The unchallenged assumption among the majority of senior U.S. and NATO officials is that for as long as the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, one of the West’s most preferred policy outcomes of the war will be perpetually met: weakening Russia. Going unnoticed by most Western leaders, however, there is an emerging risk that […]
Vietnam doesn't share a land border with the USA nor were they fighting a conventional war.
Neither was Iraq though. Yet they managed to destroy it nonetheless. Either way It's more complex than the size of the countries involved, especially in modern warfare.
The US's goal was to occupy the country, annex its natural resources, and rebuild the country with private contractors. These are not the goals of Russia in Ukraine