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M0oP0o@mander.xyz 18 hours agoYeah, this is why the us won in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam… Why they must have stood no chance at all, not like an armed and modivated population could put a modern force in a quagmire for 20 years… The us is just difference somehow (citation needed) then the rest of the world.
mlg@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Gulf War 1 was literally the king of all curbstomps and the Taliban fell just as fast to a swarm of CAS, even though they had the NWA completly surrounded.
Only Vietnam survived because surprise surprise they had a hefty mechanized supply line provided by the USSR via China.
Gulf 2 and the aftermath in Afghanistan was still a ridiculously long occupation that all hinged on the idea that the US no longer had any meaningful interest to commit resources and would eventually leave.
Point is, if you wanna go down the route of “I need 2A for an oppressive government”, you’ll quickly find yourself getting into the same situation as everyone else. Unless you form a side via a civil war, you’re gonna suffer heavy losses in the initial stage just like everyone else, and commit to long term attrition just like everyone else.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
The point is the us has a very bad history with long occupations, they can put bombs on foreheads and “curb stomp” a standing force but when it comes to the hard part they have little success. And a home occupation is a lot worse then one on the other side of the world. The armed forces in the us are already dealing with some large morale issues currently and I can’t think ordering them to repress a state/city/campus will help that situation much. The us is not immune to all the nasty things that can happen to nations and is not special, only think they are.