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Originally posted by johnny:
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Originally posted by Dreamer128:
Ever the cynic, Johnny. Granted, the League of the Nations and the United Nations didn't (don't) always do the best of jobs. But I think the European Union has, and is, definately working out as a peace project. Compare the number of times the EU states went to war with each other before 1945 to the number of times it happened the founding of the European Community.
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I can think of a few other reasons than that....
A we were all as good as broke. No money = Not being able to lay siege on anyone
B We are no longer the topdogs, the days the Europeans could do whatever they fancied are long gone. [/QUOTE]I think it's more then that. Germany was broke after WWI, that didn't stop them from conquering most of the continent. After WWII, the European states chose not to invest in defence, but rather to put our money in the 'care-state'. People wanted to invest in peace. Let's not forget that the EU started out as the 'European Coal and Steel Community'. The Western European coal and steel industries (which, at the time, were very important to any war effort) were integrated. At the time, this was the best way to insure peace.