cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47841790
One of the most destructive? By what metric?
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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The US still hasn't recovered from it and in many ways the war continues but through asymmetric/unconventional/covert institutional violence. It's nearly back to the surface, though.
Certainly not by european standards. Just looked it up and each iteration of the western front was more devastating regarding loss of life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
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I was going say it didn't break the top ten but honestly there's a lot of wars, I think you could argue that qualifies as "one of the" for entering the top 1%
What is bullshit is lumping all the Crusades into one war but I guess they did the same with the Hundred Years War and such for similar reasons.
Even if you only consider the last 250 odd years, they didn't even make the top 20.
I expect better after their next election!
Idk I think we're ignoring the per capita angle but fair enough
You could argue the cultural impact, I guess, and the confederacy's impact on following American policy. Still, this is a bit of a stretch given that there was no shortage of racists in power in the north either.
The German states to this day have differing public holidays depending on their allegiance in the 30 years war.