U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B

Re:U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B by toasterlovin on Saturday February 16, 2019 @05:39PM (#19181395)

Is your take that the EU, and not nuclear weapons, is the driving force behind the European peace since 1945?

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Re:U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B by repolfx on Sunday February 17, 2019 @05:03AM (#19183673)

The EU didn't even formally exist until the early 1990s, before then it was just an overgrown trade federation.

The EU is if anything a force against peace, as it takes a totalitarian "you obey us on everything or we work with you on nothing" approach which may appear to create temporary peace, but only by suppressing dissent. The USSR was also by this approach very "peaceful".

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Re:U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B by iguy on Sunday February 17, 2019 @03:57AM (#19183447)

I'd wager that even without nuclear weapons, dividing Germany in half and keeping half a million or so foreign soldiers there for 50 years would have been pretty effective at keeping the peace.

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Re:U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B by toasterlovin on Sunday February 17, 2019 @10:24PM (#19188394)

The feasibility of that depends on the stability brought about by nuclear weapons, though, no?

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Re:U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B by iguy on Monday February 18, 2019 @12:40PM (#19192444)

Perhaps. It's possible a cold stalemate between the two non-nuclear armies would have lasted a while, I don't think there was much enthusiasm for full-scale fighting.

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Re:U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166B by pbiggar on Saturday February 16, 2019 @10:56PM (#19182593)

Porque no los dos?

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