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Interesting story which I didn't know. However, the author perspective is a bit flawed: But the world did get more peaceful. There was no World War III, and co

Interesting story which I didn't know. However, the author perspective is a bit flawed: But the world did get more peaceful. There was no World War III, and countries at least had to pay lip service to these universal values of peace and human rights. The world didn't really get more peaceful. Some nations which used to wage wars between themselves did not anymore after World War II (excluding "incidents" like Belgrade bombing). This doesn't diminish the rest of the article at all, if anything calls for more rules and diplomacy preventing war.

red-iron-pine 1y ago
global nuclear annihilation did more to prevent WW3 than a Convention that most militaries do their best to tiptoe around (or just ignore where they can)
- Ma8ee 1y ago
  Europe used to be at constant war with each other. Only France and the UK has some nukes. Now the EU is one of the most peaceful and prosperous places in the world. That is built on rules and trade.
  - fedeb95 1y ago
    that is incorrect. Europe has had armed conflict since the second world war. Maybe not well advertised, but they happened nonetheless. I share your perspective though, that rules and trade should be continued in order to be even better.
    - Ma8ee 1y ago
      Note that I was careful to write the EU in the second part, considering that both the Balkans and Ukraine are in Europe.
      - fedeb95 1y ago
        fair enough, but it is an arbitrary exclusion. Also consider that some EU countries were involved in the Balkans.
tim333 1y ago
Indeed there hasn't been WW3 yet but we had WW1 and 2 after Dunant did his thing.