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Europe will collapse much faster and in much more spectacular ways. Remind me, how many years have passed since last war in Europe vs America?
by lafar6502 9y ago
Europe will collapse much faster and in much more spectacular ways. Remind me, how many years have passed since last war in Europe vs America?
- mdekkers 9y agoRemind me, how many years have passed since last war in Europe vs America? Make no mistake, America's main export is war. Europe? Central Europe has been at peace since WWII - thanks mostly to the EU. America on the other hand hasn't stopped waging wars since WWII
- shillno1138 9y agoThis comment is ahistorical to an extreme degree. The EU was not founded until 1993. This is not a 'rah rah America' statement, however, the European continent after WWII was rebuilt via the economic engine and output of the United States. You can take a look at the rebuilding post-war effort of Western Europe vs Eastern Europe to see the clear delineation of success. Does no-one remember the Balkan wars, and post war scarcity that existed to a more extreme detriment in Eastern Europe than Western? I do agree with the statement that America has not stopped waging wars, this is a factual statement.
- shinryuu 9y agoWhile the european union was formally established 1993 it was built on European Economic Community which was established 1951. In other words the European countries have worked on coming closer and closer over the past half century.
- mdekkers 9y agoThis comment is ahistorical to an extreme degree. The EU was not founded until 1993. You could not be more wrong. The EU was built from the ashes of WWII: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/history_en https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/history_en the European continent after WWII was rebuilt via the economic engine and output of the United States. This has nothing to do with the discussion at hand, so I'll take that as a "rah rah America" statement. Does no-one remember the Balkan wars, and post war scarcity that existed to a more extreme detriment in Eastern Europe than Western? Well, everybody that survived the balkan wars are sure to remember, and so do their offspring. Again, nothing to do with the subject at hand.
- refurb 9y agoYou act like Europe played no part in the first gulf war, the second gulf war or Afghanistan. That's not true at all.
- zip1234 9y agoAlso, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Georgia, and Ukraine...
- dang 9y agoCould you please not use HN for ideological battle? These disputes are always all the same, which makes them off topic here. On HN only the diffs count as interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- lafar6502 9y agoAre you disagreeing with what, exactly?