> Maybe the next US war will be different? Depends on if there's another incident akin to 9/11. Right now, if you tried to run the Iraq playbook again it woul

> Maybe the next US war will be different? Depends on if there's another incident akin to 9/11. Right now, if you tried to run the Iraq playbook again it would fail. But if something major happens which makes the US populace feel insecure, that could change. I do think that there's a lesson in how difficult it would be to actually change the minds of Putin supporters in how slow the US reassessment of Iraq has been. > US propaganda makes Russian propaganda look like amateur hour. That's because US government narratives get continually sharpened and refined against the grindstone of challenges from the free press. This is different from countries where the government shuts down the press, such as Russia where the ridiculous canard that Ukraine needs to be "denazified" actually flies.