• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Why does it have to involve the big powers for it to be a world war?

    IMO that implies that less powerful countries being in chaos doesn’t matter.

    I always thought world war just meant a lot of countries in a related conflict.

    • Rothe@piefed.social
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      16 hours ago

      Because it is a pretty basic and factual definition of world war. War occurring in different places in the world at the same time does not equal a world war.