Afghanistan

Sometimes it's helpful to look back in recent history to see if there are any valuable lessons to be learned. Case in point is Afghanistan. The US went into Afghanistan to remove the Taliban. After 20 years when 2,500 American soldiers died, 21,000 wounded and at a cost of $2 trillion dollars the US left and put the Taliban back in power while leaving $80 billion dollars in military equipment behind. What can be learned from this experience as we enter the third year in Ukraine having spent $180 billion dollars and destroyed a good portion of the country while killing off 14,000 Ukrainian soldiers.