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> > "Mark Galeotti" <hia15_at_iyk0AvRStYLrvojkcL9YvaokmfqYJNxNJw1BkHosnOwcNwxVMhVAerQXHVYMVN39CX8CtM7xqp2OyuiQ.yahoo.invalid>
> >Might we not feel a little uncomfortable if someone said 'hey, look
> >at the Teutonic Knights, look at Bismarck, look at Hitler -- of
> >_course_ the Germans still want to conquer Eastern Europe'? I would
> >simply counsel against regarding history as such a clear and linear
> >predictor of future policy. A factor, sure, but not always the
> >deciding one -- especially when there is no evidence to support such
> >a historicist line.
Well the Germans (and the French) are still at it. The EU is nothing more
than an attempt to conquer Europe by another means.
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