Least Peaceful Countries

It is true that every dominant power in modern history has tried to impose its will on other countries...the sun never set on the British Empire. The USSR meddled alongside the US in Vietnam and Korea. Germany tried to conquer the damn world during the Third Reich. France established an empire under Napoleon. They speak Spanish in (most of) Central and South America, Portuguese in Brazil, and French in much of Africa because of the imperialism of Spain, Portugal, and France at the height of their respective power. There's Dutch East India, the Belgian Congo...what am I forgetting? The most powerful countries always get involved where they don't really belong. The difference, like it or not, is that the US and UK have generally tried to broker peace and liberate oppressed groups where they go. I'm not so silly as to think their motives are purely altruistic, or that they don't cause collateral damage...but compared to what their predecessors in power did...it's not bad.

I've never stated the US is perfect and though I was born there I'm not even patriotic. I don't believe in nationalism. I have no more love for America than any other country. There are good and bad things. I object to bigotry. And there is a whole hell of a lot of that aimed at the US today. And I agree with jmellor, from a historical perspective, the US is doing a hell of lot better than any power that came before including the British (or their contemporaries: the Nazis, the Soviets, Imperial France, etc); but the British were somewhat less evil than the Mongols, or the Arabs, or the Romans.

We can hope that this is an upward trend. Some day we can all complain about China being the great Móguǐ, and Americans can start criticizing everyone for things that they were more guilty of in the recent past, once their country has become obsolete (Trump hard at work on this now). But I'm curious to see if the Chinese will do any better. If I live that long.

UK : Colonises countries, oppresses ,kills and imporveshes people.

Also the UK: Why do you hate us?

Detailed point-by-point explanation of the criteria is available if you click through to the source.

Five years on and if anything the Burmese government gets worse. Another military coup. Major conflict with the Rohingya. High military spending. Massive numbers of refugees. Bombing of civilians. One of the worst Huan Rights records on the planet and still not on the list? I've checked the criteria and Burma should clearly be in the top ten, IMO.

By not having enough human rights abuse, not having any wars there and probably not enough crime. I would guess the military spending is high enough.

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+ Eritrea

+ Haiti

+ Mexico

+ Lebanon

I'm not surprised. Iceland is at the top in the relevant categories, but the one thing giving them an advantage for example over the other nordic nations is that they don't have a military.

Well the report states for the 5 less peaceful countries in the "Militarision domain": 1. Israel, 2. Russia, 3. USA, 4. North Korea, 5. France. So you are actually right. It is those "third-world issues" like ongoing civil wars which stole the crown...

This is just laughable. Any comment which claims the US should be in this list is plan BS.

This is just another example of people bashing the USA based on bias and media overexposure. Have you read up on Somalia at all? Have you ever tried to countenance the violence in these countries? The US is nowhere close. And as for the US fomenting violence: even if its motives are sometimes selfish, it intervenes in countries that are themselves beset by violent conflict. You mean to tell me Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Afghanistan would be beacons of peace if the US weren't there? Please. The US is the most interventionist of the world's major powers, but on a list of all the world's countries, it's not at the top, nor is it anywhere close. There are certain countries in which you're advised not to go anywhere without a local escort. The US is nothing like that. The antidote to Americans' ignorance of their role in the world is not to respond with similar ignorance to the contrary. Temper yourselves.

Not under Trump's term. Which is funny. Because he has all these childish blustering temper tantrum tweets but the actual reality is less war, troop drawdowns, and minimal meddling in foreign affairs. Throw in the Middle East peace work and , as I said in a comment above, it's been the best foreign policy since Bill Clinton, in my opinion. And I certainly didn't vote for him.

...because people aren't inherently evil if they come from those countries, and more often than not just want to escape the conflict and live their lives?

for the umpteenth time the criteria for this ranking can be found linked above. Starting wars isn't part of it. Having an active ongoing conflict inside your country is, though. So if anything Ukraine would have shot to near the top of the rankings this year. Not Russia.

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I was just about to say that!

Here to second this! Obviously quiz maker has no control over the rankings, but missing Myanmar seems almost unbelievable

...and Haiti, Eritrea and Lebanon still keeping off the top in spite of everything. Seems legit.

Care to make a better one? Go for it.

Above the United States apparently. Anyone who thinks this rating is anything beyond virtue signaling needs to get a reality check.

Israel appears at #21 on the 2023 list, a year after the stats given here. They may well rise in 2024 but presumably the calculations aren't made so early on.