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Good thread. Good refactoring. My takeaway: The US bought off Europe’s violent side and turned the peaceful side into a billboard for liberal democracy. Now in some sort of buyer’s regret mode.
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1) Modern Europe – liberal, democratic Europe – is the United States’ creation. This story was once known to every American, but as the generation responsible for this achievement dies, so too has the knowledge ceased to be passed down casually, within families.
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I like the thread although I’d like to see this from other perspectives- the Europeans, the African and Asian countries who won their freedom from the British empire as the price of American involvement.