Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Life's Greatest Mystery: Understanding Americans || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. AUSTRALIAN HERE: I went to college in America and the most fundamental way to see this is that America REACTS while others have to PLAN. America with its incredible resources with the water ways & farming coupled with some of the worlds best mineral resources allows Americans to REACT rather than plan because almost everything is in over supply to demand. On minerals Americans often forget that they have some of the richest mineral deposits every found. They might not be as large as those found in Canada and Australia but the quality of its deposits makes gives America a huge advantage. Australia (26 million people), Canada (36 million people), New Zealand (3.5 million people) might have some amazing resources (minerals, oil & ocean) but none of us has the population to take a "we'll do what we need to when we need to" approach. We have to think ahead a lot more than America and its something we don't always do well. In fact MOST of the time Australia, Canada, New Zealand..... try to operate like America and wait until they MUST do something and that gets us into some staggering trouble with things like infrastructure, water management & power grids.
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