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NATO absolutely has air superiority in Ukraine.

How they choose to exercise that is an exercise for you, the reader, whoever would like - not this comment.

NATO does not have air superiority in Ukraine. The skies are contested in many areas. Recently Ukraine lost a number of Bradley’s and when a Ka-52 ambushed them in Zaporizhzhia.

If you’re making the point that America and NATO could join the fight sure, but that’s a hypothetical and the reality now is that the skies in Ukraine are contested.

and how did it work out for NATO in Syria?

for different factions of rebels backed by Pentagon/CIA/etc/etc

They all still have their jobs, the companies that sell the weapons are still selling them.

Seems like it went great.

this is very cynical view and skips the US foreign policy failure of Obama in the middle east, and is part of the reason why Trump got elected in the first place.

not even talking about millions of killed/displaced refugees that are now in Europe and all over the middle east, and all the humanitarian disaster that was caused by strategic miscalculation and doctrine mismatch

You're just not in touch with the incentive structures that guide these people's actions.

Their claimed goals and incentives are rarely complete, sometimes not even true!

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