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I say this with all due respect, but the concept of the USA 'civilising' Europe is an interesting (some might say provocative) one. Similar in many respects to the likelihood of an immature and unruly 15 year old 'civilising' his suave and erudite grandfather. :mrgreen:
And while upon the subject of 'painting the world red' with conflict, I am given the impression that the US has more than rivalled any European state over the past 200 years or so.
History of U.S. Military Interventions since 1890
So, I suspect if there were any civilising effected across the Atlantic, the most probable direction was from East to West. Leaving aside conflict, visit any art gallery, theatre, concert hall, ballet stage, or opera house, to see whence came the major works of art, literature, and music which comprise a significant part of what might be regarded as civilisation. And while you are at it, have a look at which societies provide the greatest social justice, I am not entirely sure you will be gazing West.
Arrogance is often defined as having an overbearing and unrealistic sense of self-worth and self-importance, so on the personal level, you might just have answered the OP. :lol:
Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, Tito. Not only great works of art but such wonderful human beings as well that europe has produced. Pasted Euro conflicts from the 19th century to present as follows. You could keep artists busy for centuries to help take the edge off of all the suffering on that continent. The fall of communism 1989 has shown glimmers of hope for Europe, no thanks to the US. We have clearly established here that the US involvement in WW2 wasn't that special, maybe on par with the Polish resistance, and post WW2: the Marshall Plan, defence against Stalin/Soviet Union wasn't needed, after all our cultured and civilized Euro's didn't need any help after all correct? How could they possibly need any help from America?
Social Justice: You mean in pre 1989 Poland, Romania, Armenia, Azergaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, East Germany. These are examples of social justice?
[edit] 19th century
· 1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars
· 1804-1813 First Serbian Uprising
· 1815-1817 Second Serbian Uprising
· 1817-1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus
· 1821-1832 Greek War of Independence
· 1821 Wallachian uprising of 1821
· 1823 French invasion of Spain
· 1826-1828 Russo-Persian War
· 1828-1829 Russo-Turkish War
· 1828-1834 Liberal Wars
· 1830 Ten Days Campaign (following the Belgian Revolt)
· 1830-1831 November Uprising
· 1831-1832 Great Bosnian uprising
· 1833-1839 First Carlist War
· 1833-1839 Albanian Revolts of 1833–1839
· 1843-1844 Albanian Revolt of 1843–1844
· 1846 Galician slaughter
· 1846-1849 Second Carlist War
· 1847 Albanian Revolt of 1847
· 1847 Sonderbund War
· 1848-1849 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
· 1848-1851 First Schleswig War
· 1848–1866 Wars of Italian Independence
· 1848–1849 First Italian Independence War
· 1859 Second Italian War of Independence
· 1866 Third Italian War of Independence
· 1854 Epirus Revolt of 1854
· 1854–1856 Crimean War
· 1858 Mahtra War
· 1863-1864 January Uprising
· 1864 Second Schleswig War
· 1864 January Uprising
· 1866 Austro-Prussian War
· 1866-1869 Cretan Revolt
· 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War
· 1872-1876 Third Carlist War
· 1873-1874 Cantonal Revolution
· 1877–1878 Russo–Turkish War
· 1878 Epirus Revolt of 1878
· 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War
· 1893–1896 Cod War of 1893
· 1897 Greco–Turkish War
[edit] 1900-1945
· 1910 Albanian Revolt of 1910
· 1911-1912 Italo-Turkish War
· 1912–1913 Balkan Wars
o 1912-1913 First Balkan War
o 1913 Second Balkan War
· 1914 Peasant Revolt in Albania
· 1914–1918 World War I
· 1916 Easter Rising
· 1917–1921 Russian Civil War
· 1918 Finnish Civil War
- 1918 Polish-Czech war for Teschen Silesia
· 1918–1919 Greater Poland Uprising
· 1918–1920 Estonian Liberation War
· 1918-1920 Latvian War of Independence
· 1919 Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919
· 1919-1922 Greco-Turkish War
· 1919-1923 Turkish War of Independence
· 1919–1920 Czechoslovakia-Hungary War
· 1919–1921 Silesian Uprisings
· 1919–1921 Polish-Soviet War
· 1919–1921 Anglo-Irish War
· 1920 Polish-Lithuanian War
· 1921 Uprising in West Hungary
· 1922–1923 Irish Civil War
· 1934 Asturian miners' strike of 1934
· 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War
· 1939 Slovak-Hungarian War
· 1939 Occupation of Zakarpattia Oblast by Hungary
· 1939–1945 World War II
o 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland
o 1939-1940 Winter War
o 1940-1941Greco-Italian War
o 1941-1945 Soviet-German war
o 1941-1944 Continuation War
o 1944 Slovak National Uprising
[edit] 1945-1989
· 1945-1949 Greek Civil War
· 1953 Uprising in East Germany
· 1956 Uprising in Poznań
· 1956 Hungarian Revolution
· 1959-2011 Basque Conflict
· 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
· 1968-1998 The Troubles
· 1970-1984 Unrest in Italy
· 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
· 1978 Turkey–Kurdistan Workers' Party conflict
· 1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War
[edit] 1989-2000
· 1989 Romanian Revolution
· 1991 Ten-Day War
· 1991-1992 South Ossetian War of Independence
· 1991-1993 Georgian Civil War
· 1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence
· 1992 War of Transnistria
· 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict
· 1992-1993 First War in Abkhazia
· 1992-1995 Bosnian War
· 1994-1996 First Chechen War
· 1998-1999 Kosovo War
· 1998-present Republican Dissidents Conflict