IKR but also ppl don't really mention much that we were kinda helping britain before, like loaning them ships and such I think? But yeah it's sad bc it took US being hit to get involved. AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES DEVELOPED DUE TO IT YES AHH like the origins of the computer were developed BECAUSE THEY NEEDED TO DECIPHER THE GERMAN CODE SYSTEM like would we even have the same world we have today?? also im sorry to disappoint you but I'm not the person you mentioned in the tags
oh mAN THE WAY WE HELPED BRITAIN ALRIGHT LIKE WITH THE NEUTRALITY ACTS THAT WERENT EXACTLY NEUTRAL PER SE. ALSO THE DESTROYERS FOR BASES AGREEMENT LIKE OH MY GOD. WE WERE NO WHERE NEAR ISOLATIONIST IT WAS ALL A CLEVER RUSE. AND THE FACT THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE JUST DIDNT EVEN FUCKING CARE BECAUSE IT WAS A EUROPEAN PROBLEM, LIKE… ITS THE SAME WAY NOW IN ALL HONESTY. BUT LIKE, MILLIONS WERE BEING SLAUGHTERED AND ITS SO UN FUCKING REAL
GOING BACK TO THE ATOMIC BOMB BECAUSE I JUST CANT EVEN DESCRIBE TO YOU HOW INSANE IT WAS… LIKE EVEN THE GUY WHO WAS THE HEAD OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT WASNT SURE ABOUT IT, THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE, THE PILOTS, ETC, ALL DIDNT KNOW HOW IT WOULD WORK OR HOW POWERFUL IT WOULD BE, THE PILOTS DIDNT EVEN KNOW THATS WHY THEY WERE GOING TO NEW MEXICO. THEY ALL ASSUMED IT WAS FOR FLIGHT TRAINING IN THE ROCKIES WITH THEIR BOMBERS, BECAUSE THOSE FUCKERS WERE SO HARD TO TURN, ITS LIKE TRYING TO STEER THE TITANIC OUT OF THE WAY OF THE ICEBERG, IT DOESNT WORK WELL. AND WE ALSO HAD TO STRATEGICALLY PLACE THE BOMBS. WE COULDNT PUT THEM IN TOKYO BECAUSE THATD MOST LIKELY CAUSE THE FALL OF JAPAN, BUT IT WAS TOTAL WAR AFTER ALL. BUT THATS WHY WE CHOSE NAGASAKI AND HIROSHIMA, THEY WERE BIG ENOUGH TO DESTROY TO GET THE ATTENTION AND HOPEFULLY SCARE THEM INTO SUBMISSION, BUT THEY WERENT BIG ENOUGH TO COLLAPSE THE GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMY. BUT ITS JUST
THAT WE HAD TO DO ALL OF THAT IN THE HOPES THE WAR WOULD END. TO END MILLIONS OF HUMANS SUFFERING. WE HAD TO KILL SO MANY IN ORDER FOR IT TO STOP. THE HUMAN RACE IS SO DISGUSTING BECAUSE ITLL NEVER CHANGE I CAN PROMISE YOU THIS, WE WILL ALWAYS DESTROY EACH OTHER, ALWAYS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuRvBoLu4t0 (THE MAN SPEAKING IS OPPENHEIMER WHO WAS THE HEAD OF THE TESTING AND PROJECT)