What does the US gain from paying for Europe’s Security?

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7. unhappycamper

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I know - RT is not exactly the most reliable media outlet out there - even if some of them who work there - seen to be rather honest about most things - but sadly I guess they would be on their way out soon... Mostly because they might end up being at odds with the bosses....

The last 30 years war, was a rather nasty one in Europe - if I'm not to wrong - it started because of a religious strife between north european kingdoms - and the south european kingdoms who was split in two by the Lutheran Protestant religious strife and the Catholic church who was trying to get a foothold in the north again - after most of the north europe had going Protestants in the schism in the Catholic shurch... It was a mess - a horrible mess who ruined most of north europe - and was going very hard out over what later become Germany who in many was was split between Catholic and protestants religion - and where most of the war was going on - between the great powers at the time... Even here in Norway who was a long way from the actions - we kind of experienced the hardship - as the "superpower" at the time - Sweden was using it military power to conquer half of Norway who in 1660 in the "eternal peace" between Denmark-Norway and Sweden lost Herjedalen, Båhus and some other parts of the country to Sweden - who was our arch enemy for some centuries - but in the end it mended it self rather well - and a couple of monts ago we could celebrate 200 year of peace between Sweden and Norway... And it would possible continue for another couple of centuries I hope..

The Thirty Years war was also a war about territory in some way it molded the modern Western Europe into being - as most of it ended in a more clearly defined Territorial existence than before - even if part of Europe continued to be in the form of empires with many different cultures and nationality - it ended first when WW1 ended in many ways.. Even if Germany as a state survived - even if it was just by luck in the aftermath of 1918...

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