Things to Come.
Chugalug,
How right you are ! This nonsense about the European Union having "Kept the peace in Europe these last 70 years" has been peddled regularly for two decades and more.
Peace has been kept by NATO, and that means American power (although we used to be able to lend a hand) - and we'd better not forget it !
How dispiriting it is to have to revisit the years leading up to WWII, when the League of Nations (remember them?) was going to keep us safe from any more wars. Then as now, apart from a few prescient people like Churchill, (who was derided as a "warmonger" for his pains), most behaved like Lenin's "Useful Idiots" and closed their eyes to what was coming.
It's true, a nation that forgets its history will be condemmed to relive it.
Danny42C.