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> bumbling incompetents (and I'm not naming names here), are likely safer than citizens of governments who believe they have a mission from God to be the sword and shield of the righteous, and hire thousands of the smartest people in the world to carry that mission out

Yes bumbling Europeans are less dangerous but only because they have outsourced their intelligence to the US. China and Russia are more dangerous but only to their own population.