I mean, with the exception of the fact that the Soviets were grinding out a victory in Afghanistan by holding as the cities and bombing the Mujahideen in the countryside into submission. Gorbachev didn't have the stomach for it because he stupidly wanted to become Sweden
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Idk I feel like you're dooming too much. The US always has primary and secondary objectives for their evil operations and they would definitely have preferred a fully comprador Iraq rather than a weak state with the PMFs openly fighting them. It has yet to be seen if Syria will end up the same way but I think it's more likely that happens than they end up with a fascist Lebanon-type regime. I feel like Turkey would also rather go after the Kurds first than Iraq, no?
I think you misunderstood what I'm saying. He still has those cases pending against him. If there's a 1% chance he goes to jail when he ends these genocides, but a 0% chance while he keeps them going, he has every incentive to continue a perpetual state of war until he can coup the supreme Zionist court or whatever. Especially while Biden bends over backwards for "lethad aid" in every way possible.
If it's up to the congress, that's probably way better than it being up to the court especially considering the health, labour, and education reforms he got passed. (cue but at what cost)