The latest figure represents a dramatic increase from the Costs of War Project’s 2019 report.
  • مهما طال الليل@lemm.eeOPM
    11·
    2 months ago

    One could argue that the US indirectly drove Europe to the far right.

    Bully the world > some radicals with limited means decide to fight back in unorthodox ways > declare war on the radicals you nurtured > millions flee the wars you start and go to Europe > Europeans lose their mind and become increasingly racist and xenophobic

    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      I guess the chain of dominoes could go further back…

      • Far right / Europe in general persecutes Jews

      • Jews develop Zionism

      • Western support for Israel antagonizes Arabs

      • 9/11

      • War on Terror

      • mass migration to Europe and racial tension

      • resurgence of far right

      (I suppose umpteen reasons for the Jews to have gotten persecuted in Europe, but the new testament calling them Christ killers properly bears a lot of blame)

      (Then again, if the Romans had been a bit more reasonable taxing Judea in the first century and there wasn’t a war and Israel had been there the last two millennia then maybe the above wouldn’t have been so bad? Who knows)