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hello everyone, a very interesting disscussion for all the military history pros is it really true that there has never been a war between two countries with a mcdonalds....the only one i can think of right now is the united states invasion of panama in 1989 but did panama had mcdonalds in that year im not sure ill have to investigate
thanks alot
a similar statement is that there has never been a war between two democracies!!! i believe its true
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we int'l relations people talked about that one in the early 90s...the proponents of that theory suddenly got quiet in the balkans mess of the mid-late 90s.
as for "war between two democracies," that depends on how narrow you want to define democracies. a war between two liberal modern democracies hasn't happened (probably yet), but ancient greece for example gives plenty of examples of wars between democracies. the democratic peace theory, while attractive, has quite a few problems.
i think, though, it is fair to say that chances of a conflict between two liberal modern democracies is smaller than it would be otherwise.