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Norway is among the only modern or developed countries to have a national savings, and probably the only Western one (China is a modern, developed country with extensive savings, and Russia has some savings while being basically modern and developed but not as far as the West or China), and Norway's vast national savings account is the result of decades of thrift and smart reinvestment of its oil profits.
But now, Norway, as part of the maniacal frenzy sweeping Europe today (again, just another iteration of those same self-destructive manias that Europe is prone to), is considering ruining its unique good financial situation and blowing its hard-earned savings by spending it on the Ukraine War.

I just can't fathom how an entire continent and civilization (Western Europe) can be this way. Why do they have such a need to destroy themselves? Do they hate themselves deep down and want to kill themselves, like indirectly through a series of self-destructive behaviors because they can't get themselves to the point of just a quick and easy self-nuking that would achieve the same result much less painfully?

Europe has probably seen more wars than any similar-sized region throughout its pretty long history (much younger than the likes of the Middle East, India, and China, but far older than anything still existing in the Americas, since Europe's nation-states were born in the Dark Age circa AD 500 to AD 1000).
And during all that time, Europe has perhaps fought more battles and had more wars than any other region of the world in that same timeframe. This is empirically provable by examining the historical record.
Just count all the battles, and also all the distinct and separate wars, fought in Europe from AD 800 or so until today, then compare these numbers, of individual battles and whole wars, with the same numbers for China from AD 800 until today.
Europe's total will far exceed China's total. China, yes, does go through periods of war, but only