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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoI don’t think there’s ever been a war solely to kill people. There are always other factors even when there’s a genocide going on. So if that is your criterion, the number is zero.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoFair enough, how about wars in the past thirty years where at least a secondary goal is genocide of some sort or another?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoThen you run into a definition of genocide. A lot of people would consider what Israel is doing right now to be genocide.
I don’t think there’s ever been a war solely to kill people. There are always other factors even when there’s a genocide going on. So if that is your criterion, the number is zero.
Fair enough, how about wars in the past thirty years where at least a secondary goal is genocide of some sort or another?
Then you run into a definition of genocide. A lot of people would consider what Israel is doing right now to be genocide.