Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "The Coming Fall of Russia" video.

  1. The saying goes that the two people in the world who are the most comfortable being besieged are the Russians and the Turks, but the Turks don't have a character who was a somewhat famous author who left a long correspondence about how much he enjoyed being under siege due to having access to a piano, the way Tolstoy did at Sebastopol.
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  2. I am rewatching mostly to see if he removed the bit where he contradicted his Albion's Seed videos.
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  3. slash erm...Eleven Nations of America IIRC
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  4. or a mild edit. At various points, Rudyard has gone out of his way to emphasize that America at heart is three separate foundational groups, the East Anglian religious fanatics in New England, the Quakers from the Midlands who settled in Pennsylvania, and the western English second and third sons of supporters of absolute monarchy whose titles exceeded their means who settled south of Mason-Dixon. In his original edit of this video, he said that an ethnic dimension from the perspective of the north would have been nonsensical in the American Civil War.
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  5. Cavaliers, Quakers, and Puritans, to put it in shorter terms in the reverse order.
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  6. ah so you left it in
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  7. My brain has stored that along with Malaysia being coloured as "shame motivated" in my "list of things one of my favourite YouTubers has been wrong about"
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