Comments by "Golag Is watching you" (@golagiswatchingyou2966) on "Understanding Latin America." video.

much more to do with the amount and how much presure is put on them, if you don't put any on them and tell them to be themselves and attack those that demand intergration then the results are kinda straight forward and easy to predict, i saw the current crisis coming since 2008. also it very much helps that the USA is not close to any major islamic country while supporting regimes close to europe that are the most fanatical.
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most societies were like this, though instead of the state it would be the tribal elites or family clans, from the state is just the same thing but with extra steps.
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I realy dislike Kraut not because he makes bad content perse (well kinda sometimes) but because he mixes historical truth with lies and bias to promote his political agenda, it realy shows in almost all his video's and it's a shame because he does put in the effort of some of them but due to his politics you are never sure if what he says is accurate or not. a lot of his Turkey video for example is praising the Turkish government while making fun of nationalist groups as being incompetent while in the same video praising the nationalist policies of Turkey which were even worse.
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@thewarlock539 I don't realy see that many people converting, it's more so that ever since ww2 and the cold war Europe has become very americanized in both our economy, our culture and our style of government (as in market capitalism not things like freedom of speech or gun culture) and since the USA has become a global culture it made Europe try and be more like that which is a major mistake in how european culture was created and how it clashes with other cultures. the truth is that many Europeans don't consider people outside of Europe both by culture, language and ethnicity to be true Europeans and what's weird is how people think that's suprising or not the case literaly everywhere else in the world, it honestly feels like Europeans are mostly afraid of themselves because they fear if they go down the nationalistic path again that bad things will happen which ironically leads to them trying to act opposite of that and thereby inviting the bad times that will in turn give rise to a more nationalistic response.
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only nation to have attempted interracial eugenics and it's one of the most violent places on earth, don't quite get why people love it so much.
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what genocide? you mean the USA?
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@John Blake that's what they fear, in reality it's hard to unite all of Europe into a single nation and it has problems in terms of demografics, however if they somehow did and perhaps added Russia into that then they would be a major rival towards China and the USA, which is why both sides have interest in keeping it divided. the EU right now is a bit of a mess but it's about the same as the USA was under the articles of Confederation which also was a mess, then they had their new constitution and expanded further, im not saying it is possible or likely for Europe to do the same but in the changing world and global events going on, I'm pretty sure they will attempt to federalize the EU to some degree, they already have done so on some fronts but not enough to form a coherent block with centralized power. also the leaders in the EU are very out of touch and somewhat incompetent, so while they will try for sure, if they keep the same leaders it will likely fail.
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most of south america fell to socialism and communism due to liberation theology by the USSR, most dictatorships were better than most socialist states, if the USA took out some of your leaders they were commies or close to commies and they did not do it enough otherwise south america would be way more stable.
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@sohopedeco there was a periode in Brazilian history, not sure which government it was but it was around the early 1950s where the concept of ''Democracia racial'' was being formed and supported by the government and actually encouraged interracial relationships to create a sort of ''Brazilian'' race as you can imagine this did not work out as they had hoped. granted due to Brazil not being a totalitarian dictatorship and having no strong ideological drive or single identity this failed and ironically the regime that promoted it was seen as being ''out of touch'' and in denial of ''racism'' in their society, while in reality there is always going to be racism, esspecialy in a nation like Brazil that has so many ethnic groups, it's just the nature of how this goes realy.
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@Joleyn-Joy yes and many of those germans have settled in the south of Brazil and dislike the rest of the country and the government, it's also one of the more productive places in the country, weird, makes you wonder.
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that's an interesting view to say the least, most people who support any form of pan-american idealism put forth Canada and the USA as the first step towards a North American Federation and most beyond that only put Mexico to be added to it and the most optimistic people put all of north america till panama into one giant potential federation, a sorta EU for North America both economical and political union. the reason why south america is seen as other is the fast historical differences, cultural differences, language and religeus differences, the north is protestant while the south is catholic, the north speaks english, the south spanish, the north is mostly from Northern europe or western europe with only today many hispanic groups and others. in terms of economic potential i don't see much benefit to the USA with central america, except perhaps Mexico for multiple reasons a easier to controle southern border, industry, investment, so on. but central america is full of corruption and cartels, it would basically be another iraq war but even worse and forever, investments in the billions, it's not a very great deal, with Canada it's much more easy and profitable both short and long term but controling central america does give more manpower, resources, controle and investment for many long term future. I think it's a great idea but the USA is only going to consider it if outside forces make it a good deal which is currently not the case.
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it's a bit more complicated then that, western europe is becoming a lot like South america right now, due to government policy, immigration and corruption. a big reason why south america is poor is bad property rights, if you aren't sure if you can keep your property why work hard? and if you do you could become a target for gangs and criminals, if you want to fix south america you would have to bring law and order, kinda what Bolsanaro is doing, he is a hardliner and does have a ''order by any means'' kinda mentality, it would be a disaster if the socialists get into power again.
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@maximusjackassicus3042 Bolsanaro is doing pretty well and has a good image despite what the media likes to pretend is the case, you can look up the channel ''freedom alternative'' on his monthly overview of the world for interesting comments and reflection on global politics, give shekkels to him he deserves it.
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except for the millions of slaves of course.
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@Moljo well you can kinda observe the results in the USA.
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that's kinda silly because this is not the case in Canada, the truth is that the war on drugs created the cartels which south america is haunted with for decades now, if the USA wanted to stop the Cartels, it would have to legalize many soft drugs, give addiction treatment subsidies on a national and continental scale and crack down on all drug cartels in all of america, the gun issue is very minor, it's the crime, drug and corruption epidemic that fuels this whole thing, not guns. in fact the US government itself has given arms to some criminal cartel gangs, the people with visas barely are a blimp on the radar and if they even exist it's because they get paid big time by cartels and gangs due to the obove mentioned statement.
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@thehuman2cs715 indeed, we had two worldwars because everyone on their plot of land had strong ethnic and cultural identities, the USA having dealt with pretty much any native problem and intergrating mostly European stock for most of it's history with no real enemies on the continent, it's playing on easy mode compared to the rest of the world. Though I do think that due to the expanding global identity of the USA that balkanization in the far future might be a possability, likely not ethnostates being formed but statehood identities that reject central federal authority.
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@Pan Indo-Europeanist, agnostic, Aryan supremacist Ataturk did a lot of good for Turkey, tried to turn it into a more western style nation, it's been a while since I've seen his videos (three parts now i think) but I remember Kraut saying how bad militarism was but then praises Turkey's militarism in how they retook a bunch of land they lost while also defeating the Greeks (who they tried to genocide from the rest of Anatolia btw) and ending with the UN doing a population transfer which by today's standards would be considered ethnic cleansing. it's not the actions that bothers me much, it is the hypocrisy of first saying militarism is bad, then the greeks try and expand into turkey after you know what in ww1, then praising the turks for kicking out the greeks that were left over and saying how stupid it was for greeks to try and gain more lands, it's just so weird and dishonest, esspecialy when he then looks down on the nationalism that inspired it but also praising the same additude by the turks. basically when western powers no matter what happened before to them act nationalistic it's bad, barbaric and stupid but when Turkey does it, it's smart, heroic and good and he does this over and over again in all his video's. hell he even takes the time during his video's to make 2 second cut jokes about certain semi nationalistic channels on youtube and reducing their arguments to one sentence ideas which is very dishonest and kinda cowardly, if you don't like a certain channel make a proper video about it and why.
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could it be that multicultral nations with large amounts of slaves from africa and conflicting ethnic groups would fair worse than western and hegemonic populations with a single ethnic identity and culture? naw that can't be right, clearly this is just racist and white supremacy nonsense, otherwise Europe would be doing worse after mass migration and this would not be the case anywhere else where this is the case.
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Kartik Gupta DeBuNkEd! except not realy since it's a good reflection of global phenomena and it's not just that, I often make the argument that it does not matter and what point you start due to what form of natural or artificial selection presures, only that you recognize it as a reality and seek to improve it, which has been done in parts of africa but that does not mean it does not exist. the sad thing is, this rejection of simple observerable reality actually gives credit to wrong racist views while also not helping the communities of people that need it the most. but lets just continue the denial, im sure that will work, just look at the west and the rest today.
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Kartik Gupta perhaps if your ''argument'' did not need constant censorship, denial of reality and emotional arguments it could actually convince people who adhere to such views? perhaps? maybe? to me it's just childish to pretend otherwise but people just gatta have their emotional comforts i suppose, that's honestly what it looks like, I've run into this response for years and never, ever, has there been anyone who made a competent counter argument for it. it be realy nice if you be the first one.
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Kartik Gupta actually the USA has been mostly European with multiple European people's moving there but mostly drawn from English, German, Dutch and French settlers for most of it's existence and it has never been multicultural till about 1960s when more global groups came pouring in. the USA was multiethnic but it was not multicultural, ironically once this did start to happen the USA started to become more corrupt, in decline and less of an example to the rest of the world, in addition they started to chip away at their constitutional values. btw this is not an isolated US thing, the same decline, unstability, lack of trust in the society and government along with rising crime rates and corruption are common in all multicultral societies, from Indonesia, to India, to western Europe, to Iran, to Brazil because it's human nature, often times the only way multicultural state/empires can exist is through repression and authoritarianism. it is what it is but the denial of this reality is often the most dangerous part of it, since it leads to racist ideologies like believe in ''white privilage'' to blame for when the results keep coming out as negative.
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Kartik Gupta also the USA is a powerfull nation because it conquered about the same land as Russia did and genocided most of the natives, either through war or diseases, not to mention those same natives were not as technologically advanced as the americans, I don't see a lot of differences between Manifest Destiny and Lebensraum except perhaps in the former case they had a much easier time, more time and more people to draw from to expand. if you want to see how Multicultralism realy works and what you can make with it, see South America, that's true Multicultralism.
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@kingshermanii look up Liberation theology, most of south america is socialist or communist, the ones you mentioned were communist and have the highest levels of poverty and violence both from the state and criminals gangs, it's a huge problem and the counter reaction to that has been dictatorships but not realy fascism though, I can't think of any real hardline fascist leader in south america, the closest would be Venuzuwela but again that's more socialist and communist then fascist.
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@kingshermanii clearly you don't know about how many socialists, revolutionairies and KGB operatives worked in south america, communism and socialism in general are one of the biggest issues facing all of south america today and in the past, the arisocracy and military juntas/dictatorships clashed with commies and socialists exactly because they are such a common and widespread problem, you got whole rebel groups in colombia who are commies, I know this because many years ago a dutch tourist was kidnapt and brainwashed by some of said commies, im sorry but do you have commie rebels in the forests of Germany? you should read up about Liberation theology and how many churches got subverted which in turn gave political power and influence.
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@kingshermanii idk what your talking about fascism is literaly a form of socialism, as were many military juntas in some form or another, the exception to this is Chille and Brazil during their military junta but communism and communist subting groups existed for quite some time and caused a lot of damage. you don't seem to realy understand what gives rise to those military junta's and dictatorships, they don't just pop out of the ground for nothing or for fun, they rise due to a clash of far left and far right ideology often times feeding off eachother, to give an example, Cuba became communist, Venuzuwela became socialist, other nations see the spread of communism, USA gets involved starts supporting dictatorships to prevent spread of communism, other nations instal their own military junta's out of fear of becoming puppets to the USA or the USSR, communists flee into the jungles, this is not something that's that special for south america btw, this happened in asia, in africa and parts of the middle east too, that's the cold war. after the cold war some of these regimes remained, fell out of power or the socialists became less revolutionary but still corrupt and authoritarian, to say communism and socialism aren't that big a deal in south america is very wrong and is either feigning ignorance or outright lying. socialists and communists had power over large parts of south america, the junta's and dictatorships was just a way to snuff them out and they are still there btw, same in the west only less violent.
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@kingshermanii https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-SLqdhkvJo&t=292s
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@kingshermanii fascism is socialism, the leader of fascism was a former socialist and their economic policies are about the same, the only differences is that fascists/nat soc believe in the national version of socialism, socialism for the national people for the good of the people via the dictatorship, where as communists and some socialists believe in international socialism which wants to spread the world revolution and break down many national cultures, identities and elites. communists also sold land, stole from the people, also invaded other nations, also introduced price controles, rent controles, a planned economy, just like the fascists and nat-soc's did, they did still have a model of market economics but it was not capitalism, it was authoritarianism to the extreme and the government controle it all. I get why socialists who want to continue their cult of death don't want to admit that they are basically the same thing as fascism if not worse but this is nothing new, commies gonna commie. it's just so morally backrupt that's amasing they still have supporters, that's why it's like a cult.
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@kingshermanii so your saying you think slavery is a good economy model? are you for real? look clearly you don't know what your talking about and I don't care to educate you, just read some more books about the subject and throw some economic books in their as well. again commies gonna commie, if you want to add more bodies to the pile go ahead but it just makes you look realy stupid, immoral and pointless is what im saying.
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@kingshermanii read the sources in the video, read/watch about economics and history, bye bye
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@dallyh.2960 I think you don't quite understand the cultural clash it would be for the USA to attempt to well... annex basically most of central america, the people in these places aren't like people in north america, violence is common in many of their urban cities and rural places, the mentality of the people and culture is also very different from north america, it would take many generations of hard, hard work to attempt to anglo-fy those populations, if you think some of the getto's in the USA are bad, you've seen nothing yet. is it possible? well if the USA was willing to have like a Marshal Plan for central american nations on the condition of military bases, crackdown on cartels and code of law, backed by a wide support from the people there and the USA, then it's possible, again if Canada was intergrated first that could be a good stepping stone, it would set a patern and good results that other nations can see and respond to, if the USA can't even intergrate Canada what makes people think they can intergrate central america? as for Hispanic guys, if you picture the Enrico Engricias types, those are quite rare and are more likely to rob you and/or be violent then show you a good time, probably your best bet would be to go to New Mexico or Texas to find those types not Guatemala or Honduras. I once worked with a woman from Venuzuwela, very beautiful, also quite nice.
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most of the west realy.
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sounds like the west will become the new south america...
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liberation theology, look it up CIA are small fry
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@BuiltSimilarG I am, they are small fry who spend most of their time bringing in drugs, failing missions, letting the KGB steal their secrets, their nuclear blue prints, getting their asses handed to them in the bay of pigs, often times getting the best results when they just send the guns to locals to do their work for them. if your ''secret security agency'' is known by everyone to be shady, be exposed on all sorts of projects and fail many times over, that's not a very good secret agency, im just saying. compared to the KGB who set up whole networks, ideologies and subversive actions for minimal costs that destroyed whole nations the CIA are a joke and I say this as someone who deeply hates commies but gatta admit they know their espionage, a legacy the Russians still have though their reach has dulled a bit.
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@BuiltSimilarG if I don't see them coming they might but knowing them they probably fail and it would be a international scandal. I mean unless im 20 tons of pure colombian cocaine i doubt they will get me.
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doubt
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@1996koke big doubt, since many other nations often times of the same type of people and region who did become independent became dictatorships and/or fell into poverty. the biggest contribution the british gave it's colonies is it's legal code and property rights, colonies in France and Belgium were not as good due to not having those, same with the south american nations.
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@1996koke except that's not true, South Africa has british influence so does Hong Kong (till China breaks it down sadly) the system in Singapore is not much different from the british one, it has a cabinet but instead of a prime minister it has a president which is more like the USA or France, combine this with the clear property rights and it's quite western and capitalistic which is why it's so rich. the comparison towards Poland and Czech republic is kinda silly because the legacy of the USSR has been poverty, ideologically tortured populations and hatred towards Russia and the wealth that has been created there is due to economic reform and investment from the west along with many eastern european nations becoming part of NATO and the EU, their economic growth has nothing to do with the USSR, where as in the case of Singapore they just carried on for the most part from the british system with only mild reforms while maintaining property rights and just not going full commie like Vietnam or Combodia. if people in Hong Kong were singing ''rule britania'' and ''god save the queen'' as protest during the ending of the deal between the UK and China over ownership of the place then it's clear the british system has had a major positive effect and view by the people, sure it might be different for singapore to a degree but if they are just as wealthy and have the same type of system why would I expect otherwise?
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@1996koke actually yes because the USA legal system is a lot like the British one, just not a Parlement but a republic, I find this whole comparison to be just kinda silly to be honest. as for Singapore and Hong Kong I don't see much of a difference in fact Singapore with it's location right on a trade line between India and China via sea was in a much better place to become a rich nation compared to Hong Kong which was right next to a communist dictatorship. you don't need to have direct influence to guide a nation to a good path, India for example was abused far more than the people of Singapore or Hong Kong by the British and after ww2 they pretty much got their independence but did they fall back to how india used to be? no, they copied the UK legal code, Property rights and now they are doing very good, it's not something that's shamefull or bad, it's good. it's silly to say ''ohhh X specific country did not do as well as Y specific country therefor nation that ruled it before is bad'' that's just silly, nations that copied the british model in one form or another are richer and more technologically advanced then those that did not and those that are rising right now have either stopped doing it after they left or their new leadership after a period of bad times are going back to the same type of model. give me an example of a nation that copied western models in full and somehow got poorer and devolved into tyrany, cuss I can't think of one, the closest i can come up with is Russia after decades of the USSR where it collapsed and had to shift to a market economy and had a short drop in economic growth yet then it magically picked up again and not because they went back to the former USSR model, im just saying.
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@1996koke there are some differences between the UK and the USA but at the very start and throughout most of their history their cultures, languages, views and systems of government were quite the same and influenced the USA quite a bit, sure they had major differences but for about 80% they were basically the same but this is a subjective issue and with more immigration from the rest of the world this cultural identity has shifted to a large degree. I am not fully aware in what manner or ways singapore was different or how they became rich in what degree independent from the UK, I'm just saying it is very unlikely that they created a system that was not inspired or based partly on western style forms of government because all rich and advanced nations did this either copied it directly or which is likely the case with singapore combine and adapt their own system which borrows from others while retaining their own cultural and identity based sense of self. it's like the wheel, everyone invented the wheel in the same way around the same time for different reasons and in different manners but the wheel is the same no matter where it's found around the globe, likewise governments are the same if the results produce the same thing, extreme example is perhaps China where they have a totalitarian state but still the workings of capitalism to a degree to produce the wealth the regime needs to grow and remain stable and it's not sure if that will continue forever.
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