Yeah, Biden, the US and NATO sure showed Russia how to win in Afghanistan, it was a proud moment for America ...
“Yeah, Biden, the US and NATO sure showed Russia how to win in Afghanistan, it was a proud moment for America ... “
The U.S. kicked butt in Afghanistan and Iraq. But, even after a generation, the Afghanis and the Arab-Iraqis would not fight for themselves. Thus, after we left, those countries lost their freedom.
The Ukrainians are different (and so are the Kurdish-Iraqis). They fight. There’s a reason our national anthem ends “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” If you don’t have it in you to fight, you’re going to be somebody else’s slave.
To be sure, in addition to be willing to fight, you need to be big enough or have the support of others big enough to be able to resist invasion by an imperial power. Putin hates NATO because it enables the peoples of eastern Europe to resist Russia.