It's kind of insane to think that, despite there being so many conflicts, only 3 of them (Israel-Gaza, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Russia-Ukraine) are inter-state. The rest are civil unrest.
The West Papua conflict. It's gotten very little coverage anywhere and it's quite brutal, I know you guys would do a great job covering this overlooked part of the world
It would be great information if it was possible to see the number of conflicts each year in the last 10-30 years to see how things are changing. Although that would require a TON of work, I imagine.
This has been done a number of times. A quick google brings up a few breakdowns by year. The short answer is we have become more peaceful year after year, for longer than you have been alive.
@@pkz420 "The short answer is we have become more peaceful year after year" - this is only true as a long run average. It isn't true across shorter periods. The last few years have seen bigger wars than there were in the mid-2010s for instance. The graph isn't a straight line at all, not even close. It's a spiky mess that looks uncannily like a stock market graph.
I was in Mexico at the exact time the conflict broke out, my flight home was delayed a week and I was pretty much quarantining that entire week since I was really close to where most of the violence was happening
If you take Mexico as an example Haiti, Ecuador , Venezuela, Honduras, Belize should also be considered, Libya has 2 governments that don't recognize each other. The Taliban in Afghanistan isn't in full control. and we also have West Sahara. I still believe I am missing a handful. My faith in humanity 🤍
Nah the Cartel is way more formidable. Also the Mexican government is complicit. Ecuador,Venezuela,Honduras, and Belize would all be better off if the Mexican government stepped up.
A common pattern u can see with most major wars lately is that they were fought based on historical significance and cultural differences for the countries involved. Its not so much about ideology anymore.
here's a mind fark for ya. it was *never* about "IdEoLoGy". it was always about wealth and power. ideology was merely the tool to manipulate the masses to fight for those that are after the latter.
If anyone wants to learn more about the Myanmar Conflict, the IISS has a conflict map of the current civil war and analyses that explain the current conflict there in depth. Highly recommend you guys read it if you want to learn more about it!
This video is an excellent digest of the world conflicts. I appreciate this insight without having to invest my own time into discovering all the world military conflicts.
1:03 The idea to intervene in Mexico wasn't motivated by charity, but rather because Republicans needed votes. By proposing intervention, they claimed to care about "American citizens in Mexico." as well as offering a "solution" to the fentanyl epidemic. However, as we know, every country where the U.S. intervenes often ends up worse off than before, which is why Mexico's president refused the "help".
You’d be surprised how many American seniors retire in Mexico where social security benefits actually provide a far more comfortable retirement than in the United States thanks to the currency exchange rate and low cost of living. Plus a lot of younger expats.
The idea to intervene in Mexico was charity. Mexico has proven completely incapable of handling the cartel violence themselves and it threatens to spill over here.
It’s not a war just bunch of morons who suddenly know everything about history and politics and events and shit to keep making sure they shift and push blame on one people they don’t like
1 - America vs Yemen 2 - America vs Somalia 3 - America vs Syria 4 - America vs Afghanistan 5 - America vs Iraq 6 - America vs Eastern Ukraine 7 - America vs Palestine 8 - America vs information 9 - America vs 'terror' 10 - America vs 'drugs' 11 - America vs Russia (by proxy in many of the above) Have I forgotten any?
In general conflicts in the South Americas, Africa and Asia are often overlooked by the west. I cannot really blame either the west in general tho for it at the same time. You are always gonna be more invested in conflicts or what happens close to you over somewhere far away. I cannot for example blame Poles for being more invested in the Ukraine war than whatever happens in Asia. And I think that is the same for people in Asia, they are probably more invested in local conflicts than whatever happens with Ukraine or S. America.
Also I think, in general, us in the west are tired of hearing of wars on these places. Cartel wars, subsaharian Africa wars and middle east wars have been happening since I have memories (change the name of the war but it is always the same continuous war). Also opinions like the one from the Mexican president denying help doesn't help too much (even if that help comes from the devil). It's not only mexico, for example in Africa a lot of countries deny help from France.
"I cannot for example blame Poles for being more invested in the Ukraine war" - you CAN, however, blame the US. Which can afford to be uninvolved in any of these conflicts, but not only does it get involved anyway but it also foments other conflicts of its own (like the building tensions with China, which date to 2017 when Trump came to power rather than 2012 when Xi did). This is what happens when you're a hegemon - everything becomes 'your business', even if it doesn't involve you, so as to maintain hegemony.
@@ArawnOfAnnwnbuddy. China needs to help building tensions with other nations. Literally almost all of chinese neighbors hate China. This is not a US conspiracy.
@@darksis1 Yer. We don’t need conventional wars down under. Everything what’s to kill us. Kangaroos, emus, snakes, spiders, drop bears, crocs, sharks ,,, the list goes on.
Would love to hear your take on the Indonesian occupation of West Papua and the war crimes being perpetrated there. As an Australian, it brings me a lot of discomfort knowing my government is not only silent on the deaths of civilians there but also is supplying Indonesia with military hardware
interesting to see how the number and scale compare to previous years say post 1950... too many people quote "its never been worse" based on media frenzy but the reality is more likely "its never been better" from a global conflict perspective...
I think it's just never been reported on as much. In the 1950s most people would never have even heard of these wars but now we get video evidence of them.
I propose listing the wars in descending order of number of deaths so far this year and then you can produce video's following that order and see which ones will bring more follow up questions
Really surprises me that most people don't know about the tigray war, even though it has a higher death toll than the russo-ukraine war. And Egypt and Ethiopia are pretty important countries too, Egypt controls the Suez and is linked to Palestine and the state of Israel. Ethiopia has a lot of power over the other 3 countries in the horn of Africa who can kinda control/damage the sea routes
@@ChristiangjfYeah, only because US and it's allies are hyping it up as such. Ukraine is not part of NATO. It doesn't matter what happens in Ukraine (in ww3 context). In reality this is just a proxy war with Russia for US. And the Europeans care about no one but Europeans, how very unlike them./s Outside of these two, literally no gives a fu*k about the Ukraine conflict.
The difference isn't about them not being major wars, it's about the perspective. Which wars get attention has more to do with who the audience is than how big the war is. And the audience here is mostly the west. The war in Yemen deserves a LOT more attention than it got, but the west didn't care about it. We even have people ludicrously calling the war in Ukraine the deadliest war since WW2, which only reveals their ignorance cos that title is very clearly taken by the Second Congo War, which despite being only two decades old most people in the west have never even heard of (as is typically the case with African conflicts). Hell the US Iraq war has a higher death toll, but didn't arouse anywhere near as much of a reaction. Cos what makes Ukraine special is just that it's an attack on the west. Israel also enjoys a special place in the western consciousness that neither Africa, Asia or Latin America does.
In addition to dealing with Boko Haram and West Africa coup shenanigans, there is also a big Nigerian conflict against bandits and communal conflict with ethno-religious and herder-farmer origins.
@@EricT01 So funny considering I know two neighbors who are having an argument over playing music. I really hope the bloke turns it down though. I like NCS but I don't like listening to NCS 3am in the morning while I'm trying to sleep.
It would be very informative to have the amount of people killed and/or injured, if possible on each side and whether they're civilians or soldiers, for each conflict. I know it wouldn't all be possible for all of them, but an estimate would give more context.
XML is better than both JSON and YAML. Better than JSON, because it's a bracket-fest. Better than YAML, because fuck Python and anything that looks remotely like it.
There has been a civil war in Indonesia, more particularly Papua. Called the Papua conflict, there's a Wikipedia page about it. As small this conflict it is, there has been active fighting in 2023. It first started in 1962, making this conflict last over 61 years.
I really can’t stand the fact that the news of the Sudanese civil war was discussed only two days and the Yemen civil war is not even mentioned while the war in Ukraine has been discussed months, in Yemen millions have perished for the war and in Sudan 6000 people have dined in yurt a few months, some conflicts aren’t more important than another ones, people die and perish in every war.
That’s mainstream media cherry picking what specific war or armed conflict they want to talk about. Take what’s going on between Israel or Palestine, or even Ukraine and Russia for example. They will on endlessly talking about the endless updates of those conflicts while not mentioning the already existing conflicts that were already going on in the world. It’s sad & very disheartening at the same time because while many other hundreds or even thousands of people lose their lives in conflicts in other regions/countries some will only pick certain ones to report on.
I used to live in Kenya and have witnessed a gang of hyena's eating a Wildebeast that was still alive, but too tired to resist anymore. He was too big for the Hyena's to kill though, so they started eating him alive.
"War is cruelty and you cannot refine it." - William Tecumseh Sherman. I am not trying to defend these atrocities I am just saying that these are all perfect examples of why he was right.
The conflict in Yemen is woefully under reported because of the amount of money made in arms deals with the Saudi's. Burma is a similar story with the Junta being a cash cow for the military industrial complex.
Hi TLDR! It may be helpful for your viewers to explain that a war is a conflict that reaches 1000 combat deaths per annum. So, 999 combat deaths in a year would be considered a conflict, not a war (the number may seem abstract, but 1000 is the number that scholars have agreed upon). I suppose the silver lining of this video is that the end of war in the Americas is conceivable within our lifetimes.
There is no universally agreed-upon definition of war, and certainly not among scholars. Plus the one you propose does not seem to be the one they favoured for this video, as for instance the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict falls well short of that number of fatalities.
@@plutarch_cvg There are too many sources that back 1000 combat deaths defined as a war to list. I have degrees in both IR and history, and this is the definition that most scholars use, however, I recommend that you do your own research. You'll notice that he (and you) does not call the the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict a war - as well as the other conflicts that he correctly calls conflicts.
@@drfelren I also have a degree in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies, although it's a pointless argument from authority anyway 😅 To my knowledge, the 1000-fatalities threshold was popularized by the Correlates of War dataset, and has been perpetuated by many of the important academic initiatives to gather conflict data - UCDP and others. CoW and its analogues certainly have importance in the academic field and they have relevance if only as an empirically impactful definition. As practical as that metric is though, it remains an arbirtrary one chosen for analytical imperatives. War is a very complex concept historically, culturally, sociologically, linguistically, etc. and if you zoom out from the realm of quantitative data analysis there are countless ways to define it that rely on wildly different criteria (see even the basics: Clausewitz, Aron, Kaldor...)
@@plutarch_cvg You certainly know what you are talking about. Scholars will never agree to something as arbitrary as when a conflict becomes a war, hence the simplification of 1000 combat deaths per annum. However, war like you state is complex and is often more of a system that involves - defense economics, troop maneuvers, and wider geopolitical interests - than a conflict, which may be a brief flare up of violence.
@@iorifori91neither of them at the moment claim to be separate countries, so it’s not a war even if they battle, it will only be civil unrest. Although the scale of the conflict would be on the scale what you can call a war. Not gonna be anything like WWII though.
When WWI and WWII started, I don't think people realised that they were living in a world war, at least in the beginning. What if we are living in the beginning of WWIII? 🤔😢
More like we in 1910s stage when wars are going all over the Europe (like, Balkans had 2 wars in maybe 3 years), situation looks tense, but big players hadn't yet started their turn
It would help end the drug war if the US would stop the drug dealers in America from buying/selling to Mexican cartels. As an American, I'm sorry my country has played a part in why these gangsters have so much power.
One conflict that has never been resolved even though there is no fighting between the states in question, is North and South Korea are still, technically, are at war with one another because there was no peace agreement between the two nations.
This is a great update to your last video on this topic which is pretty outdated! I was just recently wondering if there would be an updated version soon and TLDR definitely delivers😄 3:24 Just pointing out a minor mistake: You seemed to mispronounce 'reasons' as 'regions' here (EDIT): Ah never mind, you guys pointed out that error in the video
This is the first video on your guys' channel I've seen, and like many other commentators here, I'm sold on this video concept. This is perhaps the single most unbiased and to-the-point update on global conflicts, and I would very much enjoy to see you guys do this regularly on a semi-annual basis.
*Question:* I've seen a lot of noise about how conflicts in West Africa, the Mideast, or Taiwan would detract Military Support from Ukraine, stretch the USA too thin, and Ultimately lead to a capitulation to Russian Territorial Aggression. My question is how much of the present world conflicts since 2022 are motivated by Russia calling in favours for it's beneficiaries to start making noise to try and accomplish this even on just a level of political perception amongst western democratic populations, in order to generate even an illusion of stress that could help to damage Ukraine? Because if Russia collapses, there goes all of the assistance both over and under the table that goes to all these other countries and groups, often through secondary and tertiary entities. I'm not saying it's all smoke and mirrors, but I'm saying that I wouldn't be surprised if Russia is leaning on the scales.
Support for Ukraine is already wavering in the states especially since many think Ukraine is not showing any results for their offensive, which they are.
A few more not covered in the Video Cabo Delgado insurgency in Mozambique, ISIS and allied local insurgent groups fighting the government and it's Rwandan allies. The Taliban and IS-K are still fighting in Afghanistan.
Make sure if your a civilian prepare basic emergency supplies. This video and the state of the world should convince you. So many people are ignoring or ignorant of the world wide unrest we are in 😢🙄
Western media’s selective coverage of global conflicts & suffering is very telling. The way they choose to spotlight some groups' suffering while others are left in the shadows, rendering the wider public indifferent or blissfully ignorant. 🙄 Take the war in Yemen, for instance. Enduring one of the most harrowing humanitarian crises, yet we didn't witness a worldwide light show of buildings bedecked in Yemeni colors or the sudden appearance of Yemeni flags in millions of social media bios. Their plight was conveniently kept out of the limelight, perhaps to avoid upsetting our Western alliances with certain Saudi friends? The hypocrisy and cherry-picking are breathtaking.
Where? We’re done with Afghanistan and Iraq and just have anti-terrorist outposts across the MENA. Where are we fighting a war with boots on the ground?
It's kind of insane to think that, despite there being so many conflicts, only 3 of them (Israel-Gaza, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Russia-Ukraine) are inter-state. The rest are civil unrest.
@@israelisreall don’t forget Iraq and Yemen
Armenia-Azerbaijan war is concluded. It'd be completely stupid of any state to reignite it
@@israelisreall Palestine isn't a country, it's a territory of Israel lol
@@soupisgood44just like the 4 Ukrainian territories are now territories of Russia after ‘elections’? Lol
@@soupisgood44you're right in the first half, Palestine is not a state. At best it's two states.
Thdy aren't Territories of Israel either though
This video is a fantastic idea. I'd love it if it was a regular thing, updating us on the conflicts in like 3 months.
I vote monthly
weekly updates
I’d say every six months. Conflicts can often go many months without much progression
Per quarter! Like most countries update their gdp(s)
@@auden5903 Yeah, anything less than 6 months will be practically reposting the same video
The West Papua conflict. It's gotten very little coverage anywhere and it's quite brutal, I know you guys would do a great job covering this overlooked part of the world
Isn't that all like tribal wars and such?
@@saber2802Aren't all?
@@davidwuhrer6704 no
@@saber2802 Which ones aren't?
@@saber2802 given that one side is the Indonesian military, it's more like civil unrest
Ah, México my beloved country, one of the few countries that can be in a war and have economic grow at the same time for years and years
Narcos Mexico was good.
Colombia did the trick as well, tough countries 😂
Ah, Mexico, my beloved country that is formally at peace but suffering more fatalities than Russia Ukraine war
My boy have u never heard of the United States... Lmao all the economic growth comes from war
@@AmirSatt yes, jaja, what do you expect from a country that venerate "Santa Muerte" (Holly dead)
It would be great information if it was possible to see the number of conflicts each year in the last 10-30 years to see how things are changing. Although that would require a TON of work, I imagine.
Pretty sure there's a bunch of timeline vids that do just that.
This has been done a number of times.
A quick google brings up a few breakdowns by year.
The short answer is we have become more peaceful year after year, for longer than you have been alive.
Wikipedia isn't up to date on conflicts, maybe statista or our world in data have something.
I reckon those videos are raw data that would still need to be analyzed further to extract an answer@@JanjayTrollface
@@pkz420 "The short answer is we have become more peaceful year after year" - this is only true as a long run average. It isn't true across shorter periods. The last few years have seen bigger wars than there were in the mid-2010s for instance. The graph isn't a straight line at all, not even close. It's a spiky mess that looks uncannily like a stock market graph.
I was in Mexico at the exact time the conflict broke out, my flight home was delayed a week and I was pretty much quarantining that entire week since I was really close to where most of the violence was happening
May god be with you. Stay safe friend
If you take Mexico as an example Haiti, Ecuador , Venezuela, Honduras, Belize should also be considered, Libya has 2 governments that don't recognize each other. The Taliban in Afghanistan isn't in full control. and we also have West Sahara. I still believe I am missing a handful. My faith in humanity 🤍
Southern Morocco? 🇲🇦
somaliland. taiwan. donets and luhansk.
somaililand and Taiwan is not a war@@rizkyadiyanto7922
Nah the Cartel is way more formidable. Also the Mexican government is complicit. Ecuador,Venezuela,Honduras, and Belize would all be better off if the Mexican government stepped up.
@@angelzavala2254sahrawi 🇪🇭
I absolutely love the concept of this video and hope it becomes a regular update on conflicts every period of time.
I think the fighting in Cameroon is overlooked. The government killings in the Anglophone region need to be addressed
A common pattern u can see with most major wars lately is that they were fought based on historical significance and cultural differences for the countries involved. Its not so much about ideology anymore.
Unless, like me, you consider nationalism an ideology, which is what leads to this sudden obsession with cultural arguments.
Ideology always was just justification for old etnic conflits. But still is present - in Columbia or in Ukraine.
My brother in Christ you just described an ideology
Nationalism is an ideology
here's a mind fark for ya. it was *never* about "IdEoLoGy". it was always about wealth and power. ideology was merely the tool to manipulate the masses to fight for those that are after the latter.
Bro could've included the wars in the comments section 😂
If anyone wants to learn more about the Myanmar Conflict, the IISS has a conflict map of the current civil war and analyses that explain the current conflict there in depth. Highly recommend you guys read it if you want to learn more about it!
Iiss?
@@MH-hu5piInternational Institute of Strategic Studies
This video is an excellent digest of the world conflicts. I appreciate this insight without having to invest my own time into discovering all the world military conflicts.
There are like 50 other conflicts but they are all pretty small.
1:03 The idea to intervene in Mexico wasn't motivated by charity, but rather because Republicans needed votes. By proposing intervention, they claimed to care about "American citizens in Mexico." as well as offering a "solution" to the fentanyl epidemic. However, as we know, every country where the U.S. intervenes often ends up worse off than before, which is why Mexico's president refused the "help".
You’d be surprised how many American seniors retire in Mexico where social security benefits actually provide a far more comfortable retirement than in the United States thanks to the currency exchange rate and low cost of living. Plus a lot of younger expats.
Unpopular opinion: US Republicans just want to bomb brown people, it’s that simple
Tell that to Korea, Japan, Poland, Germany, all of Europe really, Kuwait, Kosovo, Saudi Arabia, the D.R.,
The idea to intervene in Mexico was charity. Mexico has proven completely incapable of handling the cartel violence themselves and it threatens to spill over here.
I'd rather live under US military occupation than cartel domination
What I’m getting from this is Australians and New Zealanders are the luckiest people in the world.
Indeed, they are.
As an Australian I can confirm
You are forgetting the war in this comment section
Everyone is safe in their parents basement so no casualties
@@justanerd414 YOU SHALL BE THE FIRST 🔫
Vietnam is based.
Love from Tunisia 🇹🇳 🤍
Relax dude the worst thing they flood your yt notification, just turn off notification
It’s not a war just bunch of morons who suddenly know everything about history and politics and events and shit to keep making sure they shift and push blame on one people they don’t like
You've forgotten Bakassi, the insurgencies in Eastern Nigeria, among other things.
1 - America vs Yemen
2 - America vs Somalia
3 - America vs Syria
4 - America vs Afghanistan
5 - America vs Iraq
6 - America vs Eastern Ukraine
7 - America vs Palestine
8 - America vs information
9 - America vs 'terror'
10 - America vs 'drugs'
11 - America vs Russia (by proxy in many of the above)
Have I forgotten any?
It’s always the incumbent vs a coalition of everybody else. It’s how pie sharing works.
more like Islam vs every religon, but yeah.
In general conflicts in the South Americas, Africa and Asia are often overlooked by the west.
I cannot really blame either the west in general tho for it at the same time. You are always gonna be more invested in conflicts or what happens close to you over somewhere far away.
I cannot for example blame Poles for being more invested in the Ukraine war than whatever happens in Asia.
And I think that is the same for people in Asia, they are probably more invested in local conflicts than whatever happens with Ukraine or S. America.
Also I think, in general, us in the west are tired of hearing of wars on these places. Cartel wars, subsaharian Africa wars and middle east wars have been happening since I have memories (change the name of the war but it is always the same continuous war).
Also opinions like the one from the Mexican president denying help doesn't help too much (even if that help comes from the devil). It's not only mexico, for example in Africa a lot of countries deny help from France.
Nothing's happening in Asia east of Iran, except the Myanmar civil war. Even Afghanistan is peaceful now.
"I cannot for example blame Poles for being more invested in the Ukraine war" - you CAN, however, blame the US. Which can afford to be uninvolved in any of these conflicts, but not only does it get involved anyway but it also foments other conflicts of its own (like the building tensions with China, which date to 2017 when Trump came to power rather than 2012 when Xi did). This is what happens when you're a hegemon - everything becomes 'your business', even if it doesn't involve you, so as to maintain hegemony.
@@ArawnOfAnnwnbuddy. China needs to help building tensions with other nations. Literally almost all of chinese neighbors hate China. This is not a US conspiracy.
@@ArawnOfAnnwnbut when us doesn’t intervene people like you will cry like where th is the america?
You forgot the war we are having with cane toads in Australia. The toads are winning.
Australia seems to have a terrible record when it goes to war against its animals. I seem to remember the emus kicking their asses...
@@darksis1 Yer. We don’t need conventional wars down under. Everything what’s to kill us. Kangaroos, emus, snakes, spiders, drop bears, crocs, sharks ,,, the list goes on.
The emus are probably secretly funding the cane toads.
Would love to hear your take on the Indonesian occupation of West Papua and the war crimes being perpetrated there. As an Australian, it brings me a lot of discomfort knowing my government is not only silent on the deaths of civilians there but also is supplying Indonesia with military hardware
Take care of east timor which oil you stole first
Id love that,most media wouldn’t bat an eye on said conflict,even though they say that all life matters.
@@sikul3237as an Australian,he is really opening his mind to know what his country (and their neighbors) did wrong.
@@sikul3237
That's related tho, yet another example of Australia being complicit in Indonesian war crimes for profit.
Free Aborigin
You guys should do a video like this every year.
interesting to see how the number and scale compare to previous years say post 1950... too many people quote "its never been worse" based on media frenzy but the reality is more likely "its never been better" from a global conflict perspective...
It's still not good.
But it's true, it has been worse.
I think it's just never been reported on as much. In the 1950s most people would never have even heard of these wars but now we get video evidence of them.
@@davidjennings2179 yes agree.
I believe you missed the Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan water conflict, the Haiti situation, and the West Papuan civil war.
I propose listing the wars in descending order of number of deaths so far this year and then you can produce video's following that order and see which ones will bring more follow up questions
Humans will never stop fighting each other
shout out to this guy hes making videos 24/7 great content. thanks bro
I doubt this is an independent guy with a cell phone. I bet there are a lot of people and maybe interests behind this channel.
Really surprises me that most people don't know about the tigray war, even though it has a higher death toll than the russo-ukraine war.
And Egypt and Ethiopia are pretty important countries too, Egypt controls the Suez and is linked to Palestine and the state of Israel.
Ethiopia has a lot of power over the other 3 countries in the horn of Africa who can kinda control/damage the sea routes
Only the Ukraine war has the real potential of becoming WWIII and or a nuclear war. That's why.
@@ChristiangjfYeah, only because US and it's allies are hyping it up as such.
Ukraine is not part of NATO. It doesn't matter what happens in Ukraine (in ww3 context).
In reality this is just a proxy war with Russia for US.
And the Europeans care about no one but Europeans, how very unlike them./s
Outside of these two, literally no gives a fu*k about the Ukraine conflict.
The difference isn't about them not being major wars, it's about the perspective. Which wars get attention has more to do with who the audience is than how big the war is. And the audience here is mostly the west. The war in Yemen deserves a LOT more attention than it got, but the west didn't care about it. We even have people ludicrously calling the war in Ukraine the deadliest war since WW2, which only reveals their ignorance cos that title is very clearly taken by the Second Congo War, which despite being only two decades old most people in the west have never even heard of (as is typically the case with African conflicts). Hell the US Iraq war has a higher death toll, but didn't arouse anywhere near as much of a reaction. Cos what makes Ukraine special is just that it's an attack on the west. Israel also enjoys a special place in the western consciousness that neither Africa, Asia or Latin America does.
your strawmanning pretty hard with all the “they (who are you talking about) think this thing” your doing.
@@ArawnOfAnnwnukraine isnt part of the west. Most western europeans dont even see it or any other eastern european country as western, rightfully so.
wherever you see war, know that the Englishman is nearby.
In addition to dealing with Boko Haram and West Africa coup shenanigans, there is also a big Nigerian conflict against bandits and communal conflict with ethno-religious and herder-farmer origins.
A new guy moved into the unit next to me just yesterday and blasts shitty EDM for hours. My personal war :(
Just moved to my new apartment and one of my neighbors seems to look at me wrong just because I play music for a couple of minutes.
@@EricT01 So funny considering I know two neighbors who are having an argument over playing music. I really hope the bloke turns it down though. I like NCS but I don't like listening to NCS 3am in the morning while I'm trying to sleep.
@@keshi5541 Sorry I got a Remote internships the other side of the planet and need to be awake at 3 AM
Me: Interesting
Also me: Continues planning for a world wide trip to every country
Scary fact: 2023 is not over yet
No please, it would be scarier if it was already 2024. I'm not ready yet.
As long as greedy people exist, peace is just a dream.
It would be very informative to have the amount of people killed and/or injured, if possible on each side and whether they're civilians or soldiers, for each conflict. I know it wouldn't all be possible for all of them, but an estimate would give more context.
Africa has been in a constant state of war for over 70 years, fucking wild.
Amazing year so far. Let's try to do better next year and start even more wars than this year!!!
thanks for this information!
Of all the periods in human history, this is certainly one of them.
not to mention my parents are constantly at war with each other
Feels like you keep rushing to get videos out at the moment.
almost as if their income depends on it
What should they do? Wait until everything calms down and then make news about tiktok trends 😂
@@justanerd414
Or put a little more effort into it?
hope all wars stop
I was awaiting this! thanks
Can't believe the national unity government in Myanmar went with XML when they could have used something better, like JSON or YAML
LMAO
More descriptive and type safe, what can you say...
XML is better than both JSON and YAML.
Better than JSON, because it's a bracket-fest.
Better than YAML, because fuck Python and anything that looks remotely like it.
@@panossavvaidis6086 out of curiosity, what's your profession?
so they have PDF and XML. i'm not sure if theyre joking or not.
Exactly the kind of video I’m looking for
There has been a civil war in Indonesia, more particularly Papua. Called the Papua conflict, there's a Wikipedia page about it. As small this conflict it is, there has been active fighting in 2023. It first started in 1962, making this conflict last over 61 years.
WAR NEVER CHANGES
We still have two months to go, pretty sensible title IMO.
Too many wars this year.
No war.
I really can’t stand the fact that the news of the Sudanese civil war was discussed only two days and the Yemen civil war is not even mentioned while the war in Ukraine has been discussed months, in Yemen millions have perished for the war and in Sudan 6000 people have dined in yurt a few months, some conflicts aren’t more important than another ones, people die and perish in every war.
That’s mainstream media cherry picking what specific war or armed conflict they want to talk about. Take what’s going on between Israel or Palestine, or even Ukraine and Russia for example. They will on endlessly talking about the endless updates of those conflicts while not mentioning the already existing conflicts that were already going on in the world.
It’s sad & very disheartening at the same time because while many other hundreds or even thousands of people lose their lives in conflicts in other regions/countries some will only pick certain ones to report on.
I wish our world were free of all conflicts and intolerance.
The fact that we get free videos from TLDR on TH-cam is priceless, keeping the education and knowledge alive. 🙏🙏🙏
The upbeat tone of voice makes this sound like a weather report of death and destruction
I just recently looked into "List of ongoing armed conflicts" Wikipedia page and now you made a video!
Thank you so much for this. Hopefully humanity can find a better way as we are so horrible compared to other animal species. 💔
I used to live in Kenya and have witnessed a gang of hyena's eating a Wildebeast that was still alive, but too tired to resist anymore. He was too big for the Hyena's to kill though, so they started eating him alive.
Rats, dolphins, chimpanzees etc
I'd like to think we could be 'better' than that hyena gang, but it seems we are much much worse. 😢
"so far" 💀
I see this video as the start of a series. Maby every 3 or 4 months we could get updates on the world. To see the forgotten news.
"War is cruelty and you cannot refine it." - William Tecumseh Sherman.
I am not trying to defend these atrocities I am just saying that these are all perfect examples of why he was right.
Damn shame we can't learn to get along
Just so you know, Junta is pronounced "Hoon-ta" because its a Spanish word
Cameroon!!! 7yrs of conflict and there has been little to no international converge
In the thumbnail you highlighted Mozambique but then didn't talk about it 🤔🤔🤔
Wait wait wait.... Why is India marked in the diagram. We didn't have any kind of armed conflict in our country in 2023.
The conflict in Yemen is woefully under reported because of the amount of money made in arms deals with the Saudi's. Burma is a similar story with the Junta being a cash cow for the military industrial complex.
Junta buys from china.
The military does not own the media.
Yemen is a civil war turned proxy war.
The junta in Burma is more China Russia leaning they aren't an ally to the west
You not gonna shout out Wikipedia ? Smh
We are very close to be able to guarantee independence
Where?
@@piebit101 everywhere
Lend lease too
That’s funny, I just asked this question on Google yesterday. I saw the same map as in the thumbnail on Wikipedia. 😂
Hi TLDR! It may be helpful for your viewers to explain that a war is a conflict that reaches 1000 combat deaths per annum. So, 999 combat deaths in a year would be considered a conflict, not a war (the number may seem abstract, but 1000 is the number that scholars have agreed upon).
I suppose the silver lining of this video is that the end of war in the Americas is conceivable within our lifetimes.
There is no universally agreed-upon definition of war, and certainly not among scholars. Plus the one you propose does not seem to be the one they favoured for this video, as for instance the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict falls well short of that number of fatalities.
@@plutarch_cvg There are too many sources that back 1000 combat deaths defined as a war to list. I have degrees in both IR and history, and this is the definition that most scholars use, however, I recommend that you do your own research. You'll notice that he (and you) does not call the the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict a war - as well as the other conflicts that he correctly calls conflicts.
@@drfelren I also have a degree in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies, although it's a pointless argument from authority anyway 😅
To my knowledge, the 1000-fatalities threshold was popularized by the Correlates of War dataset, and has been perpetuated by many of the important academic initiatives to gather conflict data - UCDP and others. CoW and its analogues certainly have importance in the academic field and they have relevance if only as an empirically impactful definition.
As practical as that metric is though, it remains an arbirtrary one chosen for analytical imperatives. War is a very complex concept historically, culturally, sociologically, linguistically, etc. and if you zoom out from the realm of quantitative data analysis there are countless ways to define it that rely on wildly different criteria (see even the basics: Clausewitz, Aron, Kaldor...)
@@plutarch_cvg You certainly know what you are talking about. Scholars will never agree to something as arbitrary as when a conflict becomes a war, hence the simplification of 1000 combat deaths per annum. However, war like you state is complex and is often more of a system that involves - defense economics, troop maneuvers, and wider geopolitical interests - than a conflict, which may be a brief flare up of violence.
I am 62 years old and cannot recall a time when there hasn’t been war!
Yeah but then your parents probably have seen world war ii so…
Thanks you TLDR, you're building a well informed, critical thinking community
I don’t think so
Hardly...
Mostly
This is why aliens don't want to visit us.
North and South Korea are still technically at war.
Also, while China and Taiwan are not at war, given recent events it deserved a mention.
But there is no military actions against each other
china and taiwan are technically still at war
@@iorifori91neither of them at the moment claim to be separate countries, so it’s not a war even if they battle, it will only be civil unrest. Although the scale of the conflict would be on the scale what you can call a war. Not gonna be anything like WWII though.
It's 2024. People still fight for borders. It's heartbreaking. I hope everyone in the world can live in peace and freedom.
When WWI and WWII started, I don't think people realised that they were living in a world war, at least in the beginning. What if we are living in the beginning of WWIII? 🤔😢
I mean it was obvious WW1 Was a world war when france and britian declared war on germany
More like we in 1910s stage when wars are going all over the Europe (like, Balkans had 2 wars in maybe 3 years), situation looks tense, but big players hadn't yet started their turn
To be fair you could say this for every year since 2000
We know quite easily from documents, letters ect. from the time that people were very much aware at the time they were living through a world war.
by the end of 2030 they hope to meet their depopulation goals.
There are some truly horrible creatures in this world, giving their lives to ruin others
Mexico's war on drugs has huge death tolls :(
I don't think it can just be marked as civil unrest
It would help end the drug war if the US would stop the drug dealers in America from buying/selling to Mexican cartels. As an American, I'm sorry my country has played a part in why these gangsters have so much power.
Great video
You talk about Hamas killing 900 civilians but not israel killing 10,000 civilians. Nice
What about the insurgency in South Thailand?
Blinken has warned that Azerbaijan could invade southern Armenia... And the Myanmar Junta has opened a dam that flooded rivers downstream...
One conflict that has never been resolved even though there is no fighting between the states in question, is North and South Korea are still, technically, are at war with one another because there was no peace agreement between the two nations.
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Yemen by far needs more attention. It has been so deadly and horrible with the famine
This is a great update to your last video on this topic which is pretty outdated! I was just recently wondering if there would be an updated version soon and TLDR definitely delivers😄
3:24 Just pointing out a minor mistake: You seemed to mispronounce 'reasons' as 'regions' here
(EDIT): Ah never mind, you guys pointed out that error in the video
You covered some wars that started in the past, but are still on going, so I expected to see the Papua conflict included
West Papua will be a full insurgency by 2025.
This is the first video on your guys' channel I've seen, and like many other commentators here, I'm sold on this video concept. This is perhaps the single most unbiased and to-the-point update on global conflicts, and I would very much enjoy to see you guys do this regularly on a semi-annual basis.
didn't know that in Britain it's pronounced JUN-ta 😂 thought it was HUN-ta 😬
It is. "Hoon-ta" is correct pronunciation, since it's a Spanish word.
Why is Brazil yellow in the thumbnail? I thought we were at war and that I had missed the news, hahaha
Conflict in Greater Rio De Janeiro, conflict between Militias, CV, PCC, TCP, ADA and the security forces with more than 700 deaths from 2006
*Question:*
I've seen a lot of noise about how conflicts in West Africa, the Mideast, or Taiwan would detract Military Support from Ukraine, stretch the USA too thin, and Ultimately lead to a capitulation to Russian Territorial Aggression. My question is how much of the present world conflicts since 2022 are motivated by Russia calling in favours for it's beneficiaries to start making noise to try and accomplish this even on just a level of political perception amongst western democratic populations, in order to generate even an illusion of stress that could help to damage Ukraine? Because if Russia collapses, there goes all of the assistance both over and under the table that goes to all these other countries and groups, often through secondary and tertiary entities. I'm not saying it's all smoke and mirrors, but I'm saying that I wouldn't be surprised if Russia is leaning on the scales.
Support for Ukraine is already wavering in the states especially since many think Ukraine is not showing any results for their offensive, which they are.
Some conflicts are just noise, the more significant ones are planned by players of the great game.
I greatly appreciate this. I would like to see more coverage on the War on Drugs, but some aspects of it are too violent for TH-cam.
We need to stand up for armenian rights since there is a high chance that southern armenia is going to be invaded
The fact that the Syrian civil war has been ongoing for 12 years is shocking.
A few more not covered in the Video
Cabo Delgado insurgency in Mozambique, ISIS and allied local insurgent groups fighting the government and it's Rwandan allies.
The Taliban and IS-K are still fighting in Afghanistan.
Wow I hadn't even heard that the cicil war in Sudan is still going on
Spictip: Acronyms are pronounced in Spanish. So, we pronounce the Colombian FARC as "farc", as in "fart", but with a "c".
Is it similar to like how you pronounce CANZUK?
Make sure if your a civilian prepare basic emergency supplies. This video and the state of the world should convince you. So many people are ignoring or ignorant of the world wide unrest we are in 😢🙄
Interesting that you failed to mention the number of casualties killed by Israel in Gaza thus far........
I pray to god to keep southern africa safe and peaceful,and people to prosper.
Western media’s selective coverage of global conflicts & suffering is very telling. The way they choose to spotlight some groups' suffering while others are left in the shadows, rendering the wider public indifferent or blissfully ignorant. 🙄
Take the war in Yemen, for instance. Enduring one of the most harrowing humanitarian crises, yet we didn't witness a worldwide light show of buildings bedecked in Yemeni colors or the sudden appearance of Yemeni flags in millions of social media bios. Their plight was conveniently kept out of the limelight, perhaps to avoid upsetting our Western alliances with certain Saudi friends? The hypocrisy and cherry-picking are breathtaking.
USA not discussed or highlighted in thumbnail despite being in 4 wars simultaneously as of today.
Where? We’re done with Afghanistan and Iraq and just have anti-terrorist outposts across the MENA. Where are we fighting a war with boots on the ground?
@@HappyGuy-cn9po "anti terrrorist outposts" aka US military bases that house thousands of soldiers in the countries that the us is at war with