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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Were chemical weapons used in the civil war in Syria by the Assad regime before 2014?
From Erdogan: Assad using chemical weapons in Syria at The Jerusalem Post:
Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that the regime of Syrian President Basher Assad has used ...
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Has France ever won a war?
France is commonly made fun of for not having won a war, for instance when they rejoined NATO and the daily mail made fun of them:
Why did the French celebrate their World Cup in 1998 so wildly?
It ...
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Have the rich Arab states accepted almost no Syrian refugees?
According to speisa.com, BBC News, and sources cited by this skeptics post, and many others, "rich Arab gulf states" accept none or almost none Syrian refugees:
The six wealthy Gulf ...
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Is the the “civilian casualty ratio” in modern day warfare about 3-4:1?
This site claims that, in modern warfare, about 3 civilians are killed for every combatant killed.
This concept can be scientifically proven by understand (sic) the basic concept of “civilian ...
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Has weather been weaponised?
A letter in The Guardian makes the following claims:
While seemingly fantastical, weather has been weaponised. At least four countries – the US, Russia, China and Israel – possess the technology ...
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Are US-sold aircrafts not able to shoot on Israeli targets?
According to this article,
the old U.S. system ... automatically identified all Israeli targets
as a "friend," preventing Turkish fighter jets from firing at them,
even if Turkish pilots were ...
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Have there been only 26 days of peace since 1945?
There are a lot of claims that there have only been 26 days of peace since 1945.
For example: How many days peace has the world had since 1945?
I believe none, because there has always been some ...
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Was Monsanto the primary manufacturer of Agent Orange?
Saw this on my Facebook today.
Agent Orange
Agent Orange wasn't invented by Monsanto... The primary manufacturer wasn't Monsanto. It was Dow Chemical. When Dow couldn't manufacture it fast enough, ...
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Did global warming exacerbate the Syrian conflict?
Newspapers have recently reported that research shows that Global Warming can now be assigned as a major contributor to the ongoing conflict in Syria. For example, The Independent:
Climate change was ...
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Were many Ukrainian and Polish women raped by Soviet soldiers during the WWII?
This[1] site claims:
It's not that the idea of rape as a weapon of war is implausible. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian, Polish and most of all German women were raped by Red Army soldiers as ...
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Did the Free Syrian Army take a (pictured) toddler hostage?
On Al-hadath News is this picture posted:
Warning: Disturbing image
and claims that the Free Syrian Army posted this picture claiming it is "[their] youngest hostage."
Is it true that the baby was ...
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Did war in the 20th century murder more than “all previous deaths”?
In the chapter on Statism: Our Condition of the 1983 version of the New Libertarian Manifesto by Samuel Edward Konkin III the following can be found,
In the 20th Century alone, war has murdered ...
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Was the video about MH17 done the day before it crashed?
Was the video implicating rebels in the shooting down of MH17 created the day before the crash?
Example claim
donwload SBU video of recording of rebels talking of downing #MH17 and
check the ...
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Did the Syrian government use chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun? [closed]
Since April 4th 2017, reports have been released about a chemical attack that is supposed to have occurred in a Syrian town called Khan Shaykhun.
According to the BBC, "[t]he UK's foreign secretary, ...
