Also, there is this thing called nukes.https://twitter.com/ngrossman81/status/1019407228003110912 …
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Your examples above are great power wars. Yes, no more great power wars since NATO. But that time coincides with the time during which great powers were backed up by nuclear weapons and thus heavily disincentivized from fighting each other.
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I'm not claiming NATO is the exclusive factor, but it is an important one. While the Korean, US-Vietnamese, and Soviet-Afghan wars don't meet the definition of great power war, they were much bigger than anything in Europe post-NATO, and smaller than two wars in Europe pre-NATO.
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Thanks for clarifying your claim! Out of curiosity: what’s the causal logic you suppose through which NATO makes Europe peaceful? Because of course there’s a plethora of appealing alternative explanations available...
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Peaceful + free (though I couldn't fit that in original tweet), primarily by deterring USSR and now Russia, but also by creating military-to-military ties up and down the ranks, and changing public perceptions about allies and enemies. The ECSC and EU played a big role too.
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