To a large extent, location advantages have created these powerful countries. Even now, Germany, France and Britain are still major powers in the world. The countries in the Middle East are doing well. Only when you are dead against the United States will the United States fuck you, such as Iraq and Iran, and will not take sides, such as Libya and Syria. For those who say that the United States invaded Iraq for oil, PetroChina is the biggest beneficiary. In fact, those messy countries have internal problems.
There's nothing wrong with it. I live well when I listen to American words. There is a thin line between heaven and hell. Another feature of the Nordic countries is that there are few people. Most countries in northern Europe have a population of only 5 million, while Iceland has a population of over 300,000. There are many people in nature, and Northern Europe attaches great importance to education and technology, which makes the population in Northern Europe small, but all of them are of high quality. In this way, the industry in northern Europe developed rapidly.
The scale of Norwegian sovereign wealth fund exceeded 1 trillion dollars in September 2007, and it is the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, also known as "oil fund". According to the latest report of Wood Mackenzie Company (WM), Norway is still one of the largest oil discoveries in the world 10. It is also a very powerful thing to make your country strong by oil. I also hope that the world will be peaceful forever.