Given what we know of European history both pre-1945 and post-1945, I for one am not laughing. The US is a major check on another European war, and no one in his right mind is eager to find out what happens when we leave.Originally Posted by Albion
Lol, what a load of shit. You really have an active imagination.
War between what European countries?
Potential trouble spots:
Romania vs. Hungary.
Hungary vs. Slovakia.
Germany vs. Poland.
A German-Russian Bloc vs. a French-British Bloc.
Russia and its Baltic periphery.
Russia vs. Poland.
Greece vs. Turkey (this one is especially dangerous).
Serbia vs. Kosovo (even more dangerous).
Another war in Bosnia.
That's just the more obvious flashpoints.
Hundreds of years of warfare, you lot are so quick to forget, Joe is correct.
Hundreds of years? Man has been waging war since the beginning, and this isn't unique to Europe. American troops occupying Germany makes no more sense than if the US occupied India or Indonesia. If it's only about preventing war, why not occupy every country on the planet because nearly every country has been at war in the past.
It's ironic that the US, of all countries, is stationing its military in other places to prevent war, when the US itself is in a constant state of war all over the world. Invading countries unprovoked. Creating instability. Threatening other nations with war.
Europeans have no desire for war. The Americans are the warmongers.
I think we should have at least another half century of peace.
Britain, France, Germany and Russia have traditionally checked each other and kept some semblance of a status quo.
Germany and Russia aren't quite a married couple yet neither.
I do believe that we are our brother's keeper, so to say, and as much as many Europeans don't appreciate the effort, I do believe we have a responsibility to try and help prevent them from descending into the familiar habits of fratricidal carnage.
Beyond that, we have self-interest involved. For a million reasons we WOULD get involved in another major European war, and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound, no, a ton, of cure. Them destroying themselves would risk the disruption of our most important trading partnerships.
We'd do good business in arms sales, but I'd prefer the trade instead.
I think Germany is more than capable enough to defend themselves.
Edit didn't read the second page before responding. Europe is too economically intertwined for a war to break out. If one did there would be plenty of advance notice for America to intervene without having bases there.
They're more than capable of doing far more than that, unfortunately.
Willing slaves need no military supervision. The occupational government will ensure their full obedience.
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