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02-25-2022 | 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by flyprdu

The last 78 years of peace in Europe due to the veil of protection by the United States.

If we go isolationist, expect those long peaceful streaks to end.

And war in Europe is very bad for the travel industry.

78 years of peace? You are SADLY misinformed:

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List of wars in Europe during the post-WW2 period[edit]

Greek Civil War (Greece, 1946–1949)
Northern Ireland Conflict, (1960s–1998)
Cyprus Emergency, (Greek Cypriots (EOKA) vs. United Kingdom, 1955–1959)
Invasion of Czechoslovakia (Soviet Union vs. Czechoslovakia, 1968)
Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Cyprus vs. Turkey, 1974)
Yugoslav Wars, 1991–2001
- Ten-Day War (Slovenia vs. Yugoslavia, 1991)
- Croatian War of Independence (Croatia vs. Yugoslavia, 1991–1995)
- Bosnian War (Bosnia vs. Yugoslavia, 1992–1995)
- Kosovo War (Kosovo vs. Yugoslavia, 1998–1999)
- Insurgency in the Preševo Valley (UÇPMB vs. Yugoslavia, 1999–2001)
- 2001 insurgency in the Republic of North Macedonia (National Liberation Army vs. North Macedonia, 2001)
Georgian Civil War (Georgia, 1991–1993)
East Prigorodny Conflict (Ingush militia vs. Russia, 1992)
War of Transnistria (Transnistria vs. Moldova, 1992)
Chechen–Russian conflict
- First Chechen War (1994–1996)
- War of Dagestan (1999)
- Second Chechen War (1999–2000)
Albanian Rebellion of 1997 (Albania, 1997)
Russo-Georgian War (Georgia vs. Russia, 2008)
2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine
Kumanovo clashes (National Liberation Army vs. North Macedonia, 2015

And seriously you would spend American blood to keep ‘the travel industry’ in Europe from being ‘bad’? You’d actually sacrifice 18 year old American kids - no doubt someone else’s 18 year old kids - so you can fly a widebody to Prague? So you have any idea how pathetic that sounds?