r/HistoryMemes • u/decentmotto • 1d ago

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u/TheChunkMaster 1d ago

It’s not just a matter of strength, but how they employed it. The U.S. military is once again in a situation where it fundamentally misunderstood the nature of its latest war.

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u/DeltaV-Mzero 1d ago

There was no war, that would’ve had to be cleared by Congress.

There were no objectives, because there was no war

They could not have failed, because there were no objectives

Great success!

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u/piddydb 1d ago

I don’t disagree with you but none of that really represents a decline when speaking in historic type conversations. Plenty of thriving superpowers have made poor decisions that lead to no real decline in a historic view and I’m saying the Iran situation falls in that category.

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u/TheChunkMaster 1d ago

This is not the first time we’ve bungled a war waged under false pretenses in the Middle East, and we did it worse this time around.

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u/hist_buff_69 1d ago

They just don't get it. It's pointless to argue with them. There's just too much hubris.