Originally Posted by
Cheesepuff
Some Context:
More than twice as many civilians died in world war 2 as military.
Germany and Japan lost over twice as many military as civilians.
The axis powers killed more people than the allies.
All WW2 deaths by country
25M Soviet Union (military deaths 10.7M)
20M China (military deaths 4M)
7.4M Germany *** (military deaths 5.5M)
6.0M Poland
4M Dutch East Indies
3.1M Japan *** (military deaths 2.1M)
2.2M India
2.2M French Indochina
1.7M Yugoslavia
807k Greece
600k France
557k Phillippines
514k Italy ***
500k Romania ***
533k Korea
464k Hungary
450k United Kingdom
419k United States
*** axis for at least part of the war
So all axis deaths combined come in third behind China, by a wide margin.
Pearl Harbor was attacked without a declaration of war, Axis aggression across the planet was unchecked and world domination was likely. The Axis powers military were actively killing civilians at unprecidented rates.
The only way to make the axis stop their massive slaughter of civilians, and world conquest, was the use of force.
Force was used. They stopped when we stopped them.
Japan killed 16M civilians in China alone. Probably another 4M across the rest of Asia, against a loss of 1M civilians in Japan.
Odd to argue "victumhood" under the circumstances.