The fun reality is that America has only won a couple of wars. America cannot claim to have fully won either of the World Wars, the Korean War ended in stalemate, and Vietnam the USA was forced to withdraw. Punitive police actions, like shooting a bunch of Filipino villagers on Mindanao or that time the USA invaded Haiti can hardly be called wars. The Spanish-American war was a war between colonial powers that didn't take place on either of the home lands. The Mexican-American war was a naked land grab, so I'll call it half a war. So the USA has the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. The "war of 1812" was a sideshow to Napoleon's wars in Europe. It was more like "Revolutionary War Round Two: Why Not? Edition"
IMO the Korean War is technically still a W for imperialists because it ultimately maintained the existence of the ROK. Stalemate on the battlefield, but the fact that a Capitalist Korea still exists is a major positive in the eyes of the Empire.
Right-wing Chuds love wars we """won"""
The fun reality is that America has only won a couple of wars. America cannot claim to have fully won either of the World Wars, the Korean War ended in stalemate, and Vietnam the USA was forced to withdraw. Punitive police actions, like shooting a bunch of Filipino villagers on Mindanao or that time the USA invaded Haiti can hardly be called wars. The Spanish-American war was a war between colonial powers that didn't take place on either of the home lands. The Mexican-American war was a naked land grab, so I'll call it half a war. So the USA has the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. The "war of 1812" was a sideshow to Napoleon's wars in Europe. It was more like "Revolutionary War Round Two: Why Not? Edition"
IMO the Korean War is technically still a W for imperialists because it ultimately maintained the existence of the ROK. Stalemate on the battlefield, but the fact that a Capitalist Korea still exists is a major positive in the eyes of the Empire.
That's pretty solid reasoning, I'll buy that.