Lu Yang watched the statements from media outlets around the world in the video and cursed, "What the hell are they acting so superior for? A bunch of poor, short, weak little countries—do they think it's still a hundred years ago?"
It was the invasions more than a century ago that allowed them to provide such generous domestic benefits. But after a hundred years, they had long since spent all that money. Greece was the first to go bankrupt as a nation, and even now, it had not paid off its debts to Europe.
The European Union's most famous four "golden pigs"—Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece—had initials that conveniently spelled PIGS, meaning a herd of pigs.
Italy and Spain in particular claimed to be developed nations, but in reality, they were among the most indebted countries. They were some of the biggest deadweights within the European Union and needed Germany to subsidize them heavily every year. Forget China—they could not even compare to Japan.
France was even worse off. In recent years, France had suffered repeated public uprisings, forcing the country to raise wages again and again, leaving its economy under severe strain. Its most famous embarrassment came when a country it had once invaded fell into civil unrest.
There was an international convention: if you had once colonized a country, you were responsible for its future security.
To help that country suppress the rebellion, France chose to send troops. But when it came time to transport equipment, France did not even have a single strategic transport aircraft. To rush the equipment over, it had to pay America to borrow strategic transport planes.
The mighty French Republic did not even have strategic transport aircraft and had to borrow them from other countries. It became a laughingstock around the world.
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