Ukraine mega thread

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

We had a UN mandate for Iraq, look how that turned out..

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True. But Iraq was just a bad idea from the get-go and would have been worse if we had gone it alone. Having a "coalition of the willing" helped to cut losses.

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by Lotus

True. But Iraq was just a bad idea from the get-go and would have been worse if we had gone it alone. Having a "coalition of the willing" helped to cut losses.

Iraq was a noble idea, poorly executed because politics and political correctness were inserted to a sphere of life that by its very nature needs to remain brutal and unpleasant.