JMLobo83 t1_j6ljuw6 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 4:24 AM

Reply to comment by rarius18 in Game Theory: The war will end soon, oil will plummet, Biden will get re-elected by mlamping

No foreign power has ever successfully occupied Afghanistan afaik. The Chinese will be the next to try due to insane mineral wealth but it's going to be hard to extract and process the ore.

The West did topple Saddam fairly easily but it's important to remember that "Iraq" as we know it is an historical fiction invented by the British and composed of various different peoples with little in common. The Shiites identify with Iran, the Sunnis with the Sauds, then you've got various other peoples. Iran probably benefitted the most of anyone from Saddam's removal because he loved killing Iranians. The Kurds benefitted. Any benefit to Western states was clearly outweighed by the extraordinary cost involved.

rarius18 t1_j6lket6 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 4:29 AM

Oh you know what, the Russians are saying the same thing about Ukraine ! That Ukraine is not a country and Ukrainian is not a nation! Lol, I just found it funny.

JMLobo83 t1_j6lkpyv wrote on January 31, 2023 at 4:31 AM

That's a fantasy perpetrated by a delusional psycho with brain cancer. Ukraine is the origin of the Rus peoples, Russia is the fiction.

rarius18 t1_j6lkv8c wrote on January 31, 2023 at 4:33 AM

But Iraq isn’t?

JMLobo83 t1_j6ll1tr wrote on January 31, 2023 at 4:35 AM

In my comment I stated that "Iraq" was a fictional country created by the British.