Was Desert Storm the last popular American conflict?

Was Desert Storm the last popular American conflict?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It wasn't "popular", it just ended before any serious anti-war movement could be brought to bear.
    I remember boomers thinking it was gonna be another Vietnam and trying to sow the seeds for discontent. The logic ran during the early days the US was just gonna get hit with scuds until they were forced to retreat. Of course nobody on the anti-war left expected the US to unleash the full force of its military might, they just expected another impotent war conducted by politicians.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Also, to add, to see the full unpopularity of the Gulf War, you have to look at the zeitgeist during the 90's that followed. Memes like "the US invades countries for oil", the "Black Oil" in X-Files that was symbolic of Desert Storm, Gulf War Syndrome, and so on.
      Nobody cheered in the streets when the Gulf War began or ended, everyone just looked on with uncertainty.

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It was popular because it happened in a time of upheaval in Russia so they werent as focused at subverting Americans land using the likes Tucker Carlson or other influence operations to turn America against its own interests. Future wars had Russian backed intelligence "leaks" and other hostile narratives which were not being adequately countered by authorities

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      No, it wasn't popular. Granted, the primary controversy to arise from that dumb war was the US not finishing what they started, after supposedly promising to support the kurds in overthrowing Saddam.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Please go back to r/noncriticaldefense

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      brainworms.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Afghanistan was popular because the populace wanted "revenge" for 9/11

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It was probably popular in the beginning but It wasn't popular during the end or even middle if we're looking back. Even the botched way we left people weren't saying that it was a bad thing that we were leaving only that it was executed horrifically.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It had support at the time, even in Europe. I remember reading about Bush (who was previously hated) being praised for showing "temperance", by waiting a little bit before launching the invasion, even here in Europe.
      Of course, the tone changed over the years, and people pretend to have been against it all along. After Iraq, the hindsight was ramped up to ten.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    No

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why the frick aren't wars popular in the West anymore? Back in the day Caesar would enslave and kill millions of barbs, do a couple of triumphs, and the people loved him for it, even though he lost more men and spent more time than all of America's wars put together. Why has the white man lost his warlike spirit?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Demoralization and subversion by the kremlin. Now even the chinksects are in on it with tiktok

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >america
      >white
      The post WW2 order destroyed any European need for aggression and the psycho leftists students who grew up in 1960s-1970s now run most of Europe, who are of course self hating leftists.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The extreme onslaught on anything white nowadays. Thus conquests have also fallen out of fashion.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Thanks to photographs and videos we know how actual war looks like now. And most people realize it's not a nice thing.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's not like these wars massively increase quality of life or anything. Back then, wars were treated as existential struggles where a great loss could potentially mean having to pay crippling amounts of reparations and tribute, or the death and enslavement of everyone at worst. At lot more people had nothing else going on their lives, so would feel a second-hand source of pride from the victories of their army and go euphoric from victory like as if Team Green won at the chariot races or something. Nowadays. when a first world nation loses a war the only thing lost is bragging rights and prestige. Apathy and resistance is the exactly right response to going to most wars.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why don't you start one and find out instead of jerking off to child porn?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Roman soldiers go to war, come home broke
      >rich bastards boughts all the land and slaves so they kept getting richer
      >thousands of years later
      >dumb anon thinks these wars were popular

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Peak incel post

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Basically it was the crux of the neo cons "america stronk" to role an advisory with the chips stacked in your favor because said adversary was low on materials and organization at such an frick up of an invasion. It is the crux of all US larpers on /k/ the Russo Ukraine conflict. I say it was popular. But the sequel was better.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    No, bombing Serbia was.

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