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When is the world gonna sanction the US as hard as they've done Russia?
Petition to refer to this and all upcoming US wars of imperialism as "special military operations" when talking to libs, just so it will get under their skin by highlighting their opportunistic, selective antiwar and anti-"dictatorship" political posturing.
I've seen American chuds argue in the past that the US has never lost a war (this was a long time ago, before Afghanistan and Iraq) because Vietnam wasn't a war, it was a ”military operation”.
Same here. They still do it, and the even claim that it was a "withdrawal" from Vietnam after achieving their goals (??) and not a defeat as well.
They do something similar for Afghanistan too.
When someone is that deep in the trashcan of ideology I don't think there's any reasoning with them tbh. Best to just close the lid and walk away. We can talk about what objectives were achieved in these wars, sure, but if you want me to agree with you that these wars were victories for the US then I'm afraid I'm just not capable of that level of suspension of disbelief.
This isn't a neighboring country so it's fine to attack for some reason.
Kinda hard to sanction the country that prints the currency the world economy uses. If dedollarization had somehow happened, it might be conceivable. Even then, the west is structured, by design, as a hierarchy of subservience to the US, economically, militarily, even ideologically.
edit: I know you were drawing a comparison to the west's reaction to Russia's intervention in Ukraine to highlight the hypocrisy. I'm just sayin'.