• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    2 days ago

    The Concert of Europe kept the continent relatively peaceful for a century, mainly by ensuring that one nation didn’t become another Napoleonic France.

    Post World War II was also relatively peaceful compared to the interwar years, mainly because of the two interventionist powers trying to compete with each other. There was a lot of genocide after World War I.

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      2 days ago

      So if it’s only millions of non-white people dying that means the world is “stable”?

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        I use stable as a relative term, but it isn’t like the number of non-white people dying goes down during periods of instability.