A European friend was telling me that as far as geographics and region of the world, the USA has it on hello kitty easy mode basically. He said that as far as geographical threats, the USA doesn't have any. Canada isn't going to harm you and neither is Mexico. USA also apparently had the advantage of sort of starting all at the same time. Whereas Europe's history is long, bloody, full of grudges and the people are too different now to ever be "united". What do you think? In the USA, did we truly get dealt a great hand? A point he made was that if life were a video game, they would have nerfed / rebalanced the USA starting zone which I thought was a funny way to put it. But it made sense I guess. I don't really see it that way but I understood what he was trying to say. Another point he made was that the closer you are to Russia or China geographically, the more ass your country becomes for some reason. How true is that?
>>544336194>In the USA, did we truly get dealt a great hand?i mean yes obviously? even the paltry native civilizations that could've somewhat slowed down expansion to the great plains and woods such as the misssissppians collapsed because of contact with the spanish before brit settlers got west of the appalachians
>Another point he made was that the closer you are to Russia or China geographically, the more ass your country becomes for some reason.Russia and China are near each other so it makes sense, but Japan is near both and Finland is nice too.
>>544336374But Europe had centuries of a head start, whereas America was wilderness 400 years ago.
>>544336469I always thought the big issue was that Europe is so varied that it makes working together basically impossible in a "united" sense. Like to me, I am from east coast USA. If I go to the west coast, I can basically eat all the same foods I eat right now and it wouldn't even be hard to do so. If I go to the south, all of our words are very similar and we all speak the same language etc. Accents may differ. Whereas in Europe, if a Polish person goes to Great Britain, they wouldn't instantly be able to communicate with people there without using English etc. I think many European countries have really rough histories with each other too. Like I don't know how much Polish people and German people dig each other.
anon, this is very basic polysci 100 level knowledge. If you ever took an IR class, you would be expected to just understand this basic strategic thinking, along with other things.It's like taking a freshman compsci class and not knowing what a for loop is. People would just assume that you aren't serious and you don't belong here.
>>544336194US was already rising as a world power before WW2. WW2 pretty much cemented American global hegemony simply due to the fact that America was the only industrialized country with its industrial base left intact.It's really hard to overstate just how big of a lead the US started off at considering this. Over the many decades we pretty much threw this lead away with many ill-advised wars and interventions. Only around 80 years since the end of WW2 and we're already burning out. It's truly unfathomable.
>>544336194YesWe are surrounded by friendly nations, have a wealth of natural resources, plenty of navigable rivers, plenty of some of the richest arable lands on the planet, and after WW2 we were the financial center of the world.We've had it so easy that our ruling class has become content doing nothing, or dealing with complete non-issues such as culture war drama slop.But that's about to end as our debt, and political reputation begin to weigh down on us.
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>>544336194Yes and we should be farther ahead even but fucked it up.
>>544336194Bro, we got tutorial difficulty in the New World.And we still messed up.
>>544336374Mexico is probably the only country that was handed a hard hand in the New World. Dominican Republic also had a tough time due to Haiti.Everybody else, from Argentina to Canada, Brazil to Alaska, has no excuse.We have no excuse. None.This continent was meant to be heaven. Instead, all of us fucked up. Even the USA did.>30 crime-ridden corrupt shitholes>failed economies that are so bizarre they are a meme>unecessary 10 million immigrant invasion from across the world because things were too easy>unecessary global empire and needless tyranny against your own domestic population
>>544336194>He said that as far as geographical threats, the USA doesn't have any. Canada isn't going to harm you and neither is Mexico.Nonsense. Mexico has done irreparable harm to the United States. It has been our downfall. That they can't pose a military threat is not the measure of threathood. We'd be better off if they were a strong military power. What we face from Mexico has always been worse: A wild semi-anarchic chaos zone of banditos that routinely spills over our border. At least if Mexico were a serious country with a serious military it would have a secure border.
>>544336469The United States, as a nation, did not "start from scratch" when it gained independence; it inherited a vast body of accumulated knowledge from Europe, along with an expansive territory and a very small population. In fact, some political scientists argue that one reason socialism found greater success in Europe than in the United States is precisely because the low population density and abundance of available land allowed the government to encourage the emergence of small and medium-scale agricultural producers. Since a large portion of the population owned land, the average American was more inclined to support the defense of private property. In Europe, by contrast, the situation was the opposite: a large population faced a scarcity of land, land that was, moreover, concentrated in the hands of aristocrats and large landowners, a state of affairs that fostered socialist discourse.
