Please don't vote because democracy is a local optimum

And voting adds legitimacy to it.

Thank you.

#annoyedbymotivatedcognition

And voting adds legitimacy to it.

Thank you.

#annoyedbymotivatedcognition

You had for example a large number of civil wars and revolutions, as well as proxy conflicts outside Europe and then outright wars like the Schleswig wars and the Franco-Prussian war.

You need to familiarize yourself with British and especially French history if you think they didn't wage proxy wars in the Cold War era. The outright wars you mention happened after decades of peace at the end of this period as the system broke down more and more post 1848. Need I remind you the modern European peace also had its outright wars like the Yugoslav wars.

In contrast, there have been zero wars in Western Europe post-1945, whether civil wars, external wars

I thought we where talking about Europe not Western Europe. I'm sure I can pick and choose a subregion of Europe that didn't have any civil wars in that period quite easily as well.

You need to familiarize yourself with British and especially French history if you think they didn't wage proxy wars in the Cold War era.

Do you have specific examples of them waging proxy wars with each other post 1945?

The outright wars you mention happened after decades of peace at the end of this period as the system broke down more and more post 1848.

The First Schleswig war is 1848-1851. The second is 1864. If you want to argue that the Concert only really worked until 1848 that's a viable argument, and I' agree that was a period of relativel... (read more)