Comments by "CaptainVanisher" (@captainvanisher988) on "The Present Past" channel.

@lucasribeiro7534 Loved your comments. What I have personally witnessed is that even though European colonialism had a very bad side ,it was almost always the lesser of two evils. I doubt subsaharan africa or the americas would be even close as technologically advanced as they are now if not for European colonisation. Their extended history of technological regression (compared to Europe, Northern Africa and Middle east) just showed that it would have taken them several more centuries if not millenias for them to reach the point that the Europeans were at the time of the colonisation. It's also funny to me how the other guy thought that empires stop having a thirst of expansion or that Europeans were savages and the rest were peaceful ,rich tribes and nations. When in fact slavery was far more practiced by the locals, there was widespread cannibalism even in China (which was more technologically advanced than the rest of the colonised world) ,human sacrifices, raping and pillaging and mass murder. As for the empires, the only reason why some of these empires stopped expanding is because they reached their zenith. Empires are usually shaken and fall when the people that made it great die without good replacements on their way. That was the thing for the Macedonian empire and that was the thing for the Mongol empire (two of the largest empires in history). It was even the thing for the Roman empire, but in a wider time frame.
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@lucasribeiro7534 What I find relatively worrisome though is the push for globalism and a world government. The problem with that concept is that if the entire world follows and obeys one system and 1 government , that world empire/government will eventually fall leading to a probable global extinction event. In the past if one empire fell, there were a dozen others to either take its place or continue civilisation. But that was partly due to the fact that there were many different systems around the world. Hopefully the downfall of the West isn't as harsh and hopefully other countries pick up what's left of it.
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@lucasribeiro7534 Yeah, I doubt war is ever gonna stop. It's probably in human nature. So ig as long as weapons of mass destruction aren't used I think we'll be aight.
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