• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Sweden went from a farming country in 1900 to an industrial nation, then as it wasn’t bombed to splinters as the rest of Europe in WW1 and WW2 we surfed that high for a long time. I felt the effect starting to crack around 1990-2000 I guess, but Sweden still benefits from having a head start in -45.

    The USA is maybe just the same but on a much larger scale, and Europe have for sure awakened around the same time (-95?) economically, we’re just timid in the war and influence things but the people who have at least second hand information from WW2 are getting fewer and fewer so less people will hold back a military strong EU.

    Maybe it’s time to wake up?

    Interesting times ahead. A shame it won’t obligatory be good times.