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Basically every time somebody goes back in time, it creates a new fork in the future. The machines lose in all of them to John Connor.

Now most of the movies take place is a steadily advancing fork, so you don't get to see, for example, what happens in the future of Terminator 1 before Terminator 2 happens, and you don't get to see what happens in the future of Terminator 2 before Terminator 3. A machine apocalypse still eventually happens in both movies, and they get defeated both times. Although it's implied the machines do eventually kill John Connor in the future of Terminator 2
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