Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "The United Kingdom, After America || Peter Zeihan" video.

@warfarenotwarfair5655 That doesn't make any sense. The USA has a voluntary military now, so what's your point? Everyone who doesn't enlist is avoiding military service? Yet your fearless leader says that anyone who served and lost his life fighting tyranny was a "loser".
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@mossing234 Also somewhat positive on Argentina, although I don't see anything in Argentina's future that I don't see in Chile's horrible past under the influence of the Chicago school of economic misery.
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At the time of the American Revolution approximately ten percent of the US population was German. That is the reason English was not established as the official language. During the American Revolution more Continental Soldiers died in British prison ships harbored in the Hudson Bay than on the battlefield. Probably due to the love and kindness of the Empire for it's "kid". Today the largest ethnic group in the USA is German. For you to think that the USA is a scion of Great Britain as opposed to a radial rebuttal of everything it represented is a ludicrous example of megalomania. The USA had more to do with the shaping of the UK than the opposite. What is hard to understand about an undeserving people having their asses saved twice by a former colony that they abused? The biggest mistake the USA ever made was entering WW1. If the Americans had allowed the Germans to win after Russia collapsed: no Hitler, no WW2, no extermination of Jews and probably Ukranians, and an end result quite like the EU today anyway. Stupid, Stupid decision. But it did prove Edward Bernays theories about the processes of influencing the masses on an unconscious level when his Council on Foreign Relations turned America from firmly antiwar to prowar in a matter of months.
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It doesn't matter how many times you say the USA is an empire -- it isn't and never was. It just means you don't know what an empire is or have a skewed view of history.
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@e4arakon That's one way of looking at it: the wrong way.
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Good move.
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If you ever had a serious talk with one of the Plymouth Brethren you wouldn't say that. I hear they still burn witches in their minds.
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That is a shame.
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@lemdixon01 The USA is certainly a hegemony but certainly not an empire. The reason that German is not the official American language is because THERE IS NO OFFICIAL AMERICAN LANGUAGE. And that is because of the reason I just told you. The USA is a constitutional republic. Protectorates are not a part of that republic unless they become states. In colonial America France owned as much of the continent if not more than Britain. Hardly matters now outside of Quebec. The fact that the colonies that revolted against the British were established and governed by the British is near meaningless today. About 10% of Americans have any UK genetics.
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@lemdixon01 The meaning of empire is somewhat polymorphic. To me the defining characteristic is tribute. To you it is apparently influence. There is a huge difference between the actions of the British Empire and it's various militarized proxies and the actions and influence of the USA. You keep referring to matters that I already addressed. At the time of the Revolution about ten percent of the people in the American British colonies were German. Most German immigrants were not Amish or "PA Dutch". Only ten percent of the colonists were active in the Revolution. Most sat on the sidelines some actually rose up an slaughtered their pro revolutionary neighbors. At one time the USA accepted all immigration of a very poor Ireland. Do you think these immigrants held American values upon arrival? The USA will never lose it's identity because it's identity is largely based on future prospects as opposed to contrived historic stories. So many Brits love to move to the USA, not because it is like the UK, but because it is different. The pomp and class delusions of the British upper class is enough to make anyone want to leave instead of continually feeling like they have to throw up.
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@jackholloway1 According to the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy in 2012, "German-Americans make up the largest self-reported ancestry group within the United States.
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@jackholloway1 Most people know who their family is so in this case unlike in dietary studies self-reported is not garbage just because you think so.
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@jackholloway1 Look first of all nobody has done a DNA test of the US population. Other than samples here and there. Test in south east Ohio or south central PA and it will be overwhelmingly German. In fact whole swaths of the USA spoke German until the generation that fought in WW2. Test in Boston and it is probably English/Irish. Secondly it is much more likely that a person of German descent thinks they are British then the opposite because their Great Great granddaddy changed the name form Schmidt to Smith during the first WW.
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@tina-g4h Well if we do not count the initial European ventures into North America: which were Nordic, who are Germanic (I guess if you get right down to it, the majority of the British at the time were also Germanic) and since their settlements did not persist we will not count them. But even so, the British were not really here that much longer, but more numerous until later. https://www.loc.gov/rr/european/imde/germchro.html But then again at the time when the first German pioneers appeared there was yet no German nation. So were they even called Germans? Or did they refer to themselves in more regional terms? My own family immigrated from a region of the Holy Roman Empire to America. They would be considered German today, but no one in my family actually ever lived in Germany. At times it was even a part of France. A year before the revolution about one third of the pop of PA was "German" (though there still was no Germany) though the total Germanic population at the time was supposed to be around a hundred K or ten percent of the total European pop in the future USA.
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@crescent4996 That would be primarily Scots from poor Appalachia. Not really that wide spread.
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@jackholloway1 We can keep going with this is you want to, but your are only going to find out that your assumptions are based on media spin and not the facts. For instance: about 300 years ago, on August 1, 1714, England's Queen Anne died. As a result, the German Elector George Louis of Hanover was proclaimed king of Great Britain in absentia. He was the only possible heir to the throne, and the first German to ascend an English throne. The German king did not set foot on English soil until two months after his proclamation and was crowned King George I on October 20, 1714. His grandson George III was the first in the line of German kings to be born in England, with English being his first language. He married the German Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The couple had 15 children. In 1837, George IV's niece Victoria, who also had a partly German bloodline, was crowned. She married her cousin, the German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Queen Victoria died in 1901, succeeded by her eldest son Edward VII, the first English king from the German dynasty of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha. To make the name easier to pronounce for the English, the house was renamed Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Just a few years later, in 1910, his son George V became king. He was married to Maria von Teck, who also had German blood, and who became known as Queen Mary. In 1917, George V decided to change the German family name to Windsor. George also renounced all German titles, as did his cousin Ludwig von Battenberg, who renamed his family Mountbatten. Queen Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, came from this family. The mother of Queen Elizabeth II was British, so she was only partly of German descent. Her husband Philip, however, had predominantly German ancestors and spoke fluent German. In 1947, he became a British citizen and, shortly before his marriage to Elizabeth, relinquished his German title of nobility and called himself only "Mountbatten." Their eldest son, the new King Charles III, has a bloodline made up of roughly half German ancestors. So it is no wonder that genetic tests cannot distinguish between Germans and English: Even the King is half German, and many of the British royals before him were entirely German.
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You don't need real leaders. The leaders are the problem. More precisely: how the leaders are chosen is the problem.
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..."worked on the principle of Commerce, Education, and civilisation.". . . That is the rationalization. You done drunk the koolaid. Hundreds of thousands of machine gunned natives with spears in their hand would tend to disagree with that outlook. Then again perhaps you mean something different form civilization by "civilisation"?
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Maybe they would demand that the British banks like HSBC stop laundering cartel money. That would be a good start.
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Indeed: why not discuss the laundering of cartel money by British bank?
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@crescent4996 Success in a free market is distinct from military coercion. Of course when dealing with ideas in someone's head, all concepts are sort of fungible if accuracy is not a concern.
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Well put.
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If you call systemic corruption a system, then I guess there is a good chance of it. Power concentrates and it corrupts (not just aphorism: scientific fact) and until the methods of choosing leaders enters the 21st century that's what it will stay.
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You think the USA doesn't have nukes in space? In space, on the ground, under the ground, on the water, under the water, in the air: nukes are everywhere.
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What the hell is a "heritage American"? About ten percent of the pop of the USA genetics from the whole of the UK. The largest ethnic group in America is German. You can consider yourself a can opener if you want to, just as meaningful.
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You mean you thought the USA had a queen? Sheltered life -- I guess.
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