Debunking Claims: Has the UK Defeated Every Country at War?

🎯 Reality Check: Sketchy 🚩

📝 Why: The UK has indeed fought—and won—plenty of wars, but “every single country in the world” is a huge stretch! Even if you just count states that exist today, many have never been at war with the UK, and some (like the US in the War of Independence, Afghanistan, and Vietnam) weren’t really “defeated.” In fact, a 2012 Royal Navy report says Britain has “fought in 171 countries out of 193 UN member states,” but NOT defeated all. And the US, for example, won its independence and is not “working for us ever since.”

🔗 Source: Professor Andrew Lambert, BBC News; “All the Countries Britain Has Invaded: A Short Guide to a Long Career,” The Telegraph, 2012; Encyclopaedia Britannica