GDP is not the whole story. EU is fractured and suffering from years of mass immigration and mismanaged welfare programs. The industrial base is squandered and the energy infrastructure in decline because of ideological fantasies like climate change. Its armed forces lack manpower, equipment and experience, and wouldn't last a month on a real battlefield. Add the pointless and destructive support for project Ukraine, "elites" who are despised by most of their populations, and increasingly totalitarian measures against dissidents and truthsayers. Europe is in deep trouble.