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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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1332 points Qem | 3 comments | 16 Sep 25 08:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bix6 ◴[16 Sep 25 20:38 UTC] No.45267691[source]▶
Combined with the other ongoing conflicts it really feels like we’re in a WW3 era
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wmeredith ◴[16 Sep 25 21:16 UTC] No.45268174[source]▶
I don't want to downplay the atrocities going on in the current conflicts, but this sort of comment deserves some perspective.

About 70 million people were killed in WW2, as of the present day about 1 million have died in the war Russia is waging against Ukraine and about 70k people have died in the Israeli/Palestine conflict. The horrors are most certainly real. But WW3 this era is most certainly not, that's thankfully off by an order of magnitude.

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1. impossiblefork ◴[16 Sep 25 21:53 UTC] No.45268657[source]▶
Yes, but WWII also had a phase called Phony War, and after that much of the war was in Poland.

We could say that Ukraine is the current Poland.

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2. jcranmer ◴[16 Sep 25 23:55 UTC] No.45269867[source]▶
The Phony War was the phase between the fall of Poland (took ~1 month) and the invasion of France, where the dominant phase of the war was actually taking place in Norway.
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3. impossiblefork ◴[17 Sep 25 05:49 UTC] No.45272211[source]▶
The Invasion of Norway was only the final month.