An organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties.
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Did Kim Jong-un order the partial evacuation of Pyongyang in North Korea?
Pravda.ru reported on April 12, 2017 that Pyongyang was being partially evacuated in fear of large-scale war with the USA:
North Koreaт (sic) leader Kim Jong-un ordered 25 percent of Pyongyang residents to leave the city immediately.
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Have humans been entirely at peace for 268 out of the last 3400 years?
This claim has been floating around for awhile, apparently, but a specific example is given in a 2003 NY Times article, excerpted from the book "What Every Person Should Know about War" by Chris Hedges:
Has the world ever been at peace?
Of the past…
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Do depleted uranium shells cause birth defects?
I've seen a few articles on depleted uranium rounds possibly causing birth defects in the last few years, but most of the articles have a 'doubter'. From what I can tell, the numbers aren't conclusive.
This environmental health site's paper seems…
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Does Ukraine have more tanks now than it did at the beginning of the invasion?
During a war, one may expect tank counts for both sides to go decrease (i.e. as they engage in combat and are destroyed).
MSNBC reports Forbes stating:
The Ukrainian army has more tanks now than when the war began
with the rationale…
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Did a Ukrainian woman tell a Russian solider in Kherson Oblast to put seeds in his pockets so flowers would grow when he dies in Ukraine?
Basically, is the following a real exchange, down to the details? Reported on Twitter with 1.1M views:
Ukrainian woman confronts Russian soldiers in Henychesk, Kherson region. Asks them why they came to our land and urges to put sunflower seeds in…
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Are US Marines deliberately kept under-supplied so that they would be more combat aggressive?
I watched a TV series named Generation Kill based on the experiences of an embedded reporter during the invasion of Iraq in the 2003.
The US Marines in the series often complain about lacking essential supply such as batteries, decent toilet paper,…
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Has the US declared war since WWII?
On the Jan 11, 2020 episode of the podcast Lovett or Leave It, the host Jon Lovett said that the US hasn’t declared war since World War II.
Is this true? People like to attack politicians for voting for the Iraq war — to me it sounds like there…
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Was the death rate in Boer War concentration camps the same as in Glasgow?
In a widely reported debate on BBC's Question Time, Conservative politician Jacob Rees-Mogg was accused of "justifying" the British use of concentration camps during the Boer War at the beginning of the 20th Century.
He twice repeated the claim that…
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Did Russia warn the people of besieged East Aleppo that "If you do not leave these areas urgently, you will be annihilated"?
Stephen O'Brien, head of the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) claimed that leaflets are being dropped on eastern Aleppo by Syrian and Russian aircraft, warning residents:
“This is your last hope. Save yourselves. If you…
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Did birth defects in southern Iraq rise enormously after the US war against Iraq?
Doug Westerman of the Centre for Research on Globalization writes in Depleted Uranium – Far Worse Than 9/11:
Doctors in southern Iraq are making comparisons to the birth defects that followed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII.…
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Was slavery the principal cause of the American Civil War?
In episode 3F20, "Much Apu About Nothing" of The Simpsons, a proctor is administering an American citizenship test to Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and the following exchange occurs:
Proctor:
All right, here's your last question. What was the cause of…
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Is Coltan the main cause of conflict in Congo since 1997?
This PDF (i saw a translated version) has been brought to my attention.
it claims that Coltan is the main cause of a conflict which has claimed the lives of four million
people since 1997 and as also caused the disappearance of several populations…
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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 years" (but probably in French).
Foch was the Supreme…
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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 where the former pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan…
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Is there any evidence that soldiers turned traitor due to Chinese "brainwashing"?
The Wikipedia article on brainwashing states:
Hunter and those who picked up the Chinese term used it to explain
why, during the Korean War (1950-1953), some American prisoners of war
cooperated with their Chinese captors, even in a few cases…
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