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On Iran being a bigger enemy, let's be very clear:
If the US invades Iran it will walk straight over it as if the Iranian army wasn't even there. This goes for pretty much every other country too, maybe China excluded. The US armed forces are extremely much more powerful than even the next 5 countries combined. Whatever the US wants to invade, it will invade and there is nothing any single country can do to stop it.
Having said that
The US is the absolute worst at keeping invaded territory. It sucked at Iraq, it laughably sucked in Afghanistan where it couldn't keep the cou try against the equivalent of a bunch of goat herders. Of course it ended up killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians trying to do these things, but it failed.
If and when the US invades Iran, be sure about it that it WILL fail. It will costs the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iranian civilians, men, women, children, especially if Israel is involved, but do understand: They WILL fail.
They won't fail because Iran is a country of fighters or anything like that. They will fail because Iran, like any other country, will keep resisting and they will keep stabbing the US like a cloud of hornets and once US soldiers have come home horizontally by the thousands, Cheeto will have to back down or face a guillotine himself. Something similar will happen with the Israeli army. They kick ass against stone throwing children and I'm sure that their armed forces will even be able to defeat the Iranian army by themselves but staying there? Keeping the newly conquered territories as a promised land? Good luck and prepare for a lot more dead Israelis.
If any of them are dumb enough to use nukes it will be game over for them. If Israel or the US would use nukes then the world would not forgive or forget. During WWII there was a somewhat justified reason and one can argue that the nukes, in the end, caused less death and destruction than a conventional invasion of Japan would have done (same for a siege, hundreds of thousands, if not millions would have died from disease and starvation before they would have surrendered) but this is not an excuse either the US or Israel will have.
So far the world sorta supports Israel Ina genocide (I can't even understand that I have to write that) but once nukes go off, that is done, that is gone. Nukes go off and nowhere in the world you will be able to tell people that you're American or Jewish anymore.
At this point, it's important to remember that the two bombs were dropped after the US had learned Japan intended to surrender.
With that data point in mind, recalculate for war crimes.
Mind sharing a source I could read?
WWII was whitewashed.
Japan was in the process of surrendering and the US knew it. They dropped the bombs in order to intimidate the soviets and say that the US won the war.