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Also, calling Iraq a win is really stretching things.

Most people seem to have decided that one is on Biden for some reason, including Biden.

He expected to lose the first election. He wanted to be able to use it as proof that the system was against him, to fire up the Fox News rubes and jumpstart his new TV network. He basically wanted to lose, and instead he won.

It's amazing. He's such a failure he failed at failing.

The BIGGEST Loser!!!

That's an insult to Bushes and shrubbery.

Nixon was not decent. The difference was that a Senator (Goldwater) told Nixon point blank that he was getting impeached and the senate had the votes to convict and remove.

Like most government officials "retirement" is getting fired.

I genuinely think he's by far the most likely president in this country's history to launch ICBMs if he knows he is fucked. Which was a conclusion myself and any non-moron also came to in 2015.

Also Trump losing Afghanistan

Nixon continuing horrible foreign policy doesn't absolve him. Also he conspired with Hanoi to sabotage LBJ which is straight up treason and extended the war another five years

admittedly one of the reasons he did that was because he thought it would give him political cover to shut McCarthyism down

I want to learn more about that. Got a recommendation?

In America, we punish the incumbents. BoTh PaRtIeS have told their own constituents to fuck off; membership of registered voters is at 30% each. Independents are now 40% of voters.

Whoever wins the election tells the people who elected them to fuck off; so, we vote them out. That's it. The new election winner then tells the people who elected them to fuck off, and so on.

Examples: Biden runs with minimum wage increase as platform, wins, then tells everybody to fuck off.

Trump then runs with "no war" as platform; wins, goes to war and tells his voters to fuck off.

He will be replaced by a Democrat, who will then also tell their voters to fuck off.

Repeat ad nauseam. Neither party does what they are elected to do and are then punished, to be replaced by the other party that will refuse to do what they were elected to do.

We can't vote ourselves out of this, unfortunately.

They don't care. It's a video game to most Americans. That's what having oceans between you and the bombs does.

Food prices are still tied to fossil fuel prices. This will cause a lot of very real pain, among the poorest in the world.

So yes, we need to get to net zero carbon. But there has to be a more humane way than unplanned cold turkey.

The way I interpret this is single-handedly lost the war. Afghanistan was over 4 presidents (Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden). The sloppy withdrawal by Biden was die to no planning and a treaty signed by Trump to do so by 2/29/2020.

I would amend that to "since WWII", and the answer would still be no.

The "global war on terror" ended with a rather dramatic raid that killed bin laden. And the war part of Gulf war 2 was an obvious victory.

But winning a peace is a fuckton harder. And we haven't done that since Vietnam.

That really comes down to what you mean by "war" and "won".

We won the Korean war by achieving our strategic objectives- we bombed NK back to the stone age, and effectively isolated them from the rest of the world.

Our wars in Central America achieved their objectives- US trained death squads raped and murdered the local populations into submission; US corporations have been free to dominate ever since.

On the list of 80+ countries we have invaded since WWII, I would say well over half of these misadventures have achieved their strategic objectives.

Putin didn't get him to start, it was Bibi.