Point 3: After victory in Europe, it was basically left to 2
armies to fight Japan in the East, the US and the USSR. The Soviets
were playing a waiting game, consoladating their gains in Eastern
Europe and then amassing troops in the East near Japan, but they
would let the Americans do the bulk of the fighting.
Point 4; The invasion of Japan had to happen, because their was
no way just to cut of supplies and hope they bleed, it would take
too long plus Japan was still occupying parts of Asia including
Singapore, if you remember. They still had planes and some
ships.
While the Japanese did not bomb the shit out of Singapore, just
ask any relatives who lived thu the era, how cruel they were. They
were a very viscious occupier especially in China and the
Koreas.
They refused to surrender and was still mobilising men to
fight.
Truman had to make the decision, lose hundreds of thousands of
men or use the bombs and bring Japan to it's knees.
Had he gone for the former, dont forget by the time victory was
achived, the US would be extremely vulnerable to any Soviet plans
to occupy all the places Japan had abandoned or lost.
it is impossible to cut off supplies in the occupied lands, If
japan didn't surrender, their soldiers in the occupied land would
vow to fight till the end. imagine the american had to fight to
liberate Singapore....imagine the jap forced Singaporean to fight
against invading, or liberating alllied soldiers....the bombs had
to drop in Japan, should have been dropped in Tokyo.
