[Spok]

If you study the history of Western Europe, it is two millennia of end to end wars. The smoke barely clears from the last before the next one begins. One thing that can be learned from a study of the history of Europe is that nothing has been learned from it.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

If you study the history of Western Europe, it is two millennia of end to end wars.

The same can be said for China, India, the Middle East, and well, anywhere else.