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    7 months ago

    That’s some excellent analysis, thorough and compelling.

    It’s just mind-blowing that we could be on the verge of handing over a victory to Putin. We’d be sacrificing our credibility on the world stage, demonstrating to everyone that America is unreliable and can be beaten by anyone with patience. The world would become more dangerous, more conflicts will flare up, and we’ll have far less control over our own fate.

    And for what? So a few politicians can go back to their gerrymandered safe districts and say that they stuck it to Biden?

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      7 months ago

      demonstrating to everyone that America USA is unreliable and can be beaten by anyone with patience

      well, didn’t that already happen with Afghanistan? Uh, yes… media coverage of Ukraine invasion has been for more extensive in the west.

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        There’s a huge difference between pulling out after two decades of boots on the ground, suffering casualties and spending trillions vs two years of sending your hand-me-down equipment to an ally who will do all the fighting, at a cost of 0.1% of your budget.

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          7 months ago

          yes a huge difference. in the end, just as hill says

          USA is unreliable and can be beaten by anyone with patience

          this anyone with patience being those demi-animals of talibans, armed with weapons from soviet invasion of '89.

          oh and by the way, it seemed more like let’s get out of here as fast as possible, more than a pulling out. I’m joking, that was the only way to leave to give talibans usa army weaponry. usa generous confirmed.

          EDIT usa do not consider last years in Afghanistan as war, I know this. the rest of the world though thinks that as long there’s a single invader, that’s war.