_ As a result of World War I, the Great War, it was considered very smart indeed to avoid war at all costs. That’s why Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain were Prime Ministers of England before World War II started. They believed that if they fought Germany, things could get much worse. If they got rid of Adolf Hitler, Germany would turn Bolshevik and Communist. After all, no war could really be won anymore. The experience of the trenches proved that. Everything would end up in a standstill.

This sort of thinking was suspended during World War II, but it exists in Europe today, which has become very pacifist. That’s why Angela Merkel had an address to the German people reminding them that they had to do more to promote the euro as the common currency. She keeps on tying it to peace.