If you look further you might find that those numbers were made up.
I don’t have time now but read it was sensationalized for a purpose and was more like 25,000 not 500,000. One of my grandmother was in England when it was being attacked.
As far as American since when has it become acceptable to get them involved in wars or that their being maimed or killed acceptable to fight others wars. As it is now were expected to go out and get killed for others and people who wear now think are not even worth it as they’d kill you and your family with their religion.
There were many questions of why this is right and that is not when really none of it was and why war sucks. Things accelerated as it does and reactions got more aggressive.
Churchill looked at over population as problematic to third world said “they keep breeding like rabbits so what good would and relief do.” That is a question we have to ask today as now it has come to our beaches and will do the same here. It was horrible that People of India starved to death over the war effort then. Even people here after the war were starving in order to feed Europe.
I look at it in another way to try to teach them that overpopulation will kill us all and if they don’t care about it then don’t come running to us or anyone else who has made their own sacrifices and preparations. Like Noah’s Arc. That they have the choice, their choice and that if they choose over population don’t expect us to starve our children to feed theirs.
The Chinese gov back when didn’t give them a choice. They just starved to death thousands so as Mao said the other half could eat. They were blocked off from the rest of society. That was tragic. Choices are different if they choose to be reckless then don’t expect others to suffer the consequences for them. They have a entitled to what others have attitude. Not the same a borrowing a cup of sugar or some unforeseen event to a neighbor or relative. The same as a neighbor who spends all their money selfishly then goes to your house and says I need to borrow food to feed my family of seven kids and you only have enough resources for your one or two these days. Consider the cost to yours. It is predatory. They will not care about yours. Keep that in mind with things to come.