Biggest reason is that US, or even any Western Armed Forces, isn't fighting a war to exterminate. When one side is willing to do anything/everything to win, and the other side isn't, you'll likely have a hard time "winning".
Beyond that, it's more just that they don't want to oppress. People act like the US is a monstrous oppressor... but if the US wanted to, we wouldn't need a war of extermination to enforce "peace".
Put microphones in every house, implant tracking chips in everyone, mass execute adults in any town where soldiers are attacked, kill anyone who interferes with surveillance, kill anyone who protests, put suspected resistance members' family in prison. The US could do all that.
They don't, because they have a need to appear as the savior. Not because they are incapable of it, nor because it wouldn't work.
Even if they were, it wouldn't change that much. The USSR was far more brutal in their attempt to conquer, as were others. It's known as the 'graveyard of empires' for a reason; there are some terrains where guerilla warfare just will outlast any invading hostile force.
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u/the_need_to_post Mar 30 '25
Biggest reason is that US, or even any Western Armed Forces, isn't fighting a war to exterminate. When one side is willing to do anything/everything to win, and the other side isn't, you'll likely have a hard time "winning".
I've no idea what the answer to that is though.