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JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago

> No one likes war, everyone loves defense. Something something expanded surveillance under the guise of counter-terrorism post-9/11

It was renamed after WWII. In part because smart minds realised that war between industrialised civilisations had ceased to be an accretive endeavour since sometime between Napoleon and the Kaiser.

chrisco255 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Have you heard about the Cold War that immediately ensued after WW2 between the world's two leading industrial nations?

Aeolun 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Everyone involved was smart enough to realize it shouldn’t go hot.

carlosjobim 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Except for in Korea, Vietnam, etc etc