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No major wars since WW2?

• coldtea 3y ago
  That's because the European powers got obliterated in WW2 and US secured the top position, making their previous in-fighting for European and global dominance (which caused WWI and WW2) moot. Not only they couldn't even attempt to secure more power, they even lost what remained of their colonial "empires" around that time. Post-WW2, the US as the new top dog going to grab its global spoils, went on to fight, directly (Korea, Vietnam, all the way to the modern invasions) and indirectly fuel all kinds of peripheral wars, and if the USSR was in better status and had a firmer grip globally, a major war could have been on the cards too, it came close at several times, like the Bay of Pigs. But they folded by themselves (plus there was this "mutual assured destruction thing"). So, it's more like senile people in some elderly hospice bragging how peaceful they are that they don't get into bar fights anymore - when neither their age and health, nor the conditions they're now in would make any sense for them to do so.