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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

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What's the Difference Between a Gang War and a Nuclear War?

To me what terrifies me is that all this kind of stuff seems to happen like overnight like super quick and escalate super quick when it happens. Fortunately that's not you know I start off the book with an example of a gang war that didn't happen in Columbia which is third that's my day job is actually studying conflict and gangs and violence and. Of these other kinds of groups also very sinister. And most of the time they don't fight and that escalation doesn't happen so so the escalation does happen quickly sometimes except when it doesn't which so we remember the ones when it does - but then there are those who do go boom boom boom boom, boom boom Boom! But fortunately that

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