The EU is about twice the size of the USA…

In FOSS you’re paying with your time and plausible feedback / contributions.

You nailed it in one.

Wars are fought to knock down opponents. No war has ever had an actual goal of “make that country happy”.

As I said before, the war part of Gulf War 2 was a resounding success that ended the Bathist tyranny in Iraq. That chaos replaced it was not a failure of war fighting which might have been solved by more bullets and bombs, but rather a failure of the post-war peace.

If Gulf war 2 was a “loss” because it led to chaos and civil war, then WW1 was the biggest loss in history since its end led directly to.tne Nazis. Which i suppose is a reasonable philosophy., except that it would utterly neuter statements about the USA not winning many wars with “nobody else does either.”

It’s not so much a philosophical challenge as a grammatical question.

Was the egg that the very first chicken hatched from a chicken egg, even though it was laid by a non-chicken?

If I waved a scientifically-advanced biotech wand and impregnated a chicken with a small dinosaur, would the resultant egg be a chicken egg even though a dinosaur came out?

I think you underestimate how long a telegram can be.

Not everyone who sent telegrams was as poor as Victor Hugo inquiring about the English sales of Les Miserables by sending a single '?"

The “global war on terror” ended with a rather dramatic raid that killed bin laden. And the war part of Gulf war 2 was an obvious victory.

But winning a peace is a fuckton harder. And we haven’t done that since Vietnam.