• kromem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t seen that since pictures of dresden.

    Most modern war ends up with parking lots. Did you see the before and after of Syria’s civil war?

    It’s part of what infuriates me so much with the casual conversation around a civil war in the US. Like, it’s not a conflict with muskets that will eventually end with one side in power over the surviving republic. A drawn out civil conflict between nuclear armed states in the country with the largest military expenditure in the world is basically just going to flatten the entire thing and escalate to a world war.

    Diplomatic avenues are ever more important as we move further and further into 21st century warfare.

    And as we have seen over and over with conflicts in the past few decades, authoritarianism must be kept out of world governments for those avenues to be given a chance.

    I really don’t think we’d be seeing the same tragedy in Gaza right now had efforts to oust Netanyahu for corruption been successful before the attacks.