they wanted me to use this dumb multigrain bread which sucks for grilled cheese in my experience

I did what I could but :02_shrug:

@binkle the what now

@Fe₂🦀₃⋅H₂🦀 @binkle who'd they make that for, saddam hussein

@Yule Coon @ synapsid :rpk_hey: :bocchi_excite: the general understanding of warfare is exceptionally poor so people don't understand nuance

we won every battle in vietnam and lost the war politically, or maybe not, depending how you look at it. arguably it slowed the expansion of communism

we won overwhelmingly in afghanistan on military terms but the nonsense win conditions were never achievable to begin with

same thing in iraq

we're losing in ukraine because it's on the other side of the world against an industrialized power fighting on its own doorstep, and our military is no longer used to fighting that kind of war so it doesn't know how to train the proxy forces. even if we were still heavily industrialized ukraine would still lose, it would just be more painful for russia. the logistics costs supporting a war so far away are tremendous and the pipeline is only so fat, every bullet we ship over there probably costs us 50x more than it costs russia to put a bullet in the magazine of one of their rifles

the US military being used against a citizen rebellion in the US would be a fucking disaster because there would be no safe rear anywhere, no safe logistics, and a large contingent of the US forces would be disinclined to cooperate with orders

fighting mexico via targeting the cartels, mexico being a much weaker country on our own border, is almost as easy as it gets in terms of potential wars. safe rear, easy logistics along the border and across it, unpopular enemy, absolute air supremacy for hundreds of miles into their territory, etc

where you're fighting matters almost more than anything else. it's why russia and china are no threat to the US mainland, in the sense that they could never invade and conquer territory in any meaningful way. they simply do not have the ability to get enough troops here and support them. the fact that the US can fight across an ocean at all is a testament to our incredible military power, *but* as stated above it doesn't translate to incredible power at home because of the impossibility of securing logistics against a well armed citizenry

@DR.PROF.Chineseman Lord of all the beasts on the land. I know perfectly well why the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. That's completely irrelevant to the question of potentially exploiting the resources. Saying it's not feasible to develop them is retarded and asinine. There is a friendly port in Kuwait. There is a highway from that port into Iraq. We have cargo ships and trucks. Building local processing is not a lost art.

Your opinion on how to deal with the locals is baseless. Apartheid works.