alt Hacker News> everybody knows how to live in peace. Except Russia.
Talk about an extraordinary case of recency bias. Cheap shot, I know, but I had to make it.
Europe currently defends itself because that's all it CAN do. They abandoned their armies because the continent outsourced defense spending/industry to the United States and Russia following WWII.
> They abandoned their armies because the continent outsourced defense spending/industry to the United States and Russia following WWII.
We outsourced our defense spending to Russia?
Are you incapable of embarrassment over your own level of ignorance?