Are goat herders in charge of Afghanistan, after 20 years thru multiple Presidents, the US military could not come up a plan to keep that from happening.
Same thing happened in Vietnam.
This is the classic case of winning the battle but losing the war.
You keep skipping the point, the point was about the militaries, America’s has been the dream of generals everywhere while on the battlefield, and the Russian military is seen as barely competent, after 19 months on the battlefield the world has learned that all the hype about the modern Russian military was fake.