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Pffft.
Twenty years and a trillion dollars couldn't defeat goat herders.
Because it's a very different situation.
Afghanistan has mountains, it has tribal loyalties, it has porous borders with many countries, like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran funding the people there, also they couldn't win in an occupation, rather than in simple warfare.
The Ukraine isn't full of Russian civilians.