"American troops have been on the territory of Afghanistan for 20 years, spanning four presidencies, and our government has constantly fed us lies, half-truths and distortions about the fighting on the other side of the world," Mel Warwick, a popular publicist and historian in the States, gave this assessment just the other day.
He said that all this time the Pentagon "through its teeth" claimed that "Vietnam" would not happen again.
But when Biden issued a decree on an urgent evacuation from a country in which the United States invested $ 1 trillion, the extent of the disaster immediately became clear.
"Russia's military pedigree is saturated with successful anti-insurgency campaigns, including in Afghanistan and Syria," admit American special forces dissertators, graduates of the graduate school of the Military Academy in Monterey.
In their opinion, Americans should look at the Russian school of anti-partisan struggle more broadly, the Free Press notes.