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They probably said the same in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. "Merely weeks until victory." And as percentage of GDP, military spending was even higher back then: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni...



You just have to cut the Russian supply lines, the situations are completely different.


Just bomb the Ho Chi Minh trail through Cambodia, then the North will capitulate.


In your comparison, is Viet Cong Ukraine or Russia??


Erm, probably neither? I don’t know a ton about pro-Russian partisan guerrilla actions.




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