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0 pointsClubber2y ago0 comments

Sure, I support funding Ukraine 100% for that very reason, but consider what happens when Ukraine runs out of troops. Russia has a 3:1 advantage.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-demography-of-war-ukraine-vs-...

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ethanbond2y ago· 2 in thread

Consider what happens when the Taliban runs out of troops. The United States has a 28:1 advantage.

ClubberOP2y ago

>Consider what happens when the Taliban runs out of troops. The United States has a 28:1 advantage.

The US conquered and held Afghanistan for 20 years and we could have done it for another 20+ years, we just lost the political will to do so. I'm in total agreement with getting out of Afghanistan, as ugly as it was.

ethanbond2y ago

The US didn’t “conquer” Afghanistan. It was fighting a nonstop insurgency that obviously we couldn’t sustain for another 20+ years as evidenced by the fact we didn’t sustain it for another 20+ years. Losing political will is quite literally “losing,” and we left and the Taliban now gets to (actually) rule their country how they want to.

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KaiserPro2y ago

If you use your troops as bait for tanks, then sure having a 3:1 people advantage is useful.

If you have a bit more respect for the lives of your citizens, its not so much of a disadvantage.

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