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[โ€“] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not strictly true. On the short end, there was the six-day war. On the long end, there was the hundred years' war.

Putin was clearly aiming for the short option, but then I suppose most belligerents usually are.

I'd actually love to see a graph that shows the distribution of lengths of various wars