The case for the constitution

EU Referendum is covering the case for the EU Constitution as it was laid out on the Today program this morning, and then goes on to critique it. I'd only like to add one bit to the canard that always bugs me. The EU claiming that it has kept the peace in Europe since the Second World War all on its own. EU proponents always seem to forget that for 40 of the 50 years of peace they came to have created there was this little thing called the Cold War happening. The most probably enemy was not Germany (who following WW2 have followed a policy of pacifism, much to their economic benefit) but Russia.

According to EU proponents it was nothing to do with NATO and the Warsaw Pact pointing enough nuclear weapons at each other to destroy all life on the planet several times over, and itching for an excuse to destroy the Yankee Imperialists/Evil Soviets at the first oppotunity.

I can see them now in Moscow, general one says
‘Comrades we will sweep through Germany, France, and the low countries. We will wipe the capitalist pigs from the earth!’
‘But Comrade General haven’t you heard they are lowering their trade tariffs of Coal and steel. This will change our battle plans completely.’
‘Yes Comrade Major, we cover a mere 11% of the planets surface. How could we possibly confront that kind of economy of scale?’