... Afghanistan August 2021 after Joe and his American troops left in the dark of night.
... Libya after cleaning-up Gaddafi dictatorship ...
... Iraq after execution Saddam Hussein and John McCain walking down Main Street Baghdad declaring the country secure in 2007. Left Iraq under Shia influence and 700,000 deaths.
... Syria after the chaos became greater and greater with number of deaths near 400,000 and request for Assad to resign were waved away ... Syria gave permission to Russia to rid Syria from imported jihadist terror and with partial cooperation from dictator Erdogan, collected the terror group in NW Syrian province Idlib ... near the borders most foreign fighters entered. John McCain's moment of fame a photo-op with Al Nusra cutthroats.
... Ukraine and Maidan revolt and massacre, John McCain on the bull pulpit, his favorite spot together with the Nazi fascists groups in Kyiv. His early passing made had impossible to witness the ultimate victory over the Reds. Damn ... we lost  Vietnam too.

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