I am autistic as well, please don’t use our diagnosis thrown around like this, it furthers the stigma against us. Additionally, we can’t use autism as a crutch or excuse. It’s not okay.

Thank you for taking the time to read.

Exactly. The decision wasn’t just militarily unnecessary—it was strategically theatrical. They deliberately targeted high-civilian zones to make a global statement, not to win a war that was already collapsing. The Soviet entry into the Pacific front was the death blow. The bombs were about power projection, not peace. I appreciate your insight, my friend—it’s wild how normalized this atrocity is in mainstream U.S. education.

I agree The Cold War & Its Origins is a great book! I admire Fleming’s diplomatic analysis. Just to clarify though, this isn’t a book—it’s a standalone piece. If the style or approach doesn’t resonate, that’s completely fine. Not everything is for everyone. But circling back repeatedly to compare or critique something you weren’t the audience for feels less like scholarship and more like ego.

Still, thanks for the interaction—and I want my work to foster cognitive dissonance.

That said, I would genuinely love to see your work whenever you complete it. Not to critique or tear it apart the way you approached mine, but because I truly enjoy reading, learning, and discussing this topic.

Thank you, I really appreciate the heads-up.

Thank you for fixing the link you cited. I’ve seen that photo many times—it’s widely circulated. But it’s not the same as the footage. The photo doesn’t capture the actual interaction or the chair movement. That’s why I cited the video, not just a still image. It’s a different kind of evidence—and it speaks for itself.

That’s super helpful—thank you! I just added the timestamp link so it goes straight to the moment. And good call on backing it up, I’ll archive the footage on web.archive and ghostarchive just in case. Appreciate you looking out for long-term integrity. This post means a lot to me.

No file by this name exists.

I appreciate your opinion and I encourage everyone to watch and have their own perceptions!

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library. Berlin Airlift Lesson Plan.

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/lesson-plans/berlin-airlift

Cold War International History Project

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/program/cold-war-international-history-project

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/atomic-bombing/index.html

Thank you for bringing it to my attention! I will also be updating my sources. I will look at the others you listed now!

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/online-collections/decision-to-drop-atomic-bomb

On no, which ones aren’t working? Citing my sources and the integrity of my work is very important to me. You can find a video of it here: https://youtu.be/gSD0IfSfrW4

Footage at 16:50

Do you think Truman’s decision to nuke Japan was justified? Why or why not? Curious to know how others see this.

Do you think Truman’s decision to nuke Japan was justified? Why or why not? Curious to know how others see this.

Would love to know what y’all think—

What stuck out? What did I miss? What gets remembered wrong?

This one hit different when I wrote it.

I wasn’t trying to be polished—I just needed to get the fire out of me before it ate everything.

Anyone else ever write something down just to survive a moment?

I think it’s honestly insane that King George III was the monarch during the American Revolution. Like—he literally watched his empire unravel while mentally deteriorating. The symbolism of that? Wild.

And it makes perfect sense, too—he wasn’t just “mad” in the medical sense. He was a monarch at the edge of an era where people were starting to reject divine rule, hereditary power, and all the illusions that kept empires running. His madness almost feels like a metaphor for the collapse of monarchy itself.

He’s one of those figures where the history feels mythic—like the universe couldn’t have picked a more poetic villain for the birth of a republic.

Thank you so much—nuance really is everything, especially when history gets flattened into black-and-white narratives. I’m really grateful you saw that in the piece. We need more conversations that live in the gray.

While researching this, what genuinely wrecked me was realizing that there wasn’t just one drug crisis in Germany—there were two. An opiate crisis after WWI and a meth crisis after WWII. Layered over that is the unimaginable scale of the Holocaust, the physical and moral scorched earth that followed, and the complete collapse of a population that had already lost so much.

I always knew the Nazis were monsters—but I didn’t fully grasp how many people inside Germany were also victims: people who resisted, who stayed because they believed they could fight from within, who were swallowed by a system they refused to join. It just… broke something open in me.

Have you ever come across something in history that made you stop and rethink everything—not just who the villains were, but what it meant to survive them?