During the worst of the fighting in WWII, allied ships when they could still took the time to pick up and rescue enemy sailors in the water.
So I guess, unless you are able to give a Nazi war salute to the German Fuhrer, you might have a chance of being rescued.
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We, notably, did not extend this to Japanese PoWs nearly as much as we did for white Europeans. Now, to be sure, the Japanese did not really… do the whole PoW thing. They often remained as combatants after being captured due to Japanese propoganda about US PoW treatment. But just something to note. The “good guys” did nasty things to win the war. We had to.
We had to.
No, you didn’t. You just chose to.
Sure Jan, I’m sure your fictionalized historical political power did everything morally upstanding and by the book.
Nice self-drivng goal pole you got there.
and even in that context survivors of a sinking ships were picked up.
I don’t disbelieve you, but I’d love to see where you’re getting that from. My understanding lacks such an optimistic view of the Pacific theater in WWII.
Sometimes for the Japanese, the person you are replying to is right. America had a super sketchy relationship with Japanese POWs, the largest sea rescue was like Midway, I think America saved maybe 2 Japanese pilots who would end up being POWs and like a few dozen Japanese ship engineers.
That’s with us really looking for Americans in the water, because the according to reports (you gotta take these with a grain of salt, maybe a whole silo sometimes) the Japanese got ahold of 3 Americans, tortured and killed them.
Americans were absolutely going out of their way to capture nazi POWs, and other axis groups. Not the Japanese tho.
Dead men tell no tales. We’re pirates, remember?
This is exactly it. They don’t want witnesses who could attest to awkward facts like there not actually being drugs on the boats.
Remember, if these were really drug boats the US would be boarding them, siezing the drugs and proudly showing them off like cops always do after any bust.
But then, if any of this was actually about drugs, we wouldn’t suddenly be hearing Trump talk non stop about taking over Venezuela’s oil industry.
“The woke leftist media hypocrisy at its finest! They cry foul when we second strike to finish them off, then they cry foul when we leave them to drown in the open sea! Next they’ll claim to be environmentalists and in the same breath denounce us for throwing chum in the water to attract sharks to feed!”
Why give the innocent boaters a quick death and waste expensive bombs, etc, when leaving them to cruelly die in terror costs nothing AND with the added bonus that old drunkyboy kegsbreath can get his little peepee hard and be able to touch himself.
US military is a new SS. Keep telling them “Thank you for your service” you dumb fuicks!!!
