U.S. Reaches a Historic Nuclear Deal with Iran

mentalfloss

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You really like to get your panties in a bunch. 5133 is more than enough to blow the planet to hell. What is a couple thousand warheads amoung friends. The US is a far greater threat to world peace than Iran is, which is the point being made. But nice diversionary try.
 

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You really like to get your panties in a bunch. 5133 is more than enough to blow the planet to hell. What is a couple thousand warheads amoung friends. The US is a far greater threat to world peace than Iran is, which is the point being made. But nice diversionary try.

Western powers are handicapped by democracy to be a significant threat to peace. Even after two completely useless wars in Iraq, rates of violence are going down as threats become more isolated in nature.
 

CDNBear

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Western powers are handicapped by democracy to be a significant threat to peace. Even after two completely useless wars in Iraq, rates of violence are going down as threats become more isolated in nature.
Could that be the result of completely useless wars and military action?
 

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No, it's because of the civilizing process.

The rate of violence from those 'wars' is already dwarfed by previous ones. Those wars have become further diluted into smaller conflicts and we are now entering an age of economic sanctions as a replacement for direct violence and ultimately diplomacy and negotiations (like this one) as resolutions.
 

CDNBear

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No, it's because of the civilizing process.
Intervention, militarily, doesn't spread that?

The rate of violence from those 'wars' is already dwarfed by previous ones. Those wars have become further diluted into smaller conflicts and we are now entering an age of economic sanctions as a replacement for direct violence and ultimately diplomacy and negotiations (like this one) as resolutions.
And how do you explain the DPRK?
 

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The same way you explain China or Russia or the Middle East.

These are places that are echoes of the past.
 

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I'm just talking about rates of violence.

The worst places are south africa and the northern parts of South America.

And even in those places the rates of violence historically trend downward.
 

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It's great to know that the ME is now peaceful.

No, it's because of the civilizing process.

The rate of violence from those 'wars' is already dwarfed by previous ones. Those wars have become further diluted into smaller conflicts and we are now entering an age of economic sanctions as a replacement for direct violence and ultimately diplomacy and negotiations (like this one) as resolutions.


I believe your brain is functioning on a lower level

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