Nohbody
2011-05-05 15:28:37
Not that Europe hiding behind the US is anything particularly new. The only way they were able to afford the social programs the left crows about from time to time was because it was US guns (and to a lesser extent those of the British) that kept the Soviets from expanding their eastern European holdings (in practice if not in theory; technically there were sovereign countries, but as the various suppressions of uprisings in the area by Soviet tanks showed, it was the Politburo calling the shots) further west-ward.
