jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoRussia says US support for Ukraine will end as ‘humiliating fiasco’ like ‘Vietnam and Afghanistan’thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square155fedilinkarrow-up1360arrow-down123
arrow-up1337arrow-down1external-linkRussia says US support for Ukraine will end as ‘humiliating fiasco’ like ‘Vietnam and Afghanistan’thehill.comjeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square155fedilink
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down9·edit-25 months ago The difference is that Vietnam and Afghanistan were civil wars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas A civil war that’s been ongoing since 2014. Ukraine seems to be very united against a common enemy Western Ukraine, sure. But that’s not where Russia’s military is occupying territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas
A civil war that’s been ongoing since 2014.
Western Ukraine, sure. But that’s not where Russia’s military is occupying territory.