> everybody knows how to live in peace. Except Russia.

Talk about an extraordinary case of recency bias. Cheap shot, I know, but I had to make it.

Europe currently defends itself because that's all it CAN do. They abandoned their armies because the continent outsourced defense spending/industry to the United States and Russia following WWII.

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Eupolemos 17 hours ago | parent [-]

> They abandoned their armies because the continent outsourced defense spending/industry to the United States and Russia following WWII.

We outsourced our defense spending to Russia?

Are you incapable of embarrassment over your own level of ignorance?

	▲	mightyham 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Are you purposely being obtuse? Eastern Europe was a protectorate of the USSR for a large portion of the last century.