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There's also an element of expecting certain countries to be on a state of war, because they have historically been so and/or are surpressed by totalitarian governments that cannot exist in perpetuity. For example, if a was breaks out in Myanmar it's less shocking then if total warfare were to break out in Japan. Both places contain Asian populations, but one simply has a greater reputation for being unstable. The same would go for war breaking out in Saudi Arabia vs Libya/Iraq.