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Old 2010-03-28, 06:31   Link #228
Slayerx
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Originally Posted by ashesatdusk
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you keep saying that this was not a war due to the fact that whitebeard is not a recognized nation...

First off, the idea of international law, the rights of countries, recognition and all that other jazz are modern concepts. War however is a concept that has existed since ancient times. There were no rules for war back in ancient times... if you wanted to have a war, all you needed was to have two sides duke it out

Second of all, you're idea that you need to be a soverign nation to start a "war" has obvious exceptions... take for instance a revolution, which is a type of WAR. In this type of WAR, only ONE side is a recognized nation with government and such; the other side however has no gov't, and has no recognition as a nation... yet win or loose that conflict will be known as a WAR.

really the ONLY argument for not calling this a war was due to how short it was... but then there have been shorter conflicts that were called "wars"... not to mention that even if it was just one battle, it is a battle of such magnitude that it will shake the foundations of the entire world (literally)... so while it may have been a very breif armed conflict, it's level of impotrance and effect is as grand as that of a traditional war.
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