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SvennoJ on 17 March 2024
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JRPGfan said:

Holy sh*t..... I guess its just lack of internet, and being "young and innocent" then, and not knowing.
I just assumed in the 90's the world was a brighter place, without all this conflict.



"Gaza and Ukraine are in the spot light now, however there are currently 110 armed conflicts going on in the world
https://geneva-academy.ch/galleries/today-s-armed-conflicts"

This surprises me.
Why does Russian invadeing Ukrane count 4 times? and what are the other 3 conflicts in europe?

Drug wars, are counted? in mexico.... and colombia?
I know India and parkistan hate each other, and sometimes have border conflicts.... and China loves to push boundries too, so yeah.
Myanmar had that military coup thingy.

These all count as ongoing... but their not really active wars?
Like just random skirmishes, ongoing political issues/policeing ones, from some of these insane countries and their leaders.

Anyways, these shouldn't really be counted as wars.
Conflicts is probably a good word (like they use).

They count any deliberate killings by organized groups. The drug cartels made the cut due to their level of organization in Mexico and Columbia.

Russia isn't just invading Ukraine, still occupying other countries / areas as well. Armenia is also occupying parts of Azerbaijan.

four out of seven conflicts: Russia is currently occupying Crimea (Ukraine), Transdniestria (Moldova), as well as South Ossetia and Abkhazia (Georgia), while Armenia is occupying parts of Nagorno Karabakh (Azerbaijan).

The other three: Europe is also the theatre of an international armed conflict (IAC) between Ukraine and Russia, and of two non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) in Ukraine opposing governmental forces with the self-proclaimed ‘People’s Republics’ of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

That includes the invasion of Ukraine which combined the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine

Between February 2014 and February 2022, there have been an IAC between Russia and Ukraine and parallel NIACs between Ukraine and separatist groups in the east of the country. In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, hence starting a new phase of the conflict. Nevertheless, these NIACs turned into IACs in February 2022, as Russia started exercising overall control over such groups. Currently Russia is occupying a number of regions of Ukraine, Crimea included.

Ukrainian armed forces were involved in non-international armed conflicts with the self-proclaimed ‘People’s Republics’ of Donetsk and Luhansk in the eastern Ukraine. In recent times, Russia has exercised overall control over the separatist groups, hence turning the NIAC into an IAC.