Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "The Myth of US Military Infallibility" video.
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@dansands8140
That's what literally everyone says, and rationalizes within whatever context they can.
If anything, I think looking at the United States' development points to the fact that it definitively wasn't your individual efforts or any quality of Americans that made them successful.
You just happened to get lucky, over and over and over again.
No other territory on Earth has so many geographical blessings: an enormous, interlocking system of rivers that outflow to sea. The largest contiguous piece of fertile farmland in the world. A landmass largely wiped of any real threats, courtesy of Old World diseases. Distance from any European or Asian power.
And that's just what the colonists started with.
Your power has nothing to do with the fact that you're American- your culture, values, efforts, none of it matters.
You just sit on the only landmass that's protected by two oceans and with an enormous, protected breadbasket heartland. Did you work for any of that? Did your 'good decisions' grant you that? Or was it nature, and luck?
Any culture that settled in the East Coast- Greek, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese- would have seen a similar rise to prominence. Sorry
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