Comments by "Fredinno" (@innosam123) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1.  @pababoyM2  It doesn’t take a genius to achieve enormous economic growth by dumping money into infrastructure and opening your economy to trade. Tsarist Russia also had enormous economic growth despite not really being run all that well.
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  2. Assuming current TL (Cold War curtain), that means the colony areas of the European Powers would remain (at least Central Asia and Africa), as they needed a valve to hold the large population, and there’d be a larger colonial white base to hold it together. The US was not willing to start a trade war or sanction Europe over decolonization.
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  3. wizthegod Germany was also practically bankrupt by the end of the war, unlike Britain.
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  4. There's still large genetic differences from animals in the Americas and Eurasia. Also, agriculture tends to spread slower in North-South oriented areas, as it's harder to copy agricultural techniques when climates change wherever farming technology goes.
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  5. What if Antarctica was colonized by Native peoples?
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  6. The thing is that it’s a tactic that’s generally not done due to its risk. The West has tried those sorts of paratrooper tactics enough to know that the casualty rate is extremely high if done against a decent enemy due to the difficulty of supply and the fact you’re basically encircling yourself and hoping you’ll be saved eventually. Not saying it won’t work, I’m saying that it’ll be a bloodbath.
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  7. What if Polk succeeded in his Southern Expansions?
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  8. Wouldn’t China invade Europe via Russia in this scenario? If the goals of the conflict are to destroy the other’s allies and economies rather than each other (and most likely lacking enough naval and air power to invade eg. Japan while having enough industrial capacity and people to simply pump out enough units to overwhelm any small European garrison), a surprise invasion into Europe and the Middle East by a massive Chinese army could be a tempting option. Even if the US leaves Europe militarily and has some sort of trade war over non-participation, Europe would still likely be a major trade partner of the US and be large enough economically to be a major aid to the US Alliance.
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  9. Spencer Austin Self Jesus Christ, every time. You fuckers come.
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  10. How does Egypt get so far into the malarial parts of Africa? Egypt in 1880 had quinine and other anti-Malarial drugs.
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  11. It would be interesting to see what the social effects of life extension would be- since you seem to imply it would really send these forces into overdrive and destroy society…
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  12. Lol
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  13. Augustus was kind of iffy. It was his ability to find good people to work for him and his charisma that made him a legend (see: Agrippa.)
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  14.  MeChupaUnHuevon  Well yeah, because the Turks genocided the Central Asian Iranics.
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  15. 19:55 I’ve seen you say that BC is socialist many times, and that doesn’t make any sense. If you put BC on an Electoral College-style map, BC would be a swing state. It’s voted in its centre-right party (ironically called the ‘Liberals’- it’s kind of weird) almost every election. Saying BC is socialist is like saying Virginia or Georgia is Socialist because they occasionally elect left-wing candidates. I also don’t get why the territories would stay part of Ontario. There’s not a single port that connects the two, and at the point Canada falls apart, it basically just becomes who can offer various elites in the Northern Territories more concessions. It’s kind of like Russia falling apart and losing all of Siberia to China except Chukchi for some reason. It makes no logical sense.
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  16.  @Lazer-bp9lf  Control of the Black Sea itself (not just its entrance), weakening Russia.
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  17. kankuj23 The Congo could produce Rubber without cutting off hands. Turns out though, it just wasn’t enough for the King’s liking. A fuck ton of Rubber was also made in Brazil and Malaysia, though the former needed Slave Labor.
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  18.  @timurermolenko2013  Second-biggest. Russia is the biggest.
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  19. If Stalin destroyed Russia’s belief in the future, what does that say about China and Mao?
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  20. Meta appears to be lame, but that’s partially since it’s trying to appeal to businesses, to try to get them to use VR in exchange for real spaces. I doubt it’ll be the success Facebook wants it to be, but saying it’ll be a failure that’ll destroy the industry is probably going too far.
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  21. 21:30 I noted how you made note of Fox News. Fox News is actually the only network competing with internet news right now effectively, likely by being ‘populist’ and not being complete liars. Tucker Carlson, for example, has only half the viewership of Joe Rogan, but several times that of CNN’s primetime.
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  22.  @marinuswillett6147  Canada also never subsidized the colonization of the less habitable parts of the country as much as say, Russia, as well. Also, there’s not enough people to colonize those areas. The Peace River region is relatively habitable (farming is barely possible, resources are abundant, temperatures are cold but not too extreme), but is practically empty.
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  23. What if Korea never unified under the Silla?
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  24. Is Latin America part of the West in this analysis? Because it would seem a little strange for it to not really be ‘Western’ despite failing badly in the 20th century.
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  25.  @shorewall  Japan is Asian, I think most people would agree on that. If you’re going by Western Influence, you have to put Korea and Japan in the same category...
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  26. The Moon/Mars is nowhere near to being a real force in global economies, and it’s too speculative to really know what will happen. George Friedman had the Moon in his “Next 100 Years” book, but I honestly kind of find that part pretty iffy. The Moon lacks any inherent military advantages.
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  27. Emperor R Catholic Hentai bro
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  28.  @fedcoin1602  Canada has decent geography, the issue is that it's spread out to thinly and makes it a nightmare to manage....unless you're coming from the south. Central Mexico is iffy and full of Metizos and are numerous enough that it would cause nationalist problems. Central America and the Caribbean aren't that useful from a resource standpoint, but gives it better access and integration to the rest of the world (especially Latin America). Population density is comparatively low in Central America though, so they might be able to colonize much of it with proper incentives.
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  29. You mean the Soviet Union?
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  30. What if the Ottoman Empire Survived WW1?
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  31.  @redqwertyu  Turkey already is food self-sufficient- and really, if they want the food, making an alliance with Bulgaria is good enough.
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  32.  @nooraldeen6327  You can’t reform an entire educational system overnight just by dumping money into universities and new tech hubs. It doesn’t work like that. Especially when the citizenry has not needed to do real work with the oil revenues.
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  33.  @nooraldeen6327  https://www.studyinternational.com/news/saudization-are-saudi-students-adequately-prepared-for-university/ “”Students are simply not well enough prepared in fundamental areas like writing, quantitative and analytical skills to be able to succeed in an undergraduate course,” wrote Manail Anis Ahmed in a piece published in University World News. Poor proficiency in English is also common among Saudi youth, presenting itself as another barrier to effective learning at the university level.” ““The principles of education in Saudi Arabia are strongly rooted in the teachings and values of Islam and sharia law. At the K-12 level, there is a greater emphasis placed on learning about the religion, culture and history of the country as opposed to subjects related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM),” wrote Khadija Mosaad in the Fair Observer.”
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  34. What if France’s Demographic Decline never occurred? What if Hitler never existed? What is Austria participated in the 2nd Polish Partition? What if Joan of Arc didn’t exist? What if Zealandia existed?
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  35.  @henricussilvanus4332  Because there’s not even a self-sustaining city anywhere on Earth? MIT concluded the tech needed to make Mars One sustainable didn’t exist, and it’d actually be cheaper to just bring all the food you need from Earth. Also, if there’s anything the last 2 years have taught, it’s how important trade is to the modern world.
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  36.  @marza339  Private Sector cannot print money, which spreads the pain of default across the economy (as well as making local exports more competitive). Note that the vast majority of currency in an economy is actually debt, not paper currency. If you’re printing money to pay off debt, this action itself ‘destroys’ the money from the debt (though this still will result in inflation, as the new money can be used as basis for more debt, as there’s legal and practical limits to how much debt you can hold based on how much cash you have at hand.) Note this does not justify MMT- there are consequences. Private Sector defaults are generally bankruptcy. Ie. Lehman. Not the end of the company (its assets are still technically around in Barkley’s), but it’s still not good. Bankruptcy still results in lots of economic destruction, and often of assets that would otherwise be solid (Toy’s R Us). The flip side of private default are zombie companies- kept alive only by liquidity, holding workers hostage in a dead company. Private Sector debt also includes household debt, which prevents people from spending or investing money (as well as making everyone more miserable.)
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  37. Pretty sure the high death toll of WW2 has more to do with the genocides of the combatants involved than war itself.
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  38. 5:00 Armenia merges with Georgia, Uganda merges with Tanzania?
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  39. What if Zealandia existed?
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  40. The Martial Lord of Loyalty ...Isn’t this entire timeline a what-if for an Industrialized Ancient Greece? That implies better technology than the Sub-Saharan Africans.
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  41.  The Martial Lord of Loyalty  [Citation needed] for Carthage having difficulty colonizing due to population. They colonized half of Spain between the first 2 Punic Wars. North Africa was wetter at the time and was a breadbasket, ripe for massive population growth. Also, ‘Athens’ is a bit of a misnomer by the later parts of the TL, as much as calling France ‘Paris’ is. Also, Africa is extremely disunited. Freaking Oman was able to develop a ‘empire’ on Africa’s East Coast. All the plagues in Europe were already in India. Remember that India had already been in contact with the West for millennia.
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  42.  @Newbmann  No. Chinese Tributaries were basically allowed to do what they wanted.
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  43.  @TapOnX  ...And it’s rising back up now that places like Poland and Hungary are developed, and the ghost of communism fades. The 90s were a REALLY bad and painful time for Eastern Europe, since they were haemorrhaging people and their economies had imploded with the fall of the Warsaw Pact. The fact birth rates fell would be expected .
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  44.  @timurermolenko2013  France is also partly in Europe, is it not European?
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  45. Both Shiaism and Christianity have the most aspects of Zoroastrianism. I could see a variant of either being used to create something similar. I mean, it wouldn’t be the first time Iran changed religion.
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  46.  @apathak34  Ok, I sent a link to Peter Zeiahn’s newsletter, but it didn’t go through. Basically, the Dems have lost the vast majority of both Senate and House Elections since 2000, despite having a nominal voter majority. The factions in the Democrats are far more divided than those in the Republicans, and despite a nominally higher number of voters, cannot keep everyone happy for very long. And Trump managed to catch an abnormally large # of minorities despite being “racist”. Turns out minorities aren’t oppressed classes who beat on every leftist’s whim.
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  47.  @agentc7020  Trump basically let Putin do what he wanted in Belarus and Ukraine.
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  48. King Utopus The Koreans did not lose their entire country even during the first invasion. Much of the Northwest and Southeast were still under Korean control. And what happens if they do win completely in Korea? Move into China and lose even worse.
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  49. What if Colonialism never ended?
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  50. LOL Diamond 101 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism “Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.[1][2][3][4] Characteristics central to capitalism include private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, voluntary exchange, a price system and competitive markets.[5][6] In a capitalist market economy, decision-making and investments are determined by every owner of wealth, property or production ability in financial and capital markets whereas prices and the distribution of goods and services are mainly determined by competition in goods and services markets.[7][8]” Mercantilism can exist in a capitalistic system- in fact most countries are mercantilistic to varying degrees. Rome definitely had everything in the definition (at least before the Crisis of the 3rd Century). https://www.mikeanderson.biz/2009/02/capitalism-in-roman-republic.html “As Rome grew the demand for business grew, but the nobility considered merchant activities off limits for them – it lacked dignitas. Since there was no government administration the Senate looked to the Knights to handle the business of the Republic. The first of these “businessmen” were called Publicans. They were employed by the state to manage public contracts: to collect taxes, manage mining companies, and oversee road construction. These contracts were awarded at auction and their duration was five years. During the Punic Wars Publicans built ships for the Roman Navy and equiped the Roman Army. The nobility began to covert the profits of the Knights and become involved in sea trade, until a law was passed in 218 BC forbidding Senators from owning ships with a larger capacity of more than 300 amphorae (1 amp= 6 gal). In 215 three Publican contractors were censured because they provided financing to Spanish tribes (the enemy). They scuttled their ships and sued the Republic for reimbursement for the loss. The Senate chose to utilize the Knights commercially, instead of creating a civil service, and disregarded their political claims. But the power of the Knights grew and they were able to exert great influence as a class. In 169 BC the censor Tiberius Gracchus cancelled all Publican contracts because of corruption, but the Knights rebelled and accused him of treason against the state. Tiberius was acquited, but the Knights has flexed their muscles. By the fall of the Republic there were hundreds of corporations selling shares to investors. Manufacturing and trades flourished: including furniture making, leatherwork, weaving, metalworking, stoneworking, and food processing.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMYruhJb8e0 Shows Rome had a primitive banking system. Also, Denmark has a tax to GDP ratio of 45%. Any more, and they’d actually be losing money due to the Laffer Curve. Ancient Rome? 3% wealth tax, plus a 2.5% customs tax (and other taxes, but none were higher than single digits %). They were practically Reaganistic in tax policy.
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