When Russia finally gave up and bailed out of Afghanistan, admitting defeat, they cheered themselves up by pointing at our own defeat in Vietnam. Then we went into Afghanistan and ended up doing a truly disastrous withdrawal thanks to the incompetent assholes who took over the country from Donald Trump’s administration and the Russians laughed again.
They’re not laughing now. Now they’re suffering a second Afghanistan disaster in Ukraine and they deserve it. Neither of our nations has any business conducting foreign wars in nations where we weren’t invited and weren’t wanted.
When the Russians were in Afghanistan we gave tons of munitions to the native people to fight Russia with, which went a long way in defeating them. Then those same weapons were turned against us in terrorist attacks when we went into that country to fight the Taliban.
We especially didn’t belong there because it wasn’t the Taliban that caused the 9/11 destruction of the Twin Towers in New York City, it was the Saudis. Saudi Arabia was behind it, it was Saudis who were in those aircraft. But the rich fuckers in our government, namely the Bush oil family, were all ass-kissy with the Saudis so they just dismissed the attack as being organized by a radical Islamic group, which in fact it was, and used the attack as an excuse to make war in Iraq and Afghanistan, in hopes of plundering the natural resources of those backward nations.
Russia, aka Vlad Putin, wants to plunder Ukraine for their food production and use them in his effort to rebuild the Soviet Union. So once again, we are arming those who are being invaded by Russia.
Russia armed the Vietnamese against us, this stuff just keeps going back and forth, and while lots of people die, the arms makers get rich and economies flourish, and if any actual successes come out of all the blood and death, so much the better. If they don’t, oh well, lots of money was made.
Russia’s losing this one. They won’t get to add Ukraine to their territory, instead they’ll probably end up losing Crimea back to Ukraine and in the process they’ve revealed how clumsy and inept their military leaders are, and how inadequate their armament is. Their formidable looking tanks turned out to be junk compared to the defenses against them, and their soldiers are untrained and poorly equipped.
All they really have left that can’t be overpowered by our and NATO’s arms is their nuclear weaponry, and if they used that against any of us, they would be bombed into eternity and they know it.
This means that Russia’s bullying is at an end. This is what happens when one person becomes the sole power of any nation. All it takes is one mistake and everything falls apart. I expect to see the same thing happen in China now that Xi has consolidated his power. Dictators just never work out well in the long run and Vlad Putin is finding out now how true that is.
All of it
it makes sense.
That ones who forget History mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
It’s strange how as individuals we learn from our mistakes but when we group together as a government we just keep screwing up over and over again. At least, we’re much further ahead by just providing the guns and letting the Ukrainians do the dying, but now we’re starting to put our own people in there, and we all know where that mistake leads. It leads to another Vietnam, another Afghanistan.
This is all about wrecking Russia. It doesn’t matter to us if Ukraine is turned into rubble as long as Russia gets wrecked. China will be left with only trade partners like Indonesia and India, and for all their size, they don’t have the wealth that we do, that made China prosperous trading with us.
This is a game, a vast game, being played for control of the whole planet. This is no insane Hitler out to murder all the Jews, this is for the whole enchilada.
“enchilada”?
Mexican food item, oven baked, with meat, usually chicken, cheese, beans and a spicy tomato sauce. Not bad, actually. Enchiladas are usually really large, made to feed a whole family.
“The whole enchilada” is an expression meaning All of it. like, he ate the whole enchilada.