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We have the best quagmires. No one does quagmires like we do. You've never seen a quagmire like an American quagmire. Putin tells me he wishes Russia could do a
by krapp 2mo ago
We have the best quagmires. No one does quagmires like we do. You've never seen a quagmire like an American quagmire. Putin tells me he wishes Russia could do a quagmire as good as this, but they can't. Europe hasn't had a good quagmire in years, they don't even know how to make them anymore. Quagmires like this are only made in America.
- bell-cot 2mo agoFrom the PoV of our enemies and rivals, perhaps. But in the bigger picture? We're still futzing around at amateur hours. The quagmire of the Roman-Persian Wars lasted almost seven hundred years - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Persian_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Persian_wars
- krapp 2mo agoIt still says something if you have to go back over a thousand years to find a worse case.
- bell-cot 2mo agoRome-Persia is an interesting and arguably worst-case quagmire. For a mere worse case, a few decades ago is more than enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War