There was literal starvation in the US in the Great Depression too (which was 1929 all the way to the late 30s, pretty close to WWII). The US got over it after a couple of decades.

Similarly the EU of 2025, has nothing to do with WW2-era starvation, that has been over half a century in the past.

And of course there was literal starvation in China as well after WWII, and much more poverty there than in the EU 30 years ago (even including Eastern Europe).

After WW2 China was in another civil war, their economy was worse than Ghana's and they also were trying to build a nuke at the same time.

And you think China, which had started for a very poor place after their civil wars, and had been ravaged by the Japanese invasion and occupation (including the only mass scale biological warfare in modern times), weathered WWII better than Europe?