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Is your take that the EU, and not nuclear weapons, is the driving force behind the European peace since 1945?
by toasterlovin 8y ago
Is your take that the EU, and not nuclear weapons, is the driving force behind the European peace since 1945?
- pbiggar 8y agoPorque no los dos?
- iguy 8y agoI'd wager that even without nuclear weapons, dividing Germany in half and keeping half a million or so foreign soldiers there for 50 years would have been pretty effective at keeping the peace.
- toasterlovin 8y agoThe feasibility of that depends on the stability brought about by nuclear weapons, though, no?
- iguy 8y agoPerhaps. It's possible a cold stalemate between the two non-nuclear armies would have lasted a while, I don't think there was much enthusiasm for full-scale fighting.
- repolfx 8y agoThe EU didn't even formally exist until the early 1990s, before then it was just an overgrown trade federation. The EU is if anything a force against peace, as it takes a totalitarian "you obey us on everything or we work with you on nothing" approach which may appear to create temporary peace, but only by suppressing dissent. The USSR was also by this approach very "peaceful".