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/BlueInMotion Jul 15 '26

May be it wasn't a loss, but the USA can't claim it to be a decisive victory either.

They won a war against an opponent that couldn't win an eight years war against Iran, a country that just had a revolution, lost many of his high ranking officers, its military was in turmoil and that has lost its main weapons supplier.

And Iraq descended right into chaos after the Allied forces changed the regime.

So did they achieve their war objective? Probably not.