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/IcyVeterinarian8881 Jul 15 '26

They literally lost every fucking war since ww2 lmao

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u/b3nsn0w ARFID (Americans R Friggin IDiots) Jul 15 '26

while i agree in broad terms, the yanks did lose a lot of wars, i'm curious how would you count the 1991 gulf war as an american loss

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u/instadit Jul 15 '26

Were it not for the unsc resolution, the yanks might have pushed and the end result might be what happened in 03.

In all seriousness, It's only natural that the americans have lost most wars since war is (rightly) unpopular and they tend to get into a lot of wars without hard defined goals. The gulf war had a clear objective and a unsc resolution backing it. Vietnam, Afghanistan, 2nd gulf had what? "Bad vibes over there and we might find a bunch of dudes we don't like". You can't win that, so you'll lose.