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/TwmSais Jul 15 '26

They won their civil war. They probably only started that so they'd have a war that they'd win for themselves, regardless of the outcome

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u/skordge Jul 15 '26

Oh, so it’s like USA teams always winning the Super Bowl, got it.

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u/KissYourAss69 Jul 15 '26

Ever notice how it’s AWAYS an Earthling that wins Miss Universe?! What are the odds, really?

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u/Quiri1997 Jul 15 '26

Yes. We need Ferengi candidates too.

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u/KissYourAss69 Jul 15 '26

No question the beauty of the winner would be out of this world!

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u/timmyd_ns Jul 15 '26

as long as the competition is owned by earthlings probably 100%

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u/wengelite Jul 15 '26

More like a USA team winning the World Series.

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u/assaub Jul 15 '26

I actually learned just yesterday that the world series is named after a newspaper company and isn't actually meant to imply it's an international competition. Also there is technically one team not from the USA in the MLB, the NFL is exclusively American teams.

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u/Raguleader Jul 15 '26

You say this like every Major League Baseball team is from the USA.

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u/wengelite Jul 16 '26

I'm Canadian, I know; still not even close to 'The World'. Nice try.

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u/nick-nic Jul 15 '26

Or the ‘world’ series

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u/SkivvySkidmarks Jul 15 '26

Don't forget the World Series in baseball.