• finnadrag@lazysoci.al
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    2 days ago

    20 years? The US ousted the ba’athist government in less than a month and installed a sympathetic regime in less than two years. Even a pyrrhic victory is still a victory. The US got what it wanted geopolitically and the government they waged war against was ousted. That’s a victory.

    It was costly, unjustified, evil, and probably not even worth it from the cold math of empire but it was still a military victory.