User blog comment:The Milkman/The Next Effect/@comment-86.111.88.50-20121127130800/@comment-86.111.88.50-20121127141119

Look, for example, at Earth history. In the end of WW2 Germany was split in two and there was a Soviet Union to reap the benefits of the victory on a continental scale (major communist influence on several countries). Not even a century later the Germany is united and the Soviet Union is no more. Kinda puts first post-war events into perspective, doesn't it?