(this comment is not directed at you, but I can't find the comment I originally wanted to reply to and your comment has a similar topic)
As opposed to Europe, which has been entirely peaceful the last 1000 years. In fact, so peaceful that it fought two consecutive world wars which flattened the fuck out of central Europe, had a religious war that lasted 1.5 centuries, was entirely conquered half a dozen times and had more than a couple dozen bloody revolutions.
I guess this is a problem with American people learning nothing but their own countries history.
Here is a list of european conflicts I copied off a random website. The current peace we have here in europe is something we have not had for a very long time.
Hundred Years' War. England and France, 1337-1453.
Civil war within the Holy Roman Empire, 1400-1410.
Intermittent wars among Milan, Venice, and Florence, 1402-1454. Hussite Wars, mostly within Bohemia, 1419-1436.
War of the Poles and Teutonic Knights (Prussia), 1454-1466.
War of the Roses, within England, 1455-1485.
War between Denmark and Norway, 1493-1497.
The Italian Wars, major Continental powers and Britain, 1494-1527.
War between Denmark and Sweden, 1506-1513.
French Wars of Religion, 1562-1598.
Dutch War of Independence, Spain and the Netherlands, 1567-1593.
Wars between Sweden and Poland, 1600-1611 and 1617-1629.
War between Sweden and Russia, 1613-1617. 1632-1634.
Thirty Years' War, the major Continental powers, 1618-1648. English Civil War, 1642-1646, followed by periodic political turmoil until the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
War between Venice and Turkey, 1645-1670.
War between England and the Netherlands, 1652-1654, 1665-1667, 1672-1674.
First Northern War, 1655-1660.
Franco-Allied War, France, the Netherlands, German principalities, 1672-1678.
War of the League of Augsburg, France, England, German principalities, 1688-1697.
Great Northern War, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Poland, 1700-1721. War of the Spanish Succession, most of the Continental powers and Britain, 1701-1714.
War of the Quadruple Alliance, France, Britain, Netherlands, Spain, 1718-1720. War of the Polish Successionn, German and Italian principalities, France, Spain, Poland, Russia, 1733-1738.
War of the Austrian Succession, the major European powers, 1740-1748.
War between Sweden and Russia, 1741-1743.
Seven Years' War, the major Continental powers and Britain, 1756-1763.
Russo-Austrian-Turkish War, 1787-1792. War between Sweden and Russia, 1788-1790.
French Revolution, 1789-1792.
War of the First Coalition, the major Continental powers and Britain, 1792-1796.
Napoleonic Wars, the major Continental powers and Britain, 1796-1815.
Belgian War of Independence, Belgium and the Netherlands, 1830-1831.
The Revolutions of 1848, France, Austria, Italy, Bohemia, Hungary and Germany, 1848-1849.
Crimean War, Britain, France, and Russia, 1853-1856.
War between France and Austria over Lombardy, 1859.
Wars of the Italian Reunification (Risorgimento), the Italian principalities, 1860-1870.
Schleswig-Holstein War, Austria, Prussia, Denmark, 1864.
Seven Weeks' war, Austria, Prussia, Italy and Saxony, 1866.
Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871.
World War I, 1914-1918.
World War II, 1939-1945.