Comments by "" (@theylied1776) on "The Collapse of Russia's Navy: The Four Seas Problem || Peter Zeihan" video.

It's funny when you said the French can't build a canal. Even though this is not what you meant. For those who don't know, the French tried to build the Panama Canal and failed! Then the United States stepped in and said Hold My Beer.
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@esotericcommonsense6366Yep! But the Panama Canal was an engineering challenge. The Suez was not a challenge at all. The terrain was flat. With enough time, manpower, and funding anyone could have done that. In Panama, you had to deal with disease, bandits, and mountainous terrain. First, the United States sent in the Army to deal with the lawlessness. Then they sent in doctors to control the disease. Then the engineers were sent in. The French gave up after they were attacked. As someone said, "another example of PZ and his fanboys being historically illiterate".
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@kenashimame I'm not going to embarrass you, but you need to read my original comment again. It will clear something up for you.
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@careylymanjones that's pretty much what I told another commenter. First, the United States sent in the military to deal with the lawlessness and the bandits. Then they sent in the medical corps. Then they sent in the engineers.
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@gregs7562 you obviously did not read my original comment. Where I wrote... I know this is not what you meant?
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@SeattlePioneer I have to disagree, you cannot compare the building of the Suez canal with the building of the Panama canal. Building the Suez canal was easy by comparison. In Panama, the United States faced rampant malaria, bandits, rebels, and mountainous terrain.
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@SeattlePioneer You might want to check the date. The United States took over there construction on the Panama Canal in 1904. France and Europe were slightly more technologically and medically advanced than the United States in 1904. The innovation in the United States around 1904 were radio, television, cars, electronics, and aviation. It wasn't until the breakout of World War 1 that forced the United States to go on an innovation boom. The United States had a different way of doing things. This is why Theodore Roosevelt sent the military in first to deal with the security threat in Panama. Then the medical Corps and then the engineers.
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