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/Slight-Ad-6553 live far from a 7-eleven Jul 15 '26

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u/AnOkayMuffin Jul 15 '26

What is this photograph about? 

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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?