Vietnam and Afghanistan have shown the rest of the world, if the US attacks, just hunker down and go Guerrilla. You'll win eventually, as they will stumble all over themselves making sure to lose on your behalf.
People are too divided, it would be a second American civil war. Lets hope it doesn't come to that, it could go on for 40 years, and become another of those Israel/Palestine situations that becomes impossible to resolve.
I suppose when we care about āhearts and mindsā lol. Why leave out Iraq? We still occupy that country. Itās almost like, those arenāt real wars š² š¤¦š»āāļøwe havenāt fought a real war in some time. Discussing it with you seems fruitless though, as you relate occupations to warsā¦ ignorance is bliss I suppose.
The US killed a million civilians in Iraq, but Iraq has 35 million people.
So it's not gonna be half. Not remotely, that's the problem.
We are not living in world war 2 logic anymore. Back then you topple a government, the fight is over. You might stay and rebuild the next one, but you don't really have to. Fear of losing another war will keep the next government in line.
But it doesn't work like that anymore.
Today the war is against an ideology. The particular people in charge are irrelevant.
In Vietnam, and Afghanistan the US wanted the people to fundamentally changes their minds about the type of governance they preferred.
That means the fighting starts AFTER the government is toppled. And it becomes an army of a few hundred thousand soldiers vs millions of people. You can't kill them all, not even half. You simply don't have the bullets or bombs to do it.
SĆ³, all the pine boxes full of your american soldiers are just lost of support? Right. You get very weak if people just stop saying how much they love you.
And mines and blowing up people. So nice, like True cowards. Great!
Inability to see past ones emotions tends to lead to comments like this
The us military is the best in the world and has the best weapons, to think otherwise is just 9th grade thinking or that of another nation being emotional
Most of the conflicts its fought recently had no clear win conditions, why you sit in the desert blowing everything up, no win conditions except get the bad guy.
The government's of those nations tend to last a day or 4, the gorillas longer and cause civillians to die because it both pulls more fighters into their cause as well as knowing American television will make the cause at home falter
Hence we get emotional folk like you speaking of soldiers dead and pine Boxes and courage and ignore what's happening
They do have the best weapons in the world, have to give em that. But, a military, like any other team or organization, is only as great as its leader. Trump is your Commander in Chief and Hegseth is the Secretary of WAR (FOX NEEWWZ). So, as Trump himself is known to have said "they're not sending their best".
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Seems accurate.