No. American and allied troops fought in the Vietnam conflict. Our strategy evolved in the Cold War and proxy wars. A proxy war is fought only with fiscal, humanitarian, and arms support.

For example, we destroyed Afghanistan in the 80's by supporting the mujahideen fighting against the Soviet Union: a proxy war. Unable to communicate what's been done, they resorted to extreme violence in September, 2001. So, we fucked 'em all the war back to 17th century religious persecution.

I'm a born American. I love so much about this country at the roots of the land and people I meet in it. But, it's totally fucking rotten at the top and we refuse to admit it. If we did then we'd have to do something about it. Then, it quickly becomes obvious that voting isn't going to do jack shit. That's scary as fuck.

Don’t forget Vietnam and Korea.

Vietnam and Korea were hot wars. My examples are proxy wars where the locals retiliated with "terrorism".

The US is constantly enmeshed in wars, but when was the last time Americans actually won one? 1945?

We're achieving our goals in Ukraine right now, as we did in all my examples above. The last time we lost was Vietnam, unless we're also counting failed coup attempts (2020).

This time it's different.

I understand where you're coming from. I think you're naive.

If we wanted the war to be won then we'd have already settled it with superior airpower and munitions. Instead, we offer limited assistance and imposed Vietnam-style geographic rules.

That was the moron wing of US foreign policy.

So, the reason the program has been so successful for decades is because it's being run by morons?

That's how you're backing your assertion of "vatnik propaganda"?

Wow. Good luck with that nonsense.

After Trump publicly supported a Venezuelan coup in 2019, in 2020 Silvercorp, a US corporation, sent 60 soldiers to effect the coup. Elon tweeted "We coup who we want," because he's socially inept and his various business interests would benefit immensely from stolen lithium. The coup failed.

Maduro may be a villain. But, arresting colonizers isn't why.

That's nice.