• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    That last one is a trick question. Depends on how you define “war”. By some accounts we never stopped being in a state of war somewhere since well before 1998. But if you ask congress, last time was WWII.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s not a trick question. It’s obviously referring to a war on the scale of WW2. A total war that requires major government intervention in the economy and everyday life. That’s why it says “full scale war,” not merely “war.” The last full-scale war we had was WW2.

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      8 hours ago

      Then there was the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, etc.

      Remain in a constant state of some sort of war, and you can rationalize militarizing all your multi-redundant law enforcement agencies over every square inch of the map.