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by mschuster91 3875 days ago
> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

Terrorism, war and violence in Europe is definitely a new phenomenon, at least in this scale, I'd say.

As for media reception of said violence, I believe this to be HN-worthy as well...

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"Terrorism, war and violence in Europe is definitely a new phenomenon"

There is a war going on in the Ukraine that has killed over 8000 people, the Madrid train bombings in 2004 killed 191 people, the Northern Ireland Troubles killed 3,530 then there were the wars in the former Yugoslavia which killed over 140,000.

There have been wars and conflicts in Europe pretty much forever - the recent ones aren't on the scale of the terrible wars of the past but to think that Europe has been completely at peace doesn't seem quite right.