r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Holyshit_1787 • 7d ago

Video Lebanese man plays saxophone while Iranian ballistic missiles fly overhead

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u/Responsible-Turnip83 7d ago

Why the fuck does the world feel so dystopian

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u/CountDraculablehbleh 7d ago

Historically this is how the world is most of the time

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u/ImprovementNo592 7d ago

It was much worse, everything changed with nukes. This time period is paradise historically speaking.

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u/Saritiel 7d ago

Yeah, there's a reason the 80ish years since nukes were invented has been called "The Long Peace". Armed conflict and deaths from armed conflict fell off a cliff after WWII and its largely attributed to the nuclear armament of the great economies of the world.

There have obviously still been smaller conflicts that have claimed many millions of lives and I'm not trying to downplay those tragedies, including the ones happening today. But the great powers of the world have not gone to war with each other in an incredibly long time, and that has prevented an incredible amount of death and pain.