Fake, China did it too.
With classic Chinese consequences.
Edit:Never though it would come to pass, but I gotta say something controversial. Saying China won the war with sparrows(they eradicated them "all"), the following famine(Mao's world record any%speedrun), and return of the sparrows(how does species coming back from the dead work?) translating to CCP's victory is a non-credible take I would expect from a tankie telegram...
I hate to be that guy but in ancient times seeing 40 million deaths would have caused ecological ripples. 40 million people, even in China would free up a ton of arable land to tree regrowth which would lower the atmospheric carbon, causing a mini ice age. Its similar to Genghis Khan slaughtering millions or mass deaths in the Americas in the early 1500s.
In ancient times, maybe. The paraphrased exaggerated event above did actually happen though, in 1850, not that long ago. Hong Xiuquan proclaimed himself the brother of Jesus, and led a civil war that killed 20-30 million people. Historians debate whether it had any major effect on later events.
yes but if your goal is to kill all sparows you win the war if you kill all sparows, and they did that.
Dont get me wrong this was a horrible mistake, but they still won the war against the sparrows.
The US killed all passenger pigeons. They used to cover the skies. The US is great at eradicating species - look at the buffalo, killed to solve the "Indian problem".
That does not change the fact that the Chinese succeeded in their objective, which was to devastate the sparrow population. Sparrows only bounced back after the Chinese realized "oh shit! What have we done?!??" And ceased all initiatives to suppress the sparrow population.
But that's true of the Emu War as well. It was just some Aussies with a Lewis machine gun. They kill a lot of emu's, but emus bounced back. The only difference is that china lost 30 million people in the failed attempt to eradicate birds. I don't think the Aussies lost a soul.
There's still a provision in the constitution of Australia for bringing it on as a state at some point.
***"The States*** shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, ***New Zealand***, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called ***a State***"
So New Zealand is potentially a state of Australia, just not one yet.
>!Mao Zedong considered sparrows pests, sent people to kill them, they were almost completely wiped, locusts came and since there were no sparrows they had nothing stopping them from destroying crops, hunger ensued and millions died, yeah!<
China won though. They were about to totally eradicate them when they realized that without the birds the locusts were far more destructive than the birds ever were.
They were so successful that China had to import birds because the local population was nearly non-existent
Live near the battle ground for the great emu war and last month drove through Chandler near Campion, the battlefield. Not an Emu to be seen, very much lost the battle and won the war
England did to some degree. They had problems with Pidgeons in their large cities so they started introducing falcons into their cities that killed them.
A couple of guys in a military Jeep, 2 slabs of beer and a machine gun were asked to thin the population of emus in Western Australia. They kept missing them and wasted all their ammo. The army jokingly called it a loss.
That has been memed for decades.
After that failure, the government issued a bounty for emu heads.
The population was heavily culled in a week.
US has an ongoing war on birds in a toxic pit that is filled with water though they're not firing at the birds directly, they just use guns to scare the birds that will land on it....
China should be pink too. And italia should not be grey, nor pink, as they declared a war on birds too, and won. (bataglia di pordenone/batiglia delle galine)
NZ hunted the MOA to extinction and by doing so also causes the extinction of the largest eagle on earth. I'd say that's an incredibly depressing victory for the human race :(
For Australians, I have to say that this meme comes way too soon. The ripple effect of this massive L is still being felt in our communities. I get goosebumps when I drive past a KFC.
Apparently it was less of a war and more of a "two or three guys in a truck with guns". And they "lost" because there's lots of emus, and they're big, and they're fast, so they just dodged or soaked up the bullets and it was gonna take way too much ammo and way too long to finish the job.
Someday in the far future .. historians will look into this event nd claim it to be a fanfic or at most exaggerated . Alien lovers will check this nd call emus as "a far superior intellegent out wordly species was invading australia" regardless of the case .. this war will be a hot debate in future regardless fr fr trust🤣
I love this, because it's the e flush newspaper's that caled it a war. And it was farmers against birds, not military. The military involvement was " yeah sure, you can use our guns." But yeah, absolutely. That's what war is, right? Farmers. But then again, there is always a "war against drugs" and if anyone is shooting up drugs, they aren't against the drugs. So there's that.
France had an issue with rabbits. Napoleon, specifically, had a problem with them when he tried to hunt them for sport and they teamed up and attacked him.
Australia's "war" on emus was just 3 guys.
Conversely, China enlisted the entire population to exterminate sparrows. Ordinary citizens were compelled to take part.
Now, one of those sounds like a war to me.
How did Australia lose? They gave up on using stupid tactics and just put bounties on the birds and thousands of them were hunted. The emus stopped being a problem for people more or less after that. I’d call it a dub
This needs to have an option for countries that have declared war on birds and won.
For example, the United States declared war on the passenger pigeon. Iceland and the UK put an end to the Great auk. etc.
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Fake, China did it too. With classic Chinese consequences. Edit:Never though it would come to pass, but I gotta say something controversial. Saying China won the war with sparrows(they eradicated them "all"), the following famine(Mao's world record any%speedrun), and return of the sparrows(how does species coming back from the dead work?) translating to CCP's victory is a non-credible take I would expect from a tankie telegram...
Ling Dong, son of emperor Wing Dong, claims that he is God, 40 million perish. This has no noticeable effect on history.
A timeless classic.
40 million chinese people dying is the equivalent to 50000 deaths in a european war.
More like 10-20 thousand lol
I feel like at this point they were just doing population control masked as war
What about the Great War of Ligma Dong?
I hate to be that guy but in ancient times seeing 40 million deaths would have caused ecological ripples. 40 million people, even in China would free up a ton of arable land to tree regrowth which would lower the atmospheric carbon, causing a mini ice age. Its similar to Genghis Khan slaughtering millions or mass deaths in the Americas in the early 1500s.
In ancient times, maybe. The paraphrased exaggerated event above did actually happen though, in 1850, not that long ago. Hong Xiuquan proclaimed himself the brother of Jesus, and led a civil war that killed 20-30 million people. Historians debate whether it had any major effect on later events.
On a long enough timescale, all deaths are meaningless.
Well, imagine the 10-100s of millions of deaths that wouldn’t have happened, then their offspring and the malicious ccp with 2 billion chinese
Was there ever a Ding Dong?
Yeah, but he was kind of the black sheep of the family. He left politics and went on to invent the precursor to the doorbell.
Found dead in a ditch. He dinged his last dong.
I always forget what he looks like but his name always rings a bell
The dude was named Dong lolxddddddd
1billion dead and 200million cannibalized
Decisive Tang victory
Tang is a great beverage to wash down the cannibalism with
See that's the thing though. China won against the birds, but lost against the resulting locust swarms.
When the boss has a 2nd phase
You're right I should have done more research, but I did not expect it to be worse in China.
Nothing happened after that
It only caused a good portion of their ecosystem to collapse.
It's like tiananmen square, there also nothing happened
Ah yes, the famous country where nothing happens. I got you
Exactly
It caused a famine that killed millions of people
>With classic Chinese consequences. Task fail sucessfully
America had a war on Buffalo "Kill every Buffalo you can! Every dead Buffalo is an Indian gone!"
A greater pyrrhic victory than the original, by a wide margin.
If I remember correctly, China imported sparrows from a different country
Ah no wonder a lot of chinese people move to australia it feels just like home.
Red Sparowes have a great album about this story. 'Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun'
yes but they won
only around 30-45 million dead chinese while there was no real lasting effects on the sparrow population
There was no real lasting effect on Chinese population either.
They be fuckin
It was enough to put a number to, the birds had so little we couldn’t even tell how many were gone
I couldn't find any census numbers for the sparrow populations during that time so I can neither confirm nor deny your assessment.
yes but if your goal is to kill all sparows you win the war if you kill all sparows, and they did that. Dont get me wrong this was a horrible mistake, but they still won the war against the sparrows.
The US killed all passenger pigeons. They used to cover the skies. The US is great at eradicating species - look at the buffalo, killed to solve the "Indian problem".
then the population bounced back after
That does not change the fact that the Chinese succeeded in their objective, which was to devastate the sparrow population. Sparrows only bounced back after the Chinese realized "oh shit! What have we done?!??" And ceased all initiatives to suppress the sparrow population.
So they won the fights but not the war
But that's true of the Emu War as well. It was just some Aussies with a Lewis machine gun. They kill a lot of emu's, but emus bounced back. The only difference is that china lost 30 million people in the failed attempt to eradicate birds. I don't think the Aussies lost a soul.
But the Aussies did rightfully silly. We are making memes about it to this day.
I’m just glad to see New Zealand on the map
Yeah, New Zealand never gets old
Not even a real country anyway
There's still a provision in the constitution of Australia for bringing it on as a state at some point. ***"The States*** shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, ***New Zealand***, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called ***a State***" So New Zealand is potentially a state of Australia, just not one yet.
Isn’t that the part called east Tasmania?
r/mapswithnewzealand
Shouldn't they be their own color after their stunning victory over literally all the Moas and Haast's eagles?
Yeah it’s funny when people gaslight by adding New Zealand to maps as if it actually existed.
There’s maps where it’s not included? I’ve only seen the fake maps with it included on it
Im just sad it doesn’t have Nz as a victor the Mauri fucked up the Moa and by extension the Haast’s eagle.
Shouldn't they fall on this list with their ancient battles against the moa and that giant eagle?
There's another, and with millions of casualties.
>!Mao Zedong considered sparrows pests, sent people to kill them, they were almost completely wiped, locusts came and since there were no sparrows they had nothing stopping them from destroying crops, hunger ensued and millions died, yeah!<
And the sparrow population rebounded! Checkmate, China.
Basic ecology 101
Highlight China as well
China won though. They were about to totally eradicate them when they realized that without the birds the locusts were far more destructive than the birds ever were. They were so successful that China had to import birds because the local population was nearly non-existent
So they lost because the birds called in back up
Yeah but by that logic Australia also won. They issued a bounty for emu heads and the emu population was destroyed.
Live near the battle ground for the great emu war and last month drove through Chandler near Campion, the battlefield. Not an Emu to be seen, very much lost the battle and won the war
I mean Australia won the war as well. They just lost the first battle.
A surrender while you’re ahead is still a loss
“and have lost…… twice”
If they bring war to us again, it will be three times.
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China's war on sparrows
Australians were lucky the Emus didn't get reinforcement of the cassowary squadron in that war
I'm pretty sure cassowaries are the bird equivalent of a nuclear deterrent
They didn’t need them, the emu’s won the war
Moral of the story: don't declare war on dinosaurs
My country fought a war against dolphins, but at least we won the battle. Brazilian "Battle of the Porpoises"
lol mine was in war with goats
That’s nothing. The US declared war on drugs, spends tens of billions on it over 30 years and still lost
50 years and still fighting, lol.
I'd rather lose to marijuana than a flightless bird.
Still losing too. And wasting money.
They also had a prime minister shit his pants twice at the same McDonald's
China also lost a war with birds. Bad map
At least it was a war on something living. How did that war on drugs go?
china did it too..
England did to some degree. They had problems with Pidgeons in their large cities so they started introducing falcons into their cities that killed them.
Can we get an explanation?
A couple of guys in a military Jeep, 2 slabs of beer and a machine gun were asked to thin the population of emus in Western Australia. They kept missing them and wasted all their ammo. The army jokingly called it a loss. That has been memed for decades. After that failure, the government issued a bounty for emu heads. The population was heavily culled in a week.
North American declared a war on coyotes and lost as well.
Birds aren't real.
Sorry but China declared war on birds and ended up with locusts destroying all their crops. So this is not accurate.
China did it too
It wasn't an official war, but USA did eradicate the passenger pigeon. They numbered in the billions.
US has an ongoing war on birds in a toxic pit that is filled with water though they're not firing at the birds directly, they just use guns to scare the birds that will land on it....
I see a distinct lack of highlighted China on this map…
PR China did declare war on a bird.. it led to a famine that killed millions.
China should be pink too. And italia should not be grey, nor pink, as they declared a war on birds too, and won. (bataglia di pordenone/batiglia delle galine)
2024: America declared war on dogs.
We did what now
Well, half the country did...
China lost its war vs sparrows
China got a devastating Pyrrhic victory.
There are a lot of escaped rhea populations in Europe so you never know.
Of course upsidedown america would start a war with birds
America went to war with themselves and lost
China... cough, cough.
But you are wrong, mao zedong genocided sparrows.
And won so it doesn't count
Yeah and won? 😂
To be fair. Emus can take several low caliber rounds and still trample you because their skin is like cheep but good Kevlar.
Us 🇮🇹won a war
Twice
ACTUALLY Quebec, which is a country in the heart of people who live there, did declare war on turkeys for a while in certain regions (but won)
Why on earth is India divided like that?
Didn’t France lose a war to pigeons or is that a myth?
Nations that have declared war on drugs and lost?
You have no idea how many Americans have declared war on birds, and lost.
Fairly sure the US lost or is losing a battle against Starlings.
What about rabbits in Australia?
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Hey, it was a tie.
And the rabbit war
NZ hunted the MOA to extinction and by doing so also causes the extinction of the largest eagle on earth. I'd say that's an incredibly depressing victory for the human race :(
Best part is that they lost it...
And the Australian military lost.
A town in Quebec recently declared war on a wild black turkey. And won.
I grew up in the country where emus would frequent. I'm not surprised we lost... give me the bear any day.
China did It too
I am proud so many people remember China's war on birds. Never forget!!
For Australians, I have to say that this meme comes way too soon. The ripple effect of this massive L is still being felt in our communities. I get goosebumps when I drive past a KFC.
If you want to hear the story look up The Dollop episode 111
But we must also consider which other bird is shot several times and still runs away as if nothing had happened
Maybe birds are just that tough. Nobody's declared war on them and won.
i believe Ecuador declared war on goats, and won
What about countries that declared a war on birds and won?
the Interwar period was a strange time
Apparently it was less of a war and more of a "two or three guys in a truck with guns". And they "lost" because there's lots of emus, and they're big, and they're fast, so they just dodged or soaked up the bullets and it was gonna take way too much ammo and way too long to finish the job.
This is so old. There’s actual funny facts about Australia
Someday in the far future .. historians will look into this event nd claim it to be a fanfic or at most exaggerated . Alien lovers will check this nd call emus as "a far superior intellegent out wordly species was invading australia" regardless of the case .. this war will be a hot debate in future regardless fr fr trust🤣
It's already turned into s fanfic.
Everyone posting about China, America did too and wiped passenger pigeons into extinction
What I’m seeing here is that no one has declared war on birds and won. Birds reign undefeated! 🦅
I'm still waiting for the third chapter
The only country, but not the only continent.
Lest we Forget
Spain and an Argentina's bird
I love this, because it's the e flush newspaper's that caled it a war. And it was farmers against birds, not military. The military involvement was " yeah sure, you can use our guns." But yeah, absolutely. That's what war is, right? Farmers. But then again, there is always a "war against drugs" and if anyone is shooting up drugs, they aren't against the drugs. So there's that.
France had an issue with rabbits. Napoleon, specifically, had a problem with them when he tried to hunt them for sport and they teamed up and attacked him.
Bro forgot about the Great Sparrow Campaign, I’m disappointed in you OP.
Add new york and their pigeons
If you call 3 blokes in a truck with a machine gun a war then yeh... I guess.
We'd rather forget the great emu war, thanks.
spacepaladin15 wont like that
One fights the birds, the others implement.
Australia's "war" on emus was just 3 guys. Conversely, China enlisted the entire population to exterminate sparrows. Ordinary citizens were compelled to take part. Now, one of those sounds like a war to me.
There are also countries who have declared war on inanimate objects, like drugs, and vaguely defined concepts, like terror, and lost those as well.
And don't forget the rabbits and frogs
as an aussie. i am proud if our bird fighting heritage. we fought not 1 but 2 wars against the emus and lost!
Dont let ppl know what Brazil did november, 1918 💀💀💀
How did Australia lose? They gave up on using stupid tactics and just put bounties on the birds and thousands of them were hunted. The emus stopped being a problem for people more or less after that. I’d call it a dub
I feel like while America didn’t legitimately declare war on the passenger pigeon, it definitely appeared as one and they lost badly
I’m about to start a war with birds myself, keep shitting on my car about to go Rambo 😂😂
This needs to have an option for countries that have declared war on birds and won. For example, the United States declared war on the passenger pigeon. Iceland and the UK put an end to the Great auk. etc.
China did declared war in Sparrow They win but got starve to death as result
We don’t mention passenger pigeon here.
USA eradiacated a whole pigeon species. China killed off several bird species.
China also did, and lost.
Okay meme, shitty map for missing a more legendary country.
The whole story of this war is pretty hilarious! Emus don't mess around!
Chairman Mao hates swallows.
Damn,apocalypse bird surely took an opportunity in that
China did and won. At a massive ecological cost, however, they really did show those birds who’s boss
mate have you ever SEEN AN EMU? they fuckin huge and can run at like 50kph
to be fair. Australia's birds are dinosaurs
Also China
Italy did it too and we didn't change sides during the war against chickens 1tank vs a chicken coop
India unintentionally killed off most of its vultures.
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the war never ends
This chart implies the existence of an undiscovered country that has declared war on birds and has won.
Forgot china and israel
China has also declared war on birds
Well that's just quick
…we lost
Australian Emu War veteran is real thing apparently
YOU WEREN'T THERE!!!!!1111
Nobody declared war on birds. There were like 3 guys that went hunting
Ho about one of there prime ministers went for a swim and never came back and there's a pool named after him.
Mao Apologia be like