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>Economic entanglement was one of the major factors that finally lead to a lasting peace. There couldn't possibly be anything more false. This horse has been
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>Economic entanglement was one of the major factors that finally lead to a lasting peace.
There couldn't possibly be anything more false. This horse has been beaten to death already and should just be let to die.
European countries had entangled economies and were still going to war with each other. France and Germany were each other's biggest trading partners and that didn't stop them fighting each other in WW1 or WW2.
The reason why we have had peace after WW2 is the implementation of fully fledged democracies with separation of powers in the major European leaderships along with US peacekeeping and the Marshal plan.
Russia was not a democracy anymore after the 1993 coup since the president there could do whatever he wants without the parliament able to stop him and therefore should not have been trusted as a fair trading partner.
- throwaway894345 4y agoI'm not sure why this was downvoted, this is largely the right answer. The US has had troops all over the continent and the USSR was an external, existential threat against which they were united. People weren't worried about their stock portfolio, they were worried about the Soviet Union nuking their cities.