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Trump Says U.S. Military Has ‘Never Fought to Win’ Since World War II
The New York Times ^ | Sept. 5, 2025, 8:36 p.m. ET | Erica L. Green

Posted on 09/06/2025 12:48:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: Owen

The German soldiers would have been just as dead if they had fought to their last breath in Stalingrad,rather than being executed after surrender.
Hitler was a lousy military strategist.


41 posted on 09/06/2025 2:22:16 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There’s money to be made in not winning wars.


42 posted on 09/06/2025 2:24:15 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: roving

And that,is thanks to the Democratic party policy. No Republican president shall win a war started by democrats.


43 posted on 09/06/2025 2:24:19 PM PDT by Ronald77
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To: CodeToad

That was the objective. to restore the border to the post-WW2 Partition. It was never about invading the PRC or conquoring NK


44 posted on 09/06/2025 2:28:02 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I used to care, but things have changed ~ Bob Dylan)
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To: Fai Mao

We failed to fight to win, as Trump said. We stopped short of ending the war.


45 posted on 09/06/2025 2:44:54 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have long thought exactly that.


46 posted on 09/06/2025 2:52:59 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: Fiji Hill

And we used overwhelming force in Grenada.


47 posted on 09/06/2025 2:54:36 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Fledermaus

Finally, a proper answer.


48 posted on 09/06/2025 3:08:56 PM PDT by Loud Mime ("The Real Constitution" on Amazon. We are not right wing - we are constitutional centrists.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Amen


49 posted on 09/06/2025 3:13:48 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: blackpacific
When we invaded Grenada, I was overjoyed. It was the first Communist country that had been liberated since Augusto Pinochet ousted Chile's red regime five years earlier. I really didn't think Reagan would have the courage to pull the trigger, but he did.

Grenada joined the Soviet bloc in 1979 when a Communist coup led by Maurice Bishop overthrew its government led by Eric Gairy. Gairy, who, among other things, believed in UFOs, is mentioned in this song, a view from left field of the numerous coups and revolutions of 1979.

(Wanted) Dead or Alive--The Manhattan transfer (1980)

50 posted on 09/06/2025 3:18:15 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: hoosierham

No evidence of execution. They surrendered because they had not eaten in weeks. Then they were marched to POW camps and got very little food, because the Soviets also had very little. It’s not like they laid down their arms and the Soviets rushed out to them with food.

They died. Huge %. But it was starvation and consequent illness in the Russian winter. Not bullets up against the wall.

Same sort of myth about Bataan. Malaria killed en masse. Both sides. Quinine scarcity. At the end there was no big battle. The Japanese just brought fresh, uninfected troops in and they just walked in. Marched them off to POW camps, and they died enroute because there was no quinine. There was no up against the wall shooting going on.


51 posted on 09/06/2025 3:37:18 PM PDT by Owen
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To: BenLurkin

General George S. Patton.


52 posted on 09/06/2025 3:59:31 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: blackpacific

A little known fact about Grenada ia that when that guy blew up the barracks in Lebanon, the invasion of Grenada was already taking place and 47 hours later ground troops were engaged in battle there.


53 posted on 09/06/2025 4:08:37 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A late friend was a Marine pilot in Korea and Vietnam. When he saw the list of places they were not allowed to bomb in North Vietnam, he knew the game was fixed.


54 posted on 09/06/2025 4:09:37 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well he’s right about that. Ukraine for example.


55 posted on 09/06/2025 6:20:35 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

56 posted on 09/06/2025 6:49:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: ealgeone
We had to stop Desert Storm after 100 hours because Bush got tired of winning. He refused to recognize that Saddam was an intollerable evil because he does not believe in evil.

Apparently, President Trump NEVER gets tired of winning. Evil touched Trump on the ear and he responded with Fight Fight Fight!

57 posted on 09/06/2025 8:43:04 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: Theophilus
We had to stop Desert Storm after 100 hours because Bush got tired of winning. He refused to recognize that Saddam was an intollerable evil because he does not believe in evil.

Bush 41 was right. We had a mission objective during Desert Storm. Kick Iraq out of Kuwait. Once that was done, it was time to go home.

58 posted on 09/06/2025 8:46:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: BenLurkin

With the Department of War and the Department of the Navy.

Any questions?


59 posted on 09/06/2025 9:36:29 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Owen

So the stories of GIs forced to kill sick comrades on the Bataan death march were lies? Or the Japanese bayonetting wounded men?

The Russians executing any German soldier who had certain ID like Nazi party or SS.Nikita Kruschev telling “they are in the cold Sovi we t ground”?

War is uvly and pretending atrocities don’t happen is dishonest.

The Old Testament tells of slaugherting ALL the people men and women of a city by the victorious Israelites sparing only virgin girls.

Humans are really good at killing other humans.


60 posted on 09/08/2025 7:17:28 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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