Quote from: legiteum on Today at 05:34:09 PM

The US didn't "lose" to the fighters in Afghanistan, approximately 1% of our military capabilities lost to the fighters in Afghanistan. Had we bumped that up to even 2%, we would have annihilated that fighting force

Losing or winning wars is not defined by how many people you kill. It is defined by how many goals are reached. Take the genocidal Zionists in occupied Palestine. They have murdered more people per day than US, Russia and Hitler murdered combined! Have they won the war? Not even close. Why? Because they have not reached any of their goals and they can not reach any of them.

It's the same with US war in Afghanistan (and elsewhere). Before invasion the cavemen called Taliban ruled Afghanistan, after the great escape in 2021 (where the US military left about $100 billion worth of weapons behind) Taliban still rules Afghanistan. Their "government" hasn't even changed, it's the same cavemen Cheesy

BTW it wasn't 1% of US military capability it was much much more. They even dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever created in Afghanistan and even that didn't change the outcome.
Most advanced USAF assets were also used there including the highly classified multi-billion dollar project called "Beast", which is a CIA spy stealth drone.

Quote from: legiteum on Today at 05:34:09 PM

in the same way we annihilated the original Iraqi army.

Iraq was already defeated when the actual invasion began.
It took rough 10 years too. It was a combination of brutal sanctions that even led to widespread famine in the country, the stupidity of the dictator of Iraq who willingly disarmed his own military, multiple attacks on Iraqi military (specifically targeting air-force and air defenses) to weaken it further and a lot more that softened the country for defeat.
THEN a massive coalition was formed to attack an already defeated country.

IIRC the situation was so bad that surveys said that about 70% of Iraqi military forces would put down arms the moment invasion begins. In fact I remember an article a couple of years before the invasion about a ridiculous story of a couple of border petrol guys throwing down their arms and surrendering to a Humvee thinking that was the invasion Cheesy

So yea, US "annihilated" this... and didn't even do it alone. It was a coalition of 36 countries.

Quote from: legiteum on Today at 05:34:09 PM

this has been the most peaceful in all of human history.

It seems like the term "peaceful" is only a matter of perspective to you. Otherwise to the rest of the world like people walking the the streets of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Lybia, Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon, Palestine, ... where US bombs fell for years things aren't peaceful at all.

Quote from: legiteum on Today at 05:34:09 PM

Again, you should really watch that streaming series, "The Last of Us" so see what you are asking for. The collapse of civilization is not fun.

There is no need to watch some imaginary thing, what the US regime has been doing to the world is very real:

And more recently the US based genocide in Palestine: