
Not even a socialist but this is stupid.. Western Europe loves war and so does the US. We’re the opposite of peaceful (peep the defense budget). Also the US is hardly capitalist at this point we’re a corporate Oligarchy, there isn’t much of a free market with the amount of monopolies and shit we have
The united states was the only country left after WWII with heavy industrialization infrastructure intact. The USSR was severely damaged by WWII. Then the US proceeded to sanction the USSR for 50 years. A war that kills 27 million of your citizens followed by half a century of sanctions by a superpower tends to make a country poor