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If US (Soviet/postSoviet Russia should get some stability credit here too) hegemony started in, say, 1950, then the number of global per-capita deaths from conf
by onecommentman 5y ago
If US (Soviet/postSoviet Russia should get some stability credit here too) hegemony started in, say, 1950, then the number of global per-capita deaths from conflict have declined by about a factor of 10^2 (a hundred) during this period, if I’m reading this graph correctly
https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-years https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-yea...
If two orders of magnitude reduction in deaths due to war over almost three generation lengths is how you define “more dangerous”, then danger starts to sound like a good thing.