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Vietnam has been classed as a proxy war.
It also looks like the Middle East/North Africa issues are becoming a major powers war. What is the definition of a World War? 2 continents and 20 countries, also death tolls that make the "man in the street" notice. We are just about there.
Vietnam was classified as a proxy war only by the domino theory pro war propagandists who lied to the American people. To the Vietnamese it was a war of independence first from French colonialism and then from Eisenhower betrayal.
The Middle East will always be George W Bush's monstrous, genocidal Christian crusade.
Historically, world wars have involved nations from every continent except Antarctica.
So, are we going to start counting the Napoleonic War and the Seven years War?
Then there is the Cold War (an estimate of 20-30 mil casualties)
As far as Bush's Global War on Terror, shouldn't you be blaming Reagan's War against Terrorism? Of course both were created by attacks against US citizens. Or to go back even further, you could blame Jefferson for the First Barbary War. Of course that was because of attacks on US citizens as well.
Maybe I was unclear above. There were two world wars. In each, nations from every continent participated and/or issued a declaration of war.
I fail to see how Bush or Reagan's activities meet the definition of a world war. Nor Jefferson's. Perhaps you can be more explicit. And while you are at it, where did you get the figure of such high casualties from the cold war?
As far as I know the Napoleonic wars and the Seven Years War did not involve Asian nations.
I was going off of your "Bush's Christian Crusade" idea and taking it farther back, since that has been going on for over 200 years.
Napoleonic Wars before outset of the war (early 1800s). Great Britain, Prussia, Austria, Russia, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Ottoman Empire. France, French client states in Europe, Denmark-Norway, and the United States. New South Wales, British claimed territory; Fezzan, Ottoman vassal; and the eastern "Barbary States" of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli nominally Ottoman governed.
And you are right that the Seven year's war really did not affect Australia, although it did have Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Asia.
I think that you are forgetting about all the colonies that countries had.
The British employed troops from India and Africa During WWl. Brazilians were directly involved in both major wars of the 20th Century. Several South American nations declared war against Hitler. Defining World Wars requires more than the fact that colonies existed. I don't see how the Napoleonic Wars qualify as World wars.
Middle Eastern Muslims have a reaction to "crusade" similar to our reaction against "jihad." Bush used the term several times. He also referred to Evil and the Axis of Evil . . . more biblical rhetoric from his bible group. A number of people on this message board rant against Islam in the tone of crusade. The War on Terrorism is nothing less than a Christian Crusade, imo.
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