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

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1332 points Qem | 1 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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darth_avocado ◴[16 Sep 25 21:21 UTC] No.45268235[source]▶
The World Wars were called World Wars because of the number conflicts and the powers involved. While the casualties and damage has been lower, it seems like the powers are at least indirectly involved at the moment.
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1. thehappypm ◴[16 Sep 25 22:01 UTC] No.45268758[source]▶
If you look back through history this has been the case since at least the Cold War, though. All the proxy hot wars in the Cold War, for example, back when the world was bi-polar. Now it’s multipolar with similar proxy wars.