• Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
    91·
    1 year ago

    Captcha? It should be an archive. It’s an economist article (that economist), about the war in Ukraine. It has such wonderful pearls:

    As Yuval Noah Harari, a historian and author, wrote this year, “most governments stopped seeing wars of aggression as an acceptable tool to advance their interests, and most nations stopped fantasising about conquering and annexing their neighbours.”

    The Correlates of War Project, an international research outfit, has collected data on every interstate war fought since 1816, after the Napoleonic wars. These data confirm that wars—meaning conflicts between states with at least 1,000 battle deaths in one year—are becoming much rarer. In the past three decades there have only been five, including the current one between Russia and Ukraine.

    Emphasis mine

    War is also rare between democracies (the number of which has increased in the past 200 years), perhaps because voters tend not to like the costs of it and boot out their belligerent leaders. Some scholars even argue that, depending on how strictly you define democracy, two have never gone to war with each other.

    So yeah. Wonderful shit

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      Mr Beso Inger at the research institute for peace and prosperity found that “if you define war as ‘when one country kills over 100,000,000 of another country’s people with stone axes’ the US has never been at war and is statistically the most peaceful country ever to have existed.” He added: “It really makes you think.”

        • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          1 year ago

          For people who inhabit the world of the ideal, it comes as natural as breathing. If they think it, it must be true, and there’s nothing more to be said. It’s how they can define war by an arbitrary number of deaths, how they can think away unemployment or unnecessary Covid deaths, or how they think unemployment into China by including children and students. The worst thing is that liberals under the illusion that they ‘think critically’ will gobble it all up like a shark to a bucket of chum.