You need a free market economy, low taxes and a government that is small and lean
I guess an inflated government is the reason that Norway is mired in perpetual poverty....
Capitalism is like fire, a dangerous servant and a terrible master. It's creative force needs to be channeled and directed. Relative size of government is less important than questions of 'rule of law' (which both parties in the US have been trying to escape) and measures to keep corruption in check (it can never be eliminated entirely, but it can be limited).
Rule of law strongly corresponds to predictability. Dictatorships reach an economic ceiling because they're too unpredictable, sink all your money in the promising economy and then the dictator declares that daffodils are now the only legal currency and without the rule of law you kaput. russia and china both reached the dictatorship ceiling but instead of reforms they've doubled down on idiotic dictator stuff.
why they are delaying after they got the US to make the stupid decision?
You mean the stupid decision to limit use of ATACMs to Kursk? Or are you behind the news cycle.
While we're here, if Scholz's call to putin was such a great idea then why did putin escalate immediately afterward?