Except EU is hell bent on going the way of Peron's Argentina or Mugabe's Zimbabwe. The EU relative share of world economy has been going down with no signs of the trends reversal. And instead of innovating our ways of stagnation we have - permanently attached bottle caps and cookie confirmation windows.
Nope mate. Looking at my purchasing power compared to the USA guys I knew now and in 2017. Not in my favor. EU economy is grossly mismanaged. Our standards of living have been flat for the last 18 years since the financial crisis.
In 2008 EU had more people, more money and bigger economy than US, with proper policies we could be in a place where we could bitch slap both Trump and Putin. And not left to wonder whose dick we have to suck deeper to get some gas.
Peter Zeihan would say, that’s the problem Europe has, in addition to demographic collapse. They’re not energy indepedent and hitched their star to Russia (especially Germany), on the belief that economic interdependence would keep things somewhat peaceful. How wrong they were
