usa by nature of geography is the land of "always works out in the end". they can fumble whatever, they never could be assaulted until enterprising individuals start making open source icbms.

their current crisis is them literally been unable to stop exporting oil/derivatives to get giant profits at expense of local population.

europe by comparison is very energy poor, have been for a century since exhaustion of coal, and not very rich in metals either, due to being a single tectonic plate. (sea oil aside)