A lot of wars lately have been proxy wars from the Cold War (or the fallout from that, particularly in the Middle East): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p

A lot of wars lately have been proxy wars from the Cold War (or the fallout from that, particularly in the Middle East): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proxy_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proxy_wars Oversimplified has a great couple of Youtube videos that explain it all (this was where Vietnam finally made some kind of sense to me) in an accessible and entertaining way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I79TpDe3t2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I79TpDe3t2g