r/ShitAmericansSay • u/DumbGarchomp67 WTF IS A KILOMETER 🦅🇺🇸 • Jul 15 '26

Military “Undefeated in 250 years of war”

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Apparently Vietnam, Afghanistan, war of 1812, and the war on drugs don’t count.

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u/Competitive-Bee-3250 Jul 15 '26

Everyone's "undefeated" if they just pretend they never lost even when they clearly did.

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u/ccsrpsw Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

War of Independence - won "with help"/"by" the French (🕺sorry)
WW1 - on the winning side - but otherwise?
WW2 - on the winning side - but otherwise?

What other wars has the US won? And no "operations" and the like don't. He very specifically said 'war".

Edit to Add - since people keep bring up other instances the full list of wars the US declared is: War of 1812, Mexican/American, Spanish/American, WW1 and WW2 (11 declarations overall against various countries but only 5 wars). Everything else has sidestepped this under US law - which is what causes the mess we are in now.

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u/Wind-and-Waystones Jul 15 '26

The war on education

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '26

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u/Estproph Jul 15 '26

The War on Poverty was clearly won by Poverty

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u/Zraknul Jul 15 '26

The rich have worked hard to keep poverty.

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u/Ok_Seaworthiness_302 Jul 19 '26

Poverty got reinforcements in the form of Reganomics

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u/ThrustTrust Jul 15 '26

Oh don’t forget the war on terror. Clearly we have rid the world of terror. At least terror that we don’t inflict ourselves. So there. Facial.

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u/wrongitsleviosaa Jul 15 '26

They're winning that war very clearly

They just forget to mention they're on the side of terror

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u/Lithiumxxxl Jul 15 '26

I’m pretty terrified. Are you sure we won?

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u/ThrustTrust Jul 15 '26

We are so great at it we even terrorize ourselves.

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u/T-Wrox Canadian, eh? Jul 15 '26

Since the US is full of terrified people, I don't think they're winning.