the united states refuses to admit it's defeats because we rely on this mindset of convincing the general public that life is like a blockbuster movie and we're the action hero main character. every once in awhile people will admit we lost (usually immediately after) but it will quickly be drowned out by a media blackout followed by vaguely referencing it and saying: "it was a complex and complicated historical military government thing and you'd need to take a college course on it to even begin to understand what happened! so beat just forget about it."
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