Wait a bit please. I am under the impression the defeating the villain worked very well for Western Europe after WW2?
Mainly because nuclear weapons meant that no one wanted to start another major European war. Take those away, and there would almost certainly have been a third world war shortly afterward. Instead, they got the Cold War.
Eastern Europe, meanwhile, got to trade Nazi occupation for Soviet satellite status.
Mainly because nuclear weapons meant that no one wanted to start another major European war. Take those away, and there would almost certainly have been a third world war shortly afterward. Instead, they got the Cold War.
Eastern Europe, meanwhile, got to trade Nazi occupation for Soviet satellite status.