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

Of course, communists have often battled each other in internal civil wars, and Stalin killed off many of his former comrades. But if you need a war between nations, I think the Vietnamese Communists invasion in 1979 of Communist Cambodia must be the most obvious example.

I'm not sure I agree with the suggestion that democracies don't attack each other. It sounds unrealistic to me, especially if peoples in different countries have conflicting values and elect governments that reflect those values. But clearly Communists do, quite often, go to war, both with each other and with other nations.

(and, of course, you realize that neither S. Korea nor S. Vietnam was communist. S. Vietnam eventually fell to the communists, but it was not communist when the U.S. troops were there.)

Answer 2

Firstly, democracy and communism are not opposed. For example, the democractically elected Socialist President of Chile Salvador Allende was overthrown by a CIA sponsored coupe. This is an example of both a Communist (Or Socialist) Democracy and of a democracy attacking (indirectly) another democracy. How many wars there have been between democracies depends on your definition of democracy though, as most nations in the world claim to be democratic (sometimes farcically).

Not to invoke Godwins Law, but Hitler was democratically elected.

Answer 3

just a couple fo corrections:
South Korea was never a communist nation.
Democracies attack each other more often than Communist nations.
Iraq was not a democracy, 100% of the vote doesnot a "president" make.
Communist nations did not engage eachother during the cold war because they needed to be on the same page to face the "capitalist threat".

Answer 4

On August 20, 1968, Warsaw Pact forces--including troops from Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Hungary, Poland, and the Soviet Union--invaded Czechoslovakia. Approximately 500,000 troops, mostly from the Soviet Union, poured across the borders in a blitzkrieg-like advance.

All so look up the
The Caucasus and on going war.

As well many more conflicts. Here are just a few.

Sharp border clashes between Soviet and Chinese troops occurred in 1969.

On February 17, 1979, some 120,000 well-equipped Chinese troops crossed the border into northern Vietnam in several places and seized control of several towns; they penetrated 25 miles into Vietnamese territory, encountering stiff resistance.

Supported by tanks and other armored vehicles, helmeted soldiers moved into Tiananmen Square and other Beijing neighborhoods late Saturday night June 3, 1989,

Answer 5

the communist regimes of North Korea and Soth Korea Fought each other During the cold war..The Korean War confirmed this mobilization of military resources to contain communism. In June 1950 the forces of North Korea’s Communist regime struck south across the 38th Parallel in an attempt to unify the Korean peninsula by force. President Harry S. Truman sent American naval and air forces to the aid of South Korea. When these did not stem the North Korean tide, he ordered in ground troops. By mid-September, MacArthur’s United Nations (UN) forces had managed to stabilize the front along a perimeter enclosing the southeast Korean port of Pusan.

A brilliant amphibious landing at Inch’on then cut North Korean lines of communication and sent disorganized enemy units fleeing north across the 38th Parallel toward the Yalu River at the border of Korea and Communist China. The United Nations expanded its objective from the preservation of South Korea to reunification of the entire peninsula, and UN forces pursued north to the Yalu, despite warnings from the Communist Chinese that they would intervene should UN troops approach their border with Korea. In November a final UN offensive to the Yalu was met by an overwhelming counterattack by the Communist Chinese, forcing a UN withdrawal back across the 38th Parallel.

Also the Vietnam war war a result of communist regimes attacking each other

Answer 6

You gotta be kidding me, especially citing Bush...?
He attacked countries where the leader had been democratically elected.
Sure maybe "he" thinks that their democracy is not right because it's not "his" democracy.
Come on, with all the trouble the usa has caused the world over, and still causing, either directly, or indirectly (with puppet goverments, CIA infiltrations and so on), what is democracy?
The real one or "his"?

Answer 7

One rationale for the obvious peacefulness inside the communist global used to be the character of the USSR, assaults by means of member states in opposition to the important vigour used to be obvious as uprising as an alternative than conflict because the jap bloc states had very little soverignty. Also this has so much to do with the character of the Cold War, it used to be not ever within the intrest of the USSR to assault one other communist state as its leader function used to be victory of the US, had they survived the bloodless conflict we could good have obvious a few sort of clash with one other communist state,

Answer 8

Democracies don't attack each other? its wrong best example is india -pakistan,iraq -kuwait,iran- iraq,etc.communists till now never

Answer 9

'democarcies' don't attatck 'democracies' but they're quite willing to attack many other countries.