British Couple Reacts to How America became a Superpower

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[@MichaelScheele]

It's not that the US wants other countries to pay the US for protection as the video states. The US would like its allies to spend more as a percentage of their GDP on defense. Members of NATO used to spend significantly more than 1% of their GDP on defense, thus contributing more to the defense of Europe. 2% is the minimum for NATO members. Only the USA, Greece, Poland, Estonia and the UK meet that minimum. Believe it or not, the US only spends around 3.5% of its GDP on defense. Peak US defense spending during the Cold War exceeded 15% of GDP.

[@jdwilmoth5968]

Yes we do want them to pay it's not the US taxpayers responsibility to foot the bill to protect these other countries that's about the dumbest comment I've ever seen

[@kevinwallis2194]

Its about paying their fair share. Many countries stopped putting money into nato at all.

[@JPMadden]

@@jdwilmoth5968 The Congressional-military-industrial complex is always eager to increase U.S. military spending and defense contractor profits. Many American taxpayers would like our NATO allies to pay their promised 2% of GDP. But I'm skeptical that the people who make the decisions in D.C. care about this. The incentives are for them to waste money, not save it. In their perfect world, NATO would be 100% funded by the U.S., and all the profits would go to the defense contractors who own Congress. Our government is a democracy only sometimes, and this isn't one of the times. They are probably a minority, but neither party represents those voters who would like military spending to be reduced. Suggesting it is perceived to be career self-destruction for a politician.

[@Adiscretefirm]

As some replies show, the issue has been reduced to a slogan and important facts twisted. There is no minimum spend, there is a goal to spend as a percentage of GDP, and that is spent on each member nations own military, not forwarded to NATO's accounts billable department. But as usual, some people have been intentionally mislead by politicians into thinking other countries "owe" the US money.

[@jdwilmoth5968]

@Big Daddy yeah I understand that so there's no other option than the US taxpayer being the world's welfare department but the rest of the world is starting to get damn heavy especially when the country is in the shape it's in now with this piece of s*** President we have But we need to worry about America first then these other countries second look at the money every year that we send to these so-called developing nations that's been around for thousands of years if they're not developed by now they're never going to be but it's all about the kickbacks why do you think creepy Joe keeps sending all this money to the Ukraine? Then out of the blue somebody from his administration makes a trip to the Ukraine right after they okay for an aid? By the time we get him out of office we will be a third world country we are already the laughing stock of the world but like I said I understand what you're saying and I don't disagree with you but I don't like it

[@csulb75]

America: A very "Super Power" and the only one in history that didn't attempt to conquer the world, or a good chunk of it. In 1948, with an arsenal of over 200 atomic bombs, America could have done so. People point to the westward expansion of the original 13 states into 50., " …from sea to shining sea". However, it was the British, French and Spanish who started this process. Most of the land west of the Mississippi River was purchased from the French much of the western states were originally under Spanish rule and later taken by America from a corrupt and politically inept Mexican military government. America is still the arsenal of democracy but the nations which shelter under that protection need to do there part as well.

[@johnnyhernandez3703]

Are you kidding me you cant believe everthing you say. There is only one reason the US gets invoved with a country and that is to steal resources. The US destroyed so many governments and economies to steal from them. So many inocent people have died all over the world caused by actions taken by the US. The US has conquered the whole world with the dollar and the military because which ever nation does not do what the US wants will be a terrorist nation.

[@fakecubed]

Yes. It was the big land purchases and the rebellions in northern Mexico that made the US into a superpower. The US is a superpower because of geography, and the resources within its borders. It would be a superpower if it had no diplomatic ties to any other nation at all, because it is self-sufficient. Vox wants to conflate the two, because they are in favor of foreign wars and entangling alliances. They actually shilled for World War 1, it's almost unbelievable.

[@mickeydooley2230]

well said

[@C0r3y_D]

America has conquered the world economically. Anyone that's been labeled as an "enemy" for the last 100 years was a country that didn't play ball with their global monetary system. Once you dig in to these things, it's impossible to not see it every time the US starts shit with another country.

[@Ishisah]

Exactly.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

I think we have to take care of our friends and allies. But I would also want our friends and allies to contribute toward their own defense. Surely it should be a joint effort. I understand that we needed to take on that burden entirely right after WW2 when Europe was so damaged both physically and economically. But that was 70 years ago, Europes economy recovered from the war long ago. Everyone needs to contribute now.🐝❤️🤗

[@jdwilmoth5968]

Why do we have to take care of them that's not our responsibility? But of course they will be our so-called friends and allies as long as we continue to be the world's welfare department

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

@@jdwilmoth5968 Decent people help their friends when they need it. Decent countries do too. Beyond that, it’s in our own best interests to keep them healthy. They are our trading partners after all. But like I said above, they need to contribute to their own defense as well, and most of them do.🐝🤗❤️

[@jdwilmoth5968]

@@deborahdanhauer8525 these are the countries are not our friends I don't know what gives you that idea but they will claim to be as long as we keep giving them all that damn money and they spend very little on their own defense most of their military equipment is American made paid for by the US taxpayer like I said enough is enough especially with a Ukraine it's time to shut them completely off like I said in my previous comment I care as much for them as they do me I don't give a damn about them

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

@@jdwilmoth5968 I absolutely believe in what Ukraine is doing. They are fighting a country that invaded them. Of course they should fight and of course we should help them. And, they are fighting with weapons and equipment from all over the western world, not just from USA. I say anything that stops Putin is a good thing. If you believe in what Putin is doing, then you like authoritarian dictators much more than I do.

[@jdwilmoth5968]

@@deborahdanhauer8525 I agree with what they're doing you got to stand up and fight but I don't agree with the way Joe Biden it keeps giving them black checks do you realize he's depleted over 1/3 of the US military stockpile of weapons sending it to the Ukraine? And they have one of the most corrupt governments in the world and you're exactly right about all these other countries sending them billions in aid where is that money going? You don't actually believe that that president of the Ukraine is putting all that money into the war against Russia do you? And the only reason that Russia invaded the Ukraine is because we have the weakest administration we probably had in our lifetime we are the laughing stock of the world you can bet your ass if Donald Trump was still in office Russia wouldn't be in the Ukraine now Russia didn't invade anybody while Donald Trump was in office but Vladimir Putin didn't have a problem invading Crimea while Obummer was President and now you may as well say Obama is running the country again and now Russia invades the Ukraine I don't have a problem with some foreign aid but it's getting out of hand especially when we are in a recession ourselves and have a 25-day supply of diesel fuel left for this country like I said it's time to stop being the world's welfare department and take care of ourselves by the time we get Joe Biden out of office we will be a third world country But you don't see any of these other countries rushing to our aid

[@Mysteryskatin]

After WWII, America was in an incredibly powerful position. The US wasn't bombed to smithereens, like the UK, Germany, the USSR, Poland, Japan, China - you name it. There were never bombers flying over Chicago, Washington, or New York - so the Americans didn't have to rebuild. (The US also had nukes, and no one else did yet. Imagine if Russia was the only country with nukes...) America also had an absolutely massive Navy during the war, and through Bretton Woods, agreed to use the Navy to protect global trade around the world. (For everyone, even enemies or potential enemies. The rise of China is due precisely because of this policy - they wouldn't have industrialized nearly as rapidly without it.) The US agreed to open up the American market, and forbade conflict among allies who participated in the system. This created the modern economic system, and lead to the most peaceful and productive period in human history. Pre-WWII, large nations generally didn't trade with other large nations to a great extent, because they were always in competition. The American system created the entire supply-chain-based economy of the modern world, where ore from Kazakhstan could be shipped to a processing plant in Europe, then sent to a semiconductor plant in Taiwan, then shipped to China to be assembled into computers to run American-coded programs, then shipped to America and the rest of the world for sale. Trade as a percentage of GDP skyrocketed, the cost of shipping goods across the ocean plummeted, ships got bigger and slower (as they didn't worry about protection) and the world rapidly developed as everyone joined in the global system. People criticize America for being the 'world police,' but the world is a much better place for America's post-WWII interventionism and globalism.

[@michaelbateman8469]

Imagine if we had gone the other way and established a Roman Empire approach.

[@GeraldWalls]

The United States is the only nation to have a massive navy because it is the only world power that REQUIRES a massive navy to project influence. All other powers have goals and worries that are addressed solely by land and air forces. Germany doesn't require a large navy. Neither does Russia or China since most of their concerns are on the Eurasian continent. China needs a brown-water navy for dealing with the Taiwan issue but only the US needs a large blue-water navy.

[@DougPowell01]

Yes, the Soviet Union was very large, geographically, eleven time zones. But there were large swaths of land with very low population.

[@theblackbear211]

I have to say, that's the first time I've seen anyone goes as far as saying McKinley "pushed" the US into the Spanish-American War.

[@johnalden5821]

Good point. It's tough to say whether he did the pushing or was himself coerced into it by political realities after congressional and popular agitation for war. One could just as easily say Theodore Roosevelt got us into the war. As assistant secretary of the Navy, he had pre-planned and positioned the naval forces well in advance of the actual war, and then advocated for the war.

[@theblackbear211]

@@johnalden5821 Yeah, well seeing that the House Vote was 311-6 and the Senate a more moderate 42-35 FOR the Declaration of War... I think that it would be fair to say that, as always, the situation had some complexities. 🙂 As for good old Teddy - he did all that, and then resigned his cabinet post to go fight in actual combat.

[@johnalden5821]

@@theblackbear211 One thing about TR: he never advocated for anything he wouldn't do himself. Which is kind of refreshing, given the slew of politicians who have volunteered everyone's else's kids for battle, both before and since.

[@theblackbear211]

@@johnalden5821 Agreed. I readily admit that on many levels, I deeply admire Teddy Roosevelt, that being one of them. Just as I find similar positive things to say of Andrew Jackson. But both men, like all humans, are complex creatures... and that's about as complex as I'm interested in getting on a light-hearted forum like this. (Since Tomes have been written on the subject matter.) 🙂

[@johnalden5821]

@@theblackbear211 Exactly.

[@cscook69]

James, the map shown was of the Soviet Union which contained more than just Russia.

[@stevedietrich8936]

That map projection makes things that are closer to the poles (Greenland and Russia for example) look far larger than they are. In reality Australia is over 3 times larger than Greenland, even though it looks smaller on that particular projection. Russia is the largest country in the world, although not nearly by the degree that it looks like on that map.

[@albertpainter4519]

Lotta people don't know that shit

[@stevedietrich8936]

@@albertpainter4519 Agreed. There are compromises when trying to display a three dimensional object in just two dimensions.

[@victorwaddell6530]

This distortion is due to Mercator Projection , which attempts to display the surface of a globe on a flat surface . The farther north and south of the Equator the more exaggerated the appearance of the Earths surface features look .

[@csulb75]

@@victorwaddell6530 You nailed it. Russia is the largest country, but may have gotten too big for its breeches.

[@BadAssSykO]

The 3 largest countries by land are, #1. Russia #2. Canada #3. United States But more than 50% of these 3 countries land isn't being used.

[@coyotelong4349]

I didn’t even know Seward had tried to purchase Iceland for the US To think we could have had a state where people speak Icelandic would be beyond cool 😅

[@scottphillips7108]

@CoyoteLong: You forgot the part about a few years back discussion during the Trump Administration of possibly purchasing it again (stopping threat of Communisms spread) [which the far left wing President flatly rejected and even tried to humiliate Trump in the process for extra bang for their smear buck...] - It's kinda hard for their lefty cause to label Trump both a Colonizer overtaking/thinking they can buy other Nations [like they claimed when Trump mentioned the possibility of buying Iceland] and in the same breath say he's a 'isolationist' who would turn America away from it's duty role defending all those locations shown in video that America has a role in to prevent the spread of Communism and claiming with the Russia hoax that Trump was a Russian stooge who supposedly wanted to hand America over to Putin his supposed puppet master... Now we have compromised by puppet master Communist China Joe Biden who stands down against China the greatest colonizing expansionist threat to the globe via it's debt trap taking over of Nations for it's planned global wide Belt & Road Initiative...

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Yeah I think it's better to make DC a state instead.

[@treyhelms5282]

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld Better to formailize DC being part of Maryland in electoral events.

[@coyotelong4349]

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld I agree that DC should be a state

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

We and Britain occupied Iceland against it's will early in WWII to keep Germany from using it.

[@norwegianblue2017]

I think this video has a good overview, but glosses over the way the US achieved such industrial might. It wasn't politics and treaties that made it a global power. Even more than its military, the unparalleled growth as industrial power and innovation in the late 1800s through the 1920s is what created such vast wealth and power.

[@claregale9011]

The industrial revolution began in Britain.

[@williamcahill2462]

@@claregale9011 mass production was born in the US, Detroit specifically. It put the industrial revolution into hyperdrive and won two world wars. I'd never disparage troops, but the US industrial power is what drove those results. The development of the P51 Mustang is a great example of each side doing what they did best. Initially underpowered in 1943, the plane was retrofitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, and it became one of the planes that won the war. RR sent the plans to the US. US auto industry engineers were expecting some blueprints and simple narratives, instead they got 10 tons of hand written documentation. The Ford and Packard engineers reviewed the docs, they created a mass production process and produced almost 100,000 of the 150,000 that were ever produced since 1936. In two years, mass production techniques had doubled the previous 8 years combined.

[@claregale9011]

@@williamcahill2462 the first mill in England was 1764 .

[@norwegianblue2017]

@@claregale9011 Ford wasn't the first ICE car, but Ford was the first to truly mass produce cars. Tesla wasn't the first electric car, but Tesla is what made electric cars what they are today. Not to say that England and other countries weren't innovative and powerful, but the US is the one that began to put things into a much larger scale of efficiency.

[@claregale9011]

@@williamcahill2462 your doing a disservice to other countries that contributed to the 2 world wars , the u.s. did not win it for the rest of the world .

[@RicardoRamirez-us7hf]

It is not easy but to many expect the US to take care of most if not all the world's disagreement while under constant attack financially. But all that aside you guy look great, Millie we all get those little drips now and then but you reaction to it was adorable. Thank you again for a great vid makes me work day easier.

[@GilaMonster971]

It’s because by treaties and NATO the USA is contractually responsible to defend 67 countries.

[@agentofchange23]

And they are obligated to pay their share and no one but the US ever has

[@halicarnassus8235]

@2:35, I guarantee you that most of us were thinking what is wrong with Him? I'm glad you cleared it up a few seconds later. Because most of us did not even care if she dripped the Pepsi, lol.

[@generalkayoss7347]

In reality, Russia/Soviet Union is not nearly as big as it looks on the map. When you turn a globe into a square, the northern and southern portions get stretched out. Canada and Greenland aren't nearly as big as they look either for this reason.

[@radioflyer68911]

Bear in mind that Vox is about as reliable as Wikipedia.

[@Lemon-hz9kl]

wikipedia is a pretty reliable source lol...

[@joanborger702]

We love you! Love from the USA ❤

[@maximillianmetscher4346]

The classic difference between America and Britain. America thinks 100years is a long time. And Britain thinks 100 miles is a long distance.

[@steveg8102]

Without watching the video but being a red blooded American im going to assume it because we eat our spinach like popeye the sailor man.

[@johnalden5821]

A very interesting and thoughtful video. A couple of other motivations, especially in the latter half of the 20th century: (1) Growing energy dependence on sources of oil in the Middle East kept the U.S. in a rivalry with the Soviets and deepened U.S. involvement in often pointless wars, lasting into this century; and (2) the relative collapse of British and French imperial capabilities forced the U.S. to rapidly step into their shoes in places like Vietnam and the Persian Gulf -- often without thinking through the implications. Both of these long-term developments meant that the U.S. essentially inherited, and then amplified, its tendency to seek control around the world. It did so in the name of combatting global communism, even when the actual conditions on the ground in many countries had more to do with trying to escape the legacy of Western imperialism. Often, during the Cold War, countries faced a bad choice between Soviet (i.e., Russian) domination and Western domination. Developing countries needed investment and independence. They often got neither.

[@drobichaud1000]

I can't even imagine having to watch endless America Is Better Than You videos all the time

[@bethany8734]

You don’t have to. Don’t watch their videos. This is what they are interested in learning about.

[@adamabel7437]

Love your channel great content. I often watch this with my children. To bring up conversations that are not normally brought up. Within the school system. I know you said your channel is not for kids. But it has been a sounding board for me and my children to discuss their points of view on things around the world. Keep up the great work. From the United States of America Ohio

[@bekah728]

I think America always looks out for itself, but as a global super power what effects others effects us.

[@tinaenglish8506]

Watch the "war of 1812", great history lees on the British and American war

[@stacyharris8725]

Yes AbSo. 💕 your channel. James talks until the sun goes down. Fav channel!!

[@Adrian75226]

América es un continente!

[@shaylablueangel]

That last section talking Trump was taken out of context a little bit. Yes, he did say that these countries have to learn how to stand up on their own two feet. He said that, because the U.S. businesses have a lot of factories over in Japan, and China, because Obama started taxing the mess out of business here in America, and also charging America a big sum to have their business in their country, so it was cheaper to have their factories those countries. It boost their economy, by using American businesses. Americans lost so many jobs because of this, because of what Obama allowed China to do. But what Trump did was lower the taxes of those businesses, and in doing that, all those businesses came back to America. So that, in turn brought the economy up in America, the highest it had even been in a very long time. The American economy was the lowest while Obama was President. So, he said that, these countries need to stand on their feet and fix their economy, because Americans were suffering. He put us first, which Obama never did. We don’t depend on other countries to raise our economy, they should do the same thing.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Businesses didn't stop leaving America after Obama though. A lot of them.left and went to Mexico. Pfft 😅

[@garyhochstetler7082]

“Wholesale slaughter of the indigenous peoples” Not exactly what happened, but I guess he can live in whatever fairytale world he wishes.

[@shawnanderson6313]

Ponytail looks great

[@MrJohnboy812]

you guys are great. keep up the good work.

[@MrDcwithrow]

This talks about how the US became the leading super power and 'arsenal of democracy', but glosses over what enabled that to happen. It comes down to two "geos", geology and geography. The US became a super power because it was blessed with vast natural resources and the two ocean isolation that left it alone to develop that wealth. The US had an abundance of nearly every natural resource that mattered, from coal, oil and iron to vast areas of farmable land and inland waterways that allowed for easy transport of goods. Its position geographically results in excellent weather for cultivation and being isolated from the rest of the world by two oceans basically guaranteed, once it developed a standing army and navy, that it could not be invaded. The geography and geology of the US allowed it to develop in relative peace and quiet while the rest of the world's nations were always looking over their shoulder at their neighbors, wondering what conflict would next consume them.

[@bedinor]

The final part of the video was cut to make it seem like Trump was anti-NATO. In reality the conversation was whether or not other nations are paying enough for their contribution to NATO. In the end, other nations started paying their fair share.

[@kimson305]

No Maga nazis in the chat

[@rwwilson21]

That and most Americans are sick and tired of The United States being the world's police(myself included).

[@kenmahoney5255]

Trump is anti democracy Anti American Sub human

[@creinicke1000]

As a Trump voter.. Trump was sick and tired of America paying the full bill and other countries not paying anything. I'm sure tired of it. Let them either pay for it or defend themselves.

[@GilaMonster971]

I am also of the opinion we (the USA) should leave NATO. The money we spend could be used on our veterans.

[@jameswoodard4304]

Also, no mention of the Marshall Plan?

[@gregbiggs7564]

Great 👍 stuff 🔥🔥 Thanks again ✌️✌️can’t wait till y’all can come Here again 👌👌🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@MrThankman360]

“Wholesale slaughter of indigenous peoples” is a hyperbolic way to explain what was happening back then. It’s far more nuanced than that. As most things in life are. The natives weren’t hunted down and exterminated.

[@josephmorneau4339]

I think the answer at the end is a bit more complicated than "no". Let's not forget that Trump pulled troops out of Syria against the wishes of Congress and was the one that signed the treaty to get America out of Afghanistan which Biden eventually went through with. He was also the first American president since Jimmy Carter (1977-1980) to not get the US involved in another war. I'm not trying to argue Trump was a great or even good president. I'm just trying to be honest about the question posed at the end in terms of whether he would follow through as President and it does seem that he did or tried to do so to some degree.

[@timedwards4455]

Trump❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Trump still didn't have the balls to get out of Afghanistan and had time to do it sooner and didn't. Also he was still sending bombs and drones to Syria.

[@TheRapnep]

Trump was both. A good president and a great president. And he'll be back, count on it. 🇺🇲

[@josephmorneau4339]

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld He was the one that signed the treaty to get us out of Afghanistan that Biden then broke by delaying the withdrawal for political reasons. We will never know if Trump would have followed through on the treaty he signed, but he did sign it. As for Syria, not only were there still drones and bombs being used there but there were also troops still there because people in the government were lying to him about it and then bragged to the press about lying to him.

[@fnaffoxy1987]

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld And yet Biden mangled the whole thing by staying far longer than Trump had agreed to, so Biden botched it and got American soldiers killed, whereas Trump was trying to do things peacefully and gracefully so that everybody could get what they wanted.

[@cdlord80]

That map of the USSR is at the height of their expansion. Russia is still a huge country but it's now less so than depicted.

[@Lords1997]

Love this video♥️

[@MarkFaust]

Maps are distorted in the North to show countries larger than they really are. They are increased in size when looking at a normal 1 dimensional picture, but when you look at the their actual size on the globe you see the actual size.

[@FuzzyMarineVet]

It helps to have a couple of ocean-wide moats and some friendly neighbors on your borders.

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

Mexico has only been friendly since 1920's or so.

[@kw11b2p]

Can you post the link to the original video

[@bodombeastmode]

You guys really need to learn about the Mercator projection.

[@kdm71291]

Ultimately....balance, in all things!

[@Tam58851520]

IMHO America is what it is because of freedom and our pursuit of freedom - period. We had so many highly motivated and entrepreneurial people from all over the world. They were stuck in places that wouldn't allow them to prosper. These hard working independent entrepreneurs built what we have. The resulting economic growth is what made the "purchases" and our military possible. As to your question the answer is both. We need to maintain our relationships, but they also need pay a "fair" share.

[@cstains5543]

This is flat out wrong about pre World War I American development. It wasn't DC that drove early expansion in the 1880s through the 1910s. It was Wall Street, the robber barons, and the newspaper empire built by William Randolph Hearst. The financial sector and the newspapers of Hearst championed getting involved in foreign affairs and they backed American politicians who wanted to follow through with those ideas. In fact the Hearst newspaper empire pretty much generated the case for War with Spain in 1898 based on an unfinished investigation of the destruction of the Battleship Maine in Havana port. If anything President McKinley was pushed into a war by Hearst and the industrial tycoons of that era as they had the real driving power behind the nation at that time. Furthermore the reason the US wanted many of it's Pacific territories was because they wanted to be able to protect US citizens and trade overseas in Asia which required coaling stations to supply the modern navy with fuel and supplies. It was because the United States citizens and investments in Asia that had come under danger in local riots and incidents that they went hard after those islands. Because with those islands the US military could protect both American citizens abroad as well as American interests.

[@mehicanbls1526]

Creation of the federal reserve in 1913 is a catalyst to many of these issues

[@cstains5543]

@@mehicanbls1526 Yes, the Federal Reserve is an important development. But it was well after most of the early overseas expansions occurred. A second phase development, not first phase which was my point. The characterization of the foreign policy situation as stemming from Washington DC in the 1880s through the early part of the 1900s is wrong. It is not that this never changed, it just was not where or how things began as far as US overseas expansion.

[@JPMadden]

The creation of the United Nations during WW2, as well as financial institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), were led by the UK as well as the U.S. The UK was financially devastated by the war's end and could no longer afford a massive Royal Navy, so the U.S. Navy took over the job of "global policeman." But London remains one of the global centers of finance and banking. I think I read somewhere that by total dollars or pounds sterling, London is still number one in the world, and New York City is number two.

[@williamboyer8294]

You're good I got a hole in my lip too 😆 I do that all the time

[@PerthTowne]

I''m not usually interested in videos that concentrate on military subjects. I'll usually skip those. But this video was very interesting because it wasn't just a show of military equipment. It actually explained the history of the deep military involvement of the US in the world, and it was well done.

[@Seastallion]

It covers WHAT was done, but not How it was possible for the US to do it (besides the brief bit about the American economy following WWII), and it glosses over Why the US made the strategic choices it did. Brettonwoods was much more than just the creation of some international financial institutions. It was literally a BRIBE to buy up an Alliance against the Soviets by the US putting itself at a disadvantage economically and militarily. It's precisely why the Korean & Vietnam wars were fought, in order to honor & maintain the Agreement, and also why the off-shoring of American industry was tolerated. It all went back to Brettonwoods.

[@PerthTowne]

@@Seastallion That's extremely interesting, but I don't know if a brief video like this would go into all of that detail. They probably need a video just on Brettonwoods. But my point is, at least it wasn't one of those videos I've seen a lot of reactors do lately that are just US military hardware on parade. I don't get the appeal of that.

[@TheRapnep]

@@PerthTowne You would if it were your country. Just a show of pride, not showing off. 🇺🇸

[@PerthTowne]

@@TheRapnep It is my country. I'm just not interested in looking at military hardware.

[@LordGertz]

Russia had claims all they way down to half of California. But their footprint was mainly fur trappers and fur traders and a small settlement in Alaska.

[@anthony.pritchard2831]

The US should not withdraw, cannot withdraw. However, the US can no longer shoulder the majority of the cost of NATO and the UN. Other nations 'must' be forced to pay up as well, we, the US, cannot afford to be the one shouldering the majority of the costs. This was President Trump's major complaint.

[@marcos3497]

You need more tact than a Neanderthal when dealing with that.

[@johnalden5821]

Western Europeans are looking at a winter with reduced and more costly access to energy supplies -- particularly natural gas. They are facing major inflation (as we are) in large part because they are standing up to Russian aggression on their doorstep. We need a more up-to-date calculation of who is bearing the costs of defending freedom. It isn't just us, or even mostly us. Trump never understood the positions of Allies, because he never tried to.

[@fnaffoxy1987]

@@johnalden5821 Trump was arguing that years before any of this current stuff causing those financial problems. Trump perfectly understood the situation.

[@fnaffoxy1987]

@@marcos3497 Personally, I prefer speaking bluntly, aka telling the truth, over sugar-coating everything, aka telling you what you want to hear and not telling you what you don't want.

[@marcos3497]

@@fnaffoxy1987 Hopefully, you don't have aspirations to be a diplomat. Speaking bluntly also has no inherent correlation with telling the truth. Finally, having glanced at what you said to John, that guy didn't understand Jack Schidt. He did even more than even Bush to squander our position in the world.

[@ValaShen]

Let's not forget, all that free labor the country stood upon was a good head start. >_>

[@HemlockRidge]

When the Russians were in Alaska, they enslaved the Aleut/Unangan tribes to do the dirty work of seal harvesting. They were brutal. starving and torturing the Indians, if one died they just grabbed another. The narrator is to be taken with a grain of salt. He is obviously a history revisionist.

[@invizz0ninja]

What Trump was saying was, countries can’t always depend on the US for defense all the time. They need to contribute to their own defense too.

[@snakeeyes8777]

You guys gotta react to the oversimplified American civil war

[@robertlewis1290]

Trump did not try to eliminate NATO or other military allegiances. He asked members of NATO to increase their own military budgets to alleviate some costs that the United States were bearing. Russia is not as big as the red blot on the map, that is the Soviet Union (Russia and its satellite nations in the Warsaw Pact.

[@markkringle9144]

The US was also a member of SATO south asian treaty organization, which is how the US ended up in Vietnam after the French got crushed there. Thankfully, SATO no longer exists.

[@richardmiller7018]

You should the War Factorys of WWII

[@ViolentKisses87]

Also remember the War of 1812 AKA America's second revolution.

[@michaelgonzalez6295]

Our rise & growth came from the luck of geography and relative isolation from the world stage. We first lucked out because we did not waste money in the European wars of the 1800s. After 1820, European nations could only come from the Pacific Ocean to establish colonies. From the Atlantic would start a war with Canada (and the UK !), the US or Mexico. Mexico simply did not have enough people to expand north faster. The same with Canada and the UK was having more much profit from India than attempting to expand south from Canada.

[@stacyharris8725]

I'm Sozzy James...... That was mean.. But true.. I luv my Brit & UK Peeps! America mother land!

[@kw11b2p]

America's geographic isolation with respect to Europe and it's natural resources are the most simple explanation for it's military dominance. Add the worlds third largest population and fourth largest physical size on top of National pride like no other in the world and there you have it

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

And yet, to my knowledge, the UN has been substantially unable to stop a single military conflict and seems unable to even agree on the simple take over of other countries and would rather talk things to death than take any real decisive action. So, they leave it to the US to do what the UN can't seem to do (with not much better results).

[@jimgreen5788]

Millie, he doesn't talk for 4 hours. I don't think he's ever talked more than 3. LOL We've owned Alaska since 1867, but it didn't become a state until 1959--within a few months of Hawaii. Although he called them the American Virgin Islands, they're actually the U.S. Virgin Islands, with the nearest British Virgin Island just a few miles away. What you're seeing at 7:26, James, is the Soviet Union, which was composed of Russia and 14 republics, which became separate countries back in the '90s: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, and Armenia. The loss of these 14 countries' territories substantially shrank it from what's shown above, losing territory 93% the size of the USA. Another reason for backing Israel is that the US has more Jewish citizens than any other, including Israel.

[@bigbake132]

Europe needs to do more to protect their own continent though. Most of them don't contribute to NATO and the US spend billions protecting Europe without any compensation. Its not fair to us.

[@jimwyatt8386]

If they had to pay more for their own defense, they could not afford all the social programs they hold over our head as being superior to us.

[@rg20322]

Totally agree with this statement.

[@bigbake132]

@@cygnusx-3217 Russia obviously. Also Serbia needs to be kept in check. North Africa needs to be stable so they can't launch terrorist attacks on Europe.

[@jimwyatt8386]

@@cygnusx-3217, ask Ukraine.

[@bigbake132]

@@cygnusx-3217 Russian aggression has to do with it. You must be a Russian bot, I've seen you post on these kinds of videos all the time about Russia.

[@byrondaniel4410]

Dude really can't stop saying smash a one button or the other

[@gjjk84]

It’s ok. You can admit that you do American videos because America is just the best. 😉😎

[@anthonyfuqua6988]

People do videos on America because they get the most views.

[@codygates7418]

Cuba, Panama, Honduras, and Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic’s governments were basically directly controlled by the US government. Liberia was also a colony in Africa and was not “scrambled” by European powers because the United States threatened war. Liberia, Panama, and Cuba all declared war on the Central and Axis Powers in both WW1 and WW2 respectively after the United States did. They were basically all protectorates/client states. Japan was also occupied for 8 years after WW2 and made huge economic progress with the United States help. Before the Spanish-American war the American public as a whole despised the idea of the United States becoming as colonial power and instead wanted to be left out of European affairs. While it’s never been confirmed many believe the USS Maine was either told to go to a specific location where the government knew there were mines or that the US government blew it up themselves. Either way this tragedy swung the American publics opinion on getting involved with Spain thinking they blew it up (it has never been confirmed who did it or if the ship just floated over them). As for the end the videos definitely has a left leaning political bias. Trump didn’t want to “stop” helping these countries he wanted them to help themselves. He (as well as most of the American public) are pretty tired of sending our money over to some countries that won’t even give it back. I literally just takes advantage of our systems so Trump told them they had to put their fair share into it. The UK and I believe Germany (I co be leaving a few countries out) were some of the only countries besides the US to put spending into NATO. From what I’ve heard from Americans around me most want to go back into somewhat“isolation” like we were before both the World Wars. Where we stayed out of European politics. Vox really isn’t a reliable source. However, I think y’all would love Knowlegeia video on the war of 1812.

[@daltonmckee4788]

You should do a video on how typical maps depict Russia so large Has to do with laying the surface of a near-sphere flat onto a 2D map. Yes Russia is big, but on a map corrected for the distortion caused by unwrapping the globe to a 2D surface it appears more similar in size to the US.

[@nesseihtgnay9419]

The 2D map we use is disseptive, Russia is NOT that big, it's the biggest country, but not that big. It can fit in the African continent. The US is half the size of Russia, and almost the same size as Canada

[@GreenBeamzzz]

Finland and Sweden joined NATO like two months ago

[@marcos3497]

There are still about 6 countries that have to ratify that. It's not official yet.

[@GreenBeamzzz]

@@marcos3497 Cool didn’t know that

[@marcos3497]

@@GreenBeamzzz It's mostly Eastern European nations. Keep an eye on Turkey, who made them agree to stuff before allowing the vote, and Hungary, who's run by an authoritarian, Putin sympathizer.

[@GreenBeamzzz]

@@marcos3497 Interesting I’ll try to

[@halicarnassus8235]

7:22, yes Russia is massive however the graphics showed you after an expansion during the time period. By that time. It was called the Soviet Union and there were many nations under it's sphere. So what you are looking at is not only Russia, but Many European nations enslaved under the Russian Soviet Union.

[@allenkramer2143]

Yes, Alaska was purchased from Russia. At the time it was referred to as Seward's folly. Then they discovered gold and oil. As part of the purchase there are 2 islands very close to each other, 1 U S & the other Russian. I the winter, when the water freezes, you can walk to Russia from the U S.

[@Uhohohno319]

If we keep going in the direction we are going in, we won’t be a super power for much longer

[@randyfurness5588]

The real problem with blanket military protectoin given by the United States to so many other countries is that the money for this comes out of the pocket of the US taxpayer. We literally pay for the massive social programs that these countries citizens enjoy with our own toil. This is why we also have the largest per capita homeless and poverty percentage in the devoloped world.

[@s1ugtrail978]

The map is wrong, kind of ----- Correct me if I'm wrong. But what they are using as a map to describe all of this, and what most people tend to use as the traditional map of viewing the world, is first and foremost a nautical map. One designed to travel across the ocean. So the general shape of the countries are relatively close, but the sizes are far from reality. The reason for this is as follows; the authagraph map is the most accurate.. To explain; if you say removed the outer skin of a traditional globe and attempt to lay it flat on the ground you would have to cut straight lines from the outer edge into it so that all the parts can lay flat. In this case if you attempted to travel using such a map you would hit these gaps of nothingness on the map and have to jump across to the next patch. Then you would also have to decide where the center of your map would be depending on how you cut it. Such a map will actually have far more accurate size and locational representations. However it's more difficult to travel with. The biggest advantage to the nautical map is everyone knows what they're looking at for the most part. However the authagraph map is almost unrecognizable at first glance.

[@kaltwies]

If interested, and for a deeper dive on this very topic, y’all should react to Peter Zeihan. There are several short clips, packed with info. I believe your audience would enjoy, and maybe gain some knowledge to help make some serious decisions for themselves and their families that will probably be thrust upon us all in the VERY near future. P. S. I believe y’all would be great Americans. We’d love to have y’all join us. We’ve got plenty of room, for now. 🙏🇺🇸✌🏻!

[@battlestar1788]

You should look up the history on Alaska how America bought it and later turn to be a big mistake for Russia selling it

[@TickleMeElmo55]

Fun fact: Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times for his international efforts to foster neutrality and to strengthen the US, more or less. These nominations came from non-American world leaders and lawyers that were aware of his international negotiations, so despite the layman American and non-American thinking he'd start WWIII he actually was immensely effective in a good way on a global level.

[@RobertJones-ux6nc]

That was not just Russia on the map but the Soviet Union and its satellite Countries it took over after WW2.

[@Pinkfong2]

Of course the U.S. should stay in NATO and such but other countries need to pay their fair share and also to be able to defend themselves with our help. It’s not good for anyone to be totally dependent. Other than the UK, a lot of countries hate us while taking our money and keeping our troops there for their defense. Sometimes I feel we and the UK have sacrificed our people enough. Time for a new superpower.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Other countries don't have a big military like we do though. How do tell them to not be dependent.. Pfft

[@billy-waynejeffcoat4828]

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld I don't think you read his gripes. It doesn't matter if they have a tiny military. If they hate us but accept our money and troop presence for protection they should be thrown to the wolves defenseless and told to f off.

[@TheRapnep]

@@billy-waynejeffcoat4828 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@claregale9011]

Your forgetting something the u.k. is the size of one of your states , we have fewer people therefore less money obviously your country will have more military might and money .

[@petermalutin7407]

I being an Alaskan native am offended as to the narrator describing expansion as "wholesale slaughter" of indigenous peoples, obvious bias propaganda pushed forth in an attempt to make Americans who happen to be white of European descent guilty for the actions of their forefathers. Indeed, some indigenous peoples have suffered but like anywhere sane in the world it is up to the current generations to adapt, move foreward and prosper....enough whining.

[@allenkramer2143]

He was talking about American Indians.

[@sweetdulcesunshinenyc]

You are definitely not anything native especially by your ignorant comment. Exposing FACTS is not whining, history repeats itself, if you duh duh and definitely a flat earther right wing reTardblikkkan cultist can't connect the dots...you are the problem and definitely a racist in denial of facts especially when it's about the white supremacist colonizers. You are the problem you chose ignorance due to hate

[@petermalutin7407]

@@allenkramer2143 Read a history book...you know nothing about Alaska and I speak in general....next.

[@allenkramer2143]

Go back through the video. The section referenced, "the wholesale slaughter of indigenous people" is in the first 70 years of our history. Long before the purchase of Alaska.

[@johnalden5821]

Go look up a couple of simple Wikipedia entries: "Sand Creek massacre" and "Wounded Knee massacre." There are many more you could look up, but that should get you started. Bonus points if you look up "Mystic massacre." The people killed in those incidents, and their never-born descendants, are not whining, because they can't.

[@raphaelpaz8476]

Nuclear football but be interesting topic to discuss and how it works

[@jdemd1977]

I don't disagree with those who point out that our allies need to increase funding for their own militaries and thus contribute more towards a "collective defense," but the truth is building alliances and protecting the global order, its institutions, and democracy benefits the US far more than it hurts it. Should the US begin to shrink from these commitments, it would create a huge vacuum that countries like Russia and China would be happy to fill. 🇺🇸💙🇬🇧 🇺🇦🕊️☮️

[@thepurplephoenix8893]

Beesley's can y'all do a reaction video to Oversimplified's Pig War 🐖 video? It is about The U.S.A. 🇺🇸 ,Canada 🇨🇦, and The United Kingdom 🇬🇧.

[@SilvanaDil]

NATO derelict that is not close to 2% spending: Canada

[@whynotflee8079]

Do miracle on ice again !

[@sector986]

I would like to see you guys do a video on the war in Ukraine.

[@AngryOtterReacts]

Peter Zeihan does a very good breakdown of why the USA is moving away from Globalization

[@don-dspid2404]

Just to clarify, that was the USSR, not Russia.

[@EmmaChihuahua81]

Far more native Americans died from the introduction of disease than from wars fought against westward expansion. This was done unintentionally for the most part. The only documented case of a European country intentionally attempting to introduce the disease to the Native Americans was in 1763 with two blankets and a handkerchief. Historians have pointed out that in this instance smallpox had already ravaged the native tribes earlier that year and the blankets and handkerchief in question likely were old and honestly not good vectors to transmit the disease. Unintentional disease introduce killed far more than bullets.

[@victorhopper6774]

luther burbank and steel, the rest was easy

[@internalharm]

To become a superpower you need to eat your wheaties.

[@transpixelyt9231]

I gave your 947th like!

[@l.t.1305]

Unprecedented levels of prosperity and low levels of conflict? LOL What a joke that is.

[@Isaiahslifeexperience]

Omg 2:49💀

[@lockaby1]

russia offered to sale alaska to canada but they dint want it and the us offered to buy it then explorers found gold there and drawing the gold miners in and alaska paid for itself

[@stacyharris8725]

Millie. (sp?) .... I 💕 your hair ...

[@wesleypeters4112]

It was not "wholesale slaughter of the indigenous people". They were relocated to reservations after loosing a war that spanned between 300 to 400 years. This also doesn't mean that the attrocities that were committed against natives by settlers or the government should be downplayed or ignored. It was not genocide though.

[@billy-waynejeffcoat4828]

Definitely was genocide, most Americans seen them at savages seeing how some tribes treated their prisoners. Trail of tears we just going to pretend never happened huh?

[@johnnyhernandez3703]

It was a genocide because so many were wiped. Not only indigenous people from the US but also indegenous people from centeal and south Americal aswell as the caribian.

[@jessicamorrell4713]

Yeah it was genocide.

[@wesleypeters4112]

@@johnnyhernandez3703 Again no it was not. Many died from disease that they not immune to, that is not the same as the organized slaughter of an entire people.

[@fnaffoxy1987]

@@johnnyhernandez3703 90 percent of natives died from disease from the early colonists. The deaths from disease caused distrust and wars between the colonists and natives. There was no intention to kill every last native.

[@MrPenguinLife]

I think the main Trump position was that rich countries like Japan and Saudi Arabia should pay for their own defense

[@marcos3497]

His main position is enriching himself by hook and by crook.

[@jatlas8862]

Damn

[@limitededition3278]

That is no longer how big Russia is. That was when Russia was the old Soviet Union.

[@johnalden5821]

Although they are trying to get that back. . .

[@-JA-]

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