What whole continent did we unify again? I must have been asleep in that part of class.
Blake Fisher
The Americas
we even unified germany, but even then they had to ruin their country.
np bby
Christopher Campbell
>Men! I have summoned you on account of an issue of utmost urgency. You are all very well aware of the situation at hand so i shall not delay you long. I will be very blunt: i need to make poopoo quick
Honestly, not that I really mind, but we pretty much did just chimp out over what were more or less reasonable requests to behave as fiscally responsible citizens. The tax regime of the American government today is infinitely more tyrannical than anything that served as proximate cause for the revolution.
Parker James
american larping is so fucking embarrassing
Leo Phillips
Get annexed by Indonesia, you Southern Cross-looking-at motherfucker.
Well the initial goals of the revolution definitely aren't around today, but when are they ever. You wouldn't be the world superpower if the world wars hadn't happened and Russia didn't fuck up though, so I wouldn't put that entirely on you.
Josiah Smith
Yeah, a has been nation like yours needs it, I'm sure. Hopefully Generation Identity can save your asses before it becomes Pakistan 2.0
Colton Sanchez
The goals of the revolution weren't very admirable in the first place, in my opinion. Although I don't think much could have prevented us from obtaining paramountcy for at least a century or so at some point regardless of what happened. We've basically been playing geopolitics with cheatcodes turned on over here since about the time of the Monroe Doctrine.
Jacob Kelly
You had industrial power I give you that but the English and the French also had about half the entire world between them.
Jace Bennett
the goals of the revolution were angry english colonists telling the english crown to fuck off. Taxes were just used as an excuse sometime after all the fighting began, and then used all the killing as another excuse to resist and fight.
If the english crown actually gave their forces and officer's advice more attention/concern, the crown would have squashed that shit very quickly. Instead they acted like they could just skirmish here and there, and come back later to reconquer. 1812 suffered the same half assed attempt because the english (and canadians) never capitalized on key victories.
Angel Davis
The invasion form the north was a fucking failure aswell. The French and the Spanish kinda fucked it though.
Mason White
Industrial power, yes. But also vast quantities of untapped resources which had never known exploitation by a true civilization before. An unusually bountiful distribution of freshwater. The Mississippi-Missouri navigable river system which enabled dependable long-distance internal trade and communication well before the age of rails. An improbable proliferation of deep-water harbors on our coasts, the mere possession of which essentially guaranteed us a leading role in international trade.
After 1803, the absence of any serious foreign threat in the Western hemisphere outside of Britain, was usually preoccupied elsewhere and most often just found itself going about defensive damage control in response to our own imperialistic aims in North America (although nice job in 1812 and in keeping B.C. out of American hands; I still can't entirely wrap my head around how we managed to fuck up so badly on the latter issue).
The list goes on longer than could be contained in a Jow Forums discussion, obviously, but suffice to say, we lucked out big time geographically in a lot of ways. Like the old Chancellor said, "God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America."
Christian Moore
Oil was a major one. We had a lot of oil in the British parts of the middle east but failed to exploit in time, the vast resources of south east Asia and Africa would've guaranteed at least a parallel with the US, as well as trade favouring the empire bringing massive fortune, but war in the continent was pretty much guaranteed by the 1900s. Too many big power too close together, was bound to bankrupt the empires.