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Anglo-Zanzibar War
- ethbro 11y agoIt's always curious to come across Wikipedia articles of military actions of which I wasn't aware. It reminds me how low the historical bar has been for physical violence in pursuit of geopolitical goals.
- emodendroket 11y agoAs opposed to today, when that is unheard of, I guess.
- lisivka 11y agoAt least two wars right now: in Ukraine (Russia occupied Crimea and part of east of Ukraine), and in Syria.
- emodendroket 11y agoThere are wars in many places, yes.
- ethbro 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict... Maybe I would more accurately say "... reminds me how low the historical bar has been for physical violence by first world countries in pursuit of their own geopolitical goals." Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq are absolutely attributable to same, but I'd say there probably hasn't been a solid decade where the Lebanon-Pakistan corridor of countries hasn't had some kind of armed conflict (setting Israel aside even). Other than that, most of what I see seems to be civil war.
- slackstation 11y agoThe greatest luxury we live in today is a freedom from violence so total we barely even register it. In antiquity, violence was so common, so total and such a fact of life that we can't even imagine it.
- labster 11y agoI can't really imagine violence in everyday life, but if you live in Northern Nigeria, or in certain parts of Mexico, or in all of Syria or Iraq the people there definitely can imagine it. That said, I consider myself exceptionally lucky to live in a hemisphere that is mostly free from war, religious persecution, and slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_war#/media/File:Ongoing_conflicts_around_the_world.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_war#/media/File:Ong...
- slackstation 11y agoI was implying the Western First World. Large swathes of the world still teem with violence as common and inescapable as daybreak.
- pessimizer 10y agoI grew up on the South Side of Chicago dodging bullets and torture cops to get back and forth from my segregated grade school. 30 years later it's the same but the school is worse.
- Pica_soO 10y agoI thank Oppenheimer Atomic bomb every day for this. Also the violence in those 3rd world factories and resource operations - and the self destructive violence of religion harasses a little more then two thirds of humanity.