They didn't work together though, russia and the US hate each other.

They did.

If they still did, ISIS would be able to thrive.

Not really, the US actually preformed few bombings in the middle east, it was turkey and iraq that did most of the bombings.

What of their mass occupations in warzones?

The US would've had to participate.

They didn't occupy shit.

So...they didn't control Iraq or Afghanistan?

I didn't claim that they didn't.

You're saying US forces had nothing to do with the ISIS defeat?

But the US pulled out of the middle east almost a decade before ISIS was defeated.

Not nothing, but little.

The US never pulled out.

We're still there.

We always were.

@fannybandit Yes, they did, did you not pay attention to worldwide events in 2011? 99% of our ground forces were sent home and only advisors were left.

In both Iraq and Afghanistan?

Yep.

Show me.

I'm not buying that at all.

There's no way in hell 99% of our forces just left.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-withdrawal/last-u-s-troops-leave-iraq-ending-war-idUSTRE7BH03320111218

I know that because even after ISIS is defeated, we're still malingering.

Dude...

That's Reuters...

They say anything for attention.

They're the tabloids of journalism.

Get me a times source.

@fannybandit And while the US has not "officially" left afghanistan because the taliban still control 1/3 of afghanistan, the numbers of troops dropped from around 10K in the early 2000's, to about a few dozen today.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/world/middleeast/last-convoy-of-american-troops-leaves-iraq.html?referer=https://www.google.com/

"Still, the United States will continue to play a role in Iraq. The largest American Embassy in the world is located here, and in the wake of the military departure it is doubling in size — to roughly 16,000 people, most of them contractors. Under the authority of the ambassador will be fewer than 200 military personnel, to guard the embassy and oversee the sale of weapons to the Iraqi government."

We never left, we just rotated warfighters.

You have to read it all.

Those 16,000 contractors were most likely made up of mercenaries.

We traded soldiers for monsters.

Soldiers can keep the peace...mercenaries don't want peace.

Bad for business.

@fannybandit Still not US soldiers, and, mercanaries have kind of died out in iraq, mostly because there is nobody left to shoot at, they either went to kurdistan or the dier ez zor region where ISIS is still present on the conventional warfare level.

We're talking about 2011, remember?

Yes, mercenaries have died out in Iraq.

Luckily...otherwise there would be chaos.

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