Subject: Re: More EU views on the trade deal
"And again, historically, the U.S.' biggest military conflicts have been when we've had to ride off to Europe and get involved in a World War. It's very easy to dismiss that possibility, because we've had 80 years of Pax Americana - but if you're deciding to eliminate the Pax Americana and get all those European countries to re-arm themselves again, you dramatically raise the risk profile over there. Because once one of your neighbors starts increasing their armed forces to the point where they do pose a military threat to you, you have to address that possible threat through either militarization of your own country or through alliances (or both). Which puts dry tinder on the base of Europe.

It's very unlikely that a European war would start with the same countries as last time, of course - we're not likely to see Germany invading France. If you had to play out a possible scenario, it's most likely that you'd see the spark lit between Greece and Turkey, which are both heavily militarized relative to their size in response to their several conflicts with each other." - Albaby1

Also, Russia will be much more active in helping start any war in Europe even if they are not direct participants initially. Through sabotage, propaganda, etc. they will fan the flames of conflict between any two European countries that are having a dispute. Especially if it involves one of their European neighbors that used to be under Soviet influence.