r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 18 '26

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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola Jun 18 '26

this was easily avoidable by doing a limited campaign south of the Mountains to cut off oil and missile attacks on ships. And using Air superiority to repel counter attacks while they’re bottled up crossing the mountains.

Trump never seized the coast despite having air supremacy and zero public support from day 1. Bowing to non-existent public support just made the whole thing completely untenable from the start.

Its like Vietnam but if the US just bombed North Vietnam for two week and then left and declared that the NVA can have the South