I'm not saying they will, but I am noticing some attempts to change the goal posts or the subject. What do you think the response will be like?
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There are some GAE apologists who, when called out on how poorly the GAE did in Afghanistan, claimed that the Russians did worse.
Well, let's see: they stayed for 10 years, and the government they supported lasted for 3 years afterwards.
The Americans stayed for 20 years, and their government fell before they had withdrawn.
Even though their government was a supposed democracy that supposedly reflected the will of the Afghan people, while the government of the Russians was a communist despotism.
Ah the "scandal free presidency" tactic, where you make up an arbitrary moral bar that the otherside is held to and then declare that as the truth of the matter.