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Originally posted by Dragonlich
Why would the US compromise with the Japanese?
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Originally posted by Ace_of_Lobster
maybe to end the war?
the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan to scare the Soviets.
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Actually, the allies had agreed all along that nothing other than unconditional surrender would be accepted. This is because even then they realized that the seeds for the second world war were sown in the lack of resolution of the first. So the Americans never planned to compromise and had already rejected offers of conditional surrender from potentially mutinying factions of the German military. In retrospect, unconditional surrender was a good call, although it had some painful consequences as the war dragged on.