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Wow, that's been the attitude here too, but you never hear people say it outright.
Technically, conventional war is largely obsolete. As long as you do have a reliable and credible nuclear deterrent. Germany has long been in the very comfortable position to fool itself into deeming conventional war obsolete without having to maintain an own nuclear deterrent. With the USA finally having revealed itself to even the most servile transatlanticist as an utterly unreliable ally, (in fact, as more of the kind of "ally" commonly referred to as "enemy") this illusion is falling apart.
Oh, well that's true. How is the offer of formal protection by France being received? I'd hate to see more proliferation.
Yeah that's why current events hit people twice as hard. We basically all assumed peace to be a given. It's not.
I wish the West could have woken up before it was on top of us.
Better late than never
Absolutely.
It was true. It was the longest continuous peace in Europe ever.
Yeah, but, they all end. Nobody ever had a good argument why it had to go on forever.