Note: I am not asking my question here, so please do not answer it. I am merely asking for a good lemmy/kbin community in which I can ask it and receive respectful responses. The answers to this question should be pointing me to a community where I can ask the question.
As another point, consider the US lost 4,507 troops over the course of 2003-2011 in Iraq while Russia has already lost over 200,000 troops in Ukraine in 2022-2023. The scale of Russia’s problem in Ukraine vastly surpasses what the US was dealing with in Iraq.
Absolutely as a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq I saw first hand the mistakes that were made.