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Japanese schoolgirls training with a machinegun for the anticipated American invasion of Japan, WW2, 1945 (media.kbin.social)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

But either you'd be strategically weakening the country to give invading forces an easier time, at which point you're throwing civilians into the meat grinder anyway, or you're starving the country until it devolves into literal anarchy, because the only people in the position to surrender were entrenched enough that they'd be the last one to see their power structure fall apart.