They have been bombed a lot more. How many died in the Blitz, for example?
We were always protected by big oceans, and never had to grow a spine.
The generation of children of WWII vets is retiring. All we have writing the "news" is a protected, coddled, neutered subspecies, deprived of nothing except indoctrination by Bottom Third academics.
All signs point to one more generation for old Europe...they have brought it on themselves but sad to watch.