• FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    How is killing enough of a side that that side doesn’t want to fight anymore not winning?

    You are really wound up in wanting to call losing something other than what it was—losing.

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      10 months ago

      Talk about being wound up…I said yes they won but not on the battlefield. What part of that don’t you understand?

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        10 months ago

        How was it not on the battlefield?

        Vietnam shot Americans.
        America didn’t like being shot.
        America pulled out.

        Does it have to be a football game with refs for you to count it as a legitimate win?

        What point are you even trying to make, “If it wasn’t for those pussies in Washington America would have won!”?

        The US lost the will to prosecute the war due to unacceptable losses

        Did that not happen in battle?

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          10 months ago

          Did that not happen in battle?

          No. It happened in the US.

          What point are you even trying to make, “If it wasn’t for those pussies in Washington America would have won!”?

          No. I’m trying to clarify historical facts.

          Does it have to be a football game with refs for you to count it as a legitimate win?

          I said they won several times. You’re getting tiring

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            10 months ago

            No. It happened in the US.

            Except for Kent State where they killed their own people, what Vietnam deaths happened in The US?

            If killing the enemy on the battlefield causes your enemy to lose the will to fight, in what world is that not defeating an opponent militarily?

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              10 months ago

              Has nothing to do with stacking bodies…

              The Vietnam war ended because the people of the US forced it to end, not for anything the Vietnamese did. People demonstrating constantly forced politicians to end the war.

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                10 months ago

                You really don’t want to hand Vietnam the win, huh?

                WHO inflicted those “unacceptable losses” that caused the American public to want to pull out?

                What difference does it make how a losing army loses a war if that losing army lost?

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                  10 months ago

                  I lived the time. If you have to feel like an Afghan taxi driver, that you defeated the great satan,have at it. Because reality doesn’t matter to you.

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                    10 months ago

                    What are you even talking about?

                    Who mentioned a great Satan?
                    I just said getting shot so bad you quit counts as “losing on the battlefield”.
                    No matter how you want to rationalize away at “America never lost a war”, they did.

                    They were defeated.
                    It happens.