Questions tagged [war]
An organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties.
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Do modern nuclear weapons produce no nuclear fallout?
Neil deGrasse Tyson says nuclear bombs no longer produce fallout.
From the video Neil deGrasse Tyson: modern hydrogen nuclear weapons don’t have the radiation fallout problem of WW2:
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Was Iran's attack on Israel secretly coordinated with the USA?
In the article The whole event was premeditated: the secret "deal" that Iran made with the US (English translation), the author claims that Iran's attack on Israel was coordinated with the ...
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When did Saddam Hussein kill 12,000 people in one day through the use of chemical weapons?
In 2023Mar, 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq led by the US & the UK and the 1st anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the AFP News Agency posted an interview with former UK ...
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Is the insurance cost for going through the Red Sea the determining factor why ships avoid it, and are insurance companies making a big profit there?
It's been claimed in a popular video on the FSK bridge as some side comments (towards the end, last 3 minutes or so) that
The insurance companies are making money "hand over fist" in ...
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Does the RSF control 70% of Sudan's territory and 2/3 of its inhabitants?
There's embedded video at the end of this 24 Jan 2024 al-Jazeera article in a certain Waleed Mabido claims that Hemedti, the leader of the 'rebel' RSF, controls 70% of the territory of Sudan and "...
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Did an Egyptian dean of Islamic Studies say "we have the right to enslave Israeli women whom we captured in the war and enjoy them sexually"?
According to The Intellectual Extremism of Al-Azhar by Maher Jabra:
The statements of the former Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies for Women at Al-Azhar University, Dr. Souad Saleh, supported ...
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Were 90% of Mariupol's apartment buildings destroyed during 2022 battles?
So I've encountered links to this 2023 Meduza publication on Politics.SE, which states:
In 2022, when the city was the site of a months-long battle between invading Russian forces and the Ukrainian ...
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Did NATO bombs cause significant damage to Libya's water systems in 2011?
NATO intervened against Muammar Gaddafi in the 2011 military invention in Libya.
The Great Man-Made River is a major irrigation project to supply fresh water across Libya.
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Did Ferdinand Foch say "This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years"?
It is often said (e.g. [1], [2]) that, around the time of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch said "This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty ...
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Did France refuse to interview the Belarusian mercenary pilots which killed 9 French soldiers, even though France allegedly had the opportunity?
An old story regarding the 2004 French–Ivorian mini-war. During those events 9 French soldiers were killed by two Su-25 jets, allegedly piloted by Belarusian mercenaries.
According to Le Monde, one of ...
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Did the U.K. sabotage Russia/Ukraine peace deal in April?
According to the description of a video from the The Jimmy Dore Show YouTube channel, titled Revealed: U.K. SABOTAGED Russia/Ukraine Peace Deal In April!:
Did you know that back in April, just a ...
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During the Iran-Iraq war, did the Iranians use small children to trip land mines planted by Iraq?
I'm reading one of Paul Theroux's books, which was published in 2006 during the height of the second Gulf War, and there is a passage in it in which the author apparently claims the activity described ...
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Did Pakistan shoot down an Indian Su-30 in 2019?
As of 2021 Radio Pakistan still claimed that in the 2019 shootout with India they shot down two IAF aircraft, a MiG-21 and a SU-30
PAF had shot down two Indian fighter jets namely MiG-21 and Su-30 ...
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Did Russia's parliament, Duma, propose invading Poland in 2022?
Twitter user @sentdefender, with >160K followers, recently tweeted
The Russian State Duma has proposed that after the Invasion of Ukraine, that Poland be Invaded and denazified next due to their ...
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Does Elon Musk's Starlink system play a significant role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
The DW article Ukraine is using Elon Musk's Starlink for drone strikes about the use of Starlink to provide internet in Ukraine is suggesting that it is playing a role in, e.g., the way president ...
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