"For a part, economic dependencies between countries." You think this happened by accident in Europe? It was a forced development, by very smart people. Coal

"For a part, economic dependencies between countries." You think this happened by accident in Europe? It was a forced development, by very smart people. Coal/Steel union, EG/EWG, EU. The US and USSR were duking it out all the time, from Cuba to Vietnam to Afghanistan. Funny how people assume peace in Europe is the natural order. Holy shit, one of the key members put millions in gas chambers just years before its formation. Europe went from a genocidal maniac (colonialism, holocaust, etc) to peace in no time.