Why hasn’t Europe fought World War III? Could it be because the Soviet Union eventually collapsed? Could it be that the NATO, the western military alliance, was effective? Could it be the mutually assured destruction kept the peace? Could it be that America’s commitment to defend Europe was a deterrent?
But all those reasons focus on the role of the Soviet Union. Let’s cast the net wider and ask why World War III, or even smaller wars, didn’t begin with fights among Western European nations. How did long-time rivals France and England avoid war? Why did the Germans not launch another war on the continent? Did these things not happen because civilization finally triumphed? Because the peoples of Europe finally got sick of fighting? Because Western European nations were focused on the danger from the Soviet Union? Because the large U.S. military presence as part of NATO helped keep the peace?
I’m not a foreign policy expert, so I’m sure this is not even close to being a comprehensive list of potential explanations. But it turns out that all of my guesses are wrong. Or they’re wrong if we choose to believe French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who says the creation of a pan-European bureaucracy in Brussels has been the key to peace. Moreover, we are supposed to believe that the only way to keep the peace is to impose more harmonization, more centralization, and more bureaucratization on the unwilling peoples of Europe.
You may think I’m being satirical, but this is not a joke. Ms. Lagarde was being interviewed on BBC. She was asked about plans to further erode national sovereignty and transfer more power to Brussels, and whether the people of Europe (rather than just the political elite) should get to choose whether this happens. Here’s a summary of her mind-blowing statement from Open Europe.
…when asked whether people had ever voted for this convergence she replied, “The European project has been around for over fifty years and it was built on the back of a situation where people were at war…The European project is something we all believe in because we want peace to be maintained.”
To be fair, I don’t actually think Ms. Lagarde is stupid. There’s no way she thinks the so-called European Project, or any of its bureaucratic creations (European Commission, European Parliament, European Court of Justice, etc), deserves credit for keeping the peace. But she obviously thinks the people of Europe are a bunch of stupid peasants and serfs. Or she thinks they are so powerless, thanks to the anti-democratic structure of the European Union and the housebroken European media, that she can say something utterly absurd and be confident that there will be no adverse consequences.
There is a very simple explanation about why there was no World War III and the empirical evidence is IRONCLAD: DEMOCRACIES DO NOT WAGE WAR ON EACH OTHER, and that was showed by R.J. Rummel http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MIRACLE.HTM , when there is a war, a non democracy is always involved http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DP.CHART.V19.JPG . And democracies fight much less severe wars, buth this fact is often disregarded by mainstream academia who often counts a squabble with a few hundred dead as being the same as a super murderous war with tens millions dead.
Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=639AA6KYNsw the awesome beautiful & super attractive russian girls from pop group Серебро sing to the tens millions russian dead in World War II under Stalin dictatorship; Stalin regime assasinated 41 million non combattants and to that you must add the dead in war. The video is worth watching! I guarantee!
Rummel said that if someone had said in 1945 that there would be no more Franco – German wars in the following 65 years -as it actually happened- then that person would have been called a lunatic. But if democracy goes on perhaps we will see no more franco german wars.
Why mainstream academia do not aknowledge this so clear fact? Because this fact is so “politically incorrect”! Rummel’s main finding is that the more powerful the political clas is, the more mass murder there is, and the nauseatingly “politicaly correct’ mainstream academia and media, which very often is alleging for even more power & control & money for the political class do not like facts like these. Mainstream academia either do not likes “inconvenient truths” like the more than 150 hundred millions NON COMBATTANTS murdered under the regimes of total power & control. They prefer to ignore those “inconvenient truths” in the same way that they ignore the obvious fact that the sun drives climate or that Keynes “General Theory” is almost pure garbage.
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