I may have taken the Monroe Doctrine too literally in Victoria 3

[@dryhad9253]

After WW1, the US drew up several plans for potential future wars. The plan for war with Britain was called War Plan Red and roughly went "Just invade Canada and they'll give up on the spot". This is all to say that Laith getting upset that his wars don't end because Britain isn't capitulating is actually top tier roleplaying.

[@maxgronros6728]

There are some wild alternate universes out there

[@RichRacc]

For real

[@Maurcusj777]

I'm pretty sure their plan didn't expect Britain to give up on the spot. It was likely more like "conquer Canada before the British can reinforce, then hold off the Royal Navy until Britain's war exhaustion ticked up too high" That being said it is still a VERY optimistic plan XD

[@idontlikerome2744]

There must be a HoI4 mod about this for sure

[@PhysicsGamer]

Hilariously, the British equivalent plan for exactly that situation was basically "Let them take Canada and sink their trade ships until we can sort this out diplomatically." So both sides were basically in agreement as to what would happen. Except nobody actually told Canada their plans, so as a result the Canadian plan was "Resist as long as possible at the border at any cost until the British show up to save us". Which... wouldn't have gone well for them.

[@maxkaufmann833]

Hey Laith, the reason the Slave-Free dichotomy was so crucial to Early America was due to the legislature (mainly the United State's Senate). Due to each state having two Senators, and with every new state you had new Senators added to the Senate, a delicate balancing act was created where the people who would inhabit the new state would decide if the state was Slave or Free. Due to the possible "imbalance" in the Senate if one state was added without a compliment from the other side, things were very, very tense politically at this time. This led to Bleeding Kansas, where settlers from the North and South rushed into Kansas to attempt and sway the state's constitution. This then led to basic civil war in the state, where pro-Slavery gangs began to enact violence on the "Free Soilers" trying to prevent the expansion of slavery into the American West. This then led to (in)famous John Brown's involvement in both Kansas and later in the failed uprising at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Ultimately of course, this led to the American Civil War.

[@512TheWolf512]

and yet nothing has changed since then. now there's still two horrible parties, just like before.

[@maxkaufmann833]

@@512TheWolf512 yea.

[@davidfountain6110]

@@512TheWolf512 Seeing as how slavery is now illegal, I'd say a few things actually have changed.

[@512TheWolf512]

@@davidfountain6110too few.

[@hieveryone4054]

@@davidfountain6110 slavery is still legal under amendment 13 need to be more specific when you mean to say something else

[@robmarney]

15:25 In real life, Florida and Texas joined the Confederacy. The "second front" was the Mississippi River.

[@makaramuss]

I think texas didn't literally join but was disconnected from union and got forced to join in fact govermor rejected to declare loyalty to confederation so they replaced him.

[@AlexChec]

@makaramuss Texas held a convention on whether to secede followed by a popular referendum. Both voted overwhelmingly for secession. You are right that Gov Houston was ousted because he didn’t want to join the Confederacy, but he didn’t want to stay in the Union either. He wanted Texas to be an independent republic again.

[@100dead]

@@AlexChec Based.

[@badart3204]

@@AlexChecno, he wanted the Union but didn’t have the support for that so tried to steer towards independence to avoid the confederacy. He is the man responsible for getting Texas into the Union in the first place by defeating his opponent Lamar who actually wanted Texas to remain independent

[@bearsausage8599]

@@makaramuss There's a county map of all the texan counties then and most of the population voted to go to the south, more just didn't respond rather than voting to go north.

[@johnconnor8206]

Day 187 of asking for you to play Victoria 2 as cuba and become Fidel Castro

[@bboi1489]

OMG MONEY

[@michaelrussell3812]

Laith stands to gain financially if he never does this

[@TheSocialStreamers]

Can’t buy honour though… you can buy a video from me it would seem however.

[@MrCalls1]

@@TheSocialStreamersif you keep growing those curls we’re just gonna end up throwing money at you for videos, Siam/Thailand game, it’s abit middle of nowhere I’d love to see what you made of it.

[@RichardGadsden]

If you do an exploration, you will get events. They don't all pop up, they appear in the right-hand column. You have to watch the events and then open them and click them, because the default option on every event is the maximum peril event, and you have to pick the minimum peril and even then it's about 50-50 to succeed.

[@SquirrelMaestro]

You can never take the Monroe doctrine too literally

[@donzapatero4808]

Bro actually made the American dream real

[@edwxx20001]

i love how reconstruction asks you to get incorporate states you don't own and never have owned because they just expect you to have finished manifest destiny before the civil war.

[@andrewtrenkel]

the fact the Vanderbilt became president is a wild twist of history

[@george49632]

TIP: If you back any native american/canadian uprising against Canada and help them win it will restart their colonisation in that state allowing you to come in and colonise it yourself. The UK always stays out in my experience so it's an easy win

[@IHMnotuseless2204]

"we have the lathe already installed, so no one can laugh at me" *viewers proceeding to laugh an inconsiderate amount

[@Terrados1337]

the best part of this video was when he said "IT'S MONROE TIME" and monroed all over those guys

[@jetex1911]

Manifested so hard

[@DarthSanguine]

You can get rid of the Indian Removal journal entry by annexing the Indian Territory.

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

As America in Vicky 3 I always go for what I call “revenge of 1812” (basically taking Canada), Greenland, more parts of northern Mexico and finally domination over the Caribbean.

[@betin731]

4:10 as an American I approve and hold the same mindset myself actually. The British isles are really just the 51st through the 55th U.S. states

[@lema0925]

YES YOU CAN UPGRADE YOUR NAVY, YOU JUST NEED TO PUT IT INTO PORT SO IT CAN BE UPGRADED. I told you on the last two vikky 3 vids >:(

[@paulzagieboylo7315]

There actually are limitations, you can't upgrade to Dreadnoughts, Battleships, Scout Cruisers, or Carriers. But before that, yes, you just have to park the navy for a while.

[@lema0925]

​@@paulzagieboylo7315 Yeah, I knew about those ones from experience, but at least you can upgrade M-O-Ws to Ironclads, Frigates to monitors, ect. Also, you can upgrade Frigates to Scout Cruisers, so long you haven't upgraded to monitors, I think. It surprises me how many people don't know this fact. I was watching a Ludi video the other day, and he mentioned how "I need to delete my entire navy and rebuild it from scratch with ironclads".

[@HarryTheArchaeologist]

Abraham Laitholn in the thumbnail is doing things for me ngl

[@deathdrone6988]

I feel like if you are playing until the late 1890s, its pretty hard not to reach 500million GDP as at least any major power.

[@creature2479]

Hahaha that's not true, as a newbie the amount of times I've had my economy just flatline before I figured out how the economy worked was depressing

[@oliverthomas-couch]

I'm glad Laith took some time to do some soul searching and already has discovered himself before the video started

[@Da__goat]

Laith I think your critiques for the diplomacy and war systems for the game are very valid. Personally, they are the reason why I simply did not purchase the game at all on release and got it on sale through the humble bumble for $20, because those are important game features and I find it rather, less than adequate, that a studio with the technical knowhow to make good games after the years of experience in a good frontlines system like that in HOI4 and the individualized systems we had in Vic 2 and EU4, saw this system and said that it was the best they could provide. Exactly what you said, "I want to like this game." That is exactly how I feel every time I load up the game.

[@ryanh8567]

"If you're American and you're upset about that joke..." Me, an American: "What joke?"

[@visigoth3696]

7:09 the American who talked to you about segregation is the kind of people you won’t win a discussion with, as an American I avoid them lol

[@itshenry8977]

Laith playing super America meanwhile France is back in the Napoleonic wars era fighting half the world powers

[@JohnOprey]

The bug that removes interests in areas you are colonizing drives me nuts. Not sure if that was fixed in the update. Thankfully the issue of not being able to station troops on your allies of puppets hq is fixed in 1.6

[@MrHeavyrifle]

I'm kinda late but 12:29 is not a bug. They are a british protectorate. You need to enforce on Britain not mexico. Since you dont control any british states they have no war exhaustion

[@zekehatcher2196]

My favorite part was when he said it's "Manifest Destiny time" and proceeded to Manifest Destiny all over the place

[@cantalope6980]

i found it’s easier to get rid of slavery (pre 1.6) if you industrialize the south quickly to get the industrialists more powerful than planters in the south states

[@jordanlewis3878]

No one else has an interest in the great plains either -_-....i'm living in one of those states so i get to make this joke!

[@pasttenseofdraw5791]

yeah we aint go shit there besides farms and windmills

[@Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel]

Oh trust me, drug traffickers are *very* interested in the great plains.

[@100dead]

Yeah, I feel like a lot of Europeans have a skewed view of how much of the US is actually populated. So much of it is just a long, rural road with a commercial outpost every few miles.

[@edwxx20001]

@@100dead I think a lot of people, Americans included fail to understand how BIG the US is. Europe is smaller and has a larger population than the us. cant just make commuter trains go between our cities, its not that easy.

[@PhysicsGamer]

@@edwxx20001 There's some areas it would work really well. Northeast, Florida, California, and possibly Texas, mainly. Maybe a couple spots in the midwest, but that might not be enough given how disconnected they would be - would need to anchor the lines in various ports, at a minimum.

[@andreaemma74]

You gotta manifest all the way to SE Asia bro. Vietnam never forget 😤💪🇺🇲

[@ethanstrong]

“You make up 25% of my demographic” 😂

[@Treycore]

Just annex the Indian territory on day one, completely averts the trail of tears, only other way to prevent it is multiculturalism or legislating no colonization

[@ashermorgen]

"I meddle elsewhere" As an American, that's the most American thing Laith has ever said

[@mikatjoe483]

If you want to know more about the indian 'removal' I recommend 'knowing better indian removal'

[@dr.nepper2936]

They actually just added the ability to station your army in your subject nations in the most recent patch so you can actually defend them against naval invasions.

[@Bluesonofman]

The tribals where actually offered assistance to move but only some of them took up the offer. Basically the reason they where told to move was because of conflicts between Southerners and tribals

[@mattbowdenuh]

"Americans, please dont leave, you have money." 🤣

[@delphidelion]

Abe really tried to have his generals basically do what you did. Unfortunately the dude in charge of that side of the war just sat there for ages.

[@lawden210]

26:12 Laith didn't read the parliament part of the description

[@CoronelNasc]

This is the first time I've watched him in a few months. Why doesn't he have music anymore?

[@AOD0001]

Puppets will only surrender when overlord does

[@henryasselin123]

Idea for an eu4 mutli part video for you. Complete as many missions as possible in one game by speed running as many as you can then forming new nations and so on. Also as a bonus you have to become emperor of the HRE and/or China (idk if jf you even can be both at once but both in the run if not).

[@christopherjobin-official7440]

I don't think you know how the Monroe Doctrine actually works-

[@I.am.not.in.your.house.or.am.I]

Isn’t it about America rules the waves? -American guy

[@creature2479]

Shhhh this is how it should have been ngl

[@christopherjobin-official7440]

@@creature2479 The what what you mean!?

[@creature2479]

@@christopherjobin-official7440 USA > Latinos

[@TheWitlord]

So the easiest way to skip the Trail of Tears event from my experience is by starting the game by annexing the Indian Territory, if it doesn't exist the event triggers as if you stopped the Trail of Tears from happening.

[@commudoggu847]

As a true blooded American, this brings tears to my eyes

[@alexisdespland4939]

you need hardwoof to build sailing ships. and luxury funiure.

[@alexisdespland4939]

you also need the big navy to carry you big army

[@FilipBrlek-ze1zo]

Balls

[@bboi1489]

😟

[@me-dc8pj]

Edward Balls

[@Aluunyax3]

officer balls.

[@BTea155]

4:30 ish, my Native brain hearing "Indians" and feeling offended before im like "bro everyone calls us that lmao"

[@BenFromTheUpsideDownUnder]

Thank-you Mr. Editor for correcting our boy😉

[@davidjensen1221]

Honestly, the historical innacuracies and gameplay disasters that is the current American Civil War system in Victoria 3 are the main reason why I do not play as my homeland very often.

[@danaflo66]

YOU CAN UPGRADE MAN O WARS INTO IRONCLADS.

[@cantalope6980]

ayy keep up the great content 🙌

[@dallastruxal6775]

12:20 pretty sure the game wasn’t bugged just laith didn’t know that he needed to defeat Britain because Mexico made themselves a protectorate of Britain.

[@TheCanadianPatriot153]

if you go to war with natives and you don't have a full state in that region you lose the interest

[@Phillip_of_Burns]

You laugh at racial segregation, but now kids in college are demanding it again.

[@Emeraldtheblackdavid]

As an american with a degree in both history and international relationships, your not wrong most americans couldnt tell you where Arkansas is let alone Nigeria or Thailand 😂

[@JohnDoe-yv8yn]

the mexico -100 isnt a bug, mexico cannot capitulate till their overlord GB did so even tho you had mex at -100 you needed to get gb out of the war to annex and get all the goals

[@1perspective286]

4:20 as an American, I applaud your efforts Laith, make America the UN again.

[@nooneimportant1523]

4:14 No we don't, who told you that?

[@MessoremMortem]

Beautiful thumbnail

[@izzyjoe9951]

“Why do we have the system if the system doesn’t work?” -Every American ever

[@Fofo-mn9xe]

Hey! Do you know any mode for CK3 to play as Ragnar or just more starting dates?

[@The_Proud_Texan]

It’s, its beautiful 🥲

[@Maurcusj777]

Honestly just give us the front line system from hoi4. You don't even need to give us individual unit control! Just give us the ability to make armies asign our own front lines, and tell the armies what to do. You can even give us an "automate all" button to just make the AI figure it out, but at least give us the bare minimum as an option!

[@alexisdespland4939]

before he was presideny andrew jackson led the battle of new orleans that was faught compleatly after the peace treaty enedning the war of 1812 but since he was so far away he didn't know the war was over so the whole battle was kinda pointless,

[@FunkyMonkeyI]

The First American Empire, for a safer and more secure society.

[@MrJokerGenocide]

They realistically should have just used the HOI2 Frontline system because it fits best.

[@adrianvenderbuss4290]

Id call this run fake spanish Empire. So you start of as The two sicilies (former part of spain as you know) then form Italy and conquer south america. Would love to see how far you can take this as I found the game to be way harder now

[@kyanvandenbrand535]

You should try to form Polynesia

[@minnumseerrund]

manifest that destiny, daddy

[@frankiecedeno3724]

I’m. Or upset Laith, it’s simply what should have been. Someday soon the states of Mexico and the states of Canada will be integrated and after that the world.

[@gregc6535]

More imperator rome please and with the tera indomita mod

[@Kebab_Man]

milk

[@Piratejoe44]

Day 212 of asking for an Oranje Free State Playthrough of Vicky 3.

[@drgonzo1971]

It enrages me when foreigners play America and fail to take the Pacific NW from the British

[@ForOnceIam]

I like AlzaboHD more

[@hunterr8743]

POV: Harry S Truman

[@notinglonias]

As an American, I can confirm that you should never bolster the evangelicals

[@godzilla9619]

does anyone else hear his computer sometimes?

[@matheusGMN]

Confederation of the Equator Superpower! (I'm from there lol)

[@saint4life09]

Such a shame this game genuinely sucks. Really wish they'd made a good sequel to Vicky 2.

[@RK-cj4oc]

Check out " Gilded Age" If it is actually good it might be the game we need to challenge Paradox so they have to actually care about the games again.

[@bayat53]

We have money?!?!? Are we a joke to you? 4:19 About to find out why we dont have Healthcare

[@Antowan]

The bugs seen in this video is why i haven't touched this game in a few weeks. Sigh. Hope spheres of influence is good.

[@dillity]

Wait this isn't EU4

[@Ducc__]

Day 1 of asking laith to play one of the siberian tribes in eu4

[@jakobhawkins77]

I can't understand the economy. Was so much easier in Vic2

[@CMVBrielman]

4:10 What joke? Oh, 75% of your audience is non-American? Oh, um, yes, its a joke. A funny joke! On a totally unrelated note, hey 75%? You know whats fun? Practicing the Star Spangled Banner.

[@trapedit1048]

Video 9 of asking you to play assam->Tibet->ilkhanate->mongol empire eu4

[@pedronabais1456]

"we have a very big army, we can incade everyone else *Laith trying to roleplay as america ends up roleplaying russia*

[@Q8iAB]

Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Libya (First Barbary War) Canada (War of 1812) Algeria (Second Barbary War) Spain (Acquisition of Florida) Cherokees (Indian Removal Act) Indonesia (Expedition) Ivory Coast (Expedition) Cherokees (Trail of Tears) Mexico (Annexation of Texas) Mexico (Seizing of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, some of Colorado, New Mexico, and the Texan border with the Rio Grande) Sioux (Forced settlement and massacre) Spain (Annexation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines) Philippines (Reneges on promise of Philippine independence in exchange for Filipino support during the Spanish-American War) Fiji (Expedition) China (Second Opium War) China (Looting China in response to the Boxer Rebellion as part of the Eight-Nation Alliance) Taiwan (Expedition into Taiwan) Korea (Korean Expedition in response to "insults") Panama, Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti, Dominica Republic, Honduras, Mexico (US shenanigans with their military) Germany (World War 1) Russia (Russian Civil War - Formation of Soviet Union) Germany, Japan, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria (WW2) Korea (Korean War) Vietnam (Vietnam War) Guatemala (CIA overthrows of their government and funds dictator's armies) Iran (CIA overthrows elected Prime Minister) Cuba (Bay of Pigs) Brazil (CIA helps overthrow the government and funds opposition groups) Chile (CIA funds opposition then overthrows the government) Grenada (Overthrow their government) Nicaragua (Helps install a military junta) Libya Panama (Attempt to capture Gen. Manuel Noriega) Honduras (Helps install a military junta) Colombia (Funds and trains death squads) Iraq (Desert Storm) Iraq (Retaliation for alleged assassination plot) Somali Sudan, Afghanistan (Retaliation for terrorist attacks in embassies) Serbia (Kosovo War) Afghanistan (Response to 9/11) Iraq (Bush's policy of war against WMD-developing states) Iran (Stuxxnet - Cyber Warfare) Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq (Drone Attacks) Libya, Syria (No-fly zone and drone attacks)

[@tsarevichivan]

GOD BLESS

[@lapisdragon1237]

OH MY GOD IT'S OVER. As some of you well know, I have been doing a production of Beauty and the Beast at my musical, when I'm not asking Laith to play a Fire Emblem Game. Gotta have hobbies you know? And we just finished our last show! Day 179, Be still my heart.

[@SD-O]

Play Norway

[@I.am.not.in.your.house.or.am.I]

Play Yesway

[@medllensaimon1015]

My God the game has problems but he is SO BAD and he doesn't know how anything works it's so annoying!

[@wow-roblox8370]

Notification Squad!

[@BigJayAll]

MAH STATE RAWGHTS

[@oogabooga8843]

laith play five nights at freddys

[@harku123]

Noooo plenty of people do that, laith is great for grand strategy

[@raeenghadarzadeh5370]

United america!

[@Ocrilat]

On segregation, it's not like other countries at the time didn't do the same thing, including Britain. Segregation in the UK wasn't abolished until 1965, while upper class clubs and such ignored the anti-segregation laws for years afterwards.

[@gawkthimm6030]

please, oh please show your politics at the end of videos, especially when its been a long time since you last showed that off before you end...

[@Dryrubbersock]

Laith says he doesn't wanna be the bad guy like he didn't just choose to play as america