Well from the looks of Russia's mighty wehrmacht's retreat from Putin's lil' blitzkrieg, looks like it's working.
Iraq is not in a civil war.
Trump signed Afghanistan over to the Taliban, so leaving the Afghan goverment out of that deal kinda left them out.
The US never armed ISIL.
Not sure where you've been, but the USA INVADED Iraq because of irrigation pipes, and spent two decades in Afghanistan. From the looks of it, another decade or two wouldn't have shown that Alexander the Great should have tried just a little harder, same with Iran.
"I can only assume the US thinks Ukraine is special because they're white"
Again, WHAT does that mean?
Iraqis and Syrians are white, and are a heckuva lot closer (as in the foothills of) to Caucasia than some folks way out west who for some odd reason claim the Caucasus are their proprietary.
Afghanis are also mostly white, with some Turkic groups. Last anyone checked, being a true (as in origninal, real, not some Teutonic faker looking for a history his barbaric ancestry couldn't afford him) Aryan kinda placed someone on that list because math.
Incidentally, Ukrainians are primarily Slavic, which according to your metric makes them not white.
The irony.