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Hang on, I think you forgot something... OH YES! The US has parked an army in Germany for 75 years! I dunno, but could this have been a factor in the "no war
by sgt101 5y ago
Hang on, I think you forgot something...
OH YES!
The US has parked an army in Germany for 75 years!
I dunno, but could this have been a factor in the "no war between European powers" thing?
And when we say "war between the UK and Ireland... unthinkable" do we mean that no-one is going to bomb or shoot people in the UK or Ireland to attempt to achieve a political objective in the relationships between those two countries? That would be jolly nice if it were come to pass !
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoPretty sure it wasn't NATO that kept France from invading Germany, and vice versa. Or kept Spain from attempting to annex Portugal. Or even just Gibraltar. But please provide some citations if that's incorrect.
- cvwright 5y agoThe problem with this theory is that people thought the same thing before WW1. Know who was the biggest trading partner for France and Germany in 1914? It was each other.
- light_hue_1 5y agoThis isn't the theory people used before WW1. This is exactly why the EU is not just an economic union, it's a political and judicial one as well. No on before WW1 would have even considered the idea that a French judge in a common European court could tell the German government what they can or can't do with respect to their own internal laws. Today, this is routine.
- feral 5y ago>do we mean that no-one is going to bomb or shoot people in the UK or Ireland to attempt to achieve a political objective No, that's not what we mean. War between the UK and the RoI, the actual states involved, is in fact pretty unthinkable.