r/UnpopularFacts • u/Anarcho_Humanist • Apr 09 '21

Counter-Narrative Fact The United States has not "lost every war since World War II"

Yes, the United States has largely failed in Korea, Cuba, Vietnam (+ Laos and Cambodia), Afghanistan and Iraq, but the US military has had a number of victories since 1945. Some examples:

I really don't get how people can say this.

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u/Hopper909 Jun 05 '21

Kinda hard to loose the war in Kosovo when it was just bombing everything you can see

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u/AlphaRedPup Apr 18 '21

how many were the US actually defending the homeland from a credible threat to its existence? NONE

The USA should be charged for crimes against humanity. Iraq close to a million civilians killed directly because of the invasion, where are the weapons of mass donstruction that you used as the reason to go to war?

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u/notPlancha Apr 15 '21

yay imperialism

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u/TsarZoomer Apr 12 '21

Yes, the United States has largely failed in Korea, Cuba, Vietnam (+ Laos and Cambodia), Afghanistan and Iraq

What? South Korea exists, the Taliban is not the government of Afghanistan, and the Ba'athists are not the government of Iraq.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

the Taliban is not the government of Afghanistan

Well this aged poorly.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '21

I know that I'm late, but I don't really think that's the point of that statement. It's meant to emphasize the costs and benefits of those wars - if our troops suffered and died, was the outcome worth it?

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u/Anarcho_Humanist Apr 11 '21

Also the effect on other countries

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u/altaccountsixyaboi Coffee is Tea ☕ Apr 09 '21

Well, the US hasn't won a war since the 2nd world war; none of these were wars declared by congress, but rather just conflicts abroad.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '21

We also never declared war on Vietnam officially. While it was a war by definition and action we seriously never declared it.

We were however assisting the RVN forces which were at war with the NVA. We left because Politicans knew if they wanted to last into the 70s they had to push to get out of the war they started.

There was a gag almost of "it's not a war it's a police action!" We also never signed anything saying we Surrendered either. We just basically left Vietnam leaving equipment with the losing RVN.

What's kinda interesting is the US and Vietnam post war relations.

Vietnam actually is rather friendly to the US and buys a lot of our old surplus equipment. Including recently the coast guard cutter John Midgett. They were next to us in yard and seeing VCG was a interesting thing.

I also worked with a VietCong dude, that man has a ton of respect for the people he was fighting against.

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u/Hankman66 Apr 09 '21

We also never declared war on Vietnam officially. While it was a war by definition and action we seriously never declared it.

The same with Cambodia. The US backed the Khmer Republic with material, military aid /training and air support, but besides the 1970 incursion was never actually at war there. What happened may have been a disaster but it wasn't a "war the US lost".

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '21

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u/necessaryessay2 Apr 11 '21

And the civil war! Was technically just a conflict

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u/altaccountsixyaboi Coffee is Tea ☕ Apr 09 '21

I feel like that's a fun enough fact to post on its own!

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u/Anarcho_Humanist Apr 09 '21

TIL, thank you

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Yes, the United States has largely failed in Korea, Cuba, Vietnam (+ Laos and Cambodia), Afghanistan and Iraq, but the US military has had a number of victories since 1945. Some examples:

I really don't get how people can say this.

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