Communism causes war and strife. That's mostly because, like radical Islam, Communism refuses to play nice in the sandbox with others. It is a jealous mistress and brooks no rivals, as proved by the numbers at the Our World in Data website.
Basically, the number and deadliness of wars across the world dropped off precipitously after the Soviet Union ended up on the ash heap of history, to steal a phrase used by Ronnie Raygun in a speech to the British House of Commons in 1982 (and much earlier by Soviet leader Leon Trotsky in 1917, well before he was killed by his former Communist buddies while living in exile in Mexico City in 1940).
That the number of wars declined so indicates the degree to which Communism of the Soviet style was an engine of conflict. Yet, somehow, we American warmongers are still around and stronger than ever, though we've strangely failed to keep all the wars going. ;-)
1.7 The Number of Wars Increased until the End of the Cold War
"As we have seen, the number of war victims varies hugely between different wars; whereas 1,200,000 died during the the Korean War (1950–1953), other wars had ‘just’ 1,000 victims. For this reason, statistics on the number of wars should not be considered without information on the size of these conflicts.
The following figure shows that the number of wars increased until the breakdown of the Soviet Union and has been decreasing since then. Extrastate conflicts are colonial conflicts that ended with the end of colonialism. Interstate conflicts – wars fought between countries – have almost ceased to exist. As other wars are becoming rare, intrastate conflicts (civil wars) in some parts of the world remain."
Click on the Our World in Data link for the actual graph.
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
Basically, the number and deadliness of wars across the world dropped off precipitously after the Soviet Union ended up on the ash heap of history, to steal a phrase used by Ronnie Raygun in a speech to the British House of Commons in 1982 (and much earlier by Soviet leader Leon Trotsky in 1917, well before he was killed by his former Communist buddies while living in exile in Mexico City in 1940).
That the number of wars declined so indicates the degree to which Communism of the Soviet style was an engine of conflict. Yet, somehow, we American warmongers are still around and stronger than ever, though we've strangely failed to keep all the wars going. ;-)
1.7 The Number of Wars Increased until the End of the Cold War
"As we have seen, the number of war victims varies hugely between different wars; whereas 1,200,000 died during the the Korean War (1950–1953), other wars had ‘just’ 1,000 victims. For this reason, statistics on the number of wars should not be considered without information on the size of these conflicts.
The following figure shows that the number of wars increased until the breakdown of the Soviet Union and has been decreasing since then. Extrastate conflicts are colonial conflicts that ended with the end of colonialism. Interstate conflicts – wars fought between countries – have almost ceased to exist. As other wars are becoming rare, intrastate conflicts (civil wars) in some parts of the world remain."
Click on the Our World in Data link for the actual graph.
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."