> win initial conflict by slaughtering most of the enemy with comparatively minimal losses > occupy, but not really because that's like, imperialism or colonialism or whatever, man! > 20 years go by of just having soldiers stationed there doing fucking nothing while guerillas assassinate their own people you install who are willing to negotiate with you the problem is that the us has tried to do with every shithole what we did to japan without actually doing what we did to japan: which was completely shattering their will to fight with overwhelming power and threatening to use that power to genocide them if they didn't surrender unconditionally.
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