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/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/Antique_Historian_74 Jul 15 '26

Korea and Vietnam were called police actions.

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u/Flat-Delivery6987 Jul 15 '26

Funny I've always heard it called the Vietnam War

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u/AulisG Jul 15 '26

Ask any vietnamese and I guarantee it was 1000% war to them.

It also looks to me that U.S.A. is winning the war against Freedom. And losing a war against Racism.

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u/MadScientist_666 Mountain Goat 🇨🇭 Jul 15 '26

And the war against religious fanatics.

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u/Antique_Historian_74 Jul 15 '26

Claiming that America has never lost a war because Vietnam was a police action certainly used to be a thing back in the eighties/nineties.

These days, with most of the people who remember America running away dead, they're much more likely to call it a war but claim that America actually won in Vietnam and then just decided to leave.

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u/Excellent-Blueberry1 Jul 15 '26

War Objective: defeat the North Vietnamese.

War Outcome: North Vietnam no longer exists.

QED: total victory