@ 227 My whole shtick here is comparing the USA to late great USSR…or more accurately, Russia under the oligarchs during its most recent ‘Time of Troubles’ in the 1990s. Just substitute Goldman Sachs et al for Khodorkovsky Menatep Bank, Berezovsky, Gusinsky, etc.

I’m sure Marie Claude noticed the Soviet military intel officer Capitan Razvedchik played by Aleksey Serebryakov (who usually plays tough guys in Russian films) say: “In the whole history, no one…ever…succeeded in conquering Afghanistan. No one…ever.”