• reddifuge@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    America lost in Korea, lost in Vietnam, and lost against the Taliban, which at their peak was 100k insurgents.

    If you think America has a strong military you need to stop drinking the kool-aid.

    Canada is part of NATO and the commonwealth. America has almost no allies anymore and Canada has the most allies of any country.

    Canada is more powerful than the USA.

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      1 day ago

      America won in all those wars. However those wars show that winning the war isnt the end and if you want things to hold you need significant follow up and american support is fickle.

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        Say what now? Please explain how the US won any of those wars? Last I checked, North Korea is still a thing; Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh and the Taliban rule Afghanistan. But ya it was a “support” problem. They never won those wars because no one wants US imperialism.

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          15 hours ago

          Vietnam the US completed their military goals and forced a ceasefire then years after US support was withdrawn due to admin switch north Vietnman attacked again.

          North Korea had taken most of Korea and was pushed back by the US and with help from the US south Korea was able to stablize and get a ceasefire.

          Afghanistan Taliban was removed from power and lost territorial control. Failed due to US not having built up a strong enough base of support and stablity.

          You can argue they shouldnt have been and never had enough public support. But war wise they did well in all 3 of those wars and objectively “won” the war. Vietnam was especially hard given the terrain and tactics.