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Because European countries are politically stable and are under the rule of law. Things that are rather priceless and can't be bought with money.

Those drones hitting high-rise hotels in Dubai were rather eye opening.

I agree with your point about rule of law, but let’s not gloat too quickly about nasty SA getting its comeuppance. It’s going to look pretty ugly in Europe when Russia follows through on its potential to disrupt or destroy critical infrastructure. We are pretty vulnerable too.
the UK is stable? economically it's falling pretty hard and the governments seem to be a revolving door