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Soundwave on 05 January 2017
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DrDoomz said:
Soundwave said:

Our ability to avoid wars is not visibily evident though. On top of our usual bullshit and random killing we've had two full blown World Wars and a third nuclear World War was only avoided really by luck. That's basically three World Wars in a period of 50 years. How many times do you have to bang your head against a wall before you realize it's not such a good idea? Several times apparently in our case. 

Yes you will still have wars with only one superpower, but the casualities and death tolls are miniscule compared to full blown conflicts between "evenly matched" nation states. The Iraq War, which was awful had somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million casualities, World War II had over 60-80 million casualities and it likely would have been triple or quadraple that if they had today's more modern weapons (even putting nukes to the side). 

The fact that we actually did avoid a third world war (even if it was just by luck as you say) seems to prove you wrong.

WW2 wasn't 2 evenly matched Superpowers. More like several powers jockeying for top position (instigated by one). With the US and Russia coming out on top. So how do you figure the 2 power scenario being an inevitable cause for war?

If you actually read up on the Cuban Missle Crisis it's frightening how much of war being avoiding was simply dumb luck. A bounce the wrong way and it was over and the chain reaction is stunningly frightening, for example not only was Russia going to get hit with an immediate nuclear strike, but Europe was (via Russia), but even beyond that China was slated to actually be attacked first, because the US knew in an all out war, they had to neuralize communist China as well, so they were actually on the dockett first. 

The death toll would've been enormous. 

And you said it yourself. WW2 shows you what happens when you have 3-4 different countries in a dick waving contest and how it took humanity straight down the toilet to our most shameful moments. 

Look at history, show me where evenly mached divergent super power nation states have been able to avoid war, every chapter of human history says that's not true. 

Three World Wars in a span of 100 hundred year is nothing short of an embarrassment either. It's like saying you got into three drunk driving accidents, and the last time you almost killed someone, but now you feel OK about driving again. Like sorry if I don't trust that person for shit. They don't deserve to be trusted.