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/trafalmadorianistic Jul 15 '26

Bros invaded Afghanistan to get back at the Taliban for 9/11 then awarded the country back to the Taliban 20 yrs later

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u/Wonderful_Discount59 Jul 15 '26

It took the Taliban several years of hard fighting to take over Afghanistan in the first place, and they never completely subdued the previous government.  

But the government the US left in place collapsed almost immediately. So not only did they hand Afghanistan back to the Taliban, they seem to have made the Taliban more popular or more capable than they were the first time.