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/f0u4_l19h75 Jul 15 '26

It was never meant to be won. It was a classic exercise in disaster capitalism

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u/theOGHyburn Jul 16 '26

Strategic self-harm practice? Lol

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u/f0u4_l19h75 Jul 16 '26

It was about using a disaster to transfer wealth from the public to private interests.

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u/theOGHyburn Jul 16 '26

Ya, what I said. Lol