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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by mattmanser on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @08:43AM (#19441459)
I don't think there was any prospect of war between the EU countries while the USSR was around, it seems folly to pin peace to an institution when it was a greater enemy that actually united us.
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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by Scarblac on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @09:05AM (#19441622)
WW2 happened while the USSR was around.
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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by mattmanser on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:29AM (#19443159)
Before they had a huge, modernized army that would easily win a land battle for Europe.
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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by freeflight on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @09:59AM (#19442218)
That's a bit misleading because the EU we know today wasn't actually around back when the USSR was still a thing.

It only became fully realized with the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, which was shortly after the fall of the USSR in 1991.

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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by mattmanser on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:31AM (#19443177)
Was it responsible for the 45 years of peace after WW2 or not?
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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by freeflight on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @05:06PM (#19446918)
The EU? It very likely did its fair share for making that a reality.

But I wouldn't go as far as claiming it's solely responsible for it because rarely anything is as simple as that.

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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by flohofwoe on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @08:53AM (#19441515)
IMHO the EU is a direct result of the two World Wars, not the Cold War (we're only starting to see the results of the Cold War now).
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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by Nasrudith on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @09:21AM (#19441812)
Yeah the League of Nations was the result of the first one and it failed. Given the sheer slaughter they needed a way to forge peace as it clearly was massively self destructive.

I am not sure how true it was but I heard a theory that Europe lost much of its intellectual prominence due to so many young men dying in the trenches in WW1 - now Europe does good intellectual work now but it is more "neat thing out of Europe" as opposed to "the hotspot". I am not well equipped to evaluate the merits but the idea is interesting at very least.

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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by mamon on Thursday March 21, 2019 @02:37AM (#19449667)
Yes, after two failed attempts to conquer Europe by military force, Germans finally realized they can achieve the same effect much easier with their economical power and then created EU :)
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