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Re:US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it cos... by novok on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:22AM (#23065387)
China starts wars, what do you think the entire conquering of tibet was? Now they are slowly inching into south east asia's oceans and islands.
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Re:US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it cos... by onion2k on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:36AM (#23065452)
The only reason we've had relative peace since WW2...

I would question that assertion. The number of large scale wars between countries has certainly fallen in the past 75 years (and was falling before then too), and the number of deaths from war has also fallen dramatically, but the number of wars and state-based conflicts has gone up significantly - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-conflicts-and-i... - and back in 2014 there were only 11 countries on Earth not officially involved in at least one war - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/world-peac...

Globally, the conflicts we have are smaller and less visible, and kill fewer people, but we have less peace now than we've ever had.

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