Comments by "Golag Is watching you" (@golagiswatchingyou2966) on "Understanding Western Civilization." video.

23:32 im not sure what your talking about here, I live in Europe, have not realy met a single person here who does not view the USA as an empire and many people and political groups and leaders not only admit this but often want to reject US supremacy or at least desire to stand on equal footing, from my perspective most americans aren't aware of their status as an empire, often citing the USA as having to pay for Europe, our military and influence our nations, cultures and people's as if they don't get any benefit out of it at all, while at the same time devolving into ideological decay which then spreads to Europe and they don't understand why they are so disliked by the marjority of European people. personally i like the USA as a country and people but it's government and much of their ''intelectual'' class are quite backwards and harmfull to both their own society and ours and it would be in both our interest to change the current status quo, which many Europeans agree with but argue about how to change it.
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25:51 I realy doubt 250.000+ americans died because they wanted to end slavery, it's southern parts no longer wanted to be part of the union, wanted to continue slavery, their southern way of life and stand up to the expanding federal government and it's rising demands, tarriefs and in their view abuse of power and the union did not want them to leave and continue slavery but more importantly they wanted to keep the USA together. the south did not go to war to spread slavery to the north, nor to take over the USA, it wanted independence from the USA. I don't support slavery, don't particularly like the south but I never quite understood this argument for way the civil war happened and seen evidence that it's not the primary reason why the US civil war happened, it's too simplistic and does not add up compared to most of history around the world.
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27:21 is this like your opinion? because France is actually waging wars, using military force to pressure a nation like Turkey, while Germany's constitution enforced by the USA and other treaties limit their ability to build up military forces and use them to wage war if need be, while also being part of the EU that is actively trying to create a more pan-european army structure which the americans in NATO don't like. the reason why Europe is less pro war is because we had many centuries of having way to many of them and mostly against ourselfs while our populations today are rapidly aging so even if we wanted to our ability to produce massive armies is kinda limited, plus even if we did we risk the USA getting pissed off about it. the USA is in a very privilaged position of having huge land mass, massive population centers and the ability to wage wars around the rest of the world while being practically immune from any negative backlash from those they invade or wage war on, while Europe is basically the frontlines of the aftermath of any involved wars. basically the way I see it, Europe is less warlike because of the USA and them failing is likely to spur the same old war minded mentality the USA currently has, the main question is, where does russia fit into this, China and the future relation with the USA? right now it's kind of a mess but I've seen some people say that Europe is going to become more alined with China and Russia and there is some evidence to back this up but it also depends on how the USA acts. from an outside perspective NATO seems to slowly fall apart due to internal problems and a more isolationist USA.
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@KaiserMattTygore927 how do you explain then that Abraham lincoln gave them the option to keep their slaves if they just did not leave the union and they then rejected the offer anyways? how does that make sense if their main motivation was to preserve slavery? were they just stupid? what about the tarriefs of abomination? im no expert on this topic but I rarely see anyone mention the periode before the civil war happened and the over simplification of ''they just wanted to keep slavery'' is silly and does not match any other conflict in human history, often times wars and civil wars start due to internal problems, ideologicall differences, corrupt leaders, never just ''they wanted to keep slaves'' it just seems silly to take it on face value. just imagine soldiers fighting because they wanted rich plantation owners to keep their slaves, how does that make sense?
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@bevbevan6189 slavery was going out anyways, im simply asking why they went to war and why people fought in it and i find ''because slavery'' to be to easy and simple, there has to be more then just that.
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@theliato3809 I disagree, you can basically divide periodes of US-EU relations as thus 1. ww1 + ww2 era 2. coldwar era 3. post cold war era in part 1 there was a moment of equal footing to a degree, Europe was the center and the USA was a sleeping giant, after ww2 this relationship changed with a focus on the USA, decolonisation and reconstruction of Europe. in part 2 the cold war era was focused on rebuilding Europe, controling the spread of communism and the USSR and the creation of NATO, at this point the USA was more advanced, ahead and had more people while Europe stagnated and slowly recovered. in part 3 after the cold war we see an expansion of NATO and with that came also an expansion of the EU, i remember the early 2000s as a periode of optimism and sense of pan-European identity slowly being formed, most books about a united Europe started to appear in this periode and we got the Euro and other changes that made the EU parlement more representative to it's citizens, lots of changes. though at this point we also started to see more of a shift and divide between the USA and Europe, due to refugees, wars, terrorisme and the rise of a more modern Russia that still packed a punch, we are here now and we are somewhat at a stalemate and uncertain of where to go now, the USA is still far ahead of us but also becoming more hostile while China has catched up and appears more on equal footing to the USA or at least getting there. I think Europe stands at the crossroads of where to go to now, collapse, unifying, war with Russia or friendship, conflict with China or perhaps being neutral and being influenced by both the USA and China, idk, We understand we are not on equal footing and many want to change that to be more equal but to do that would mean to oppose the USA on subjects like Russia, while also breaking certain treaties to create and use a potential pan-european army, the USA for the most part does not seem to want this but might be forced to bend due to presure from China which is a competitor and threat to both the USA and Europe.
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@anoncrazynonevilgooddecent7631 the Netherlands, it's pretty great here.
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