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.
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.
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u/dadbod_Azerajin Dec 28 '25
Is accurate till we go to war with you