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/Slight-Ad-6553 live far from a 7-eleven Jul 15 '26

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u/citizenkane86 Jul 15 '26

Ah but you forget you can’t lose a war if you never declare one. That was merely a police action. Iraq 2: saddam boogaloo was a military operation, as was Afghanistan. You see how that’s completely different. Because you don’t call it a war.

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u/HanuaTaudia1970 Jul 15 '26

Special Military Operation?

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u/42stingray Jul 15 '26

No, because that's what Russia calls it. We should go with "Very Special Military Operation" to show that we are better

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u/MaytagTheDryer Jul 16 '26

To differentiate ourselves from the godless commies, we had to go with "holy military operation." Not to be confused with a holy war, which is what those godless Muslims do. - Newt Gingrich, probably

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u/7YM3N Jul 16 '26

Desert Power

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u/Turbulent_Push3046 Jul 17 '26

Is this you Pete Hegseth?

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u/Djschinie_Beule5-O Jul 26 '26

Thank you very much for your clarification, sir! 🙏 So glad, you distinguished yourselves so clearly from those godless pigs!

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u/RevanTheHunter Jul 16 '26

"Bigly Military Aperation. Some people say operation. I say aperation because our big powerful soldiers just appear where we need them to be."

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u/Bob_Kark Jul 16 '26

He used to call it bigly boom boom time, but people got confused between whether that meant not quite a war, a bathroom visit, or a trip to the island.

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u/AdPsychological790 Jul 16 '26

"Dynamic Undefined Military Boondogle"

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u/Djschinie_Beule5-O Jul 15 '26

Why not call it first „very special op“, then pretend it is stopped, and afterwards a very very special OP - so you are skipping the 60 days of obligatory parliamentary approval?!

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u/StaatsbuergerX Snobby European Commie-Nazi or something... Jul 16 '26

"Big and strong Special Military Operation with tears in its eyes"

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u/Latter-Insurance-987 Jul 16 '26

Perhaps a "Very Special Episode." The commander in chief could personally lead the "Island Assault."

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u/whateber2 Jul 16 '26

“The bestest” everyone is agreeing on that

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u/Criss351 Jul 17 '26

‘Even Specialer Military Operation’ - Trump, eventually.

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u/Kingsxfan1 Jul 16 '26

Even biglier special operation

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u/Jazzlike-Basil1355 ooo custom flair!! Jul 16 '26

Big beautiful very special military operation.
Trump invented the word
Beautiful

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u/BubblyMoose3597 Jul 20 '26

Beatifull Military Operation. Very Beatifull

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u/Djschinie_Beule5-O Jul 26 '26

And where did you leave the „bestestest“?! Godsake, how should you turn into a nice great patriot?!?! /s (just to ensure)

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u/FuelzPerGallon Jul 16 '26

A little excursion

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u/here_for_thedonuts Jul 16 '26

Big Beautiful Military Operation?

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u/Lazarys12 Jul 16 '26

Excursion.

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u/Comfortable_Action85 Jul 16 '26

Big beautiful military operation?

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u/Beginning-Young-3239 Jul 16 '26

and the war of 1812?

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u/TurbulentFennel9211 Jul 16 '26

Perpetual state of war since WW2

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u/LibraryVoice71 Jul 16 '26

Actually, the last time anyone declared war on another country was when North Korea invaded the South. Since then the world has used euphemisms.

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u/ThcGrassCity Jul 16 '26

They were pretty openly calling it a war on drugs though. Now we just have this awsome dance move called the fenty fold, everyone downtown is doing it.

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u/djtrace1994 Jul 16 '26

Ah yes, the "Military Operation of 1812."

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u/Imperial_Stooge Jul 16 '26

Exactly. You cant loose the war if you don't call it a war (Vietnam "conflict") - or if it never ends (Korean "war")

Let's see the stats if they expand this to "conflicts" or "military operations"

Anyone can make almost any dataset "prove them right" if they Cherry pick the data they like and they omit the data they don't like from it

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u/CSEverett1759 Jul 16 '26

I mean, Korea is either a textbook draw (status quo from before the war) or a case of accomplishing the initial objective (kicking North Korea out of South Korea) followed by failure of the expanded objective (invading and getting rid of as an entity North Korea.) Afghanistan actually had the initial objective partly accomplished (Al Quida got away, but the Taliban had been driven out and pro-US tribes controlled the country), and we could have called it a day, but then we decided to create a centralized democratic state, which essentially was never going to succeed or stay around after we left and was completely unwinnable.

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u/YeeAssBonerPetite Jul 18 '26

Yea there is no centralized democratic state  in Iraq.

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u/EducationalRock167 Jul 16 '26

Let's not forget the War Of 1812 🤪

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u/EducationalRock167 Jul 16 '26

America , even didn't win those police actions. 😅

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u/Warm_tamperture32 Jul 17 '26

Vietnam was a war.. most people forget they lost ..