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turbopuns3 posted...

Should anyone realistically expect the USA to outperform the EU in something like this? I ask earnestly.

When you break it down logistically, does it make sense for a single, huge, massively sprawling nation to have a more firm grasp on protecting its 330mil than 20 something small countries all self-managing (and maybe cooperating too but idk I haven't paid attention to Europe really)? You have to combine the top 7 EU states by population to equal the USA. That's 7 governments at the country/federal level. Like, is it fair to compare countries to U.S. states and say "Poland roughly equals California. Romania roughly equals New York." etc. based on population?

Curious how people feel about that. (I know the USA has sucked at everything, I'm not defending us.)

States (without federal support) are definitely at a disadvantage compared to nations, particularly with respect to funding (they can't just deficit spend like the federal government can). This is irrelevant in our current timeline because Trump was basically doing jack shit to help, but in a hypothetical Clinton (or Romney, or whoever) presidency where the federal government was more involved, you could very well have had additional problems where some states refused to get on board with the plan from the federal government.

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