Keep coping Russian Government is Communist at heart. The people in the west who claim they are communists all engage in capitalism and are grifters telling people what they want to hear. The true blue commies in the west are small time and make no money spreading the words of communism and socialism. If you think clowns like Hassan and Vaush are socialists and commies you are retarded.
Mrs. Vesperus has a 70 year old Lee-Enfield Mk IV, and you don't want to be on the pointy end of that fucker.
No offense, but that didn't cause the foreverwar in Afghanistan to stop for the U.S. I fully understand the other points you raised though.
We've got Antifa cheering for Nazis. Shit's off the reservation.
Also, here is a video from March 29, that shows exactly the same places where the bodies were and surprise - nothing is there. What is there however are the signs of the shelling, while ukies deny doing anything.
It helped that in Afghanistan, those losses were spread out over two decades, in this war the losses have occurred in less than two months. It makes a difference.
Afghanistan was also a great place to train and test things in. Almost every western nation sent in troops and gear to field test. It was not a complete waste.
Explain in more than three sentences how it is still communist. And how by your brief definition you gave earlier of a top-down government doesn't apply to the U.S.
Same as the Russian oligarchy who ran the "communist" state of Russia were in the U.S.S.R.
Give some examples then, because that's the vast minority of them and you and I both know that.
We've also got retards unironically engaging in "Red Scare" levels of brainwashed stupidity who previously were against war. Or who, knowing better, accuse people who aren't unilaterally agreeing with propaganda of being a shill for either side that you don't immediately, irrationally, and cultishly shit on.
Fair enough I suppose but, I wonder, what good that did in Vietnam? Or afterward? Like I said in my response, all other points I agree with wholeheartedly but that one doesn't particularly strike me as relevant given Russians have been unilaterally discriminated against for the actions of their government in a way the U.S. wouldn't ever have (and indeed hasn't) in its history.
Less freedom (this site for example is banned), Shit box economy, Dictatorship.
There were around 2,000 KIA in Afghanistan in 20 years. I've seen a lot of estimates in the 8000-10000 range in 6 weeks for the Russians.
I would say Vietnam was the war that made it so the US couldn't tolerate heavy losses for a non existential war. It's legacy in that regard lasts to this day. If we had suffered those kind of losses in Afghanistan, there would have been riots constantly.
The fact they completely pulled forces out of not only the Kiev front but the entire northeastern front as well, tells me they given up on that region for the foreseeable future, and almost certainly completely. Allows the cities and towns that were besieged to get essential and military supplies in. Not to mention freeing up some troops, and allows Ukraine to focus their supply routes which is my bet one of the reasons Russia did that.
The last years in Afghanistan produced relatively few US casualties. We likely could have stayed there, as you have alluded, forever. But we shouldn't have stayed one minute longer than needed to kick out the Taliban and oversee free elections. "Nation-building" was an utter waste of people and resources.
It's bait, nothing more.
"A lot of people died for no reason other than to profit the military industrial complex, so it wasn't a complete waste".
Looks like you have a bad case of confusing rectangles and squares, here. To say nothing of how the U.S. locks people out of the financial system (like the owner of this website) for wrongthink, our economy is and was only kept afloat through being the world's foremost superpower, and that the current POTUS has on multiple occasions tried to dictate policy from his position both with and without backing from our legislature. Did the Russian government ever try to force people to get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines?
A slow bleed over a long time doesn't mean people didn't care. But much like Russia our news media is owned by state interests so I still think the point isn't a large one if it is at all.
That's a bit of what I was getting at, though. At least there's some veneer of a reason for the Russian state to invade Ukraine, we were still embroiled in Afghanistan for over a decade after the reason for invading was rendered moot. And as far as I'm aware an official declaration of war wasn't signed by congress, which isn't helping the concept that we're not a dictatorial state with regards to our military actions at the very least.
Welcome to life. Now apply that same outrage to Russia sending in troops to die and be killed invading Ukraine and maybe you can act like you are actually outraged at wasted lives. Oh but its only ok when the side you like does it then its "just".
Are you including Afghans? I'm pretty sure they were people, too.
The West can do as we please fuck off with this China number 1 shit. I hope this shit turns into world war 3 so we can squash this bullshit nuke threat and put the communist fags in their place once and for all because shit is gonna go down at some point, whether its me, or my kids or my grandkids we are gonna wind up fighting these fucks.
