@SnoopJ I'm really wracking my brains here. The only two widely televised US military "victories" I can remember since I've been old enough to pay attention to these things are GW Bush landing on an aircraft carrier in 2003, and Osama bin Laden getting shot in 2011
@PaoloParti@andre123@AlexPed Un richiamo l'anno, per entrambi; io sono già in preallarme per prenorarmi, male che vada il 18 ottobre qui in paese c'è l'open day vaccinale e mi metto in fila.
@aeva oh no I mean a trick question inasmuch as the number of "wars" pedantically is zero from the perspective of "you have to declare a war" (which is stupid in modern context, but)
but yea I understood you as meaning a less pathological sense of "war"
@SnoopJ ok so like yeah on some level it's a trick question because wars are devastating tragedies and framing any outcome as "winning" shits on the memory of everyone who died, but I was thinking in fairly superficial terms along the lines of if a mugger pulls a gun on someone, did the mugger come away from the incident having accomplished any of their goals going into the incident at all?
@andre123 Un po' di protezione la dà ancora, anche per le ultime varianti, però dipende da persona a persona quanto questa si sia "diluita" nel tempo. Io per sicurezza preferisco fare un richiamino ogni anno: alla mia veneranda età non sarà certo una punturina a farmi paura. @AlexPed, correggimi se sbaglio.
@aeva tricky to define "war" in that window (and in the Cold War) but I assume it's very bad because winning a "war" means it's over and you can't do any more profiteering so
I wonder what the USA's win/loss ratio is since the cold war, because I'm under the impression it's not great. Or at least, I just figure if we actually won any wars in the last few decades surely I would have heard about it. I say this without any sarcasm though: the 24 hour burger king deployment thing does make me feel irrationally proud of my country.