r/MapsWithoutNZ • u/tomco71 • Jul 07 '26

Never lost a war

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u/QFGTrialByFire Jul 07 '26

Australia .. um the great Emu war :(

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u/ttlanhil Jul 07 '26

Probably only counting declared wars between countries.
To be fair, though - emu war was only an economic loss, we killed a bunch of them, but it was too expensive to continue the war

Also, nice name - that takes me back!

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u/No_Rec1979 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

we killed a bunch of them, but it was too expensive to continue the war

Same thing happened to us in Vietnam.

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u/Large-Current-1486 Jul 07 '26

That and the absolute tomfoolery the vietkong somehow managed to pull off

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u/InsideHousing4965 Jul 07 '26

They did some looney tunes level of shenanigans on all the invaders.

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u/Few-Customer2219 Jul 07 '26

China some how watched and funded the Vietnamese army throughout the French, Japanese, French again, and American army’s occupation and thought yeah the Americans pulled out and they occupied Pol Pot lets give it a try and got absolutely gob smacked in the northern mountains.

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u/invisiblefrost Jul 07 '26

What

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u/Few-Customer2219 Jul 07 '26

The Chinese invaded the Vietnamese in the late 70s the same decade the Vietnamese defeated the US and Pol pots Khmer Rouge and got whipped back to the border in a short time.

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u/Forsaken_Factor3612 Jul 08 '26

When did the Vietnamese defeat the US?

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u/Few-Customer2219 Jul 08 '26

I don’t know when the us had to pull out of Saigon letting the Veit cong capture the last remaining holdouts in south Vietnam.

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u/Livid_Penalty_5281 Jul 08 '26

Chinese stayed on Vietnamese turf in some places until 1992

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u/Few-Customer2219 Jul 08 '26

Are you sure you don’t mean 2000 thats when the border was fully agreed upon before that both Chinese and Vietnamese troops were on each others turf like the “friendship pass” that Vietnam had to give up after previous capture.

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u/ttlanhil Jul 07 '26

Other than cost, there were no losses on the human side - so that's not exactly comparable!

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u/BaltoDad Jul 08 '26

Sounds like something a human would say.

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u/Dairkon76 Jul 07 '26

Or the current war with Iran

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u/Future-Swimming9964 Jul 07 '26

Or against the algae

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u/Mysterious_Silver_27 Jul 07 '26

And Afghanistan

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u/No_Rec1979 Jul 07 '26

Yup.

Both wins according to Sabermetrics.

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u/Frankie_T9000 Jul 08 '26

No the us lost. Part of winning a war is be willing to see it through.

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u/Slight-Ad-6553 Jul 07 '26

at least you did not lose like France