• Einskjaldi@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      The military can win a war, you just have to be willing to sterilize an entire population to do it. Politics is the issue there.

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      While the Korean was hasn’t officially ended, I’d say South Korea came out ahead.

      If you count conflicts like Syria and Iraq, the US achieved the goal of toppling their leaders. But in none of those cases were they successful in creating a democratic government.