I am talking about wars from one country to another country. Not local wars. You know, the wars that kill vast amounts of people ? Those are not led by corporations. The Real Machine of War is governmental. Look at all the casualties of war around the world and separate the ones linked to private corporations ONLY and the ones linked to political actions. You will find out the later largely outweighs the first.
All of those are international conflicts. These are all Western companies killing people in the developing world.
As for the number of people killed, you're just arguing about quantity, not anything fundamentally different and less violent about the nature of corporations. Corporations are clearly willing to kill people. If they were bigger and had more resources, like governments, they'd kill more people.
The government of Togo also doesn't kill many people in foreign wars. Its not because they're instrinsically less violent.
All these things are tautologous and there's nothing special about governments that causes them:
I am talking about wars from one country to another country.
Only governments can start international wars by definition.
You know, the wars that kill vast amounts of people ?
International wars tend to be more bloody due to the increased stakes and military power involved.
You will find out the later largely outweighs the first.
Since more people die in international wars, the majority of people who die in wars die in international ones.
Of course, what you don't mention is that outside of wars, there is a relatively tiny amount of violence in most developed countries, as a result of the monopoly on military power.
> Since more people die in international wars, the majority of people who die in wars die in international ones.
It's all a matter of frequency. How many international wars have you had recently? What about regional conflicts, like Ethiopian troops fighting Islamists in Somalia? Fact is, you get a lot more small-scale conflict on average than large-scale conflicts.
Besides, I don't understand this argument of corporations being opposed to governments. Private interests in strategic areas have worked hand-in-hand with governments to further their agenda (British Petroleum, United Fruit, Shell) or are the armed hand of the government (Blackwater).
