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monegatortoday at 11:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

the EU has demonstrated for decades that by balancing trades, equality and human rights it can prevent conflicts from happening.

Seems to me that most of our friends in the balkans that have memory of the past wars are overall pretty happy about the current state of things, and there hasn't been wars to contend Alsace-Lorraine in 80 years, is it a record already?

War is very much not a given in the civilized world


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u8080today at 2:30 PM

To be more precise, two decades, from 1999 when EU countries bombed Yugoslavia and occupied Kosovo.

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muyuutoday at 12:39 PM

That's why they have a full blown war in their borders and they're powerless without American hardware and intelligence. Also they're right now scrambling to allocate huge investments in weaponry, of course late, but better than never.

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