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Comment author: [deleted] 16 November 2012 02:14:23PM *  2 points [-]

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

Not with each other but certainly with at least on other European power (the Soviet Union).

My original statement was:

Sorry, my mistake.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 16 November 2012 02:15:21PM 0 points [-]

Not with each other but certainly with at least on other European power (the Soviet Union).

Well, yes obviously. I'm confused as to how that's relevant in context.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 November 2012 02:17:01PM 2 points [-]

I thought you where talking about the whole of Europe not commenting just on French-British relations.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 16 November 2012 02:21:00PM *  0 points [-]

Ah, I thought you were talking about one of the subremarks where I said:

Moreover, much of the lack of war during the Concert is attributable to a drop in the number of conflicts between France and Britain which in that time period had become functioning democracies.

That was in the context of what caused the Concert to work.

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