haxxiy on 22 February 2024
| Bofferbrauer2 said: I wouldn't really call it more peaceful, just that the conflicts at the time were either over very quickly or lower intensity in general, so they couldn't "compete" with conflicts like the Chinese civil war (first spike, late 1940's), Vietnam (second spike, mid-60's to mid-70's), the Irak-Iran war (third spike, 80's) or the Arab Winter (fourth spike, 2010's) in terms of people killed directly by those wars. |
It is factually more peaceful (= fewer lives lost, less material damage), you just helped explain why. Just like the Cold War period was more peaceful than WW2, yes (hence the name).
That doesn't mean it was *absolutely* peaceful by any stretch of the imagination.
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