The Axis powers and the Empire of Japan definitively lost it, and the US definitely won it. How much the USSR or other European Allied powers "won" versus "survived" is perhaps up for debate.
What nonsense. While there are no shortage of draws and Pyrrhic victories, there are plenty of wars which are definitively won and lost. World War Two, for example. Or the Vietnam War, which the Viet Cong definitively won and the US definitively lost. Or Afghanistan, where a bunch of inbred goat herders kicked the US Army out so fast it couldn't even collect its toys.
And yet the US still lost the war. You know, the important part about wars? A not-a-real-country country full of goat herders with rusty Kalashnikovs won the war and the glorious, modern US military lost the war.
But the facts remain that a:
retarded
inbred
shit country
defeated the US military, and embarrassingly so.
How'd that work out against Afghanistan?
Only when the man is too weak to just make a decision and enforce it after she says "dunno" the first time.
Gold doesn't need electricity or computers to work, much less the cooperation of Walmart and whatever big corporation is managing their gift cards for them, and whatever company the gas station uses to process gift cards.

