I don't get this . What do you mean by that?
Can you elucidate Britain and Portugaul's real, vivid, and recent experience with tyranny?
How about Denmark? Are you talking about the German occupation 60 years ago? Then where are Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, France and Austria?
How about Spain and Italy? Are you talking about them being run by dictators 60 years ago? Then what about Germany?
I guess I will buy that Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia have experienced real, vivid and recent tyranny, but so have Romania, Bulgaria and every former Soviet Republic. I don't see them on this list.
So anyway, I don't really think there's anything "telling" about it, other than you don't understand sorting out cause and effect very well.
Oooooh look, isn't it telling that our strongest European support is coming from countries that follow the Mediterreanean diet.