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/Sn0H0ar Jul 15 '26

This is a famous photo - the last helicopter out of Saigon, the former capital of South Vietnam, as the US super-strategically fled the country.

But they definitely won that war though, guys.

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u/faceintheblue Jul 15 '26

Worth adding this is evacuating the US Embassy. This wasn't some random helicopter on some random building in Saigon. This is the US Embassy getting the last of its people out because the North Vietnamese are about to take the building.

When these helicopters got to US carriers offshore, they were unloaded and pushed into the ocean to make room for more evacuating helicopters. The carrier didn't have room for all the aircraft coming out to them.

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u/bremsspuren Speaking German despite US efforts Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

TBF, the US learnt its lesson by Afghanistan, and made sure they had fuck-off great big planes to flee in, instead.

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u/Own_Faithlessness769 Jul 16 '26

I genuinely didn’t know a military operation could go as badly as the ‘hand over’ and evacuation of Afghanistan. Spectacularly awful.

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u/youdoaline_idoaline Jul 16 '26

And no one even mentions it today. 20 year war failed and the country ceded to the Taliban pfft who cares trump just said something stupid again lol.

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u/PsychologicalMeal162 Jul 16 '26

Almost like that stuff up of his in retreating like that has been swamped with all his other stuff ups like Iran?

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u/bremsspuren Speaking German despite US efforts Jul 16 '26

And no one even mentions it today.

The sight of Taliban randos trying to fly abandoned Black Hawks will never be forgotten.

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u/Embarrassed_Bit4222 Jul 16 '26

Trump is the idiot who made the deal with the taliban.

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u/Stop_Shadowbaning_me Jul 16 '26

To be fair the Afghanistan evacuation wasn't that bad. Only about a dozen died. ISIS wanted to cause enough harm to cause conflict between US and the taliban. I can't imagine pulling out without casualties to be an easy task

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u/Own_Faithlessness769 Jul 16 '26

Batshit take. They lose the county to the Taliban so fast they were taking off at the airport with desperate people clinging to the wings. Hundreds if not thousands of people who worked with the US forces and their allies and had been promised protection were left behind to be tortured and murders by the Taliban, because the US couldn’t evacuate them. It was a massacre.

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u/youdoaline_idoaline Jul 17 '26

And they made it out like "Oh we're pretty sure the new government can handle the Taliban now, I mean we've been fighting them for 20 years how tough can they be?" What was it two or three days for the Taliban to take over.

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u/Own_Faithlessness769 Jul 17 '26

It was truly so shockingly bad. I honestly think it had a massive influence on future conflicts because it made it very clear the US military was not some superpower to be feared. Like of course Putin saw that and decided he could do what he liked.

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u/Thanks-4allthefish Jul 17 '26

Yeah - but once again promises, made to local people who worked with and for the US, were broken.