Quote: (01-07-2015 11:54 AM)Brotein Wrote:
And how did the Chechen war work out for Russia? It was a failure, in the end Russia co-opted a Chechen to autonomously rule that land. Essentially the Russians surrendered.
And lets not forget how much the US struggled in Iraq and Afghanistan. They had to pay off their opponents to stop killing them.
Read up on what a Russian puppet regime is.
If you think running the separatist Chechen forces into a minefield (wiping them out) and systematically purging the leftovers and playing puppeteer with the population isn't a success I don't know what is.
The U.S. is getting dicked around in the middle east because:
A) It shouldn't be there to begin with.
B) War policy formulated by greedy neocons.
B) It didn't go in with a cohesive or realistic end goal.
C) Nation building and policing is not for the military to handle.
The U.S. isn't losing because Iraq and Afghanistan is full of badasses. It's losing because of idiots who entered for stupid reasons and ran the war with stupid policies.