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You're making the mistake of correlating these proxy wars with any later improvements in these countries' living conditions. War is always detrimental to qualit

• JumpCrisscross 8mo ago
  > You're making the mistake of correlating these proxy wars with any later improvements in these countries' living conditions ...nobody argued the proxy wars were good for those countries. Just that if you're turned into a random local in one of those theatres, chances are you're better off a decade or two later than if you're turned into a random North Korean.