The suicide it's started with the WWI, where we (Europeans, but not alone) have wasted enormous resources, ALSO human intelligence one, killed in the war, and w

The suicide it's started with the WWI, where we (Europeans, but not alone) have wasted enormous resources, ALSO human intelligence one, killed in the war, and well... We never recovered. Some observe nazi Germans as a big recovery after WWI, but they ignore that their tech was NOT born in their system, but before it, they only have found ways to profit (for a short time) from that, similarly post-WWII recovery was typically seen as a miracle but actually is the fire in the pan having generated the present. Post-WWII Germany have chosen (at least they was forced someway to) not to develop significant social infra, like rails, roads etc, as opposed for instance to France. As a result they are nearly the sole in the EU and surrounding with still so much not electrified trains, they relay so much on coal, they have a terrible telecommunication national network and so on. Long story short even with a remarkable (past) industrial development they are terribly fragile and without Russian gas they are simply done. They have still a bit of high tech, but most of the industry is stuck in the past, like most people mental models, so they tend to waste their valuables assets anyway. IMVHO as an EU (Italian) citizen the sole option for the whole EU is a POLITICAL union with France as the leader who unites, seeking partnership with the EAEU, our tech, witch is still very valuable even if falling rapidly behind here and there to China, and our industrial management in exchange of development space and natural resources. We both need the others, we can't both overpower each others, so we much remain on a fair plan, no matter each party agenda. That's would generate a base stable enough and with natural resources enough to grow and re-gain a dominant global position WITHOUT the need of a global aggressive projection because internal resources will suffice for a century at least. Unfortunately that's against both USA/UK and China interests and we are way to far for such a union...