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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 month ago (15 children)

If you crack open a history book you'll find that a multi-polar world has a lot more war. Napoleonic wars, World Wars, etc. Even in the Cold War when nuclear weapons made it too insane for super powers to fight each other directly, they found ways to have massive proxy wars, like the Korean War and Vietnam War. These wars left over a million people dead each. Then there were all of the various civil wars that the superpowers were involved like the Angolan civil war, that one was about a half million people dead. These conflicts were happening all over the world.

People today shit themselves over Gaza, but that's less than a tenth of casualties compared to the wars that happened in the Cold War and less than 0.2% of WW2. Would you consider wars happening in multiple parts of the world with 10 to 500 times the casualties we've seen in Gaza to be a "stable world"?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Concert of Europe kept the continent relatively peaceful for a century, mainly by ensuring that one nation didn't become another Napoleonic France.

Post World War II was also relatively peaceful compared to the interwar years, mainly because of the two interventionist powers trying to compete with each other. There was a lot of genocide after World War I.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So if it's only millions of non-white people dying that means the world is "stable"?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago

I use stable as a relative term, but it isn't like the number of non-white people dying goes down during periods of instability.

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