@TheTruthProphet: That's because in the sense of trading the two are comparable; ie. both are similar economic zones.
As for the aircraft carriers, first you made an exception that makes the comparision pretty moot, secondly, only countries that are "island" countries/have huge coastal line have advantage from the carriers and thirdly, nukes are more efficient.
@Tyrannical: Considering that you compare USA, where the president holds political power, to european countries, where the president or king/queen hold very little to none political power. All the power is held by parlament, which is lead by prime minister that gets changed quickly if the parlament isn't happy with the government.
Also, define "freedom", since so far european countries are more liberal in terms of human rights than USA is.
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