For those who think it woudl have been such a wonderful idea to
invade, I call up the image of the Battle Of Berlin. One source
states:
*Berlin’s fate was sealed, but the resistance continued. Fighting was
heavy, with house-to-house and hand-to-hand combat. The Soviets
sustained 305,000 dead; the Germans sustained as many as 325,000,
including civilians.

*

That would have been *so* much more human, especially when you
woudl have to add the toll of the beach lands, every other city, and
village, to say nothing of reducing the army in China.