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171. John Mueller — The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency

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Is There a Decline in International Wars?

Critics of yourself and pinker point out that when you say a, the decline international wars, there's been no international wars. This is kind of an accounting trick. Youre not counting those proxy wars like korea and bianom as international wars. But in fact, they really are. We're just fighting them more indirectly. So its international society may become less civil in some sense, because you don't have to worry bout war. And so consequently, you can do things that are unseemly oror ora insult a, and get away with it where you couldn'td so much in the past. In some respects, it's like duelling. At one time

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