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Take that, China! (crazypeople.online)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 38 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I'd put money on China being able to pwn the USA with the click of a button. We know about salt typhoon, and there's been documented backdoors in IoT devices and some Unitree bots. Imagine all the things we don't know about. Especially regarding power generation and general aging infrastructure.

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

    Tell that to Saddam and Gaddafi.

    lol the downvote. Did those governments that no longer exist actually win the wars that caused them to cease existing?

    *this doesn't mean they were good or justified. If anyone thinks I implied or said that you need to learn how to read.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    1st Iraq was a clear win, both militarily and strategically. 2nd Iraq and Libya were strategic victories because the real purpose was to maintain the petrodollar, which was attained.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    You believe US when they state the war reasons and goals? Lol, lmao even. They achieved a real war goal of stopping Iraq and Libya from breaking dollar monopoly on oil sale.

    Also it's not my government, my government was actually quite honest, they admitted they went there to bootlick USA and loot Iraq.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago*

    Uhh no, I’m saying they didn’t win the war because they couldn’t meet their stated goals

    I mean yeah that usually work like that but USA are in entire another layer of hypocrisy, their stated war goald are only a political theatre for their population, plausible deniality and propaganda purposes.

    My bad for assuming, btw.

    No problem

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Do you think Saddam won? The US won the war with Iraq if not the war with the insurgency.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Ok so you can't win a war if it wasn't clean and easy? And since when has the publicly stated justification for a war ever had anything to do with who won? Lots of wars start with false justifications.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    20 years? The US ousted the ba'athist government in less than a month and installed a sympathetic regime in less than two years. Even a pyrrhic victory is still a victory. The US got what it wanted geopolitically and the government they waged war against was ousted.

    It was costly, unjustified, evil, and probably not even worth it from the cold math of empire but it was still a military victory.

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