The EU are toothless, and I don’t think they would actually do much outside of a few half-hearted condemnations. Without the empire, the EU are nothing, and would get annihilated by Russia and China. Hell, even with the US they would have a really bad time. The EU are posturing against the US now, but when it comes down to it, I don’t think they would risk a full on confrontation with the US if they were to try to annex Greenland. What are your thoughts?
Where did I state that I advocate/endorse the traditional interpretation of the Great Divergence? I did nowhere claim that europe was superior “earlier”. Europe diverged due to the resources it got from exploiting the new world and then africa - but it was not an exceptionally poor and irrelevant place as you claimed.
You sidestepped the whole point and then scoled me for not talking about the current convergence, which is irrelevant to my answer in the first place, because I wasn’t talking about the present.
You used the outdated term of dark ages, especially the victorian interpretation of the ye olde days of peasants living in shit-stained hovels and doing nothing until they invented colonialism. And I corrected that.