re: #31 Nerdy Fish

The problem is that a lot of the time, Europeans have lost imperial wars to other Europeans, which usually results in a bad time for both countries involved.

My problem is that the period of peace after the Congress of Vienna was a century long, and nobody lost imperial wars to achieve it. The EU peace (not altogether peaceful, but neither was the post-Congress period) has lasted less than that.

Of course there may be more to his argument than I’ve heard.