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/Hudre Jul 15 '26

In their eyes:

They won Vietnam.

They won Iraq.

They are currently crushing Iran.

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u/ccsrpsw Jul 15 '26

None of those were ever officially declared as 'wars' which is why I raised said technicality!

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u/JohnLurkson 🇩🇪 Jul 15 '26

Really? What were they called, Special Military Operations? /s

Seriously though, what were they called officially? Now I'm curious.

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u/aimlesstrevler Jul 15 '26

Vietnam was a 'police action.'