On February 14, 2025, an American Vice President stood in front of Europe's entire defense establishment in Munich and told them the biggest threat to Europe was not Russia and was not China. It was the threat from within.
To find out whether he had a point, I went through the EU's own competitiveness report, NATO's budget breakdowns, Denmark's government statistics, and Netflix's viewing data — and they all landed on the same verdict from opposite directions.
There are five charges here, and one question at the end that nobody in that room could answer.
In this video, you'll discover:
• How Europe went from an economy 10% larger than America's to two-thirds its size — without ever shrinking
• The 383-recommendation report the EU commissioned about itself, and how many of them it had acted on a year later
• What Europe has paid Russia for oil and gas since 2022, set against what it has sent Ukraine
• The employment and crime data most European governments will not publish by origin — and the one country that publishes all of it, every year
• Why a Korean drama reaches Brazil, Egypt and Nigeria in the same week while a Danish series stays Danish
• How many people British police arrest every day over something they posted online
• The question JD Vance asked in Munich that left the room silent — and the Singaporean diplomat who has spent years answering it