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ZapataCadabra
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I honestly can't fathom a nation being dumber than America. Maybe that's my American exceptionalism talking but we really are dumb.
I don't know if I buy the geography take, the European plain is fairly wide open from France to the Caucuses (excluding the Alps basically). From what I've read Europe rushing military tech was because they didn't have valuable enough goods to trade, so they had to use violence to open up markets for them.
I suggest Robert Marks The Origins of the Modern World. He's not a Marxist, but he takes a materialist stance on this exact question.
Basically since Europe didn't have an abundance of mineral resources like gold and silver, they couldn't compete with the other major cultures in Eurasia. China and India had much better manufactured goods, Indonesia had spices, and the Ottoman empire had Afghani silver and were the middleman if Europe wanted to trade with the east.
What European nations could do was fight, all they did was fight each other for the last 1000 years. So they turn their warfare on other nations via gunboat diplomacy. I could go on, but by the time of the industrial revolution England's coal deposits put them in a powerful position. English coal combined with slaves and looting of the continents propelled them until WW2. After that America took over as world hegemon.
Basically it's not a simple answer, there were many points where the dice could have rolled the other way. The materialist answer is not supposed to be predetermined, that's where Jared Diamond gets it wrong. A lot of things went right for European empires and they capitalized on it with their barbarity.
In 1979.
If you have one Hitler traveling at 50 miles per hour and another Hitler traveling at 55 miles per hour, which one finishes the genocide first.
Calling it Tankaman Square would be a good bit.
America has had a Chief Justice Burger in the past, how long until we get a President Burger.
This was before he was elected. He hasn't given any indication since he was president that he'll do only one term.
It's fake. It doesn't work. They skipped safety procedures. It's not efficient anyways. It's not scalable. It wouldn't work without state funding. State funding is the reason it doesn't work. Social credit score.
What movie was Goodman playing Zeus? Because in Disney's Hercules, that's Rip Torn.
Come on and sing! Six kitty companies run everything! It's Kitty History, exactly like ours.