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minus-squareUrist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoProxy wars historically have never constituted world wars by any account.
minus-squareunderisk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoNeither has it’s participants’ nuclear capable status.
minus-squareUrist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYes, that is vacuously true. If it stops being so, recorded history will end.
minus-squareunderisk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoIf all the nuclear powers aligned against all the non-nuclear states and waged a war of extermination against them, that would, by your terms, not qualify as a “World War”.
Proxy wars historically have never constituted world wars by any account.
Neither has it’s participants’ nuclear capable status.
Yes, that is vacuously true. If it stops being so, recorded history will end.
If all the nuclear powers aligned against all the non-nuclear states and waged a war of extermination against them, that would, by your terms, not qualify as a “World War”.
Ok.