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Unless it was all a show, and the US effort was just for appearances.
by quantified 1y ago
Unless it was all a show, and the US effort was just for appearances.
- bell-cot 1y agoMy impression - from a couple articles with "if only we had done X, Y, and Z" regrets & recriminations by former Biden officials - is that Biden & Co. treated Ukraine as an ongoing crisis to manage. (And look good managing.) Not as a war that needed winning. Nor as a problem that actually needed to be fixed. One could speculate that that approach was driven by influence from outside the White House. Especially by the military-industrial complex - which "lost" Afghanistan as bottomless well of spending and career advancement, because ol' Joe finally got America out of there.
- xenospn 1y agoThe democrats could’ve used that opportunity to create a new world order. Instead, they fumbled, just like they always do. And now they get to watch from the sidelines.
- bell-cot 1y agoYeah. But sadly, recent Team R's doesn't seem any better for National Security. The last one I'd call good at it was Bush Sr. On Team D's side, I don't know if I'd credit anyone after FDR with that label. Though Truman and Clinton (ugh) were fairly passable.
- ashoeafoot 1y agoa landempire imperial war machine going up against a nearly demented governmentprocess that ala memento forgets everything every 4 years. So of course trump runs