Eh, idk if per-capita is the right choice here, personally. What if this chart mostly shows that China and South Asia exploded in population while avoiding total war?
If you get rid of the one big country that fucks with little countries, the likely result is not "no big country fucks with little countries" but "many big country fucks with little countries"
I would also note that two of those countries are our allies now & are doing great, regardless of the fact that one of them remains Communist. The other two are not
The international system was the cause of that first huge spike with Versailles and the Great Depression directly setting the stage for WW2. Nukes are the primary reason wealthy states stopped directly warring with one another and instead opted for conflict via proxy wars and "military operations".
Yup — and the biggest risk there isn’t multi polarity IMO, it’s loose cannons with nukes. Otherwise it’s basically a stalemate forever, where wars can only be fought in non-nuclear states.
Idk how sane Putin is, but Trump in particular scares me. Pakistan and Israel are also Not Great
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-in-state-based-conflicts-by-type
unipolarity meant relative peace
Idk how sane Putin is, but Trump in particular scares me. Pakistan and Israel are also Not Great