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1. Stoori Raisiolainen (stoori@polyglot.city)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jun-2022 09:00:06 UTC Stoori Raisiolainen

   it's only world war if it happens in the europe region of the world, otherwise it's just sparkling conflict

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jun-2022 01:35:28 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @Stoori While the joke is funny and I agree with the sentiment and Europe's sense of self-importance, which might have had them called World Wars either way, the two World Wars did involve the European colonies on other continents as well as the US, the Ottomans and the Japanese, so there is some objective reason to call them World Wars as well.
     
     In terms of deaths rather than geography, the Taiping Rebellion in China claimed more lives than the First World War did, but it's called a civil war because only one country was involved ... and perhaps because that country is not European.