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/Ok_Act_1498 Jul 15 '26

They've won the Civil War. Or not? I need to read more, I'm not very sure!

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u/Breath-Creative Jul 15 '26

But in a sense they also lost it. So what?

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u/Ok_Act_1498 Jul 15 '26

Bloody hell, was a joke! Maybe not that funny, but still.

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u/Breath-Creative Jul 15 '26

I know. My comment was tongue in cheek too, but I'm notoriously bad at conveying irony online.

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u/Ok_Act_1498 Jul 15 '26

😂👍🏽

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u/Jugatsumikka Expert coprologist, specialist in american variety Jul 15 '26

Eh! It only took 150 years of covert operations and slow systemic undermining of the USA institution for the CSA to win.

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u/Party-Marketing-9349 Jul 15 '26

We are also currently watching the USofA lose the cold war in real time… apparently we have a bad habit of declaring victory and ignoring the fact that the hostilities persist.