By imposing massive cost on any potential, By tying Western Europe to the Anglo- American alliance, keeping Germany in NATO, and Russian adventurism, it created huge disincentives for any Great Power conflict. ..…

But since then it has made decisions with terrible consequences, not only for Germany, but for much of Europe. It has used the EU and the Euro to peacefully achieve, with American connivance, what it twice failed to do by violence. ..…