>>6498388There's just something lacking in the mentality of Continental Europeans vs Brits.
Why were Germans building mudshacks on the Volga? Why didn't the Dutch do anything? Why was the Swedish Empire so shit?
You have limited mental horizons. It might be a "gook brain" thing since at least the Portugese, French & Spanish sailed the seas. Everyone East of the Rhine has Asiatic blood, so maybe there's some kind of groupthink which causes inertia and individuals don't want to put their necks on the line.
The British are genetically more individualistic and also have a larger critical fraction of super high IQ people. Even if the bulk of the population were criminals as you put it, Anglo populations have within them these highly driven individuals who get things done.
