Singapore selects F-15T over Rafale

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Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth

There will be peace in Europe for a long time to come, if not forever.

???? Balkans doesn't make you rethink that statement? Or the EU wanting to share borders with the Middle East in the forseeable future (Turkey entrance)? Oil becomes short, pipeleines become priority targets for Europe is depending on them, they lead thorugh Easteuropean countries that are within range of civil unrest and violance that may emerge from countries that once belonged to the southern provinces of the USSR. If these pipelines get threatened by whatever a faction and to too much effect, then europe could be drawn into military conflicts sooner than people can imagine. And the problems on the Balkans remain. then there is russia itself. Belarus. Cyprus. Greece - Macedonia - Turkey. Northafrica, the pressure of migration patterns, and spreading of orthodox Islam. Poor nations may swtich over to desparate means.

I wouldn't take peace in Europe as granted - only as more likely than a new great war.

Currently.