Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "What if Teddy Roosevelt won in 1912?" video.

  1. No UN, we would have likely had at the very least mini nuclear wars between various nations (Pakistan vs India, Saudi Arabia vs Iran, etc.) Gasoline and oil would be sky high priced about 100 X due to much of the oil places being war zones. And nuclear winter would keep crop production low, making food prices high. And threat of mutual assured destruction via nukes and essentially a depression like economy of high unemployment world wide (including in all 1st world countries) would essentially give a fatalistic culture of high crime, mafioso mobster gangs, and a slightly less Mad Max world. In short, you're fucking stupid to want to sign up for that shit. UN at the very least brings nations to the negotiated table... particularly hostile nations and does so often before all out war between those nations.
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  2. Interesting... seems very American centrist... I mean seriously, one president doesn't control world events particularly at this time, when the US was rather a backwater poor country, it's only redeeming quality was it was far away from invading nations, and no nation bothered to send an armada during WI nor WWII. WWII estimates were the Japanese if they did invade mainland US, they would have gotten as far as Chicago before meeting any meaningful resistance that could be hold them back for taking DC. Likely, you would have had a few social policies perhaps social security concept sooner. That's about it. Everything else, WWI and WII would have occurred.. and in fact it would have bolstered Hoover's prospects even more so being president later on. Economic circumstances in Europe were falling apart... people were very poor and unstable economy over the 1800s and higher populations at the turn of the century made various monarchies like Russia, still in a feudalistic economic structure, and many other areas vulnerable to revolution. Teddy (while being among my favorite people from history) wouldn't have prevented nor could have prevented the robber baron and colonial nobility economics from disintegrating from their own contradictions as they did... the collapse of the various systems were in a way inevitable... when you stack up too much stupid super high like so many playing cards, there's not enough a little not stupid, skipping sticking so many cards on top, that will help it from its eventual collapse. You're acting like Teddy would have decided for the entire world after they already completed the house of cards, to make their house out of wood instead.... too late, it was already made of cards.
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