1870-71: Franco-Prussian War, 433K dead 1914-1918: WWI, 17.6M dead, including 116K Americans 1939-1945: WWII, 54M dead in Europe, including 277K Americans 1949: NATO founded 1949-Present: No major European wars 2018: "NATO's stupid. What does it do for us anyway?"
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Replying to @NGrossman81
Don't forget the role the EU and its predecessors had on this lasting peace, along with being confronted by the horrors of WWI and WWII.
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Replying to @rbanffy
Of course. NATO's not the exclusive reason. ECSC, EEC, EU all played a significant role, as you note. I'm not sure if "being confronted by the horrors" is sufficient without the institutions and the commitments they both signal and cultivate. After all, there was a 2nd World War.
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Replying to @NGrossman81
The horrors of WWII were orders of magnitude worse than the ones in WWI. We also witnessed what new horrors could be in stock for WWIII when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were burned to the ground in milliseconds. Institutions and reckoning were both key factors.
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Absolutely. It's not either/or.
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