Well, folks, there's a big question that arises in the aftermath of Memorial Day, which, of course, is a day when we pay tribute to the Americans who have fallen on behalf of America, on behalf of our defense, on behalf of freedom.

And that question is, is America, is the West more generally, geared toward winning wars anymore?

Will we ever win another war? Because let's be real about this. When it comes

to military conflict, the chief goal, in fact, the only thing that justifies an evil as great as war

is victory. If you fight a war and you lose, then all of the sacrifices that are made on behalf

of that war are treated as disposable and dispensable. If you fight a war and you fight a war

not to win, then you have spent blood, you have spent treasure, you have made human beings

sacrificed their lives for a thing that has not actually been effectuated. Where is the virtue in

that? The first rule of war is win. The first rule of war is win. So if you're the West, the question is, can we win wars anymore? Because it's been an awful long time since the West actually won a war. You can't really say that the West won the Afghanistan War. We didn't. America didn't win that war. We didn't win the Iraq War. That place is now a sectarian hellhole.

The United States didn't win the Vietnam War, obviously.

The United States won Gulf War number one in the sense that Kuwait is no longer dominated by Iraq. But obviously, that did not end with the deposition of Saddam Hussein.

He retained his power, and that led to Gulf War number two.

The United States really has not won a war in any serious fashion since the Korean War.

We've had little conflicts here and there where we've been able to maintain the peace.

The last big war that we quote unquote won is the Korean War.

Even that ended with an armistice.

With that said, at least South Korea exists as a thriving independent state

in the modern world. But that is fully three generations ago. So why is it the West? Why America?

Why don't we win wars anymore? Well, there are three conditions to winning wars, three

preconditions that have to be fulfilled if you want to win a war. One, an actual end goal.

What is the goal of the war?

What is the goal?

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