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Depressing world facts in April 2023: "I'm in a war zone." "Oh yeah, which one?" At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straigh

Depressing world facts in April 2023: "I'm in a war zone." "Oh yeah, which one?" At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straight to assuming the answer is "Ukraine". Any other active wars going on[1]? Maybe Myanmar.. [1] Result for "active wars in 2023" gives me a page of potential conflicts: https://www.cfr.org/report/conflicts-watch-2023 https://www.cfr.org/report/conflicts-watch-2023

pastacacioepepe 4y ago
> At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straight to assuming the answer is "Ukraine". Ignorants perhaps. Several other active conflicts predate Ukraine's war[0]. It's just that nobody cared much, maybe as the people dying weren't white? Wanna have fun? Pair the Wikipedia link about armed conflicts with the stats about the major arms exporters[1]. .0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict... .1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-the-leadings-exporters-of-conventional-weapons/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-t...
perth 4y ago
Don’t forget the not often talked about Colombian Conflict!
beardog 4y ago
The tigray war is kind of paused right now and Eritrea has not signed onto the ceasefire, so I would still treat it as a war zone if I were to travel there. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict could reignite if Azerbaijan wants to take advantage of Russia's distraction. The Yemeni and Syrian civil wars are still not resolved Western Sahara has a sort of no-mans land and a land mine problem and had clashes in 2020. India's borders with Pakistan see skirmishes from time to time. A similar situation may arise with India and China too as water and geopolitical issues mount.
- beardog 4y ago
  Correction, seems the China-India situation has already become similar with clashes in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
andrepd 4y ago
> Depressing world facts in April 2023: Has there ever been a point in at least the last 2500 years where there weren't multiple active warzones in the world?
- labster 4y ago
  > Depressing human nature facts in any year FTFY
bragr 4y ago
>"Oh yeah, which one?" I mean, when has there ever not been several regional wars going?
- lucumo 4y ago
  That happened a couple of times, but that was because everyone was fighting in one big war.
  - noduerme 4y ago
    Another way of looking at it is that there were so many regional wars between the Spanish Civil War and the bombing of Nagasaki that at some point we just started historically lumping them all together.

pastacacioepepe 4y ago

> At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straight to assuming the answer is "Ukraine". Ignorants perhaps. Several other active conflicts predate Ukraine's war[0]. It's just that nobody cared much, maybe as the people dying weren't white? Wanna have fun? Pair the Wikipedia link about armed conflicts with the stats about the major arms exporters[1]. .0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict... .1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-the-leadings-exporters-of-conventional-weapons/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-t...

perth 4y ago

Don’t forget the not often talked about Colombian Conflict!

beardog 4y ago

The tigray war is kind of paused right now and Eritrea has not signed onto the ceasefire, so I would still treat it as a war zone if I were to travel there. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict could reignite if Azerbaijan wants to take advantage of Russia's distraction. The Yemeni and Syrian civil wars are still not resolved Western Sahara has a sort of no-mans land and a land mine problem and had clashes in 2020. India's borders with Pakistan see skirmishes from time to time. A similar situation may arise with India and China too as water and geopolitical issues mount.

beardog 4y ago
Correction, seems the China-India situation has already become similar with clashes in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

andrepd 4y ago

> Depressing world facts in April 2023: Has there ever been a point in at least the last 2500 years where there weren't multiple active warzones in the world?

labster 4y ago
> Depressing human nature facts in any year FTFY

bragr 4y ago

>"Oh yeah, which one?" I mean, when has there ever not been several regional wars going?

lucumo 4y ago
That happened a couple of times, but that was because everyone was fighting in one big war.
- noduerme 4y ago
  Another way of looking at it is that there were so many regional wars between the Spanish Civil War and the bombing of Nagasaki that at some point we just started historically lumping them all together.