• Urist@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Proxy wars historically have never constituted world wars by any account.

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        9 months ago

        Yes, that is vacuously true. If it stops being so, recorded history will end.

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          9 months ago

          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”.