Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "How Geography Gave the US Power" video.

  1. The USA is what happens when you take Britain's Island diplomacy, stretch it over a continent, and also have no continent where there are significant powers to have a tie to the continental diplomacy. This is a position that will be largely untouched for likely hundreds of years more. The challenge will be whether or not it can continue its power projection as time moves on.
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  2.  @fruitella196  Yeah but it's not because of any advantage. The best thing you had was that you were hard to invade, and then you had a sea culture to make sure that you couldn't be which is more geopolitics. The USA ended up being the perfect version of Britain. Why do I say that? Take Britain and the policy, talents, etc, and expand it by millions of miles. It's island diplomacy on steroids. Tbh in reality the US controls at least half of the world itself having the whole western hemisphere as its sphere of influence even if it doesn't directly control it. And it did it while Britain was up controlling half of the world. Canada may not have been directly under the American sphere, but who's going to be more relevant to you in control? The island of your countrymen thousands of miles across the ocean, or the country who out-populates you and shares thousands of miles of border with who really Only doesn't invade anyone due more to disinterest fueled partially by lack of real reason to do so? So honestly Canada was under American domination as well in real terms. So overall the whole thing is basically that the US is just... bigger Britain without a Europe to concern itself with. That's it. Britain itself was always only partially interested in European affairs and primarily concerned more with its colonies which honestly were more economically important at least for resources of production. So honestly? Take Britain, make it the size of Europe, and then you have the US.
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  3. They don't, but at the same time it's true and why the US never had a real standing army until the cold War
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