Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Can a Volcano Destroy the World?" video.

+You'reInMySpot The US and Germany are only the most charitable nations in absolute numbers, if you go money spent pr citizen they both look a bit worse. Mind you, they're still on the high side, just not at the actual top anymore.
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You didn't mention that the death toll of that Icelandic eruption actually is estimated to be 6 millions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanic_eruptions_by_death_toll And then there's volcanic eruptions on a even greater scale like the one that began dividing Europe and the US...
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+ToldYouSo The majority of your nuclear arsenal lies within the area impacted by this volcano. The same applies to a majority of your military resources. You'd still have a decent sized navy afterwards but that's about it... You'd be in no position to invade anyone, at most you could ensure safe passage for your refugees to the shores of another country and protect the US from being invaded by anyone else who does not already have a land border with you. And since Canada would essentially be destroyed as well that only leaves Mexico as potentially able to move some troops into the US after such an event... (But honestly all of South and Central America would also be affected even if it's to a lesser degree then Canada and the US so their resources would also be severely reduced...)
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Excuse me but +VintageLJ, +You'reInMySpot and +Certified Fresh Memes but what are you guys smoking? Of course most of those fleeing are refugees. Regarding economic migrants it's a case of being left to starve to death or being raped in countries around the war zone that "accept the refugees in" or continuing fleeing to Europe and the US. And regarding number 3 you really think that the problem is the refugees and not the nation they're entering when they're not being integrated? As for Americans being well educated? Jeez... I'd hire an average Syrian over an average American any day. The Syrians where well educated before the war while the American education system has been decaying for years with only the upper class private schools still holding decent standards. Also, don't fool yourself, a whole continent fleeing, Europe would shut our borders, simply because we wouldn't be able to cope with that kind of numbers, just look at what happened with Syria, and that's just a single fairly small country with a well educated and generally fairly moderate population. As for the current situation with ISIS over there, that was honestly caused by us in the west, and not by Syria somehow being all that religious to begin with... And Certified Fresh Memes, seriously, look at the states... You think they don't have plenty of local terrorists? Mindsets that puts ISIS to shame is already well represented there, the only thing keeping the US from blowing up like a barrel of gunpowder is that their economic and political stability hasn't gone down enough to trigger a civil war yet leaving just individuals who ain't cooperating too much doing relatively minor things like school shootings...
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+SkullCrusher In absolute numbers yes you do, in terms of resources pr citizen you're not really at the top however... Although that does depend a bit on your sources. The thing is, you're just as much a continent as a country, so you'd essentially have to compare to the whole of the EU to get a fair comparison since that's the only other continent that's mostly made up of first world nations... Anyway, a huge portion of the good will that the aid in question might have generated is kind of cancelled out by how the US use aid to force through US interests in negotiations essentially making a huge chunk of the aid a form of bribes... Doesn't mean that there isn't still countries who's still more willing to help you out because of that aid then they'd otherwise be. But those countries are still in a poor position to help you much and most of the countries that are in a position to help are not exactly benefiting from that aid of yours. If anything those countries often has been forced to accept unfavorable trade deals over many many years from you and mainly support you as a lesser evil compared to others...
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