Jack of Harts

World War II did not make Europe a peacenik society. The most militantly peacenik movements had their day of course but fell to the harsh realities of life on Earth in the end. They continued to spar with others and themselves, but they rarely went to full-scale war. Europe never wanted to see another of those on their soil ever again. In some ways it reduced the greatest powers on Earth to footnotes. In other ways it made them far more devious and dangerous in their methods of fighting.