Let's take a look at a ** film first.
To sum up, Vietnam had a population of 40 million during the Vietnam War, and its per capita GDP was less than $3,000 by 2010.
At the time of the war in Afghanistan, Afghanistan had a population of 40 million and a per capita income of only $500 in 2020.
But the United States beat them, with a call rate of 400 billion and 23 trillion, Vietnam spent $10,000 per capita, Afghanistan spent $50,000 per capita.
In 1960, Vietnamese people may have earned less than $100 a year, and at the time of the war in Afghanistan, Afghans probably had less than $200 per capita. Mind you, extreme poverty is an annual income!
So can the United States not fight and say to Vietnam, come! On behalf of South Vietnam, I will play with you, demarcate special economic zones, and I will invest $100 billion a year in cooperation.
Say to the Afghans, we don't fight, I'm just here to invest, 500 billion dollars a year.
Even, you take refuge and pay subsidies every year!
It stands to reason that extremely poor countries and people can withstand such a large sugar-coated shell of capitalism? Even if there is a difference in ideology, it cannot push away the "goodwill" released by the United States, right?
It's just that the United States always makes strategic miscalculations, or the military-industrial complex behind it instigates the fight, spends n more money, dies a lot of soldiers, and there is not a single Mao left! The strategic goal was not achieved, and the tactics were defeated.
Today, the United States is stubborn, bullying the weak everywhere, provoking the big countries in the East when it has nothing to do, and insisting on confrontation rather than cooperation. You say that a country that is reckless in military force, no matter how thick your foundation is, can withstand a few years of tossing?
Even if you want to bring down other countries, can't you use sugar-coated shells? Every year, the public opinion war is only 400 million US dollars, and it is just a bunch of lackeys, and the Soviet case is not very successful, don't you use it!?
It can be seen that Europeans and Americans are arrogant and prejudiced, and do not have great wisdom.