The approach in Afghanistan was not one of wokeness by the military but by deliberate design of the Neo-cons at the time to re-draw the influence map of the region (thank Paul Wolfwoitz, John Boulton and rest of the clowns for that) that included Afghanistan and Iraq. . That for some reason US should dominate in South Asia and the overall influence of putting the countries in its pocket was a goal (similar to how Saudi Arabia and other surrounding countries were in US sphere of influence). The tactics that worked in Saudi Arabia (influence the kings and corrupt rulers) was not going to work in Afghanistan or Iraq for that matter.
So the tactic was to go rebuild the nation and introduce value system that US wanted as a morale basis. This was the mission the military was given, not the one military defined because of wokeness. And it was a decision based on imperial expansion and domination for which the face was going to be rebuilding the countries, vs. wokeness out of softness in their heart.
They made the military mission impossible: winning hearts and minds and changing the entire make up of society. What the neo-con morons didn't realize is what worked in Europe during the Marshall Plan was not going to work in Asia. Europe was about accelerating and building back up to the western view of socieities that existed in WWII. Afghanistan was about imposing something that organically had never been done.
So thats the opinion on wokeness.
As for US and Japan: before Hiroshima US bombed Tokyo (firebombed) that caused equal destruction (100,000 dead). Unlike the atomic bomb, it wasn't intended to exact this sort of destruction with civilians dead. But the fire spread rapidly through the wooden structures. That was 100,000K dead.
The logic that Pearl Harbor was attacked so any attack on civilian population with 100s of thousands killed was justified is hypocritical and a farse. Pearl Harbor attack killed approximately 2,500 military combatants on a military installation. Just the Tokyo firebombing killed 40x those civilians.
So with that sort of track record, there is no basis for anybody to cry about Ukrainians being attacked by Russians. Any kind of indiscriminate attacks that Russia is conducting on civilians is a portion of lethality and violence that US demonstrated. With the logic you are putting around how US was justified to attack the cities in 1945 would mean that there is moral precedence that Russians can also the use logic to attack civilians.
I say the above not as one that supports Russia's actions or justifies it, but the need to call out the comments you are making and US's own past actions require a bit of introspection. The rest of the world knows a lot of the above facts so US loses credibility when it makes Russia to be the only evil power ever in our lifetime or 50 years before...
what platform are Storm Shadows can they be used for...
