Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "America is the New Rome" video.

@HackerArmy03 Actually, in ancient times that whole annihilation thing wasn't common at all, it was mostly the Romans that introduced that... It was normal for nations to negotiate terms when losing, unlike what the Romans did...
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@brianlong2334 May I ask why you prefer the Carthaginians as a equivalent to the US?
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@samuelroselli138 Not endless... Europe is propping up the dollar quite a lot. But Europe and other nations that's propping up the Dollar only have so much economic power, too much harm done to those who use it and it'll stop being used... It's already falling in popularity. But as long as the US stays somewhat responsible it's going to be a slow decline. And the US will have a lot of time to adjust.
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42:14 The US has long has less freedom then Europe now... I'm the fifties you actually used to be looked up to, with the exception of your race relations that where horrifying seen with European eyes... We've long since surpassed you there though...
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@brianlong2334 While whatif is way of with most of his analysises I do think that he's right about there being quiet a few parallels between the Roman Republic and the US. There's a lot that he's way of with though...
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@brianlong2334 I don't think that the US is a trendsetter here. The US is and Europe is struggling for different reasons. Both has issues with the use of artificial intelligence and modern technology leading to people ending up in echo chambers causing increased political polarization. But while that's legitimately threatening the US democracy it doesn't seem to do so in most of Europe. Yes, it has caused fringe groups like the ones trying to start coup recently, but those have no real political power base and remain a minority with a low amount of relevance. No, in Europe it seems like it's our demographics, our relationship with Russia and to a lesser degree China, our raw materials situation and our bureaucracy that's posing challenges. Our laws and lack of unity is making it hard to be competitive in several fields like technology, and like the US we depend on microprocessors from Taiwan, combine that with a low amount of natural resources remaining due to our long history of exploitation and that poses challenges for our competitiveness. This isn't insurmountable, but it's something we'll have to deal with. Demographically we have a aging population leading to a reduction in working age people pr pensioner. That's posing challenges that we're partially countering with increased immigration, something that while I think that is a positive has caused some tensions due to the changes being a bit too rapid for our more conservative citizens, a portion of our population that's growing as our population is aging... Although that trend of people getting more conservative with age seems to be slowing down somewhat in Europe with people staying left wing for longer. Militarily we can't rely on the US anymore and while Russia is weaker then the US they're still potentially a serious threat to most of Europe. Indeed we where lucky that they attacked Ukraine as they where among the nations in Europe most capable of repelling them. If Russia where fighting another European nation and we didn't have the backing of the US then we'd probably struggle... And since we've depended on Russian gas and Chinese goods and markets for our economies it's going to take time for us to adapt. India is a potential new market that we're trying to explore but the Indian goverment is highly nationalistic and they've historically had a lot of red tape and restrictions holding back our companies there. Africa is overtaking us all, but that's taking time, and once they do we'll stop getting new people to replace those we lose from our low population growth... The US is increasingly growing hostile, so that's a market we can't rely on. South America is a mess of left wing populists and centrist populists that just makes any kind of economic activity on the continent challenging... Asia is promising, but there we'll have to deal with China and Russia, and to a lesser degree India and Turkey as local powers that don't necessarily want our presence to grow... It's just in general a challenging geopolitical climate. Thankfully this proxy war with Russia lowers the risk of a conflict in the Arctic as Russia is being drained of resources in Ukraine... And maybe it'll open up a path to the Stans so we can start acting there. The economic woes of Turkey may change the political climate there, if it does we'll be able to act more in the Middle East and grow the economies in the southeast. Especially since Serbia seems to be warming up slightly towards the west perhaps opening up the Danube. All countries near the Danube could benefit from increased trade along that river. And so would several nations near Europe. I don't know...
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36:45 Jeez, you got the parties flipped in that comparison... It's the republicans that's populists... Yes, it's the democrats that's supporting redistribution, but redistribution is the establishment value (look at the US in the 70s as a example)... And if there's any party that's hostile towards basic democratic principles it's the republicans... I'm European by the way...
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@soul-heart No. Yes, the US and UK has a lot of influence due to the English language. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the world following in the negative fotsteps of the US, and we're just not. Regarding birthrate, the US had a high enough birth rate to keep the population stable without migration as late as 2009, and you're still more then high enough to easily replace the losses with migration. Malta had 1,13 births pe.woman in 2020, in the same year the US was at 1,64. And enough women still remember families with multiple siblings for a fertility increase to still be achievable with measures like subsidized daycare centers, increased unionization to give US workers negotiation power in order to raise wages etc... This can be turned around for the US. As for the illegal immigration, it's mainly there because passing the border legally both for migration and to commute to work has become harder. But migration has been falling recently. Mexico has more jobs then in the past, and crossing into the US just isn't worth all of the racism and discrimination anymore. That migration wasn't undercutting the US, it was enabling economic growth. Wages where low not because of migration but because of anti-union laws from Regan and onwards. As for the bureaucracy, it's not a issue of it being "slothful" but underfunded, and working with poorly designed laws due to the US electoral system and outdated constitution... The dependence on eastern Asia isn't really a problem in my view, the dependence on China might be however because of the course they've decided to take...
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23:00 Americans the best engineers? Highly debatable to put it mildly...
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40:31 Sorry, but your right wing bias really is blinding you here... We're seeing the same slide into authoritarianism, but it's the political right that's been pushing in that direction for years now... And it's the republican party that's easiest for a antidemocratic populist to take control over...
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41:41 Traditional values of "freedom". The US was built on inequality and indeed slavery from the very start, freedom in the US probably peaked in the seventies to nineties and has been going down since 9/11, starting with the "war against terror" launched by Bush...
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End of video comment... Okay, so a lot of your video and overall higher level ideas are actually relatively sound. But some of the things you're saying is also a reach. And your leting your political biases and confirmation bias colour the conclusions you're making. Things are far more complicated on both ends then your analysis is trying to portray. And you end up with essentially the exact opposite conclusions in some cases of what reality suggests, actively encouraging people towards the very populists that you think that you're warning people against... Your whole idea of civilizational values is also off and making huge assumptions that's just plain wrong... Don't get me wrong, there's a kernel of truth here and there in your work. But you're adding so much more to it in your various videos that you end up leading people astray and becoming one of those very populist you're warning against. There's even a element of demagogy in there although you're at least trying to base your work on some real history and analysis.
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24:16 Quakers religious fanatics?
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28:30 Oh the US definitely interferes quite a bit in the politics of other nations. More so during the cold war then now. But even Biden and Trump did so, though granted, at a much smaller scale...
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