Comments by "ScholaroftheWorld " (@scholaroftheworldalternatehist) on "Explaining the Borders of the 22nd Century" video.

  1. Lol yes. This is like a Englishman writing an article in 1922 proclaiming an eternal British empire
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  2. I disagree that African nations will collapse. External powers will have an interest in preserving the countries. For example in the Biafran War Britain supported Nigeria to maintain access to oil fields
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  3.  dihvocfoscocudvyvdd  The US will still be a formidable economic power, I just don't think it'll be the world police in a 100 years. China and India should be sufficiently advanced by then that the weight of power shifts back to Eurasia, as was for most of human history. The US will most likely retreat to its defensible borders.
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  4. 3:33 "The US will likely be going through a golden age at mid-century" I find this unlikely for one reason - by mid-century America itself will face a identity crisis as whites becomes an official plurality rather than majority. Race stratification is America's eternal curse and I doubt things will get better or stable by that time.
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  5.  @SciRuler  He says that the US will become the "next Roman empire" while ignoring that the US only has 4% of the world population (compared to a fifth of the world being Roman) and racial demographics will drastically change by end century (much more non-white).
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  6.  @Whatareyoudoinnhere  Actually an American in 1925 probably had poor knowledge of the outside world since we had returned to isolationism. Also the 20s were the "good times" and before the Depression I think war and conflict would be the last thing on their minds.
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  7. Lol Africans fight civil wars. Interstate wars are the exception
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  8.  @JL-ti3us  You do, too. Botswana didn't exist before 1966. South Africa has 30x the people, if anything Botswana will become a part of South Africa rather than the other way around.
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  9.  @iattacku2773  Yep. Remember, it was the Great Depression that lead to a wave of fascism in Europe. It just takes a severe economic crisis for nationalism to rise again.
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  10.  @JL-ti3us  If South Africa collapses, Botswana is not far behind. Let's not pretend its economy is independent of South Africa's.
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