Comment by joe_mamba
2 days ago
>Peace in Europe.
That peace in Europe didn't start because of the EU, it started because western Europe was conquered by the US and eastern Europe by USSR so they were a bit too incapacitated to fight each other under those conditions and given the much bigger issues they had at the time.
I didn't say it started because of the EU. It lasted because of it. See the Schuman declaration I quoted below.
Peace between EU countries was stable even before the formation of the modern EU.
Before the formation of the European Coal & Steel community, the direct predecessor to the EU, we literally had a millenium of non-stop slaughter.
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