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Question of the day: is

Question of the day: is Europe's peace and unification a result of a philosophical evolution, or the fact that we have essentially made Europe an occupied protectorate of the United States for the last 50 years? By which I mean, not only do they get to cut their armies and spend on social policy; but also, that they cannot engage in aggression against each other, because anyone who even made noises about aggression would get spanked with a Tomahawk. The conventional wisdom is that WWII made European war unthinkable, but was it WWII or the American occupation? This is a serious question, not a troll for anti-European or anti-American screeds.