“Look, we all know the US is a hive of irrational bloodthirsty murderers, so we had to rely on the Soviet Union to be the adults in the room and not provoke them”
I was going to say this exact thing. The influence of the American red scare over Japan, adding on to its already anti-communist tendencies be creating some leaps of logic for sure.
Acknowledging that the USA using nuclear weapons was not necessary, and then blaming it on the USSR is insane mental gymnastics.
“Look, we all know the US is a hive of irrational bloodthirsty murderers, so we had to rely on the Soviet Union to be the adults in the room and not provoke them”
I was going to say this exact thing. The influence of the American red scare over Japan, adding on to its already anti-communist tendencies be creating some leaps of logic for sure.