>> Nuclear weapons are what has kept the major nations from going to war with each
>> other, not the EU. There's nothing like a bit of mutually assured destruction to keep
>> the peace.
They didn't, really. The allies would never have used it in a conventional war
>> That and an increasing unwillingness among the populations of all the major nations to accept
>> the casualties that would result from even a conventional conflict.
Willing enough to accept the casualties from the Falklands dispute.
>> Look at the opposition to
>> Afgan where the total death count is less than many a single day in WW2.
Which shows The war needs to be seen to be just.
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