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You misunderstand: the overall trend of deaths around the globe due to armed conflict. About Europe, I said I wouldn't argue because I don't have the knowledge

• Turing_Machine 9y ago
  "You misunderstand: the overall trend of deaths around the globe due to armed conflict." WWI killed 38 million. WWII killed 60 million. That doesn't look like a downward trend to me.
  • euyyn 9y ago
    This is where I got it from: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace/ https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace/ The downward trend since the middle ages is actually in wars between the major powers. War mortality seems more or less the same over the long term. The number of smaller conflicts goes up, though. The decreasing long-term trend in all violence, not just war, is stronger: https://ourworldindata.org/slides/war-and-violence/#/title-slide https://ourworldindata.org/slides/war-and-violence/#/title-s...