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SideQuark 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire

How’d that plan work out in Iraq or Afghanistan, both much smaller, less armed countries? Decades and trillions spent, and what exactly did the US “win”?

amluto 5 months ago [–]

The US won the removal of a regime in Iraq that strongly opposed Iran. </sarcasm>

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