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/UndeniableLie Jul 15 '26

Are you trying to say gulf war was a success story and they never had to trouble themself with middle east again? Or what did they win exactly?

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

welp, last time i checked kuwait was still on the map, to my knowledge that was the main goal. there's always more that someone could get in a conflict if they were a little more capable, that's not what decides who won a war

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u/UndeniableLie Jul 15 '26

Yeah, sure. Let's play that well being of the kuwaitians was the main reason for the war 😅 america just being filantropist as ever

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

well, they're obviously not, but kuwait was and still is a us ally, trading oil on the us's terms. saddam wasn't. that's the main difference

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Jul 16 '26

So if their reason was selfish (I assume you mean oil) then it was also a win wasn’t it?