>Once the rulers and center of the world for 1000 years, now an irrelevant retirement home of a continent

>Once the rulers and center of the world for 1000 years, now an irrelevant retirement home of a continent
WTF happened to Europe?
And no it wasn't brown people, Europe has been completely forgotten for around 50 years now

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    over reliance on America made everyone lazy, then globalisation finished it off by letting everyone off shore their manufacturing.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >over reliance on America
      The Americas themselves were once colonies of Europe
      >Fixed, northern side was never relevant
      Yes, if anything the Germanic languages became more globally relevant BECAUSE of England's colonization of the Americas, not the other way around

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Eight out of the top ten countries by quality of life index are in Europe. The other two (at rank 4 and 10, respectively) are Australia and New Zealand.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >B-But quality of life
      Yeah like I said, an irrelevant retirement home

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >>Once the rulers and center of the world for 1000 years, now an irrelevant retirement home of a continent
    >WTF happened to Mediterraneans?

    Fixed, northern side was never relevant

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      northern side dominated increasingly everything from around the tenth to the nineteenth centuries. always weirds me out when people are completely ignorant of this long period of history.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I know IQfy is genuinely full of historically illiterate morons but how did you miss out learning about the century of ruinous wars and political upheaval on the continent? Even with the continent burning itself to the ground the EU alone is still a massive global economic hub.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The entirety of the EU is less than half the US and less than China

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Being the third largest economic bloc on the planet is far from being irrelevant, if they were irrelevant China, India, and the entire Middle East wouldn't be doing everything possible to outrace each other to build economic corridors directly aimed at the EU.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Bloc
          Kek, again you have to combine to be third place when China and US just are 2nd and 1st.
          That is like me putting all of Asia together and saying it's the strongest

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I don't really understand what acting like a moron accomplishes here, is IQfy just too fast or not taking your bait or something?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Not him, but you're an idiot.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Not an idiot, but you're him.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The EU is not an unified single country you euro moron. Every time some world event happens like the pandemic or the russian chimpouts, you always act separately. Without the U. S. Europe dies.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >for 1000 years
    Cuckrope didnt become relevant until 1600CE.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Once the rulers and center of the world for 1000 years,
    500 years.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I hate EU remoaners in the UK.
    They don't understand that the EU is just another empire.
    They don't understand that fact, but they'll bash Britain for having been an empire.

    They don't get it how powerful they could be if there was the British Empire again.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Europeans never change. They just pretend it never happened.

    Europe always had this belief in its own exceptionalism. Americans like to talk about their exceptionalism, but the Europeans truly were exceptional. There is a paradox built into Europe. Europe invented humanity and what I mean by that is this:

    Before the European Age of Exploration, the Congolese had no idea the Mongolians were there, Mongolians had no idea the Aztecs were there, and the Aztecs had no idea the English were there. We lived in little planets separated and discreet. The Europeans brutally kicked down the walls so that there was no longer by the end of the European adventure any culture that didn't know that was not alone and with doing this Europe conquered the world in a way it had never been conquered before and invented humanity. It also conquered nature, it transformed nature so on a cold winter night in Paris in 1913 you could banish the dark and banish the cold and extraordinarily hear Mozart and for all the crimes of Europe Mozart's makes up for many of them.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It created a single humanity but the paradox is while it conquered the world it never conquered itself. Europe was unable to unite. The Spaniards attempted it, the French attempted it, the Germans attempted it, the British sort of attempted it. But no one could bring together all of Europe into one entity. Had it done that it would still rule the world. But it could not because Europe is a place divided by geography, peninsulas on peninsulas, mountain ranges blocking your way, rivers that don't flow to the right place, seas between. Ultimately it is a place that is the second smallest continent in the world, only one smaller is Australia and that is only if you count it as a continent. There are 52 sovereign states in Europe, and you could drive in three hours and hear four or five languages spoken and encounter four or five countries that bitterly despise each other over things that happened centuries ago. The depth of the malice of Europe can never be measured. Hungarians cannot say Romania without spitting on the floor. Romanians says that Hungarian is a curse, and these are two members of the EU, enlightened. One should never underestimate the degree of division in Europe.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Norman Angelle who was a very, very brilliant man who eventually won the Nobel Prize wrote a book in 1910 called The Great Illusion. And The Great Illusion demonstrated beyond any doubt that a war in Europe was impossible because level of financial exposure that a war would bring tumbling down, the level of interdependence and trade, made war impossible. He was English, of course, and English believed that no one would do anything that did not bring a profit. But in 1914 something extraordinary, extraordinary not because it was so novel, it was novel, but because it was so unexpected and what was remarkable was that it was unexpected. In 1914 plunge into war so deeply that in September of 1914 at a single battle of the Somme 600,000 died in one weak and the Europeans didn't blink, the war went on. The war didn't go on for four years, it went on for 31 years. Between 1914 and 1945 100 million Europeans died from political causes, wars, holocausts, planned starvation, purges, the Spanish Civil War, endless, endless conflict. In 31 years, Europe went from being the center of the world, the pinnacle of its culture, the creator of humanity, to occupied territory.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          In 1945 not only was Europe ruined, not just by WW2 but by this endless, endless range of horror, but it has lost its sovereignty. The eastern part of Europe was occupied by the Soviet Union, the western part by the Americans, each treated their dominion differently but make no mistake they were both dominions in the simplest sense. The decisions of war and peace which are the fundamental questions of sovereignty used to be made in Paris, London, Berlin, Rome, now they were made in Washington and Moscow. I might add, and it's an interesting point, that no two countries have ever handled a confrontation as responsibly as the Americans and the Soviets. The opportunities for war were endless, the war never happened. And I'd like to say to Europeans who call Americans cowboys: imagine if the lurid gentlemen of 1914 or 1939 had nuclear weapons. Would they have behaved with the meticulous cautions that the Americans and the Russians behaved? Well, that is a question we don't have to answer thank God, but it is doubtful for me. The 31 years it took there was never an empire of that size that destroyed itself in this way, in 31 years. So, Europe is in fact exceptional in the way it did it.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Subverted by the ((tribe))

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, frick ((germans)).

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