Democracies don't attack each other? However,do you know any communists regimes that have attacked each other?

Question

What do you think of the general proposition that "democracies don't attack other"? This view has been openly asserted by Bill Clinton and George W BusH. it has been used to justify whatever course they decided to take.
However, I noticed that even between communists nations, there was peace. Does that fact tell us something about the fallacy of the theory?

Answer 1

Tell that to the people of Hungary in 1956. So much for your theory!

Answer 2

One reason for the apparent peacefulness within the communist world was the nature of the USSR, attacks by member states against the central power was seen as rebellion rather than war as the eastern bloc states had little or no soverignty. Also this has much to do with the nature of the Cold War, it was never in the intrest of the USSR to attack another communist state as its chief objective was victory of the US, had they survived the cold war we might well have seen some form of conflict with another communist state,

Answer 3

Yeah, the Soviet Union attacked Yugoslavia when the USSR thought Yugoslavia was breaking away from the Eastern Block in the 1950's

Answer 4

Of course Communist nations go to war, Democracies go to war as well. It doesnt matter what ideological system you believe, their will never be an 'unconditional peace' between them. Of course Democracies will wage war, the very first Democracies were at constant war! (Ancient Hellenistic Greece etc)
Flawed argument

Answer 5

How about Russia and China, they have fought alot over the years. The theory that Bush uses is a busted one much like all of his foreign policy.

Answer 6

1. Vietnam vs. China 1978-9
2. Vietnam vs. Kampuchea 1979
3. Soviet Union vs China during the 1960s
4. Soviet Union vs Czechoslovakia 1969
5. Soviet Union vs. Afghanistan 1979*
6. Soviet Union vs. Hungary 1956
7. Soviet Union vs. East Germany 1956

* Communist Government requested intervention

Answer 7

Soviet Union along with the warsaw packed attacked hungary and czechoslovakia. Soviet Union and China were at war with each other and hated each other until the fall of the soviet union. China invaded vietnam. Vietnam invaded Cambodia. Soviet Union broke ties with Yugoslavia and Albania broke ties with Soviet Union and sided with China.AZerbaijan and Armenia went to war with each other while still in the soviet union.

Answer 8

if you continue to skew the facts soon you will have Gore inventing the Internet .No one feels that there are any truthful facts on far left blogs