Hello Ward!
Monday January 02 2023 19:59, you wrote to me:
> Hey Vince,
VC>> > Eternal arch-enemies Greece and Turkey are now behaving because
VC>> of the
VC>> > EU. Lifelong foes France and Germany have not fought a war since
VC>> 1870
VC>> > ... before that it was every 20-25 years...
VC>> Err, WW 1 and WW2 springs to mind although they did not last long
VC>> as the French surrendered quickly after being over run
> That's a goof of the first magnitude, I obviously got carried away in
> the writing and I stand corrected...
VC>> > Trading to end wars works ...
> But my point stands in the sense that Turkey and Greece "had to" wind
> down the warlike rethoric and also "had to" come to an understanding
> how to work Cyprus.
> Plus France and Germany since 1948 have become solid trading partners
> and hostility is nowhere in sight anymore, one of the key-reasons why
> the fore-runner of the EU was created ... to make foes trading
> partners and forget about war.
> I should re-read my texts before publishing ... 8-)
Know the feeling but for me it is called age :(
Vincent
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