An ingenious system of lines ran underneath the decks, to avoid entangling anybody topside.

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What eventually became the United States was almost by design far away from Europe as a way of avoiding the entangling alliances that can lead to war.

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Using a combination of microwaves, lasers, lenses, and ion traps, the researchers were successful at entangling ions using a setup that was only about one-tenth the size of previously successful entanglement experiments.

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They don't need the reticence that can come with age and experience, and they certainly don't need the sort of entangling alliances, distractions and divided loyalties that family men and women have.

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While many chose to criticise US interventionism, particularly in the Bush era, it appears that many European countries prefer to avoid entangling themselves in foreign trouble spots unless the US is in the lead.

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