How will historians centuries from now depict the current US

"The beginning of the decline"

>>2983509
The "war" in Afghanistan is barely even a war.

>>2983536
>war in Afghanistan started soon after 911
>It's still going on

>lel, it's hardly a war.

Depends what happens next.

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>How will historians centuries from now depict the current US affairs of the war on Afghanistan, Iraq and the current situation in Syria?
As how US made sure those dirty arab ragheads would never dare pull another 9/11 while Europe succucked into civil war the noble US had to ultimately bail them out from.

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>>2983554

>>2983544
It's barely even a conflict, the Mexican drug war is more of a real war than this shit.

>>2983575
http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/ByMonth.aspx

The failures in America's civil service and political policy-making had become starkly apparent by the early 21st century, when America reacted to an unexpected terrorist attack by engaging in a series of costly, unpopular engagements in the Muslim world.

In many cases, America won the war and lost the peace. Decisive victories in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya were followed by decades of civil strife, civil strife which provided ample room for the very jihadists that American foreign policy had been predicated on marginalizing.

The decline in American power was rapidly exploited by other states, such as Putinist Russia and the PRC, which further complicated matters by backing Shiite regimes in the region, which were uniformly anti-American. The European Union was able to disengage significantly from the actual fighting, but was positioned perfect to be swamped by refugees, which combined with the European Debt Crisis to delegitimize the European Union, and limit its impact in foreign affairs.

Domestic affairs in the United States were scarcely better, the combination of military failures abroad and economic failures at home formed a witches brew, which left no institution completely untainted, and which led to a rise in both political polarization and widespread pessimism.

>>2983554
Punitive expedition

Blunders that marked the waning of the US's brief period as the sole superpower, and as parts of the greater Middle Eastern conflicts and proxy wars since 1948--the US backing conservative oil-producing monarchies while Russia attempting to gain influence in the region by propping up the remaing Arab nationalist republic while making amends with Iran (who has its own rivalry with Saudi Arabia)

>>2983529
Fuck off jealous Kraut.

>>2983509
We write the books, take a guess..

Literally everyone will be culturally AngloAmerican by then anyways.

USA uses its financial influence and military power to prevent the emergence of a unified Muslim state capable of controlling local resources and trade routes.

>>2983509
>"Poor Neville Chamberlain believed he could trust Hitler. He was wrong. But I don't think I am wrong about Stalin."

t. Winnie Churchbell

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>>2984827
He seemed a bit homo for Molotov in his book on ww2.