Better than the Euros.
We won the cold war, remember?
Actually, yes. Cuba, for one.
Yes, North Americans have lived together in peace for a very long while. Not so the Europeans.
Really? In European issues we have a track record of diffusing situations? Like what? Cuba? Well that wasn't really a European situation, that was a Caribbean situation involving Russia and the US. But okay...that's one. What other situations have we diffused?
How did we diffuse the situation in Kuwait? Militarily.
How did we diffuse the situation with Iraq/Saddam Hussein? Militarily.
How did we diffuse the situation with Afghanistan/Taliban? Militarily.
How did we diffuse the situation with Panama? Militarily.
How did we diffuse the situation in the Balkans? Militarily.
How did we diffuse the situation in Vietnam? Militarily.
How did we diffuse the situation in Korea? Militarily.
How did we diffuse the situation in Grenada? Militarily.
How did we diffuse the situation in Libya? Militarily.
How did we diffuse the situation in Somalia? We didn't.
How did we diffuse the situation in Syria? We didn't.
How did we diffuse the situation in Egypt? We didn't.
How did we diffuse the situation in Mexico? We didn't.
That's not really diffusing anything. That's shooting and bombing ****. Pretty much the antithesis of diffusion. But I see where you get the idea we have a really good track record. Yeah we haven't gone to war with Canada lately.
And "we" as in the U.S., did not win the Cold War all by ourselves. If you think we did you are quite wrong. We had a lot of help...much of it European. Oh...and Mikhail Gorbachev had a big role as well. Maybe look up Perestroika and Glasnost. To say "the U.S. won the Cold War" is to betray a lack of understanding of the Cold War, who "fought" it, and how it was "fought."
But please, show me some more examples of how we have successfully "diffused" situations.