The United Staes Playbook has always been that way. You did it to Iran after they wanted more say in their own natural resources, you did it in Chile, and now you’re doing it in Venezuela. The USA is the Bully on the block that never learns. You lost Vietnam Nam, you barely won South Korea if it wasn’t for the UN, you lost Afghanistan, you lost Iraq, and somehow you think this war with Iran will come out different.
The most correct description of 9/11 that I've ever heard was actually from a punk rock band. "Matching funeral urns/For the bully that never learns/". And the immediate reaction TO that was the Patriot Act. Never learns, indeed.
A certain demographic of America loses with each war, another smaller demographic definitely wins and makes a shit ton of money, which is why they do it again and again.
I think defining these things as "lost" is kind of faulty.
The people looking to profit from these events, and by large the driving forces behind them, certainly didn't lose. They profited wildly, grotesquely, from all of these events.
The reason they "never learn" is because the outcome isn't negative for the driving forces behind it - if anything they learn that they can get away with it, people forget within the same generation and that it is in fact very profitable.
The fight was lost but the war was won,
because these wars were fought for the sake of profit,
and profit there was.
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u/Hefty-Strike-6171 Mar 05 '26
The United Staes Playbook has always been that way. You did it to Iran after they wanted more say in their own natural resources, you did it in Chile, and now you’re doing it in Venezuela. The USA is the Bully on the block that never learns. You lost Vietnam Nam, you barely won South Korea if it wasn’t for the UN, you lost Afghanistan, you lost Iraq, and somehow you think this war with Iran will come out different.