| Ka-pi96 said: Exactly, so called democratic countries, not actually democratic countries... And the situation in Africa is completely different. The fundamental difference is that in Europe there is nothing to gain from war (and that would be true regardless of the EU or not), while in Africa there's nothing to lose. When you're happy doing your thing in your land, and your neighbour are happy doing their thing in their land, you're both trading with each other and enjoying mutual benefits, why would you want to invade each other? And yes, we shall have to agree to disagree |
There is nothing to gain from war in Europe EXCEPT that before the EU and union of countries we were at war like ALL THE TIME. It's downright dishonest to ignore this hard-core fact.
Techology and globalisation was in your argument the reason for peace but now you can't use those so you fall back to "democracy" or lack thereof in those countries. Well let me tackle that argument too: Germany was democratic, Hitler was elected by the people over there and that did not stop war, the US is democratic and that did not stop them from dropping nuclear bombs on civilians on purpose in 1945 or from invading VietNam for political reasons and so on...
And before you disagree with that or make me break down my argument into finer details, let me say that I'm NOT saying democracy is nothing or that it does not play a role in peace because it does but in and of itself it is not what brings a lasting peace. Union is what brings peace and I don't mean union through invasions and war like you see in African countries, I mean a peaceful union of people that may not think exactly alike, people with differences yes, but mostly people with a lot of common ground as is the case in Europe. the EU is literally the best idea anyone in Europe has had in the past two millennia and the only threat to that great idea is nationalism and the division it produces because some people think division and borders is so much better than union and common land.
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