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To: hardspunned
Europe has been the site of war almost non-stop for more than two thousand years. Why would we think war is not inevitable there?

The real genius of the US Constitution is that it established individual freedoms that allowed people from warring countries to live together in peace.

The Founders knew government tyranny and was a major source of creating national rivalries. They tried to limit government and tried to prevent the US government from entering long term alliances. They created a high threshold of national consensus before waging war.

Slowly, we are sliding back into the bad policies that have wracked Europe for millenniums.

33 posted on 09/01/2024 9:42:11 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Europe has been the site of war almost non-stop for more than two thousand years.

Europe is still paying in blood for the collapse of the Roman Empire.

49 posted on 09/01/2024 10:01:46 AM PDT by Publius
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