Personally, I don't buy it. The world is much more dangerous from my perspective, and that is counter to peaceful. Threats exist in different ways now. You do not have large scale wars where hundreds of thousands die, you have campaigns where the fighting is restricted and the deaths are heavily reduced. The United States has dropped more munitions on Iraq than were dropped in all of WWII. A fraction of the people have died. Does that make it more peaceful, or just more technologically advanced where weapons don't kill indescriminantly like they once did. Many coflicts beomce guerilla campaigns which are extremely violent yet restrict the numbers of casualties. Is the world more peaceful? Not a chance IMO. There are more disagreements taking place, but the means to an end restrict the large scale engagements that used to be common place. Civil war still happens, just on a much smaller and more focused battlefield.
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