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>With the exception of the recent Ukrainian war, violent deaths on Earth have been massively trending downward for decades You're clearly out of touch here. T
by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>With the exception of the recent Ukrainian war, violent deaths on Earth have been massively trending downward for decades
You're clearly out of touch here.
The war in Ukraine was going on sice 2014, and you also missed the Armenian Azerbaijan war in Nagorno-Karabakh, then the Papua conflict, then the dozens of other conflict on the African continent. And don't forget the war on terror which cost thousands of lives, trillions of dollars, 4 US presidents and 20 years just to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
War has never stopped. You just stopped looking for it since it's not happening in your back yard, if the only one you can mention is the one in Ukraine.
- sneak 3y agoWar didn’t stop, but even counting all of these, violent deaths on the planet are way, way down. We don’t wage wars anywhere near the scale that we used to, and that’s a good thing. The money is a different matter, of course.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoDeaths went down compared to what? WW2 and Stalin and Mao's cleansings? That's not a high bar.
- piva00 3y agoIn relative terms (violent deaths per capita due to war) it went down compared to any period before the end of WW2. French revolution, Napoleonic wars, American Civil War, wars of independence in Latin America, etc. comprise some 100 years. In the last 80 years we had markedly less deadly wars across the whole world...
- hackerlight 3y agoNobody said that war stopped. The claim is that per capita conflict deaths have declined. This is a precise claim which can't be addressed by simply listing a handful of wars that have occurred.