From a year ago, in Memorial Day thought: Will coronaplague bring us years of peace?
Maybe there won’t be too many more sacrifices among soldiers worldwide for the next few years. Do countries that have shut down their societies, schools, and economies have the will or the wealth to go to war? What would they fight for? To conquer a territory that is also shut down and packed with inhabitants who are entirely dependent on government welfare?
What actually happened? Did the world overall see fewer conflicts and loss of life through war or was conflict intensified due to shutdowns?
International Crisis Group (George Soros, Alexander Soros, Larry Summers, et., al. on the Board) doesn’t seem to offer year-on-year summaries of conflicts it’s following, just month-to-month unless I’m missing some feature on their interactive map. I’m puzzled by that – it seems like such an arbitrarily short time horizon and not very helpful with “big picture” questions like yours. [Three out of four of their CrisisWatchers are apparently French women.]
https://www.crisisgroup.org/about-crisiswatch
According to them, in April 2021 things got worse in: Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Benin, Nigeria, India (non-Kashmir), Pakistan, Northern Ireland (UK), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Venezuela, Israel/Palestine
On the plus side, things got better in Tanzania and Georgia. But I can’t find any year-over-year assessments.
Well, of course, except for the most important one: The four year crisis between George Soros and Donald Trump came to an end in early 2021, and everyone knows who won that one.
Fear of annihilation by the Donald kept the last 4 years pretty peaceful, not even with a mass shooting. Palestine & all the mass shooters think king Bide is a joke. Economic difficulty probably increases the motivation for war, just not when the world police is in office.
This seems quite divorced from reality. US saw the highest number of mass killings on record in 2019.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50936575
Covid didn’t have much affect on violence for purveyors of “The Religion of Peace”. In 2020 there were 2,148 attacks that 10,154 killed. In 2019 there were 1,761 attacks that killed 10,519.
Source:
https://thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=2020
https://thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=2019
@Moe,
But the USA seems to have a threat from diff. thing:
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NOW – Biden: “Terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today.”
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https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1399837556796276742
(we can hear claps from the audience when he said this.)
@diseavd, Biden and the likes got it all wrong. The most lethal threat to the homeland today is the dumbing down of American. To give them freebees, to lock them home and scare the hell out of them. And to lie to them with fell-good emotional speeches rather than give them the hard truth of nothing is free and that we are falling behind as a nation compared to others.
diseavd: If your goal is to get the American public to accept the deployment of the U.S. military for domestic police functions it makes sense to tell people that residents of the U.S. are the most lethal threat to the U.S.
China is taking over the world. Trump stood up for US. Biden will cave.
This is the current world war.