Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "RealLifeLore" channel.

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  134.  @BasedAccountLmao  1) The indigenous groups in North America were already spread out and tiny prior to European arrival due to the many tribes rather than centralized empires of MesoAmerica. 2) That already relatively small population was devastated by plague when the Europeans arrived. 3) When the Americans emerged those tribes could often only field armies in the hundreds, and the bigger tribes in the low thousands. They were tiny. 4) Russians did MASSIVE genocide across the Siberian Steppes. Like, we know this for a fact: "After its annexation by Russia in 1697, around 100,000 of 150,000 Itelmen and Koryaks died due to infectious diseases such as smallpox, mass suicides and the mass slaughters perpetrated by the Cossacks throughout the first decades of Russian rule.[6] The genocide by the Russian Cossacks devastated the native peoples of Kamchatka and exterminated much of their population.[7][8] In addition to committing genocide, the Cossacks also devastated the wildlife by slaughtering massive numbers of animals for fur.[9] Ninety percent of the Kamchadals and half of the Vogules were killed from the 18th to 19th centuries and the rapid genocide of the indigenous population led to entire ethnic groups being entirely wiped out, with around 12 exterminated groups which could be named by Nikolai Iadrintsev as of 1882. Much of the slaughter was brought on by the Siberian fur trade.[10]" The only time in US history were such depopulation occurred was during the California Genocide of Native peoples. The US drive west was almost uniformly ethnic cleansing via kicking the Natives out of their land or forcing them into reservations where they're forcefully assimilated. Terrible, but the Russians then and now attempts at Russification which is literally cultural genocide and actual genocide makes the Americans look like saints in comparison.
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  144.  @MadChad1640  "Set by the colonial powers" Hold the phone here. First of all, China is itself a colonial power. It expanded from the Huang He river and pushed its Han culture on the surrounding peoples as it expanded. It economically exploited its neighbors via a tributary system. That's the first thing. Secondly, the issues in the South China Sea has much less to do with the years of European colonialism than it does with China's own imperialism via revanchism. Throughout all of time countries had different borders which "intrude" on modern borders. The reasonable thing is for people to let go of the past to look to the future; but China decided to ignore that to claim old territory via aggressively setting up military bases in what was considered international waters. That's REALLY aggressive. And these directly threaten everyone who relies on those waters; how is this "set up" by other powers? This is literally all Chinese actions. Did the "colonial powers" force China to build those bases in international waters? Did it force China to ram Philippines and Vietnamese ships? Did it aggressively talk down to these countries to not start trouble? China's literal modern borders were made by invading and conquering neighbors. It's "original" borders are in the Huang He river. Nobody is telling China to go back to that, just to respect the modern rules so that other countries don't have to fear China. Of course, big countries abuse these rules when it's their interests, the Americans have done the same, and so has China; but at some point you need to be pragmatic and see that giving lip service and not violating SOME rules goes a long way to not get everyone antsy. Look man, there is this weird tendency by the Chinese to just...dismiss everyone in this equation but the US and China. I get it; China is a big country now, but that will cause issues. I think its possible that the US will withdraw some if only out of growing isolationism at home, but just like China, the US is bound by the rules of the modern age. It can't act unilaterally as it used to, and many countries are going to push to use US power for their own ends as well. Basically; everyone has an agenda, and even the smaller countries when working together can achieve big things. Think the likes of Yugoslavia balancing itself between the US and USSR for its own benefit. Same deal, but now there are more actors that can play that game. China can't play the unilateral game. Nobody can. It needs to play the game smart, not hard. Edit: TLDR; this is all very complicated and we live in a different age. If China wants to secure its water way, a better strategy would be to subvert influence of other big countries in the Pacific instead of aggressively setting up bases. Force the other big countries to look the aggressor against innocent and friendly China. Win internationals support so that trust for China grows and its own soft power can grow.
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