Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Explaining American Civilization" video.

It was, but it was also fairly localized, affecting the great plains, a frontier zone not being the powerhouse of US food (it's one part in a larger zone which makes the breadbasket), and thus not the whole culture. It's also notable in basically being the only famine the US has ever known.
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@Tristan Thamm Yeah fun fact: Brits ARE northwestern Germans. The nearest fraternal language with English is Dutch. And they themselves were a predominantly capitalistic sea faring empire. They were hated cousins of the Brits compared to the other silly continentals.
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@Ikkin - The fact that the US managed to lose more men in its civil war 80 years prior than the entirety of its 4 years in WW2 is an accomplishment to say the least.
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@Old Seattle Which nations believe US hegemony is good? Actually not the US and it's why its trend is increasing towards pulling out. The ones who think it good are the ones dependant on it which is western Europe minus France and Britain.
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@jacksonsmiler8028 There's a Caribbean plate IIRC
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@Khalil Mohammad Mirza Except the issue is that the real things America lacks are honestly a small portion. A temporary increase in prices as everything shifts to the resource and technologically rich American homeland would basically just be a way to pay the difference for its difference abroad. Not to mention that the USA isn't the only place America can draw from because in real terms, Canada and Mexico are basically interdependent with the USA and thus will be used even if it cuts off everyone else. Canada is extra resource rich (about as much as Russia), and Mexico is the middle tier industrial goods, thus solving 90% of all problems regarding imports, none of which were critical anyway. The real question will be lithium for batteries and silicon for chips, but those could be taken from Australia, which would almost definitely be in the American sphere anyway. An isolated America neither abandons its Anglosphone family nor its Mexican frontier zone.
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@Lando1876 Well part of it is that at that point the Spanish never had the control anyway.
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I wonder if the slaves in DR eventually became slaves in the way Janissaries are slaves
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23:45 Is the weirdest thing ever seeing all Anglophone states, Burma, Sri Lanka, and a former British colony
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@no way I don't think it even gets that either as many ancient ones are arguably even worse, and the Mongols managed to wipe out an entire civilization in Central Asia. Basically, every time a new population has moved in the other populations were wiped out, but here the US literally didn't have to try in order to do it as the population was already 90% dead before most arrived, and it was more pushing them back just due to power and population imbalance rather than outright genicidal extermination of the population with evidence to events such as "The Trail of Tears" with the creation of the reservations, and events where we have recorded the attitudes of the natives fearing losing their land, pointing to the reason that the Native Americans basically have no presence in American society is that rather than being killed off is that they were relocated into the worst lands available. And of course, this was 200 years ago compared to the thousands other populations had. As a wrap-up, I think the event that was American population replacement was much more akin to a what-if answer to "What if the Chinese invaded the nomadic horse archers rather than the other way around?" as it was the result of several wars where the Native Population would lose, but rather than the natives having the population advantage the invaders would have to simply work within, the invaders were the population steam roller to one who had just lost enough people to be outnumbered 100 to 1. Latin America is the answer to the question but with the asterisk of "What if only the army settled there after conquest without bringing a lot of women from the homeland once they finished?"
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