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What did conventional wisdom say about how well the US would do in Afghanistan? Or Vietnam? Plus, it the US supported the development of nuclear weapons, why n
by Chris2048 5y ago
What did conventional wisdom say about how well the US would do in Afghanistan? Or Vietnam?
Plus, it the US supported the development of nuclear weapons, why not the loan of nuclear weapons?
- sudosysgen 5y agoThe US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq quite rapidly, it's the counterinsurgency that was the issue. That's not a problem for Taiwan, it's an island with nowhere for insurgents to hide or flee to. In a China vs Taiwan conflict, the Taiwanese would lose any and all ports and airstrips in the first 6 hours, and would be completely unable to receive any US help from then on. The Taiwanese state is meanwhile so deeply infiltrated that there is no chance the nukes could arrive before the PRC knew. Beyond that, both Afghanistan and Vietnam are countries thousands of kilometers away from the US that the average person absolutely doesn't care about and that pose zero real threat.