YSK: What a Proxy War is.

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In political science, a proxy war is an armed conflict where at least one of the belligerents is directed or supported by an external third-party power. In the term proxy war, a belligerent with external support is the proxy; both belligerents in a proxy war can be considered proxies if both are receiving foreign military aid from a third party country. Acting either as a nation-state government or as a conventional force, a proxy belligerent acts in behalf of a third-party state sponsor.[1]

  That’s a very loose definition of a proxy war, by that metric basically any war since globalisation is a proxy war.

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  • underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    by that metric basically any war since globalisation is a proxy war

    I would argue that practically every war since globalization is a proxy war.

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  • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Arguably that is true though.

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• acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rule 2

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  • TehBamski@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you for pointing that out to me.

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