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Eat your heart out Michael Obummer!
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Very true Ann, We are in the same position as they were in 1914. Any tinpot little trouble making country in an alliance can trigger a world war. NATO is in that trap and is steadily expanding taking in countries who have a very poor stability record.
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For instance Montenegro
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Albania,Kosovo and Trying to break the Serbian Russian friendship who have a historical friendship since before 1914.
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Actually, most historians attribute WW1 to the rise of nationalism...
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Not really Just got bigger with the railways and industrialization I would not take too much credence on latest PC « historians»
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I mean one could argue that industrialism and nationalism kind of fed into each other and resulted in a big arms race
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More or less They thought it was a good idea at the time The usual political and media incompetents
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Lol. Except NATO has so far kept us out of wars. For 70 years.
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No, actually that's been because we have the strongest military, so it becomes a fruitless endeavor to make war with us. Oh, and for the nuclear powers, it's because they don't see the point in becoming radioactive vapor by chancing an attack with nuclear weapons.
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Now Jimmy, learn about Vietnam, Afganistan and Korea.
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All of those are a case of the US being on the offensive, so this doesn't count for your point.
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They don't count because Vietnam wasn't actually a war. It was our leaders twiddling their thumbs while our soldiers were being slaughtered because they were told not to advance. Afghanistan was because of Islamic zealotry, & Kim was confident we would never make the first attack
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Ann how many wars in Europe before Nato and how many after Nato was formed
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Before or after NATO bombed everyone into submission? Allow me to beat the shit out of anyone who disagrees with me and I'll create peace too.
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I was just about to say, does all the violence in the Balkans and eastern Ukraine count!?!
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They weren't NATO countries at the time of their hostilities.
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That's the whole point. Pax Romana lasted for 200 years and it was also the result of a series of imperial wars in which a strong nation violently suppressed lesser nations and subdued them into its own vision. But all empires come to an end, and the sun is setting on America.
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NATO didn't cause the wars in the Balkans. That was down to Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Croatia.
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You're missing the point. There is no inherent stability in NATO. The stability of NATO is the same as the stability of any imperial force but they all come to an end sooner or later. NATO conquered much of Europe but wages brutal wars in non-allied countries.
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NATO isn't an imperial force.
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