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Europe is currently experiencing what I think is its longest continuous period of "peace" in centuries.
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Europe experienced a 5 decade "Pax Americana" ..... which was really not a "peace", but a cold war, between the United States and it's proxies, and the Soviet Union, and it's proxies. Europe stopped warring with itself because a giant eagle and a huge bear divided them up into two piles and sat on them, glowering and trading polite insults at each other for half a century.
Almost as soon as the two superpowers ceased their staring contest, and wandered away to other pursuits, the most unstable part of Europe (the Balkans) started fighting again ..... with various nations taking sides, almost exactly like they did before the Great War .... only this time, they let their proxies fight it out .....