A war is a war whether the aggressor decides to officially call it that or not

War - Noun -fighting, using soldiers and weapons, between two or more countries, or two or more groups inside a country - Cambridge Dictionary

It’s just as much a war as Putin’s war in Ukraine is. The fact that Congress hasn’t gotten round to declaring it yet is moot

Actually the orange idiot keeps saying you are. It was Mike Johnson going the SMO route

Iraq - had a lot of help from allies

The total coalition ground forces was 200,000. of those 150,000 were American and the rest (by and large) were british relying on American logistics and intelligence.

if 75% of the invading force is American, you can just say you were invaded by Americans

The Americans turned the tide of the Korean war single handedly. the only other ones fighting on their side were the south koreans who had just been pushed all the way down to the south east. Before china turned the tide back again of course.

The Americans comprised about half of the D-Day troops, fighting alongside the British (and a smaller canadian force) whos expeditionary force had been pushed back to Dunkirk before evacuating the continent entirely. The Americans also turned the tide here as much as i, a brit, hates to admit it

i don’t disagree. the question was about invading though, not holding land.

And from a military perspective they can hold land for as long as they want.

They didn’t leave Afghanistan because they ran out of bullets/money/warm bodies to throw at it.

They left Afghanistan because they ran out of political capital to continue

Operation Iraqi freedom ended in a route so successful that the tanks had to stop to allow logistics to catch up. They went from initial invasion to Baghdad falling within like 20 days.

Also the Americans were pretty pivotal in the D-Day landings that ended up with the liberation of Europe.

They also pushed the North Koreans from the Pusan Perimeter in the south east pretty much all the way back to the Chinese border during the Korean war after the North Koreans invaded the south. Before the Chinese got involved of course and pushed the Americans back down to the 38th parallel at obscene expense.

There’s probably more

assuming that fair elections are still a thing at that time i’d say she would be guaranteed the win.

which of course is exactly why they’re bringing this Dem stooge back.

after all it is her turn

Oh well, when you put it like that maybe we should just roll over and bite the pillow then

I’m happy the guy who ordered the killing of tens of thousands of protesters, was himself killed, yes.

His stance on Genocide does not factor into my assessment of him

Hitler was a vegetarian who loved dogs… was still a cunt

Correct, for some things.

Like Khomeini being buried alive for example.

The world is a better place for it.

I hope he was scared

You can be against the US and it’s allies starting another war in the middle east plunging us into another multi decade quagmire AND you can be happy that that Islamist despot khomenini got the roof caved in on his ugly head

They’re not mutually exclusive

TENs of thousands

The DOW is currently too high to investigate pedos

I remember liking LOEG

/b/ and /pol/, occasionally /bant/

Obviously you have to sift through the usual 4chan shit to get to it but it’s there

Yup, same. Even now, despite how bad it’s gotten over there. They’re usually ahead of certain types of news

They’re probably getting their monthly salary but that 50k bonus requires 5 years “service” so they’ll all be out of a job before then

My partners midwife googled stuff in front of us and parroted the AI summary back to us when we asked if a specific drug was okay for pregnant people

The new bimmers are ugly as sin.

I say that as someone who loved his e90

It sounds like it basically is a lynching

Means that murdering someone for talking bad about dear leader in some parts of the US is defacto legal

Schools in the US call the police for schoolyard fights?

That’s crazy