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> Is this a joke? The world since WW2 is the most peaceful it has ever been in human history. Not a joke, if you care to look outside the West.
by capex 8y ago
> Is this a joke? The world since WW2 is the most peaceful it has ever been in human history.
Not a joke, if you care to look outside the West.
- cassianoleal 8y agoOr just south of the border, all the way down to Tierra del Fuego. US meddling has been hampering Latin American societies and economies for a long time.
- pavelrub 8y agoThis is factually incorrect. I suggest you read Pinker's "Enlightenment Now" to understand that the world, even outside of the West, has been getting significantly better in pretty much every metric since WW2, including scale and number of wars. The only difference is that today it is much easier to get exposed to the existence of various conflicts that nobody in the West would've even been aware of in the past.