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> "abject suffering" And what about some of the most peaceful decades in human history? That means nothing, eh?

The US, in a brief moment of national clarify, participated in exactly two just wars in the last century. The outcome of one of those wars was the establishment of liberal democracies across Western Europe, which is indeed a tremendous stabilizing force. But it's not clear to me that the US gets to claim outsized credit for the subsequent years of peacemaking under those nations.



Us participated in Vietnam War too which would made it third War. In Korea War too, four. Plus, supported various guerrilas (taliban) and dictators materiály.

And that is me being lazy to lookup whether there were other conflicts.


I think you missed the "just" in "just wars."

The US has been in lots of wars over the last century; what I said was that only two were just.


Ah, I misread it as "just two wars".




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