The armchair generals should be on the front lines.
“These same voices usually ignore America’s ten-year war in Iraq and twenty-year war in Afghanistan,”
This is a very interesting and factual comment, in particular the Afghan war with its disastrous pullout.
The last absolute victory in a major war was with Japan in WWII using nukes. I suspect the same applies to modern times. Anyone engaging Russia in an all out war will have to face the fact that nukes will fly. Sane people respect such deterrents.