▲ 917 ▼ Class War (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world 380 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Proxy wars historically have never constituted world wars by any account. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] underisk@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Neither has it's participants' nuclear capable status. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Urist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, that is vacuously true. If it stops being so, recorded history will end. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] underisk@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) If all the nuclear powers aligned against all the non-nuclear states and waged a war of extermination against them, that would, by your terms, not qualify as a "World War". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Urist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Ok. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Neither has it's participants' nuclear capable status. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Urist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, that is vacuously true. If it stops being so, recorded history will end. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] underisk@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) If all the nuclear powers aligned against all the non-nuclear states and waged a war of extermination against them, that would, by your terms, not qualify as a "World War". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Urist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Ok. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, that is vacuously true. If it stops being so, recorded history will end. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] underisk@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) If all the nuclear powers aligned against all the non-nuclear states and waged a war of extermination against them, that would, by your terms, not qualify as a "World War". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Urist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Ok. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] underisk@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) If all the nuclear powers aligned against all the non-nuclear states and waged a war of extermination against them, that would, by your terms, not qualify as a "World War". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Urist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Ok. permalink fedilink source parent
