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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by searine on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:19PM (#11972631)
To make money.

Deincentivising some kinds of war might have been a unexpected benefit, but it wasn't the motive.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by mywittyname on Friday June 24, 2016 @05:41PM (#11973718)
Actually, it's original purpose was literally to prevent war between France and Germany.

> 'make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Commun...

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by searine on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:58PM (#11974985)
Yes I am sure the European Coal and Steel Community had peace as their primary motivator in their creation of a globalist market for their product.
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by mywittyname on Monday June 27, 2016 @11:16AM (#11986695)
Peace absolutely was their primary motivation because it's impossible to have any sort of prosperity when neighboring states are waging a brutal war every generation. The rivalry of France and Germany has existed since long before German unification and was long considered to be unavoidable. Which is why the primary goal of the ECSC to prevent either nation from independently producing weapons of war.
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by masklinn on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:24PM (#11972675)
> Deincentivising some kinds of war might have been a unexpected benefit, but it wasn't the motive.

That's complete ahistorical nonsense.

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