How Geography Made The US Ridiculously OP
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America, Canada and the UK form a triumvirate of trade, economy, military, production and man power that no single enemy could ever dream of being an actual threat to.
In fact, my masters thesis was on this very subject and I suggested that Canada and America drop their borders and unify into one single country, maintaining their alliance of course with the UK (and Japan, whos alliance with America has jumpstarted its technological revolution) and basically seal the fact that peace among these countries - the UK, the United American States and Canadian Provinces, and Japan - will reign for the foreseeable future, and likely forever.
Date: 2023-12-14
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-nrrork
Of course, if we _did_ go to war with a nation that set up bases on Cuba, we'd reduce them to dust in minutes.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was about _preventing_ a war, so we wisely showed restraint. But if we were already _at war, _ all bets are off.
We'd sink any ship that got anywhere _near_ Cuba. We'd take or destroy that whole island before we let an enemy nation use it to harm us.
Again, all things we almost did in '62 but held back to not escalate the critical and tense situation.
But, to repeat my other point: if we were already at war, we'd do anything and everything to keep Cuba from aiding our enemy.
And I have a hunch the Cubans know this too, and would be reluctant to offer up their own nation as a sacrificial lamb.
To keep bringing up 1962, the country was run by passionate revolutionaries. True believers forged in the fires of rebellion who were 100% behind the global communist revolution.
Today? They're a legitimate power in the Caribbean that has impressively endured despite America's best efforts, and other, more impoverished nations in the region depend on them for aide.
Cuba isn't the hotheaded young rebel anymore, it's a matured adult with a family to support. I'm not saying it's a shining beacon of prosperity and freedom, but it's doing well enough to have something to lose by throwing itself into a war with the US.
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Of course, if we _did_ go to war with a nation that set up bases on Cuba, we'd reduce them to dust in minutes.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was about _preventing_ a war, so we wisely showed restraint. But if we were already _at war, _ all bets are off.
We'd sink any ship that got anywhere _near_ Cuba. We'd take or destroy that whole island before we let an enemy nation use it to harm us.
Again, all things we almost did in '62 but held back to not escalate the critical and tense situation.
But, to repeat my other point: if we were already at war, we'd do anything and everything to keep Cuba from aiding our enemy.
And I have a hunch the Cubans know this too, and would be reluctant to offer up their own nation as a sacrificial lamb.
To keep bringing up 1962, the country was run by passionate revolutionaries. True believers forged in the fires of rebellion who were 100% behind the global communist revolution.
Today? They're a legitimate power in the Caribbean that has impressively endured despite America's best efforts, and other, more impoverished nations in the region depend on them for aide.
Cuba isn't the hotheaded young rebel anymore, it's a matured adult with a family to support. I'm not saying it's a shining beacon of prosperity and freedom, but it's doing well enough to have something to lose by throwing itself into a war with the US.
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-mgd4327
Canada will be annexed or purchased by the US eventually. It's inevitable. Western Canada already wants to join the US because it's easier to export their resources through America and are thus dependent on the US economically and have closer cultural ties with Western US states than Eastern Canada (Albertans are closer to Montanans than to Torontonians. Eastern Canada holds most of Canada's political power in their big cities but it is heavily dependent on America's upkeep of the Great Lakes Canal infrastructure for global trade. The US would become much richer and more fortified with Canadian integration as would all of Canada. Whenever the US wants it, it could have it but because Canada is still formally a part of the British Crown (they still pay taxes to London whether they admit it or not, they'd have to essentially buy it from Great Britain. Eventually, the US will want Canada more than an alliance with Great Britain.
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Canada will be annexed or purchased by the US eventually. It's inevitable. Western Canada already wants to join the US because it's easier to export their resources through America and are thus dependent on the US economically and have closer cultural ties with Western US states than Eastern Canada (Albertans are closer to Montanans than to Torontonians. Eastern Canada holds most of Canada's political power in their big cities but it is heavily dependent on America's upkeep of the Great Lakes Canal infrastructure for global trade. The US would become much richer and more fortified with Canadian integration as would all of Canada. Whenever the US wants it, it could have it but because Canada is still formally a part of the British Crown (they still pay taxes to London whether they admit it or not, they'd have to essentially buy it from Great Britain. Eventually, the US will want Canada more than an alliance with Great Britain.
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-dedrakuhn6103
The greatest war against the united states occurs in the back office rooms in Bentonville Arkansas where Walmart forces suppliers to outsource manufacturing to places like china. The real consequence of this is 1) we lose manufacturing capacity and the stability a working society provides. And 2) the power and purchasing strength of the federal reserve is undermined by the relationship of going into a negative trade balance with a Foreign country. When we manufacture items and we sell things to other countries our standard of living gets better. Walmarts attitude toward our country is more destructive than a nuclear war.
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The greatest war against the united states occurs in the back office rooms in Bentonville Arkansas where Walmart forces suppliers to outsource manufacturing to places like china. The real consequence of this is 1) we lose manufacturing capacity and the stability a working society provides. And 2) the power and purchasing strength of the federal reserve is undermined by the relationship of going into a negative trade balance with a Foreign country. When we manufacture items and we sell things to other countries our standard of living gets better. Walmarts attitude toward our country is more destructive than a nuclear war.
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-spacehabitats
Right off the bat, this video is BS. The U. S. was destined to be the dominant world superpower simply because of geography and geology? Regardless of the people? Ridiculous!
Oil was just a scummy pollutant that fouled otherwise drinkable water until our (meaning Anglo-Europen) inventors produced the technology to refine and utilize it.
Argentina had a temperate climate and many of the same resources found in the U. S.
I could go on, but this another example of Lore rambling on with endless factoids and historic details without any true insight.
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Right off the bat, this video is BS. The U. S. was destined to be the dominant world superpower simply because of geography and geology? Regardless of the people? Ridiculous!
Oil was just a scummy pollutant that fouled otherwise drinkable water until our (meaning Anglo-Europen) inventors produced the technology to refine and utilize it.
Argentina had a temperate climate and many of the same resources found in the U. S.
I could go on, but this another example of Lore rambling on with endless factoids and historic details without any true insight.
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reallifelore
Overall great video, but RLL can be rather myopic; we know that not just any people or ideology would have become a superpower, as the American Indians had thousands of years to create a society that could both control and exploit the Mississippi to its fullest potential. Societal organization and ideology matter a great deal, and geography, while incredibly important, is nowhere near deterministic.
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Overall great video, but RLL can be rather myopic; we know that not just any people or ideology would have become a superpower, as the American Indians had thousands of years to create a society that could both control and exploit the Mississippi to its fullest potential. Societal organization and ideology matter a great deal, and geography, while incredibly important, is nowhere near deterministic.
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-aaronlhaw2224
Your initial premise is wrong, if the geography of North America guaranteed civilizational successes regardless of ideology or culture then the American Indians would have already had an advanced civilization by the time European settlers arrived. They did not, until the arrival of Europeans in North America the natives we naught but a bunch of warring tribes. I suggest a reading of Thomas Sowle
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Your initial premise is wrong, if the geography of North America guaranteed civilizational successes regardless of ideology or culture then the American Indians would have already had an advanced civilization by the time European settlers arrived. They did not, until the arrival of Europeans in North America the natives we naught but a bunch of warring tribes. I suggest a reading of Thomas Sowle
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reallifelore
Minimizing the impact of a free market economy on the prosperity of the United States and instead implying it's all just a case of a lucky draw in geography is unfounded.
There were over a thousand years of native civilizations (i. e. Cahokian, as well as generations of French and Spanish colonial rule over these regions, yet no one made of the opportunities what the USA did.
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Minimizing the impact of a free market economy on the prosperity of the United States and instead implying it's all just a case of a lucky draw in geography is unfounded.
There were over a thousand years of native civilizations (i. e. Cahokian, as well as generations of French and Spanish colonial rule over these regions, yet no one made of the opportunities what the USA did.
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reallifelore
and the roman empire has had a way way more significant contribution to civilization that still lingers today, 1500 years after its demise. the ottoman empire, essential the eastern roman empire lasted for over 1000 years and finally fell after ww1. the US and its 100 or so years pales in comparison to this. and dont look behind you because its chinas time pretty soon
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and the roman empire has had a way way more significant contribution to civilization that still lingers today, 1500 years after its demise. the ottoman empire, essential the eastern roman empire lasted for over 1000 years and finally fell after ww1. the US and its 100 or so years pales in comparison to this. and dont look behind you because its chinas time pretty soon
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-moparmadness0180
Not covered here is the United States' interstate highway system, rail networks, the mountain systems in both the east and west create yet another natural land barrier, the numerous different climate areas and the fact that U. S. citizens happen to privately own something like 2 firearms on average.
Good luck.
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Not covered here is the United States' interstate highway system, rail networks, the mountain systems in both the east and west create yet another natural land barrier, the numerous different climate areas and the fact that U. S. citizens happen to privately own something like 2 firearms on average.
Good luck.
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-izzo2998
Ha ha. As soon as I saw the title, before even starting the video, I thought: The Louisiana Purchase. LOL.
Great video. It truly is amazing, and humbling, that out of all the billions of humans on planet earth, we control what happens to all of them. That pretty shocking.
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Ha ha. As soon as I saw the title, before even starting the video, I thought: The Louisiana Purchase. LOL.
Great video. It truly is amazing, and humbling, that out of all the billions of humans on planet earth, we control what happens to all of them. That pretty shocking.
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-barackobama9343
LOL, is this a JOKE? -America would have become a powerhouse REGARDLESS of who arrived there-? OK Dude. then why are ALL 1st world countries MAJORITY white, Colonized by whites or named Japan/ South Korea? No PLEASE. support your LUDACRIS opinion, I DARE YOU!
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LOL, is this a JOKE? -America would have become a powerhouse REGARDLESS of who arrived there-? OK Dude. then why are ALL 1st world countries MAJORITY white, Colonized by whites or named Japan/ South Korea? No PLEASE. support your LUDACRIS opinion, I DARE YOU!
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-kellybrian6495
19: 39 correction. The US didn-t actually invade Mexico. The Mexicans in those areas wanted to form their own country separate from the Mexican government authority. The US added them and eventually those liberated Mexican states joined the Union.
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19: 39 correction. The US didn-t actually invade Mexico. The Mexicans in those areas wanted to form their own country separate from the Mexican government authority. The US added them and eventually those liberated Mexican states joined the Union.
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-bigbarrettbob
As long as we don't allow ourselves to be conquered from within, our future potential is limitless. The recent coup d'etat in 2020 should be a massive wake up call to ALL Americans. Let us not going quietly into the night.
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As long as we don't allow ourselves to be conquered from within, our future potential is limitless. The recent coup d'etat in 2020 should be a massive wake up call to ALL Americans. Let us not going quietly into the night.
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-randr10
The Germans failed to take the UK mostly because they were goaded into attacking civilian instead of military targets in response to civilian firebombing raids by the British in Germany.
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The Germans failed to take the UK mostly because they were goaded into attacking civilian instead of military targets in response to civilian firebombing raids by the British in Germany.
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reallifelore
If you're going to pick a business or country to invest in. You want to pick one where even an idiot at the top can't ruin it. Because eventually there will be an idiot at the top.
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If you're going to pick a business or country to invest in. You want to pick one where even an idiot at the top can't ruin it. Because eventually there will be an idiot at the top.
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-kamfinch9740
You forgot to add 350 years of free labor & stealing inventions from people who built the country on their backs, with which credible economists attribute to americas success -.
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You forgot to add 350 years of free labor & stealing inventions from people who built the country on their backs, with which credible economists attribute to americas success -.
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-lucasgssilveira
Just a small correction, the Mississippi river is not the longest navigable river in the world, that would be the Amazon river. But the Mississippi is still massive.
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Just a small correction, the Mississippi river is not the longest navigable river in the world, that would be the Amazon river. But the Mississippi is still massive.
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-user-dg4qk7xs9d
-dunkey7739 how you know your not part of the government are you nah you jus a normal ass person so can't be saying stuff that ain't true -- you all dumb ngl
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-dunkey7739 how you know your not part of the government are you nah you jus a normal ass person so can't be saying stuff that ain't true -- you all dumb ngl
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-caratacus6204
All empires collapse from within, the US will be no different. It is only 200 odd years old, the jury is still out as to whether it will survive long term.
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All empires collapse from within, the US will be no different. It is only 200 odd years old, the jury is still out as to whether it will survive long term.
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-99BullD
2: 50. -Any Civilization that began where the U. S began would have ended up and the world's superpower-.
Native Americans when watching that part: --
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2: 50. -Any Civilization that began where the U. S began would have ended up and the world's superpower-.
Native Americans when watching that part: --
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reallifelore
I don-t know- I still think the Roman Empire was more powerful than the US especially since they didn-t have all the fancy technology we have today-
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I don-t know- I still think the Roman Empire was more powerful than the US especially since they didn-t have all the fancy technology we have today-
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-eros8834
I believe you're underestimating the role of culture in the success achieved. The indigenous people had the same geographical advantages.
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I believe you're underestimating the role of culture in the success achieved. The indigenous people had the same geographical advantages.
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-CarlosZZan-kl2gk
How macabre and cold it is to think that they have been imposing an embargo on us for 60 years due to our geographical position.
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How macabre and cold it is to think that they have been imposing an embargo on us for 60 years due to our geographical position.
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-jeffdege4786
Sorry, but the Erie canal, connecting the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and the Port of New York, was completed in 1825.
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Sorry, but the Erie canal, connecting the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and the Port of New York, was completed in 1825.
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reallifelore
The country that has every kind of riches widely available but it is still never enough. A classic colonialist mindset.
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The country that has every kind of riches widely available but it is still never enough. A classic colonialist mindset.
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reallifelore
Since you can't respond to the comments I would recommend that you do the tuck and roll and leave this restricted site
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Since you can't respond to the comments I would recommend that you do the tuck and roll and leave this restricted site
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reallifelore
Keep in mind the Missouri River meets the Mississippi in Sioux City iowa. Leading to western expansion of that pathway
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Keep in mind the Missouri River meets the Mississippi in Sioux City iowa. Leading to western expansion of that pathway
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-pixelfive1272
Why do you assume people know what OP stands for? You should write out the words, it doesn't take that much space.
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Why do you assume people know what OP stands for? You should write out the words, it doesn't take that much space.
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-erisdiscordia5429
-Given- lmao! France, the original natives of the area, sold it so cheap you might think they stole it.
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-Given- lmao! France, the original natives of the area, sold it so cheap you might think they stole it.
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