hmm seems like long peace is rare in history we've functionally been at peace for a long time
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I used to spend a lot of time looking out my window at boats on the lake and be absolutely at peacepic.twitter.com/yvymr1bBqh
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Now there's always foreboding These boats can mean something else when you dwell on itpic.twitter.com/ylUqRXyE3g
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Thinking about the of pleasure boats in a Chinese dynasty--the Tang? The Song?--painting summer waterways with their gaudy sails, before war came
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aesthetic af but mostly it bums me out and i dont want anyone to have to live through the intermediate stagepic.twitter.com/0lxgVRIQaB
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"[...] the models indicate that the postwar pattern of peace would need to endure at least another 100 to 140 years to become a statistically significant trend."https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5834001/ …
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I wanted to follow that up faster, but I had to remember a bunch of statistics first. There have been three major wars that touched American soil (the Revolution, 1812, and the Civil War) over the 244-year history of the United States.
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Pax Britannica? The United Kingdom went 99 years avoiding war with France, Prussia/Germany, or the United States, but they fought wars on every continent except Antarctica during that period. (Including the 5th through 9th! Xhosa Wars.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_Kingdom#United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland_(1801–1922) …
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britannica yes minor wars tho very minor wars as such things go
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