“LOL! Most of the advances in modern science have come from these so-called “barbarians” or their lineal descendants.”
yer right. However, these clowns did start 2 world wars. Supposedly when Eisenhower was watching a movie with the troops before the Invasion, the movie was Henry V, and Ike was said to have said to his 2nd “what is it with these people and their penchant for war? They always love to slaughter their neighbors..”
It is true that it's highly hypocritical for the Europeans, who have barely been free of war in the last 500 years, to lecture Americans about being bellicose.
Yes, a lot of the conflicts could be laid at the feet of the Prussians, but the French contributed more than their share. Even WWII, as much as it originated in Germany, had its roots in the oppressive Treaty of Versailles, imposed to a large degree on the Germans by the French.
The Spanish, Italians, and Russians all had a hand in the bloodshed that has marked Europe ever since the Middle Ages. It was far from the exclusive province of the Germans.