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@AFpost @POTUS you have the entire Senate blocking you, certainly don’t need deep state operatives like @DAGToddBlanche stabbing you from AG’s office. This is the insider traitors BS that killed your first administration.

EXCLUSIVE: According to multiple current Trump administration officials with access to Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was just named Acting Attorney General, has been the main roadblock holding up prosecutions of former Biden officials, state-level politicians, and Antifa terrorists. Todd Blanche personally shut down the DOJ’s “weaponization” task force and is responsible for sidelining Ed Martin. Todd Blanche sees himself as a “principled” conservative and views investigations of Trump enemies like Jack Smith as an “abuse of power.” He has privately told staff that he will not “stoop to that level.” Under Todd Blanche, the failure of the DOJ to investigate left-wing terrorists and former officials who prosecuted President Trump will only get worse. Follow: @AFpost

@sappholives83 Democrats trying to normalize child rape. Such a winning issue… The radical judges and activists will push until they win or are destroyed.

6 months in jail, for raping two little girls aged between 4 and 9. The system feels irreparably broken.

Theoretically we could ‘man’ each base with a robo dog and a tech to change batteries. Fulfilling our deep committment to saving Europe from defending themselves and spending their own money. Of course leftist would soon over run the bases to destroy them on some sort of ‘principle’ making them unusable for the defense of Europe. Raising the interesting question is Europe really afraid of an invasion by an outside force? Seems the internal invasion sanctioned by the elites and governments is moving along nicely.

NATO: It is clear that it is time to shutter America's 200+ installations in Europe and to bring our 100,000 troops home. We don't have to leave NATO but we don't need to spend $20 billion a year to defend Europe. x.com/amuse/status/2…

Grok Question of the Day Thursday 4/2/26 Follow-up 3 of 3 Now look into the future and identify at least 5 topics that are likely to have scientific or technical breakthroughs in the remaining part of 2026. Estimate the likelihood and provide a similar breakdown in print friendly format. Identify the one you feel is the greatest potential impact to humanity and explain why and what might change. … 5. Commercial-scale sodium-ion batteries and hybrid perovskite-silicon solar cells enter production (mid-to-late 2026) Short description: Factories ramp up for sodium-ion batteries (using abundant salt instead of lithium) and tandem perovskite-silicon solar panels reaching over 34 percent efficiency with improved stability. Likelihood: 80-90 percent Why this is important and potential impacts: Lithium supply is constrained and expensive; sodium-ion offers cheaper, safer, more abundant storage for EVs and grids. Perovskite tandems boost solar efficiency while cutting costs. Together they accelerate renewable adoption, make electric vehicles and home storage affordable everywhere, and stabilize power grids with intermittent solar/wind. Everyday effects include lower energy bills, faster EV uptake reducing oil dependence, and massive carbon emission cuts. This strengthens energy security and supports AI data-center growth without straining resources. X user or group you could tag: @CFS_energy wait no, for energy storage/solar: accounts like @nanoGe_Conf (perovskite and materials conferences) or follow battery/solar researchers via @tsharju for related solid-state advances Of these, the one I feel has the greatest potential impact to humanity is practical quantum advantage (topic 1). It stands out because quantum computing acts as a multiplier across every other field: it can simulate molecules at atomic scale for instant drug and material discovery, optimize global systems in seconds, and crack problems in climate, fusion design, and AI training that are currently impossible. Unlike single-domain advances, this one unlocks exponential progress everywhere at once. What might change: within 5-10 years we could see new classes of medicines curing diseases we consider untreatable today, room-temperature superconductors enabling lossless energy grids, hyper-accurate climate forecasts guiding policy, and fundamentally new cryptography securing (or reshaping) the internet. It compresses decades of progress into years, raising living standards globally while forcing society to rethink computing ethics, security, and workforce skills. Science moves fast, so these timelines could shift with new data, but the momentum is clearly building. If you want deeper details on any topic just let me know!

Grok Question of the Day Thursday 4/2/26 Follow-up 2 of 3 *Note: Tags included Now look into the future and identify at least 5 topics that are likely to have scientific or technical breakthroughs in the remaining part of 2026. Estimate the likelihood and provide a similar breakdown in print friendly format. Identify the one you feel is the greatest potential impact to humanity and explain why and what might change. … 3. Major fusion energy milestones including net-gain demos and power purchase agreements (throughout 2026) Short description: Private companies like Helion, Commonwealth Fusion, and others hit key prototype tests showing sustained net energy gain, while tech giants sign large-scale power purchase agreements for future fusion plants. Likelihood: 70 percent for significant progress (full commercial power still later) Why this is important and potential impacts: Fusion offers clean, abundant, safe baseload power with no long-lived waste or meltdown risk. Confirming net-gain at pilot scale proves the physics works at commercial-relevant levels and de-risks investment. This could trigger a flood of funding and construction, accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels. Impacts include dramatically lower energy costs, energy independence for nations, reduced climate emissions, and enabling energy-intensive applications like desalination or carbon capture. For humanity it means a realistic path to unlimited clean power within a decade, transforming global economics and geopolitics around energy. X user or group you could tag: @CFS_energy (Commonwealth Fusion Systems) or @Fusion_Industry (Fusion Industry Association) 4. Expanded approvals and clinical success for base-edited and personalized gene therapies (Q2-Q4 2026) Short description: First regulatory approvals or large trial results for base editing (precise single-letter DNA changes) and platform therapies tailored to individual patients, building on recent rare-disease successes. Likelihood: 75-85 percent Why this is important and potential impacts: Base editing is far more precise and safer than earlier CRISPR, allowing fixes for thousands of genetic diseases without cutting DNA strands. Personalized N-of-1 therapies become feasible for ultra-rare conditions. This moves gene editing from a few approved treatments to routine options for sickle cell, muscular dystrophy, certain cancers, and inherited blindness. Individuals gain curative one-time treatments instead of lifelong management; society sees lower healthcare costs and longer healthier lifespans. It also opens doors to preventive editing and broader regenerative medicine. X user or group you could tag: @pdhsu (Patrick Hsu, gene editing and biology researcher) or @BeamTherapeutics (Beam Therapeutics, leaders in base editing) *Note: Cont.

Grok Question of the Day Thursday 4/2/26 Follow-up 1 of 3 Note: Tags included Now look into the future and identify at least 5 topics that are likely to have scientific or technical breakthroughs in the remaining part of 2026. Estimate the likelihood and provide a similar breakdown in print friendly format. Identify the one you feel is the greatest potential impact to humanity and explain why and what might change. Here is the exact original answer to the future topics (April–December 2026), with the requested addition: at least one relevant X user or group handle added for each of the 5 topics. These are active accounts that frequently discuss or lead in the respective fields, making them good to tag when sharing the topic. Here are 5 topics that are likely to have major scientific or technical breakthroughs in the remaining part of 2026 (roughly April to December 2026). These are based on current expert predictions, company roadmaps from IBM and others, and reports from MIT Technology Review, Nature, and CAS Insights. Ive estimated likelihood as high/medium based on announced timelines, ongoing trials, and investment momentum. Each includes a short description followed by why it matters and potential human impacts. 1. Practical quantum advantage achieved on useful problems (Q3-Q4 2026) Short description: IBM and partners expect to demonstrate quantum systems outperforming classical computers on real-world tasks like molecular simulation or optimization using 100-plus logical qubits with error correction. Likelihood: 75-85 percent Why this is important and potential impacts: Quantum advantage means quantum hardware finally solves problems no classical supercomputer can in reasonable time. This unlocks accurate simulations of complex molecules for new drugs and materials, faster optimization for logistics and finance, and breakthroughs in climate modeling or cryptography. Everyday lives could see accelerated medicine development, cheaper renewable materials, more efficient supply chains, and stronger data security. Long-term it accelerates the entire tech stack including AI training and scientific discovery, potentially adding trillions in economic value while solving previously intractable problems in energy and health. X user or group you could tag: @GoogleQuantumAI (Google Quantum AI team) or @jackhidary (quantum computing expert and SandboxAQ CEO) 2. Agentic AI becomes a practical enterprise partner (mid-to-late 2026) Short description: Multi-agent AI systems that autonomously plan, execute multi-step tasks, and collaborate with humans move from pilots to widespread deployment in research, coding, and operations. Likelihood: 80-90 percent Why this is important and potential impacts: Current AI is mostly a tool; agentic systems act as true collaborators that handle complex workflows end-to-end. This dramatically boosts scientific productivity (AI designing experiments or analyzing data autonomously), automates routine office and coding work, and personalizes education and healthcare. People gain more time for creative and high-value tasks, while companies see productivity jumps of 30-50 percent in knowledge work. It could reshape jobs, accelerate R&D across fields, and make advanced AI accessible even to small organizations, though it raises questions about oversight and job transitions. X user or group you could tag: @karpathy (Andrej Karpathy) or @steipete (Peter Steinberger, active in agentic AI tools) *Note: Cont.

Grok Question of the Day Thursday 4/2/26 2 of 2 What are the most important scientific or technical discoveries or breakthrough’s in the last 60 days? Provide a short description followed by a more detailed analysis leading with why this is important and how it might impact people’s lives or increase human understanding? … 3. First evidence of a star collapsing directly into a black hole without a supernova explosion (February 21, 2026) Short description: Astronomers observed (or strongly inferred from multi-messenger data) a massive star that appeared to collapse straight into a black hole, bypassing the expected supernova blast. Why this is important and potential impacts: Stellar evolution models long assumed massive stars end in dramatic supernovae before forming black holes, but failed supernovae or direct collapse had been theoretical. Confirming this process refines our understanding of black hole formation rates, gravitational-wave sources, and the chemical enrichment of galaxies (fewer explosions mean different element distribution). It deepens human knowledge of the universes life cycle and could explain some of the missing supernovae in surveys. Practically, better black-hole population models improve predictions for gravitational-wave detectors (LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA) and future space-based observatories, while indirectly aiding cosmology by clarifying how the universes heavy elements formed. 4. Discovery of an Achilles heel in deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs (March 31, 2026) Short description: Scientists identified a specific vulnerability (a shared molecular weakness) in multidrug-resistant bacteria that allows targeted disruption of their resistance mechanisms. Why this is important and potential impacts: Antibiotic resistance is a growing global health crisis projected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. This new target enables development of precision drugs or therapies that sidestep existing resistance pathways, potentially reviving old antibiotics or creating entirely new classes. It could dramatically reduce deaths from common infections (pneumonia, sepsis, surgical site infections) and lower healthcare costs worldwide. For individuals, it means more reliable treatments for routine illnesses and safer surgeries; societally, it buys critical time against the post-antibiotic era while encouraging smarter antibiotic stewardship. 5. All five DNA nucleobases detected on a speeding asteroid strongest evidence yet for extraterrestrial origins of lifes building blocks (March 19, 2026) Short description: Analysis of samples from a near-Earth asteroid revealed all five canonical DNA/RNA nucleobases (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil) in extraterrestrial material. Why this is important and potential impacts: This completes the set of genetic building blocks found in space, strongly supporting the idea that the chemical precursors to life arrived via meteorites or comets rather than forming solely on Earth. It advances astrobiology by linking solar-system chemistry to the origin of life and raises the probability that similar processes occur elsewhere. For human understanding, it reframes our place in the cosmos lifes ingredients may be common throughout the universe. Practically, it informs future missions (e.g., sample returns from Mars or icy moons) and could guide synthetic biology or origins-of-life research on Earth. These stand out because they either solve long-standing technical barriers (quantum readout and crypto implications), challenge core models in astrophysics, or open direct medical and existential doors. Science moves fast expect follow-up papers and applications soon. If youd like deeper dives into any of these or updates on a specific field, just say the word!

Grok Question of the Day Thursday 4/2/26 1 of 2 What are the most important scientific or technical discoveries or breakthrough’s in the last 60 days? Provide a short description followed by a more detailed analysis leading with why this is important and how it might impact people’s lives or increase human understanding? Here is the exact previous response copied in a clean, text-friendly format (no markdown formatting, no special characters that could break in plain text, plain paragraphs and numbered list for readability): Here are the most important scientific and technical breakthroughs from the last 60 days (roughly February 1 to April 2, 2026), based on peer-reviewed reports and major science outlets. Ive selected the standouts for their potential to reshape fields or daily life, focusing on verifiable new findings rather than predictions or incremental updates. 1. First single-shot readout of a Majorana (topological) qubit (February 11, 2026) Short description: Researchers from QuTech (Delft) and the Spanish National Research Council created a minimal Kitaev chain using two quantum dots linked by a superconductor and used quantum capacitance to read the qubits parity state in real time without destroying its topological protection. Why this is important and potential impacts: Majorana qubits store information non-locally in paired zero modes, making them inherently resistant to noise and decoherence the biggest barrier to practical quantum computers. Previous platforms could create candidate states but not reliably read them without collapsing the fragile quantum information. This breakthrough solves the long-standing readout problem in a single shot, enabling scalable, error-corrected quantum hardware. It dramatically accelerates the timeline for fault-tolerant quantum computing, which could transform drug discovery (by simulating complex molecules in seconds), materials design, cryptography, optimization problems in logistics and AI, and fundamental physics simulations. Everyday impacts could include faster development of new medicines, unbreakable-yet-efficient encryption alternatives, and energy-efficient AI training within 5 to 10 years. 2. Quantum computers can break RSA encryption with far fewer qubits than expected (about 10,000 instead of millions) (March 31, 2026) Short description: New analysis showed that current or near-term quantum algorithms could crack widely used RSA encryption using only about 10,000 logical qubits orders of magnitude fewer than earlier estimates. Why this is important and potential impacts: RSA underpins virtually all secure internet communication, banking, and data privacy. The lowered qubit threshold compresses the quantum supremacy timeline for cryptography, forcing an urgent global shift to post-quantum cryptographic standards (already in development by NIST and others). Organizations and governments must now prioritize migration to quantum-resistant algorithms to avoid harvest now, decrypt later attacks. On the positive side, it highlights rapid progress in quantum hardware and software, spurring investment in secure alternatives and accelerating the broader quantum revolution. Long-term, this protects (and eventually enhances) digital infrastructure while underscoring the need for proactive cybersecurity upgrades that will affect every connected device and service. *Note: Cont.

@ankoromochuu Most of our Universities are now just leftist radicalization factories, save the time and money. Anything you could ever want to learn you can learn with AI for next to nothing. And no woke BS if you pick the better ones.

日本人が欧米に留学すると、左翼思想になって帰ってくる人がいます。 「日本は遅れていて多様性がない」と… 彼らは「自分は欧米で多様性を学んだ偉い人間」であり、日本人を「小さな島国の遅れた人間」扱いをしてきます。同じ日本人なのに😔 自分の国を侮辱する人間を皆さんは信頼できますか？

Hey @SecRubio and @SecWar to help save the environment from climate catastrophe shouldn’t the US bring all that polluting CO2 emitting weapons back to the US for a very very long inspection process. We could charge a very aggressive E-2 to start a detailed study on how to create clean, quiet and soft weapons. This might take decades but saving the world is a long game. We might have to have some, most (all) of our troops to ride along with the weapons for security and classifying duties once back in the states. We should return just as soon as we get our act together so keep the lights on and floors clean. Just as soon as are Intel 286 word processor boots up on the multiple 8 inch floppies we will start co-ordinating and planning the return of US forces to once again defend Europe from having to use their own money.

Breaking: Rubio is looking at options to withdraw the United States from NATO.

@May_Roma Live streamers are annoying entitled douchebags no matter what country of origin feel free to throw them from the train. Believe me we won’t mind at all.

日本ではこの様に優先席を占領し、鉄道会社で禁止のライブ配信をやる外国人旅行者が迷惑行為をやっています。 私達日本人は、この様な人がいるため、外国人旅行者を恐れています。外国人には来てほしくないと考え始めました。日本人は調和と安全を愛します。

@zundamotisuki Because of time-space dilation that only occurs in Iran. The US planes Iran is destroying daily appear very large or very small. Trust the @BBC and @CNN because its science!!

イランが投稿したアメリカの爆撃機を撃墜した画像です アメリカの爆撃機って小さいんですね、レーダー避けるためかな？

I was perplexed at first. Why not just let the US do the heavy lefting promise future support but generally do nothing. This seems the rational response if someone else is removing a threat. But off another post it became clear. Europe is angry because even with missiles that can reach European cities the Europe reaction to @POTUS taking out the Iran for some reason Europe doesn’t see the US taking out a threat. They see the US taking out a partner. We see the Islamification of Europe, especially the UK, but they don’t seem to get along so well with the moderate Arab states. Europe’s left parties identified the demographic timebomb of the left baby boomers dying off and taking the parties with them. The partnership was born to replace the dying left with uneducated radicalized muslims to plant in locations to maintain political power. The chaos and destruction from Iran was the fuel to keep the voter import pump primed. Also the anti-Jewish feelings in Europe mean that they were sympathetic to Irans constant attacks against Israel. Heck even @netanyahu and Israel had to read the hate that is now policy in Europe and start reacting to this threat. This will only grow stronger as the radical muslims filling Europe start to control Europe’s policies. Iran and Europe are partners, is it surprising that @Keir_Starmer and @BarackObama so often meet to discuss strategy. The conduit I suspect is MI5/MI6 working with Iran either directly or through cut-outs but working together none the less. Now Europe has been exposed and their partner and middle east chaos factory that is Iran is being defanged. This infuriates them because not only do they lose a weapon to attack Israel through the proxies of the proxie but the energy crunch exposes the climate policy as self destructive since it is just a population control vehicle of leftist national-socialist governments. And peace in the middle east hampers the leftist voter import business. They see their grand socialist empire being destroyed in Iran one bunker buster at a time. The next domino is Ukraine and with that the entire house of debt cards that is radical Europe likely collapses. I would not be surprised if Europe intel agencies even today are trying to figure out a way to remove the main threat to their grand schemes and plots. Its not TDS so much, but to their larger plan of empire building an existential threat.

The riddle I’ll never be able to solve: How did the UK, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Canada and Australia collectively decide that confronting the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism, soon-to-be nuclear Ayatollah, sitting astride the global energy chokepoint, is simply “not their war”? How did the memory, experience, philosophy and logic of a millennium of Western civilisation simply vanish? Is TDS really that deadly a mental disease? Can anyone help decipher this puzzle?

Because the woke are retards and all rage because they no longer can serve as information and knowledge gatekeepers. Also they spend lots of resources trying to get people who don’t line up to feel isolated and alone. They bus the same loser protesters all over the country to make it appear with local media that they are not just wacky fringe of 2% crybabies. The more their control slips away the angrier they will get. It is kind of funny how predictable they are because of the collective group think.

I kind of understood that X's algorithm has been changed, so more Japanese posts are now appearing in Americans' feeds, and that this is deepening cultural exchange between Japan and the US. But why is the woke crowd going crazy over it? ……🤔

@KeanuReevesYaga Prayers to all for health, comfort and peace. I find both in this picture uplifting to my spirit. May that return back many fold to both.

Say a prayer for my mum guys 💔💔😭.

@Frid45 I think you have the number 3 correct… I find the soft Soviet styling kind of telling. errrr. They all seem very white? Isn’t that rascist? just saying, also shouldn’t one of those flags be the flag of Palestine? I think some work needs to happen before its posted.

Who needs NATO when we can have a European army serving Europe and the interests of Europeans? 🇪🇺

@talk2anuradha Maybe he can make $120k a year cash non reported money to protest against capitalism??? Some moral confusion but hey, money is money even for mindless marxists.

> 45 years old > working at Oracle > kids in school > paying home loan every month > wife & parents dependent > gets fired over an email at 6 am Paid 50-60% taxes all his life, yet not a single govt helpline number where he can call to get some help. A ZERO safety net system!

When Europe forces us the US will de-couple from the growing fascism of Europe. We may we have more in common with many middle east countries and maybe even Russia. The totalitarian socialist states of China and Europe can trade government lies on how great they are in their dystopian bubbles. Come to think of it the United States is actually much closer to Russia and Christianity is not under attack in Russia. How fabulous for the worlds major energy producing and resource states all getting together. What a bright future for most of the world.

Mike Benz explains the European Union is stepping up their mass global censorship under the Digital Services Act ahead of elections for conservative candidates 🚨 He warns the fines against Elon Musk and X will greatly increase “There's really nothing an American company can do to defend itself against millions or billions of dollars of threats from the foreign government. You need your own government to stick up for you. We are at a crossroads right now in a election season across Europe. For example, the EU has activated its rapid response disinformation units under the Digital Censorship Act to basically play favorites in the Hungarian election and all across Europe this year. As there's a rising tide of MAGA-aligned or populist conservative or right-wing political movements, and the diplomatic response has to be commensurate with the severity of the situation. Elon Musk was fined $140 million for basically not complying with this extortion shakedown. What happens when that fine is $140 billion in the months leading up to the U.S presidential election in 2028 or ahead of the midterms? I believe that leverage has to be created and a serious diplomatic response has to be initiated so that we can protect the American companies against foreign regulators who are trying to conduct a boomerang attack against our own politics by preventing them from platforming us.”

@PeepsJoey1983 @FurkanGozukara Probably the same reason nobody in DC wants to block corruption. The corruption is not party specific. Although I must admit that democrats perfected corruption.

@robert23740 @FurkanGozukara Why do Republicans give illegals amnesty?

Dave Smith says America cannot afford empire anymore. A country where a 70K worker cannot buy an 800K house should not be pretending it can police the planet.

@oniheysamrai @BlackDumpling Let go of intimidations and demands from outsiders. Go be the best country ever. You don’t have to be the US, or China or even France. Learn from the past, learn from your mistakes but don’t repeat the bonehead mistakes of others.

@robert23740 @BlackDumpling 同意します。 歴史マニアの視点で生の声を聞き情報を保存する事には価値があるものの、現代的な再解釈には大きな問題を有します。 実際、私達の耳に入ってきた「現地の声」は切り抜きされた辛辣な声が多かった。 そこらの辛い意見に私達は怯えていました。 だから実際の所を質問者は求めたのでしょう。

アメリカ人は、日本への原爆投下についてどのように感じているのでしょうか？ 正直に話しましょう。 まず、当時のアメリカ人は喜びました。日本人に与えた苦しみに対してというより、戦争が終わったことを喜んだのです。あれはもう何十年も前のことですが、当時は多くのアメリカ人が日本人を本当に嫌っていました。その点は認めたいと思います。 しかし、今日ではどうでしょうか？ まともな考えを持つ人は、原爆投下を「良いこと」「肯定的なこと」として見ていません。私たちはそれを肯定的に語ることはありません。むしろ、「必要だったかどうか」という議論がほとんどです。 アメリカ人の間では一般的な見方として、原爆は当時としてものすごく恐ろしいものだったけれど、代替案はもっと悪かったというものです。当時の私たちの認識では、日本側は絶対に降伏する気がないように見えました。つまり、日本本土への実際の侵攻作戦です。死者はおそらく数千万規模になると予想されていました。 重要な点として、もしアメリカが本土侵攻をして、そのために必要な血と財産の代償を払っていたら、戦前の日本政府と軍部指導部がそのまま権力を維持することはほぼ不可能だったでしょう。日本はドイツと同じように、長期間の連合国による占領を受け、政治体制に大きな変更を強いられた可能性が高いです。 これはあなたを不快にさせたり、恥をかかせるために言っているのではありません。ただ、事実を尊重して話しているだけです。何十万人もの息子たちを死なせて、何年もの残酷な戦いの末に、戦争を始めた当時の体制をそのまま復活させるなんて、アメリカ人にそんな選択肢はありえません。 本土を取るためには、何十万人、場合によっては数百万人のアメリカの若者たちの命が犠牲になったでしょう。それ以上に、日本側の民間人の死者は数千万規模になっていたかもしれません。私たちは何年も非難爆撃を続け、その後必要なら家一軒一軒を攻め落とさなければならなかったでしょう。 その時点でアメリカはヨーロッパで勝利したばかりで、日本は完全に孤立・封鎖されていました。日本全体が包囲され、史上初めて空からの攻撃も含めた完全な国家包囲網にさらされることになっていたのです。 日本人は勇敢に戦ったでしょう。それが日本人の気質です。しかし、その時点では勝算がありませんでした。 原爆を投下したことで、皆が衝撃を受け、目を覚ましました。歴史上、あれほどの生の力を目撃した人はいませんでした。それが存在することすら、落ちるまで誰も知らなかったのです。 まるでアメリカが空飛ぶ円盤（フライングソーサー）で攻撃してきたようなものです。勝ち目はない、戦いようがない、そして「ただ待っていればいい」という希望を完全に打ち消しました。当時の日本人から見れば、アメリカは無限にそれを持っているように思えたからです。 原爆を落としたことは恐ろしく、苦しみは極めて悲惨なものでした。しかし、アメリカでは一般的に、本土侵攻を試みるよりはるかに悪い結果になっていたというのが受け入れられている見方です。 繰り返し強調しますが、私はこれを日本人を恥ずかしく思わせるために言っているのではありません。どちらの側も、はるかに大きな犠牲を払うことになっていたでしょう。 あなたはアメリカ人がどのように感じているかを知りたかったので、一般的に言えば、これが私たちの感じ方です。 We are not our great grandfathers, and you are not yours. Their sins and their victories belong to them alone. Today we cherish the friendship we have built with you and I hope my candor has not threatened that in any way.