[tonymet]

WW1 wasn’t “started by preparation”. In fact it was the continuation of about 100 years of war, and the war continued for nearly 100 years afterward. Europe had been at war nearly continuously from Napoleon to 2000 .

[prmph]

Interesting! What are some battles of this war between 1946 to 2000, and what happened in 2000 to stop it?

[tonymet]

Soviet Occupation of Europe, "Cold War", which was very hot with arms race, intel, nuclear deployments, naval skirmishes, proxy wars, Yugoslavia War.

It didn't end in 2000, really it expanded.

[throw310822]

The partition of Europe between the two victors of WW2 (USA and USSR) was part of the peace, not a state of war. The cold war wasn't a war inside Europe but between two rival superpowers; the Yugoslavia war wasn't one between EU countries but a civil war result of a change in external conditions.

[tonymet]

If you're living under an occupied military force, you are still at war, not peace.

[tonymet]

it wasn't partitioned. USSR invaded and captured that territory in 1939. It was an agreement with Hitler, not Roosevelt.

Yalta happened well after everyone had been killed and the dust settled. Roosevelt chickened out.

Go visit the Occupation museum in Riga for the actual history, instead of reading US text books.

[tonymet]

And Stalin continued to take territory even later, moving into East Germany, Czechoslovakia, etc . Continuing with military pressure over the later years.

[tonymet]

you're kidding right.