This is probably the most peaceful time in history, there is no armed conflict in the western hemishpere. https://time.com/4475617/how-peace-finally-came-to-reign-thr...
Most of the world is at peace, it's a remarkable accomplishment.
Most of the world is at peace, it's a remarkable accomplishment.
But perhaps we can also thank global communications for making it that little bit harder (though still by no means impossible) to sufficiently otherise far away populations.
We are seeing the US sanction other countries when they do things we don't like - and we are getting sanctioned in turn.
That was the thesis of a book called The Great Illusion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion
The book argued a European war was very unlikely.
the economic interdependence between industrial countries would be "the real guarantor of the good behavior of one state to another", as it meant that war would be economically harmful to all the countries involved.
The book was published, to great acclaim, in... 1909.