> Decades of prioritising welfare over warfare and economic growth have left Europe This omnipresent talking point is ridiculous. You know what the EU prioriti

> Decades of prioritising welfare over warfare and economic growth have left Europe This omnipresent talking point is ridiculous. You know what the EU prioritized over out economic growth? Budget stability. That's why the US has 50% more debt as share of GDP than the EU does. (And that's arguably a mistake given the low growth in the EU since the financial crisis because of that policy, but it has nothing to do with Welfare vs Warfare. Quite this opposite actually, the US would even be a much richer country if it had spent all the GWOT money on Welfare instead).