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Russia and China fought - not a full war, but they fought. Iraq-Iran, very very bloody. And the list goes on and on. The cold war was an exceptionally bloody pe
by Nomentatus 4y ago
Russia and China fought - not a full war, but they fought. Iraq-Iran, very very bloody. And the list goes on and on. The cold war was an exceptionally bloody period with casualties not out of line with the WWII period, there were a **ton of proxy wars.
- Nomentatus 4y agoAdd extensive air combat between Soviet pilots and American pilots in Vietnam, and Korea I believe.
- epolanski 4y agoAs I said there are minor exceptions. Iraq and Iran were not top 30 economies when they fought the war.
- colechristensen 4y agoCasualties absolutely were out of line with WWII. Go find a graph of war deaths divided by world population by year for the last two hundred years and make the comparison yourself.
- twelve40 4y agoThe biggest loss of life during the Cold war occurred in Vietnam and Korea, a couple of million people dead each. The US wasn't very "proxy" about those wars, just bombed the shit out of both directly, civilians and all. So, how do you define a "miscreant" you would like to exclude? Based on number of people killed, or some other, more "democratic" criteria?