10 Countries That Are Impossible To Invade

[Quixote1818]

[caraher]

1. Pretty sloppy video

Right out of the gate they claim Iran hasn't been invaded since WWII, conveniently forgetting that Saddam had a go in the 1980s.

[demosincebirth]

2. Saddam didn't invade Iran. They fought to stalemate.

[caraher]

10. An unsuccessful invasion is still an invasion

Yes, the war was a bloody stalemate that began with Iraqi forces crossing the Iranian border in force with the intention of seizing and holding territory. Which is pretty much the dictionary definition of an invasion.

[demosincebirth]

11. If you say so

[caraher]

12. After getting 3 responses saying it wasn't an "invasion" I consulted a dictionary

And pretty much every online source on the war begins with a sentence saying something like "in 1980, Iraqi forces invaded Iran..." So it's not just me saying so

[crazytown]

3. "Saddam had a go"

Indeed he did, and was stopped 80 miles in. But Iraq was not attempting to invade Iran as such - 'merely' the neighboring province of Khuzestan. They wanted some nearby oilfields, and the Shatt al-Arab waterway. They didn't get very far.

[paleotn]

7. Invaded? Well, sorta...

It was primarily a stalemate in and around the existing border with minor incursions by both sides. Certainly no invasion.

[Marcuse]

4. The US occupation of Japan is not considered an invasion?

[Nitram]

5. The US dropped the nukes to avoid having to invade. It was estimated that a million would die during

invasion of Okinawa alone. The coastline of all the Japanese islands is riddled with thousands of caves and tunnels excavated for local defense units. Japan was only occupied by US troops when the country had agreed to an unconditional surrender.

[Harker]

6. No mention of the British Invasion of

the US in the 1960s.

[paleotn]

8. Was that when they burned Washington?

....oh....wait.

[Harker]

9. Well... it did get Paul Revere going.