• OurToothbrushM
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    1 year ago

    Literally the Vietnamese called the US a paper tiger and then kicked the US’ ass.

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      1 year ago

      If what the US did to Vietnam and Cambodia over 20+ years is a “paper tiger” then uh, I don’t think a real tiger exists.

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        Do genocide and fail at winning wars against relatively small impoverished nations?

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          I guess if killing 1million+ Vietnamese is something a “paper tiger” does sure the US is a “paper tiger.”

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            Yes. This isn’t call of duty where the goal is to kill as many people as possible. The US got its ass kicked.

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              Yes I get it. The US lost the Vietnam war. The issue is that a “paper tiger” doesn’t kill 1million+ people. Losing a war doesn’t mean you are a paper tiger.

              Is Hamas also a paper tiger? Russia? Israel?

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                Quit coping, you’re clearly in the wrong here.

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                  I’d say that the vietnamese soldier who made the claim and almost certainly was killed by the “paper tiger” was wrong.

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          So paper tiger’s kill 1million+ people and then someone else’s capital city is renamed? Is the US the only “paper tiger” to ever exist? I figured the expression would be much older then the US.