Then please tell me how they are thought to be little drones.

Tell me you have no kids and are at least 40 without saying it.

If you’ve built it reasonably right, that’s not what it costs.

A million up-votes, if I could. Thank you.

It’s doubtful that their economy is doing better. GDP, in the middle of a failing (or costly) war, is a pretty bad metric. It doesn’t matter if you produce more value inside the country if all of it (and more) is destroyed at the front.

Always was.

Used to be true. See countries affecting populations in foreign countries. Propaganda is not local.

That being the point of the quote…

It refers to the part that makes it into Europe and is thus Europe’s supply. Even stretching it, it supplies Europe and is thus Europe’s supply. The possessive form does not indicate control over all or part of the supply.

My water supply comes from the county. Your air supply comes from, well… the air, or the Earth.

If Europe still was the colonial power it once was, you might have a point. Not a semantic one but a “bad choice of word”-one. But it’s not and so you don’t.

But you want to actively not-accuse her…