Because there\u2019s nobody to stop me from moving there and living like a king<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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The epitome of the European ideal: welfare for all, retirement at 42 after working a few hard years of 30 hour weeks, universal medical . . . but of course, none of it can be supported if you also defend the country. \u00a0So obviously . . .<\/p>\n
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Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Watching the disarmament of Europe – as if history really did end in 1991 – has been amazing; the typical continental European state, Germany and Norway and the Netherlands, has about 1\/6 the military power it had in the Cold War. \u00a0Sweden (and Belgium) are worse; France and the UK, better. \u00a0Only Poland and Finland – Russia’s neighbor and enemy – and Greece and Turkey, who hate each other, are the exceptions.<\/p>\n
It makes 1940 look positively stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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