>>81548825>KoreaSouth Korea still exists as one of our closest allies.
>VietnamDeeply unpopular war filled with draftees that didn't want to be there. McNamara was drafting people who could not pass the bare minimum and tossing them in the blender anyways. They called them McNamara's Morons and was the basis of Forrest Gump. Americans left after the government was pressured to let them leave, not because they couldn't keep fighting. Plus, South Vietnam stayed a country for almost 3 years.
>Iraq 1Over in 2 days. Unequivocal victory
>Iraq 2/AfghanWhole thing was based on a lie, so getting rid of nukes that don't exist was never going to happen. it's an impossible to achieve objective. Iraq had the 4th strongest military in the world in 2003, and Sadam was toppled in less than a month. We installed a new regime in Afghanistan until Trump lost the election, made backdoor deals with the Taliban and set an impossible dead line for a complete withdrawal in order to use it as a political attack. It was a complete waste of time to be there, but toppling 2 regimes and installing your own government is definitely a victory.
Russia didn't win WW2. They didn't do shit in the pacific, and they needed Lend/Lease. America pushed Germany back until they were fighting a war on 2 fronts they couldn't win.