Re:Arecibo Observatory Collapsed
by colechristensen on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:34PM
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It isn’t about absolute peace, that is practically impossible.
It’s about relative peace, worldwide number of conflicts, casualty rate by population, geographical spread of conflicts, etc.
What is unprecedented is your chance of being killed in war has gone down substantially and stayed down after WWII. The types of conflicts have changed, civil wars now dominate, other types have gone down significantly or have been eliminated. There have not been conflicts between major military powers.
Wait, what?
There have been hundreds of armed conflicts going on around the world since the end of WW2, many of which were either directly instigated by the USA or at least involved the USA. There are dozens going on right now [1] some resulting in massive casualties. I don't think we will ever see world peace.
You don't mass-produce already-obsolete fighter jets in order to promote peace or as an innocent act of military preparedness and industry knowledge-building. You build them to fight war.
1;: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...