atrocities of the Japanese empire

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

Yeah! BOTH empires need to reflect on their past. Which I don't see why that wouldn't be possible. Actually why not have ALL empires reflect on their past for a bit while we're at it?

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

And yet the bomb wouldn't even have been required if Japan and Germany hadn't been who/what they were at that time. Are we discussing "accountability" or not? Americans DESPERATELY tried to avoid the war, we got literally PULLED into it. Stupid AF weebs.

[@delrunplays2903]

Ay, Japan ain't throwing rocks in a glass house, it's firing a whole damn machine gun.

[@priyadarshi8548]

What else do you expect from AJ+?

[@lupisjawa]

finally i can watch drew at normal hours as an asian

[@anonymousnobody6309]

War crimes have been committed on both sides, it's not a question of who did it first, or which one is worse, we all have to recognize our own. Hiroshima, Nankin, Dresde, the camps, etc.

[@sharkchaos5160]

Great video and while said on your points. Fun fact the person who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto reportedly write in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Which is exactly what they did.

[@MyOnlyBedBreaker]

As a Chinese person, thank you so much for covering this Drew

[@dipanwitamandal7289]

...are political videos allowed in China?

[@JullianCassus]

He’s saying he ethnically Chinese, not that he lives in china buddy.

[@Islamic_coalition]

My family is Japanese and they lived in imperial Japan and they said the nuke that was dropped was deserved cause of warcime

[@nayanbaghel18]

Alternate Title: Freedom man defends the use of sun against anime empire.

[@shernandez1029]

And they are coping and seething.

[@nayanbaghel18]

@@shernandez1029Oh seething, they surely are

[@XalasiaBall]

I know nuclear weapons aren’t really justifiable, but committing multiple war crimes in multiple countries isn’t justifiable either.

[@nayanbaghel18]

@@XalasiaBallNo Cap fam

[@worminaround]

The problem is I don't really think Japan would stop anytime soon if the suns weren't dropped, which will probably pull the other powers aka literally the whole entirety of Europe (almost everyone). Which kinda leads for more death in the long run, and besides if the usa didn't detonated the bombs there and then, who knows the cold war would've actually started with a nuclear war because other contries won't have Japan as an example of how terrifying nuclear weapons are, thus making the cold war worse.

[@joshuapartridge5092]

all war is a crime

[@BiscuitisCool]

true

[@mrbarit529]

I don’t get it. Why should the United States Take the blame for the crimes it committed against Japan if Japan is gonna cover up the crimes they committed against literally everyone during World War II? To me that seems like a double standard.

[@kpthezealous8532]

We not going to talk about the suffering of the chinese in unit 731

[@BiscuitisCool]

pretty sure he didn’t since it’s terrifying it made me unable to sleep for 2 days

[@adolfhetzer3090]

The funny part is japan literally shot at pilots in parachutes that bailed out of their aircraft, it was a warcrime before warcrimes too

[@yuyoshida7359]

They didn’t. What and where are you getting this from?

[@delrunplays2903]

@@yuyoshida7359 Maybe the OP means enemy pilots? It certainly would be in-line with how the Japanese military carried itself. They shot at medics, after all, though to be fair that might have been more of a difference between the European and East-Asian approach to war rather than specifically Japanese, though I could also see it being just the Japanese.

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

I mean, human sashimi.... Just look at Geroge HW Bush's bio during the war, a lot of his crews on the same aircraft who were captured got eaten.....

[@shernandez1029]

Plus she be forgetting that whole sequence in the movie where the citizens are terrified and the aftermath of nuclear war. Like bro it was clearly mimicking his Japanese civilians probably reacted when the two bombs hit.

[@acoustic_midtier_berry]

New countryballs plushies in the foreground I see

[@Prussiankingdom1871]

Holy Roman empire and polish lithuanian commonwealth

[@acoustic_midtier_berry]

Yeah

[@pr1nc3ssr0salina2]

​@@acoustic_midtier_berryavailable tomorrow to 👀

[@evart615]

​@@pr1nc3ssr0salina2 :0

[@Echoak95]

oh its the polish flag, I thought it was tuscany there

[@Arctrooper-gf3cm]

One of few people talking about this, you should make more vids like this drew

[@nigelbaddock]

Finally, he's posting in the afternoon for Australians

[@kv4648]

2:30 Germany being known for ww2 is probably because what internet space you are in. The same space has a lot of weebs since there is a lot of overlap between the 2 communities.

[@ayushmaangupta9209]

The trigger caused him to post at 1:40 lmao

[@Zryrr]

It just so funny that John Xina is looking at the country balls on drews chair

[@Agent-Blaze]

You just know it's serious when DREW DURNIL of all people are triggered by your video.

[@Totomy2011]

To be fair, it’s not really People in Japan now’s fault that the Japanese committed war crimes And That applies to every country

[@that1dudeintheinternet]

Normal people: NOOOO YOU CANT DO WAR CRIMES AND ACT LIKE A VICTIM! Japan: Watch me

[@TheTophatCheeseyo]

I see Drew has embrace the true chinese leader finally

[@Gymnastian]

All hail John Xina leader of the chinese communist party and chairman of the peoples republic of china

[@hwamez1651]

I started crying with laughter after she said war crimes

[@enrico1pucci]

well it is a warcrime i dosent mattere if they japan did warcrimes two wrongs don't make a right

[@ADMICKEY]

​@@enrico1puccicompared to what could've happened for both sides if the U.S. landed, the nukes weren't really a war crime

[@jmtz3149]

It’s actually crazy how different people view Germany and Japan. While I don’t think Japan should apologize people should stop thinking they are a victim.

[@perer005]

War crimes don't cancel each other out, we are not teaching substraction here. Both sides of a conflict can 100% commit war crimes.

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

I think it is more of a discussion about hypocrisy Why should America apologize, when Japan hasn't apologized for Nanking, Manila, Bataan, Tonkin, Java, etc

[@thetimebinder]

False equivalency. The Japanese warcrimes were orders of magnitude more cruel and heinous. Both cities were military targets and the population were warned to leave. The Japanese chose death and pride over the lives of their own people.

[@honghongkohan]

war itself should be a crime

[@delrunplays2903]

@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 For sure, the US absolutely did bad things up to and including war crimes, but we've got participation ribbons to Japan's Olympic gold medals when it comes to war crimes. I'd apologize to Germany but not Japan.

[@chaosXP3RT]

That's true. But I fail to see how the nuclear bombs were war crimes

[@el.ann.b]

"America actively avoids taking accountability" Camera pans to Obama who was arguably one of the best us presidents:

[@tosa2522]

Is it wrong to call the dropping of nuclear bombs on civilians a war crime? If the Americans think that they are better than Germany and Japan in WW2, then they should at least have the courage to acknowledge that fact. The rest of your statements were whataboutism at its finest. Japan also committed war crimes, Japan has not apologized either. A big reason why the US helped Germany (and Western Europe) and Japan rebuild was because they needed a counterweight to the Stalinist USSR, not because they wanted to be generous.

[@chrisriverata1917]

We did and went on a tour of the world apologizing for the war crimes we committed during the second world war, so your whataboutism argument makes no sense, I also wouldn't call the US building back up western Europe and Japan not generous either even if the main goal was to create a counterbalance to the USSR's bloc.

[@BiscuitisCool]

It’s hypocrisy they complain that we don’t apologize (which we have) yet they have never admit they even commit war crimes

[@Npc-zs3ef]

Japanese to almost every nation near them: perish mortal. The Germans that wanted to help the Chinese: holdup bro

[@dogITGA01]

Ty drew for making these type of videos

[@김민성-o3t]

Hypocrisy at it's utmost form!

[@Jordanlukemarks]

Dang 1:40am?

[@stalinnotballen7592]

fr

[@No_one7276]

Yeah wtf? And I got school tomorrow

[@stalinnotballen7592]

well he lives in california so it’s going to be a different time

[@tahaymvids1631]

He’s Californian so it’s 10:40pm

[@namikazelevi]

It's 1:40 p.m here in my country

[@kn_yui1969]

As a Filipino I could say that we were taught about the Japanese occupation as just another page of Philippines' colonial history. Out of the countries occupied by Japan, the Philippines (as of my understanding) had been one of the earliest to improve relationship with them. This could be explained by the fact that Japan had quickly become a significant partner for the Philippines' development. Even now, we would rather conveniently forget about their warcrimes than lose an inch of the West Philippine Sea to China. But considering their years of occupation were more cruel than the centuries of spanish and american rule with a lot less benefits to bring to us, Framing that Japan was doing a good war until they were nuked is as legitimate as China's claims on the West Philippines Sea

[@mobiletaskforceepsilon1172]

There have been a lot of good things the Spanish and Americans have done for us despite the horrible things they've did. Spanish - Introduced us to Western culture and technology as well as educating Filipinos Americans - Taught us English and modernized us even further as well as giving us our independence The Japanese however.. Japan - None There were no tangible benefits when Japan came to the Philippines.

[@jacobpalmer3977]

They just think "strong means bad, weak means good" They don't actually pay attention to what happens in the real world

[@captain_sourav_10]

Nice, it's 11:32am here in India, usually Drew uploads at 10pm or 9pm

[@spanishempire7848]

There's a japanese saying all the bad things the US did and an american is responding saying what Japan did. The argument "they did worse" is bad, it doesn't support itself. Both countries did horrible things and both countries didn't apologize, that seems very childish. This is why I don't like nationalism.

[@yuriywankiewicz6689]

Yo Drew, either killing mass civilians in war is a bad thing or it isn't. You don't need to justify why the US committed war crimes, unless ur justifying that war crimes are essential in winning wars- but then the hypocrisy of rules for thee and not me is more than present.

[@Comrade-b4y]

Japan - “We have never heard of unit 731, it was all China” 😑

[@yoshisreal]

True, it's such an idiotic claim. Like the CCP wouldn't have even won the chinese civil war if it weren't for the war crimes the japanese military did during the second sino japanese war. How is that even CCP propoganda?

[@pat9353]

“Did you know *insert any event in ww2* was a war crime? Like yes, actually I suspected that the most horrific event in all of history was bad, and the drastic things done to end it were nearly unthinkable even to the people at the time. Thanks for clarifying the point.

[@Void63728]

Unit 731 has left the chat

[@jaykubisanidiot8657]

I've never been more proud of Drew

[@HimmyNeutron2714]

If you want to be a war criminal, getting war crimes committed against you comes with the territory

[@oooshafiqooo]

5:39 the look a Drew face is literally how everyone in the comment section is when watching the AJ+? video (i mean fr its not like Japan is in deep crisis like Germany, not to mention what the Germans did :-)

[@chimera9818]

Bro that’s Al Jazeera, the news channel is joke for decades

[@bblvrable]

I don't think that one country committing war crimes justifies another country committing war crimes. The USA can justify it all they want, but the simple fact is that the USA knew that the majority of their victims would be civilians, and went ahead with the attacks anyway, which is a war crime. Both countries committed atrocities. Neither is justified by the other.

[@frederikreithofer6809]

I think i saw a HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE plush and because i am austrian i need to buy one for every austrian Emperor 😂