Scarred by losing tens of millions of lives on their soil in two world wars, many European Union nations have been wary ever since about military spending. Now, as Russian pressure builds at the Ukrainian border, they face a painful reality: Europe remains heavily reliant on U.S. might to deter another potentially big conflict on its turf.
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Makes it sound like the U.S. sat out WW1&2.
What Europe suffered in its World Wars dwarfs America's sufferings in those wars.
The Civil War, especially the South's experience, better mirrors Europe experiences in its World Wars. Whole cities demolished. Farmland devastated. Bankruptcies, famine, disease, enemy occupation, and massive casualties, both military and civilian.