[Yoric]

Not really?

I mean, I haven't seen any rumor of war between the EU and Switzerland, or Turkey, or the United Kingdom, or really any other of its neighbors other than Russia.

[thriftwy]

Have you heard of North Cyprus? Also, North Ireland.

[Yoric]

That seems to be deviating quite a lot from the concept of the existence of EU causing wars, as you suggested in the message I answered. By a few decades for North Cyprus (or 100+ years, depending from your definition of that conflict) a few centuries in the case of North Ireland.

Or did I misunderstand what you wrote?

[thriftwy]

EU did not cause the war in Ukraine. Soviets did, by appending Donetsk Krivorozhye Republic to Ukraine SSR.

But, the fact is that expansion of EU and EU influence in Ukraine were conductive of that war instead of being a deterrent.

[dragonwriter]

> EU did not cause the war in Ukraine.

Correct.

> Soviets did, by appending Donetsk Krivorozhye Republic to Ukraine SSR.

No, the Russian Federation did, by launching an unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine.

[thriftwy]

Ukraine did not control Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk for almost a decade. The north cyprus / north ireland situation existed before the war, which does look idiotic to me presently.

[dragonwriter]

The war started with the 2014 invasion, not the 2022 escalation.