The country that has spent the last 16 months lecturing Europe about how to live sits at number 36 on the 2025 Prosperity Index. Just a mouse-arm’s inflammation above Russia. Sandwiched between Poland and Israel, two spots ahead of Hungary, and a comfortable distance behind Croatia.
Let that sink in while JD Vance is warming up his next speech about European decline.
Every single country from number one down to number twenty-five is either European, or a nation built on European foundations. Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden. The top four. Not a MAGA hat in sight. The United Kingdom, which according to certain Fox News contributors is an unrecognisable warzone where law-abiding citizens are fed to the wolves the moment they land at Heathrow, sits at a very comfortable number 26. Ten places above the self-proclaimed leader of the free world.
Slovenia beats America. Estonia beats America. Lithuania beats America. Latvia beats America. These are countries that were behind the Iron Curtain within living memory.
And yet here we are, being told by the people around Trump, Vance and Rubio that Europe has something to learn from Washington. About prosperity. About governance. About how to run a country.
Number 36.
Two above Russia. Seventeen below Slovenia. Just ahead of Israel and Hungary, which is basically the international hall of fame for countries that have lost the plot.
The data is not complicated. Europe is not declining. America is just falling down the list.
More Swedish please. I wont get tired of saying it; if it were for the Baltics, Czechs, Poles, Nordics and Scandinavians this war would have ended in 2022.
Enligt rysk propaganda är ju Ukraina en nazi-regim och befolkningen nazister. Riktigt dumma och lata nazister i såfall som sätter en jude att styra landet och det högerextrema partiet i landet fick ynka 2% av rösterna så att de har noll makt. Lite klantigt får man säga.
Ordförande för styrelsen är alltså den präst som 2008 fixade så att Ulf Kristersson fick en lägenhet som var avsedd för utsatta kvinnor. https://t.co/t09TFKytcy
Ukraina har momentum nu.
ÖKA STÖDET nu på alla sätt!
- Ryska ekonomin är tveklöst i nedgående spiral och de de rekryterar mycket färre soldater per månad.
- Ukrainas egen utvecklade vapen och förmåga ökar i otrolig takt vilket kommer innebära att U kan åsamka R än mer skada!
Volontärer rustar upp en herrgård utanför Malmköping - som statsministern deläger.
Som ersättning erbjuds de bland annat ”ett bra nätverk” och träffar på Sagerska palatset.
Statsministers fru Birgitta Ed fakturerar samtidigt 22 000 kronor i månaden och är den enda som får betalt för arbetet med gården.
Citerar väldigt sällan Bibeln, men idag är det svårt att låta bli:
”Ingen kan tjäna två herrar. Antingen kommer han att hata den ene och älska den andre eller att hålla fast vid den ene och inte bry sig om den andre.”
- Matteusevangeliet (6:24) och Lukasevangeliet (16:13) -
@berlin_bridge Ireland does understand and, as you know, has shown huge support for Ukraine. Most Irish did not know of this before this week and more people here than not feel the trade should stop immediately even with livelihoods at stake.
Ireland: occupied for centuries by imperial invaders who brutally suppressed their language & identity; endured torture, murder, sexual violence, hunger. They bravely resisted & live free today.
More than anyone in Western Europe, Ireland should understand & stand with Ukraine.
Idioti när PRO-ryssar från väst på besök i Ry berömmer något i Moskva som bättre än i Väst. Moskva (och St Petersburg) är moderna vackra städer, inget har påstått annat men de är som utställningsex, en fin kuliss att visa upp när övriga landet är extremt nergånget och slitet.
@GaryHughGreen@RedEaglePatriot Yes, what is it about a fake chain existing that proves sanktions doesent work??
That they can import cofee? Well the sanktions are not intended to be total and sorry to say all countries doesn't aply them !!
@GovIE BTW, Sweden investigation brought to two arrests IN MARCH for sanction violations.
Russian-owned aluminum smelter Kubal in Sundsvall, Sweden is still working, no job losses.
https://t.co/RRpl8faUcm
@PhillipsPOBrien@GSedgefx A conclusion that aplies to many other countrys too. This time i was Ireland, but people also need to pay atention to whats happening in their countries.
I'm not sure the Irish understand the damage the recent story of their pumping economic support into Putin's war machine is doing to their reputation in Central/East Europe. The idea of Ireland standing on the side of the oppressed against imperialists is gone, probably forever.
@jacksonhinkle 1940s USSR fought Nazis
2020s Russian *is* Nazi
It’s Russian grandparents who are turning in their graves.
They would be disgusted by Putin’s genocidal imperialism & his army of orcs.