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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Russia lost to smaller countries in the past - Japan, Finland, and Afghanistan.

But then, the US couldn't beat NKorea, lost to Vietnam and then lost to Russia's common enemy Afghanistan.

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US never lost to NK.  In fact that war never ended.  We were pushed back by the Chinese.  We had captured all of North Korea when the Chinese came in.  Vietnam was no loss either.  More of a draw.  We were not there at the end and did not reinforce South Vietnam like we planned to do because that was the middle of Watergate.  As for Afghanistan -- we sure lost that one but that was political.  A decision was made to leave -- right or wrong -- had we wanted to we would still be there today propping up our puppet government.[/quote]

Sounds like losses to me[/quote]

Vietnam was not a war; it was a battle in the Cold War.

In Vietnam, we faced an enemy backed by 20,000 Russian military “advisors” and 30,000 Chinese advisers.  American pilots over N. Vietnam were in dogfights with Russian pilots -  not Vietnamese.

And those “Vietnamese” SAM sites?  - Russian made missiles, operated by Russian military units.[/quote] Moreover, Russia didn’t lose to Finland. Russia was fighting both Finland and the German army supporting Finland. Under the final peace deal, Karelia was annexed by the Russian Federation. The rest of Finland was officially neutral but cooperated with the Soviet Union. [/quote]

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