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Not all that long ago, attacking another country’s territory was still seen as a big deal. It was, in legal terms, an ‘act of war’, liable to have unpleasant and potentially unlimited consequences including full-scale war. Very powerful countries occasionally made small, one-off attacks on very weak ones to ‘discipline’ them, but even that was relatively rare.

We have changed all that now. Launching a few cruise or ballistic missiles at another country as an expression of displeasure has become as routine in the Middle East as penalty shots on goal are in sports. Here are the latest examples.

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[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago

Gwynne Dyer is one of my personal heroes. If you're unaware, he also made a 7 part documentary series about War that I found shortly after college and was very influential on me.