Wars since WWII

>>3275513
But I thought diversity makes us stronger?

I think in terms of lethality it would be the Great Congo War. Dunno if you count Rawanda in that. The genocide and war are deeply related.

No other war extended over such a giant area either.

>>3275523
It has worked in many places in many different eras. Until some greedy pigdog happy merchant like Israel or (You) starts dividing and conquering.

>>3275530
>It has worked in many places in many different eras
Such as?

Charles Taylor in Liberia and Sierra Leone for depravity and chaos.

Iran Iraq War for largest conventional.

Korea for consequences for the future.

>>3275538

Oh and Rhodesia Bush Wars win for most /pol/

Mexican drug wars, quarter million dead, for most ancap, or Congo wins that too.

>>3275534
Abbasid Caliphate
Cordoba Caliphate
Ottoman Empire
Pre-war Syrian Arab Republic
Saddam Iraq (Kurds started it)
Iran
Pre-Anglo India
Various Chinese dynasties
British Empire

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>>3275513
Salvadoran Civil War, one of the more brutal Central American conflicts in the past 40 years, I think only Guatemala beats it in brutality.

My uncle fought with the National Guard to remove Red, say what you want about the belligerents but the War in El Salvador was a lot more nuanced than whats let on.

balkan wars obviously
the troubles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe#20th_century

any of these post 1945

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>>3275565
how did Guatemala/El Salvador get so messy, while Nicaragua was relatively smooth (and the commies won)?

>a lot more nuanced than whats let on

you could say the same for most modern conflicts, but most people prefer a quick rundown/simply narrative

>>3275620
I don't know much about Nicaragua, from what I heard it was a pretty one sided affair, hence why the commies won so fucking fast.

El Salvador however, from what my parents tell me, was a lot more contested than Nicaragua. The natives that have been the the Nations punching bag since it gained independence really were being treated like shit, thats why they ate up the communism shit. Meanwhile the rest of El Salvador didn't dig this whole communism thing or didn't care for the whole shitshow in general. There were some ardent Anti-Coms (like my dad and uncles) but then there were those in the cities that just used the war to get rid of rivals or people they didn't like by accusing them of being commies.

I can go on, I've done a lot of research on the topic and plan to write a paper on it

>>3275598
One of my friends was deployed to Somalia, thought it was the worst place on Earth. Then he went to Bosnia. His job was to essentially sit in a hole and count the number of war crimes committed in the target area. He made it sound like they were trying for a high score.

>>3275563
>gives all these meme answers
>doesn't mention Switzerland or Belgium

>>3275565
>and yet the reds won
your kind failed miserabily, that's why not even your children (implying you'd even lose your vcard) would want to put a foot in El Salvador

>>3275825
>makes a good point

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>>3275843
Wat.

No one won immediately after the war, they sort of just agreed to stop fighting. They didn't win until the FMLN finally pulled the stops out and took power politically but I find it really difficult to call lording over a steaming pile of shit whose culture and national identity you helped destroy a win. Either way, Im still proud of my uncles and dad for removing some subhuman commies

And you're right, I never have and never will step foot in El Salvador, its a failed state at this point. Word is that the inept socialist/commie/whatever they're calling themselves FMLN government has effectively lost control or Morazan, Usulutan and Sonsonate to the MS.

If you peel back the layers, its really just extreme AnCap running rampant and pissing all over a socialist government, apparently you can buy anything in those chaotic regions

>>3275620
If you think the Nicaraguan war was smooth, you need to read up on it. It had everything from drug smuggling contra death squads wiping out entire villages to people napalming and dropping agent orange/other defoliants on crops, poisoning wells, etc etc. It was a very nasty war. The School of the Americas does beautiful things

>>3275797
you're about to occupy a niche, cause El Salvador is under-the-radar even by Central American standards

from what I gather, they had a generic US-backed military dictatorship with an economy based on exporting cash crops (in this case coffee?) which resulted in a huge population of impoverished (mostly native?) peasants while a small few owned a tonne of land (layover from the Spanish latifundia system?) - much like its neighbours

now, a more important question that falls in line with this thread, what the FUCK was the Football War and did it have anything to do with /sp/orts?

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>>3275513
>send your Palestinian militias to fight Lebanese Palestinians militias
WHAT THE FUCK was Assad thinking?

Seriously, why didn't Syria support the PLO? Sure, it may've provoked Israel. But PLO+Syria+local leftists would have easily taken over Lebanon from the traitor Maronites and created another Baathist state.

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>>3276048
You got most of it right, the commies in the beginning really believed in the cause but as the war dragged on, both sides ended up becoming savage, war crimes were being constantly committed. Thanks to the US and Cuba/Soviet Union, the war dragged on and effectively change the face of El Salvador.

The Football war was a long time coming, there was already a fuckload of tension between El Salvador and Hondura, just a real hateful mess. Honduras was fucking with Salvadoran immigrants and farmers around the border for years, the beginning of the War went down around the same time a riot broke out with a World Cup Qualifier, if anything the Riot probably drove things over the edge for El Salvador and chose to attack Honduras. War lasted a 100 Hours and changed nothing except for dead Salvadorans/Hondurans and a fuckload of Salvadorans displaced and now squatting around. The war really took a shit on Salvadoran society, social issues just kept getting worse and worse until the war exploded

>>3275513
>UN tries to step and it predictably fails

Are the UN the most useless organization to ever exist? Did they ever do anything right, specially related to conflicts and wars?

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>>3276101
Korea, I guess

but yeah they're hilariously impotent as a political force; and when they try to peacekeep, you get genocide right under their nose (Yugoslavia) or rape carried out by blue helmets themselves

I'd say the League of Nations was more useless though - the UN had the benefit of learning from (some of) its mistakes when they started out

>>3276106
>Korea
>the war basically still exists

>>3275563
None of those were diversity i n the modern sense of the word, nor were were they absent of conflict.

>>3275526
The tutsi went after the hutus hiding in congo during the first congo war to get revenge and prevent them from eventually invade Rwanda.
Back then no one gave a shit about the hutus refugees and weirdly the hutus that stayed in Rwanda were fine.

>>3275513
The Gulf War
It's not really talked about that much, probably because of how quick it all happened, but 100% landslide total victory in a fucking month is always fun

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>>3276186
>when you take 'me against the world' too seriously

one can not have a stable country with christians and muslims.
muslims are just too violent for that.

>>3275563
>ottoman empire
>Pre-anglo India
>British empire
some of the worst answers you could have possibly given