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If you look at WW2, Russian soldiers were surrendering en masse. 100,000 captured in a single battle by the Germans. NOBODY wanted to fight. The camps were full of Soviet POWs who didn't even put up a fight. They had to be literally forced upon threat of death to fight for their country.
The Americans, meanwhile, fought island by island, coral by coral, sand grain by sand grain against the Japanese. The Japanese. Fanatical banzai screaming diehard motherfuckers that never, ever surrender.