Current Events > nuclear weapons brought an end to large scale warfare.

(+) Yeah! (+)

and no more countries going on conquering sprees.

I think that's at least a positive outcome
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War... war has changed.

MakoReizei posted...

and no more countries going on conquering sprees.

Unless you count the south China sea, where China is effectively stealing a massive chunk of territory from their neighbors.
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MakoReizei posted...

and no more countries going on conquering sprees.

I think that's at least a positive outcome

Ummmmm. Yeah, ok then. *walks out of topic*
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Now countries fund insurrections and make one sided deals with the new governments cause they have them by the balls.
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s0nicfan posted...

MakoReizei posted...

and no more countries going on conquering sprees.

Unless you count the south China sea, where China is effectively stealing a massive chunk of territory from their neighbors.

Are these places NATO members ?
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

s0nicfan posted...

MakoReizei posted...

and no more countries going on conquering sprees.

Unless you count the south China sea, where China is effectively stealing a massive chunk of territory from their neighbors.

Are these places NATO members ?

...do you know what the name NATO stands for
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Iran-Iraq War -- eight years (1980-88), half a million dead: not large scale.
Second Congo War -- nine countries, over five million dead: not large scale.

And so on.
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ASithLord7 posted...

...do you know what the name NATO stands for

in his (shaky) defense, SEATO was a thing and it dissolved

probably would not have had the potential threat from PRC been recognized at the time
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Didn't Russia annex parts of two of their neighbors within the last decade?
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*cough* Israel *cough*
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ASithLord7 posted...

PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

s0nicfan posted...

MakoReizei posted...

and no more countries going on conquering sprees.

Unless you count the south China sea, where China is effectively stealing a massive chunk of territory from their neighbors.

Are these places NATO members ?

...do you know what the name NATO stands for

Yea...

Anyway I was saying in the sense that we are not or shouldn't be Asia's bodyguard.

Like I'm sure that they don't give a shit about us or parts of Europe.
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Only between nuclear powers. Powers without nukes still throw down, and nuclear powers go to war against non-nuclear powers(this is literally why Iran and North Korea wanted/s nukes: the U.S. and/or Israel won't invade another nuclear power).