Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "The Future of Europe." video.

  1. Well no Americans fundamentally have the same problem. And I imagine it's not very different between the UK and Canada either. The UK proper suffers the least from this due to pure proximity but still exemplifies this in its old attitudes where it effectively said "Those silly continentals are at it again" until one gets too powerful. Each of these places are effectively islands completely removed from nearly any threats and events happening literally an ocean away. History doesn't happen to you when you've got huge barriers separating you from everybody else. History happens far away.
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  2. Yeah...i don't think it's possible to avoid it with the threat of deindustrialization
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  3. Yeah I still don't buy the Europeans becoming Americans because what's absolutely insane is that the dominance has spread into basically all parts of Asia as well but you don't see that as a basis for them becoming American satellite states. The reality is that the Anglo-American coalition has dominated the world for about 300 years and has caused tremendous effects on literally every single country on earth. Africa still speaks majority English because of this domination. And of course just because hard power declines doesn't mean soft power does. The Anglosphere dominates most of the world in a cultural sense still and is carried by the fact that they spread their language via commerce and conquest for the entirety of what created the base of the current era. I think you're reading a bit too much into the American cultural domination without realizing it. And on top of that the Americans pulling out of Europe also comes with the historical idea of basically telling Europe to fuck off and the Americans focusing on its own neighborhood. Leaving Europe to just go die seems honestly more likely than the Americans genuinely caring about Europe returning to the history it had before 1945. Especially with France and Poland in effect having their own empires. And without a lot of the actual conflict which characterized the Greek City states it just doesn't really work. Finally the biggest thing is that Europe is a collection of very strong identities and multiple people groups in a way that Greece never really was. It just doesn't seem right. You can still learn Greek and understand the thoughts of the ancient Greeks. You have to Learn variants of German, old French, and Latin to learn anything about Western Europe and still won't learn anything about eastern or northern Europe. It just is missing too many pieces in my opinion.
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  4. Well no France basically uses Germany as free money they'd be unable to get otherwise but they're mostly self-sufficient and get the really important stuff from places like their colonies. Also just as a factor of distance lots of population crossing happens and just pure movement of peoples can cause those numbers even though in real terms they're actually nothing. A truck driving and making a delivery makes for a trade number but that doesn't say anything about how connected their industries are.
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