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Re:Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World by WalterBright on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:25PM (#22251140)
The complete collapse of government in continental Europe immediately after WW2 along with the breakdown of social order likely had a lot to do with that.
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Re:Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World by baybal2 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:38PM (#22251240)
Sure that's the case too, but most of Western Europe was spared a complete devastation, unlike Central and Eastern Europe.

A lot of them resumed their colonial ambitions, and small time squabbles within few years after the war, but they never resumed them in a way they did before WWII, and never tried to challenge US primacy.

They were very conscious of American reservations. Back in the early cold war, NATO was coming with a lot more of strings attached from US, with former great powers toning down their ambitions being one of them.

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