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At what point does a war become a world war? (lemmy.world)

submitted 18 hours ago by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What with north korean soldiers fighting for Russia in Ukraine, where is the line drawn?

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

The US Civil War eclipsed both in the number of casualties

I'm maybe misunderstanding you here, but as far as I know there were about 100 times as many people killed in WW2 as in the US Civil war. 60 odd million vs 600,000 or so.