Originally posted by Officer of Engineers
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That's only true for 200,000 men, the original size of the BIA. 2.3 million signed up for the war and neither Gandhi nor Congress encouraged enlistment ... and frankly, Bose's pleas fell on deaf ears to refuse British service.
First off, let's be accurate. The INA at its height was only 45,000 men. Second, they were not an army but six regiments, armed with captured stock and given duties that can be trusted by the Japanese. At no time did the INA had an divisional, let alone an army HQ and they were all foot infantry with no engineering, artillery, nor armoured combat arms.
Second, they were assigned tasks that had zero effect on the outcome of any battle.
Second, they were assigned tasks that had zero effect on the outcome of any battle.
Here is where you and I differ. You will not understand this for another 20 years. I am old and I am tired. I do not want another war and hell to the fucks that force another war on me.
It wasn't Bose. He was just the source material.
Bose was dead. I will let you think this one through.
Bose was dead. Again, think this through.
Bose was dead. I will let you think this one through.
Bose was dead. Again, think this through.
Bose was dead. Who can use him when he's dead. It ain't the Brits.
Britain was stronger than China up until the 2000s and even to the 2010s. And never mind India, Britain lost Canada and Australia after WWII. These two countries no longer answered to London. WWI started it. WWII was the nail in the coffin. Combined, without India, Canada, and Australia, no way in hell could Britain match the USSR and her slave labour force.
Well, no shit Sherlock but you are missing the point. The point is that this is not British policy but family policy. Family title holders decided, not the Crown.
How many bastard first born in any country got shit all from his father ... and that includes India.
How many bastard first born in any country got shit all from his father ... and that includes India.
Again, no shit Sherlock! Never mind the Brits, you cross the local crime lord, what happens?
Overall power structure? Well, let's see, the two biggest victors, the US and the USSR, became superpowers. Germany and Japan got reduced to Somalia existence. The supporting players got their due, Commonwealth countries, Britain, all got their status due to their participation. The only two countries who did not deserve what they got, France and China, paid for their status with decades of blood. What were you trying to say?
I know shit all about the Gandhi Dynasty except that they were in power for the longest time.
IT TELLS ME THAT THEY WERE NOT WILLING TO ACCEPT ANYONE'S ELSE'S INDIA BUT THEIR OWN! Not Bose's Japanese India and Not the British India.
And HERE IS THE POINT YOU'RE MISSING. Bose was MORE THAN WILLING TO LET THE JAPANESE TORTURE, KILL, AND EAT HIS OWN PEOPLE! That was the India the BIA REFUSED to accept! Actually, FAR MORE THAN THAT! They would rather side with British India to fight againt Bose's Japanese India!
Bose was dead. He didn't have to answer that ugly question. Why did he allow the Japanese do what they did?
What he did was both a war crime (on a legally defined occupied population) and a crime against humanity. What the Brits did was not a war crime because they were British subjects.
Your attempts of alleviating and differentiating British actions and atrocities from war crimes is not going to persuade me anything further.
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