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minus-squareSheeEttin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75arrow-down7·2 years agoThat’s not strictly true. On the short end, there was the six-day war. On the long end, there was the hundred years’ war. Putin was clearly aiming for the short option, but then I suppose most belligerents usually are.
minus-squarejustastranger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down2·2 years agoI’d actually love to see a graph that shows the distribution of lengths of various wars
minus-squarematchphoenix@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 years agoHere’s that chart (only including American wars), Here’s another one, from the New York Times And here’s a list of the longest wars ever, with a few wars lasting for the better part of a millennium.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down4·2 years agoDude took the low end and said “fuck that we’ll do it twice as fast.” The good news is I don’t think Russia can continue to sustain these kind of losses for 199 more years.
minus-squarethreegnomes@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down2·2 years agoThe Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted less than an hour
minus-square5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years ago‘Gunboat diplomacy’ isn’t very diplomatic.
That’s not strictly true. On the short end, there was the six-day war. On the long end, there was the hundred years’ war.
Putin was clearly aiming for the short option, but then I suppose most belligerents usually are.
I’d actually love to see a graph that shows the distribution of lengths of various wars
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Here’s that chart (only including American wars), Here’s another one, from the New York Times
And here’s a list of the longest wars ever, with a few wars lasting for the better part of a millennium.
Dude took the low end and said “fuck that we’ll do it twice as fast.”
The good news is I don’t think Russia can continue to sustain these kind of losses for 199 more years.
Neither can Ukraine…
The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted less than an hour
‘Gunboat diplomacy’ isn’t very diplomatic.