one thing people really haven't understood is that Ukraine has continued to ship literal grain (grown in actual farms) and build cruise missiles domestically despite being in an all-out war for *3 years*. It's happening right now, let alone historically.
Is it a moderately-sized chart crime to not start this before 1789 or is because the per capita GDP was technically 100% for the head of the House of Bourbon and 0% for everyone else?
Yeah, I suppose monarchies have historically never been very good at publishing data, as I fear we’re about to be reminded for the next few years. Also, I notice that relative to the World Wars, the dips for the Napoleonic Wars come up a little [deep breath] short.
We do have plenty of billionaires handy to extract the needed funds from, and they *are* making it clear that they want all of this to happen, just saying
Europe owes a lot of where it is right now because the German-led EU botched the Eurocrisis and the entirety of the 2010s with it to an unimaginable degree, Brussels' relation to Greece is still slightly frosty to this day from the fallout of that
I mean, it does suck that their GDP was functionally flat for about 40 years there. That's my entire working career saving for retirement there. But I'll admit we have bigger problems right now than saving for retirement, as did they from ~1914 to 1950
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Honestly seems more likely that Europe will fall into a continental war than that the US would.
For a people who never fail to chide our foolish optimism, they are a nation that acts like they have a future.