alt Hacker NewsWe live in times. There is always something: just in Europe, in the 50s and 60s we had the Cold War (and on the other side of the Iron Curtain, outright invasions); in the 70s we had terrorism and economic shocks; in the '80s we had Libya, Lebanon, heroin, AIDS, Chernobyl; in the '90s we had genocide in Yugoslavia, big market crashes and sovereign debt crisis, the war in Kuwait; in the '00s we had 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq; you can go on and on...
The reality is that, as long as we don't start firing nukes, we'll all be alright in the end.
On the contrary during every decade above there were regions in Europe with prosperity, driving premium German cars, and benefiting from cheap workforce and "entertainment" services from impacted other European regions. Some remained prosperous through all of these decades.