[翻譯]請英文高手解救(國際關係) - 社會議題

勞煩各位了，自己從字面上逐字翻譯大致是以下結果，可是沒有讀通原文句子的語法，讓整個翻譯顯得怪怪不流暢，煩請各位英文高手指教，尤其是後半部，感覺只是生硬的將字句翻出，意思感覺很不通順。謝謝！
In the light of these events and the authors’ own account, it is surprising to read that “in one fundamental sense the US war with Japan was a replay, to be sure on a much grander scale, of the war with the Philippines.” Just as McKinley had subdued the Philippines, Hunt and Levine argue, FDR “managed to beat the foe into complete submission within less than four years.” But this was World War II, and while the US used overwhelming violence, including two atomic bombs, to smash their (also racist) enemy, this was a life-and-death struggle with the forces of fascism. Stalin’s Soviet Union, itself a dictatorship responsible for millions of civilian deaths, bore the heaviest costs against Germany and only belatedly entered the war against Japan. Truman’s decision to use atomic bombs arguably was influenced by the US interest in limiting Soviet ambitions in Asia.
有鑒於這些事件及作者們自己的紀錄，對於「美國與日本對抗根本上就像是與菲律賓對戰的重演，當然規模上是大多了。」讀到這段文字時令人感到很震驚。Hunt和Levine 認為，如同麥金利總統鎮壓菲律賓， 羅斯福總統「勉強在四年內擊敗並讓敵軍完全投降」。但別忘了這是第二次世界大戰，而當美國使用壓倒性的暴力時，以兩顆原子彈來摧毀他們(有種族歧視的)敵人，這是對抗極權主義的生死一戰。 身為獨裁專制該為上百萬平民的死亡負責的史達林蘇聯政權，承擔了對抗德國所需付出的最重的代價， 然後才慢慢地進入與日本對抗的戰爭。 關於哈里杜魯門備受爭議決定使用原子炸彈的決定，是受到美國限制蘇聯對亞洲展開野心表現的影響。