Argentina could have been a SUPERPOWER 

If you want a more in-depth and honestly better explanation on the “decline” of Argentina this guy made really good video. - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EeCu8pMHma0.html

"there are four kinds of countries: developed countries, underdeveloped countries, Japan - nobody knows why it grows - and Argentina - nobody knows why it doesn't" Simon Kuznets

An additional cause to argentinas failure i would add, is the constant changes in political and economical planification. Each time a new goverment arrives, it makes sure everything that was made by the previous one gets torn apart and start growing in a different direction. There are no long term plans in argentina, and while that persists, argentina wont see any major grow in any aspect. Greetings from Argentina, love your content

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Most countries here in latino america could've been developed countries and Argentina with Brazil on top of them, but we have rampant and unchecked corruption that ends up in nothing. I always say "My country has everything, but our people ruin it".

I am from Uruguay, every time we (uruguayans) talk about to Argentina, regardless of the political view, we arrive at the same conclusion, Argentina can, and should be a Superpower

I went to Patagonia in 2018 and was blown away. By far my favorite place on Earth. Buenos Aires is also, undoubtedly an amazing city. Spent 4 days there and could not get enough. Highly recommend. Great video as always!

The few times I've been to Argentina I had the time of my life. What a beautiful country and people. It amazed me how big it is and all that it has to offer. But what stood out the most in my opinion was and will always be its people. They are such funny and friendly folks, believe me. Most of the times you engage a conversation with an argentinian you will probably end up laughing your a** out 😂. This also demonstrates how resilient they are as people. Despite all the ups and downs in the economy, socially and in politics I think every other country facing what they face on a daily basis would result in massive suicides or violent turmoils, but they laugh and joke their way out of it. They wake up every morning to go to work and add their two cents in the quest of making Argentina great again. Even if they often say they are doomed or not worth being a superpower, or even arrogant, their way of living life is unique and I think we all should learn from them. Man, I love Argentina ❤ Greetings from Argentina

I met some Argentinians in Olympic National Park a couple days ago and they were super cool and friendly people - I’ll be rooting for Argentina in this World Cup!

Argentina could have been a developed country long ago, and in fact, as the video showed it was in the rigth trace many years ago. I am chilean, and my first international travel was to visit my family (uncles and cousins) with my parents when I was 15, in 1978. To me, Argentina looked like the future. These were difficult times, and harsh time due to dictatorships on both countries. Neverrheless, after we got back to democracy, Chile, with less natural resources, has surpassed our neighbourgs. I hope they return to the right trace, for such a great country and people.

Australia and Argentina were almost the same level of development in the 19th century. Export focused economies aren't destined for this.

Thinking of the Argentine decline problem I had always considered that the Panama Canal had to have a very important role by killing the influence of its ports. I don't think I've seen or read more than one or two people who ever brought it up. You'd be the second or third and that depth of thought is probably what makes your content great.

My great grandfather left for Argentina in the early 1920s from Croatia or what was then Yugoslavia. Spent 25yrs there, mind you he never returned "for holidays" in the meantime. It always made me wonder if I had any Argentinian cousins and where are they. He worked on oil wells and no one knows much more about that part of his life. He lived to be 96 yrs old. What a different life and world it was a 100 years ago. But, anyway, this will for ever make me feel connected to Argentina.

The Argentine problem are Argentine politicians, this problem dates back to Buenos Aires Centralistas all the way back in the 19th century.

I was just learning about argentina's history when the notification arrived. Congratulations for the 100.000 subscribers.

Argentina's geographical location isn't that strategical to the trade route as it's located nearly in the "end of the world", so i guess they need to maximize their potential in agricultural exports and hi-tech sector

I remember back in the 1980's. People who traveled to Argentina had to worry about having to pay a heavy duty on bringing Personal Computers into the country. I can't imagine that policies like that make it easy to develop a good technology industry.

Wishing the best future to my country Brazil and our neighbors, including Argentina 🇧🇷🤝🏻🇦🇷

to my argenteans brothers I understand the struggle of corruption it runs in a latin america. I wish latin america would overcome this. we could literally become top economies. I hope for a prompt and soon economical recovery. Mexico🤝 Argentina will always be brothers! thanks for giving us great football and amazing music and super friendly ppl!

Isn't there some joke/saying that goes something like this: "There are four types of countries in the world, poor countries with poor geography, rich countries with rich geography, Argentina, and Japan." Meaning that Argentina is poor with rich geography and Japan is the opposite.

Argentina coulda had class. Coulda been a contender. Coulda been somebody.

The political instability, economy mismanagement and constant military juntas should’ve been mentioned, not the only causes of course, but have had a very important role in the economic stagnation of the Country.

I, an Argentinian, literally just subscribed yesterday And now you surprise me with this LOL

I spent a couple weeks there in 2010. Wonderful country. Friendly people. Best steak you'll ever eat.

location is also a huge factor. trade with Asia has to go through either the Drake Passage which has some of the worst seas on earth, or the strait of magellan which is notoriously difficult to navigate. its also in a pretty isolated part of the world without many regionally strong economies to trade with

You can say this about dozens of countries. Corruption takes the life away from any nation that is rich in natural resources.

that ad transition was so good I couldn't tell if it was just part of the story or an actual ad.

If Argentina worked on it's economic policies and stopping reaching on the verge of bankruptcy every few years, many immigrants would want to move there (and skilled people as well) and would bring lots of capital with them and help generate lots of it too.

A lot of people don’t understand how much the culture of a nation can make or break its success.

Good video. One point tough, while it is true the agricultural elite dragged down industrialization, that part is incomplete. The big ranching estancias were for cattle raising while most of the agricultural lands were colonized by the mass immigration waves by the late XIX century with the state giving land or selling it for cents to families and communities with the condition to settle. Most of the current center population is descendant of that. In my province there was nothing, being the 2/3rd rich one currently. Santa Fe was just 2 cities and a few travel posts, rets just millions of hectares of wild grasslands. The first agricultural colony was Colonia Esperanza settled by swiss farmers being the first to produce large scale wheat. Before that Argentina did not have agriculture, it was just millions of cows and horses free roaming ranched by gauchos. My town was one built in 4 years by a Italian who bought land ,brought 150 families settled and people started farming in small plots meanwhile the founder donated lands for the railroad line and station. This history is repeated all over the pampean plain. Also by the end of the 19th century those immigrants started to create local industries, mainly for agriculture with Industrias Schneider being the first foundry in the 1870s making tilling machines and other things in my province. Like that it was around. Rapid industrialization happened where it were demand by private initiative and then heavy industries and military production with state programs and private contractors. WWI and the crack of the 29 hit hard on technology acquisition and profits. Then came political instability and state intervention with nationalization waves that broke havoc and destroyed all the progress there could be. Extra note is that the north of the county with higher temps now produce a lot of crops too, in lands taken to natural forests which isn't that good in the long run.

Don’t forget! Landlocked European countries also tend to have access to navigable rivers (such as the Danube) which empty out into oceans and allow for greater access to international trade.

Nice video! Also super happy you’re using metric 🙏

I think that it's a bit of a stretch to say that Argentina could be a superpower, or even a major power. I would say that Argentina does have the potential, with good government, to be a prosperous middle power on par with Canada and Australia.

The whole southern cone should’ve been a regional superpower alongside Brazil as well. As well as Mexico. Maybe Mexico would have it better if a North American union were to happen. But that wouldn’t happen. Like an all Mexico movement could’ve made Mexico more North American than just a nationality.

Congratulations on 100K

Argentina is very rich in sources and economical potential country, sadly due to the political and moral mistakes of their policy and leaders in past made economy of Argentina inefficient and cause serious difficulties, at my opinion. Greetings from Spain!

I went to school in Buenos Aires in the early 2000’s. I was there when they unpegged the peso to the dollar. Stores removing price tags from merchandise because the price could change by the time you checked out. You would buy milk at the Disco and not be sure the price. As an American everything became 75% cheaper basically overnight.

I love Geography Geek. Always holds my interest.

I love the fact that this is the only channel in youtube that i enjoy watching the smoothest transition to a sponsor ever! haha 🥰

as an european i see argentina as a country with a lot of potential, it’s just the mentality that’s holding them back

I absolutely loved Argentina and have thought about moving there.

In trying to be like Europe they ended up as Eastern Europe.

100k subs congratulations

Love from America to argentina. We hope you prosper indefinitely ❤❤❤❤

A bit late but amazing video and congratulations about the 100k subscribers 👏😀

I know several people who backpacked through Argentina. So much to see, such diversity. Goals

With Monroe doctrine it's hard to have a second superpower that can challenge the first. They won't let it happen.

I did not know this, very interesting vid!!

This video is very informative about the history of Argentina. Many people today are unaware of how prosperous Argentina was from about the 1860s to the 1930s. Much of the credit for Argentina's prosperous during that era should be given to Domingo Sarmiento who served as the second president of the country in the 1860s. Sarmiento was able to unify the nation, and he also championed education. Sarmiento had spent time in the United States, and he looked at the traits and culture of the U.S.A. and concluded that the American model was a better plan for Argentina to follow compared to what he saw in Europe. To a large degree Sarmiento was the architect of a very strong Argentine economy that was based on agriculture from the 1860s thru the 1930s. This video correctly points out that the decision by Argentine leaders not to industrialize eventually caught up with the country over time and led to decline.

Argentina is a beautiful country. I met many good people during my stay. I explored Buenos Aires without any concern for my safety (unlike my visits to California and New York). I consider Buenos Aires to be a European city with indigenous flair. It would be wonderful if Argentinians could chart a course for market-driven prosperity without the burden of indebtedness.

Inflation wouldn't be a problem if governments would support stable currencies

The bottom line of Argentina’s decline is the Peronism movement and its overwhelming policies that continue to these days to stop Argentina’s growth

There are 4 kinds of economies: - Those with natural resources which are generally improving, - Those without natural resources which are generally declining, - Japan, & - Argentina.

Thanks for the possitive view at the end, argentinians are hopeful people but we are also divided against ourselves into 2 types of political parties that haven´t done any good for our people. One of them likes to perpetuate poverty and the other one wants to forget about the poor. The middle class is always in the verge of going down and the rich as in every country stay rich. So we are like a mobious tape going to the beginning when we think we are progressing. Anyway, somebody said in darkness any light is a strong light so we´ll see how things go in the next presidency.

The video points out the evidence that things aren't so good in Argentina and that this has been a long time in coming. However, while it points out that the initial strong start of the country had significant weaknesses, it refrains from pointing out why they failed as history moved forward, instead remarking how global and US downturns affected them and that printing money to cover debts was necessary (was it? did it ever solve anything?). That last part is the real problem. For some reason creditors never value what comes out of a printer. They want the value agreed upon. As soon as that fundamental principle is realized, then priorities for resources can be made. Otherwise, the government will think they have needs that are really wants. When an individual does this they become poor. When a government does this a nation becomes poor. That is why Argentina has failed. That is what the video doesn't point out.

As a neighbour of the argentinians, I must say nothing more catastrophic could have happened to Argentina than Perón and his fascist (then turned socialists) ideas. And those ideas persist to this day.

I want to see Argentina get better! Quiero ver Argentina mejora!

I wonder how large an impact the creation of the Panama Canal had on Argentina. Sailing around South America was the only way to get to the western United States from many different places (Basically everything west of India). Sailing around South America inevitably took you along the Argentine Coast.

6:22 Peron, that's what happend

Such a lovely looking country. All of that grand looking geology.

Thank you

i still think it possible, remember how china was in the 80s. yeah the population's is crazy different but look at south Korea they have similar population but Argentina is more than doubled the size

As an Argentinian, I can say that the country has a really bad problem of corruption. Nestor, Cristina and macri (the last 3 president of the country [not counting Alberto, the nowadays president]) gained more money during their governments, while the country suffered. Pero new constitution in 1945 is te mean reason of argentina economic decline. A constitution that was based on Italy fascist mussolini. In the long run, the constitution do not work and just make more poor people while the state gets more and more money

Very informative. Please also make a similar video on Venezuela. Thanks.

I think Argentina is a great place to visit , i will travel to Argentina soon for vacation hopefully this year

The vast amounts of corruption is by far Argentinas biggest downfall

The word "socialism" is surprisingly absent from this video's script.

Ty for using the metric system

With this type of reasoning a lot of countries could have been superpowers: Brazil, Iran, Pakistan, India etc

I am from argentina and sudy geography. I relly like the video. My opinion is that we have never a chance of be a superpower. We dont have the Technology in the 1880-1914 period and if true that our fisical geography is very rich we dont forget that lack of iron and coal doom the industry plus we are relly far away of europe, this cause the price of transport skyrocket. Sorry my bad english.

I thought Argentina already 🇦🇷 was a superpower???? ⚽️ 🥅 ⚽️ ⚽️ ⚽️ gooooooooollllll!!!!

Greetings from Argentina🇦🇷♥️

Im planning my trip to Argentina 🇦🇷 its just a beautiful a Country!

Causes: systemic corruption, nepotism, distrust, and the biggest reason… -> Peronism. I used to live in the Pampas by the way.

It was not because the way the spanish empire took It, they in fact work with Many tribes, letting even their already nobles keep their titles in the spanish Crown, its true that existes an uper class that controled most of the lands, but just like in any other country, but when England promote the independence of the spanish colonys, he used the burguesy that ruled in the colonys to stand against the spanish empire being supported by England, and so whith their independence the burguesy got even more power and the made the rules so they cool keep It, because remember, Spain created one of the first Human rights constitution in the world, i think its called "The laws of Burgos" in whichi they declared the so called indians as citicens of their empire havimg the same rights as spanish citicens, and yes there were slaves as well, but yeah the point is that burguesy was able to stay on power because of the way that England promoted this independence and since then, England and the US have made sure that all the spanish speaking countries, stay week so they are not a threat for the anglo-saxon sphire of influence

Good video

Nice video would you make once on Chile?

2:20 "Many of the solutions (to inflation) rely on government action" Government action is what gave us all inflation.

Shoulda coulda woulda But didn’t. It has a lot to do with a Countries leadership.

Sho disfruté este video che!

the problem that stopped Argentina for being a superpower are the followers of Peron, not Peron himself.

Ur so underated

Argentina could be great if they actually wanted to work. Of course the currency and politicians play a role in this but it's a perpetuating cycle. Javier Milei gives me some hope for Argentina and the world. What a great leader he would be.

Muy bonito pais

🎵Don’t cry for me Argentina🎵

I'm ready to move there.

Im from Argentina and I believe that another major problem is the huge class divide. When the country was formed they gave a select number of people "latifundios" which are basically enormous lands, making It so the whole country was owned by 50 people. This was the first real notisable divide but It continúes with what he can see with what you said about Peron being kicked out by the Rich people that werent Happy with the poor gaining money, because there can't be Rich without the poor. This is still present today as in a recent poll done by the goverment 50% of the population is poor.ñ, it's sad really. Excelent video, specially for someone that isnt from the country 🩵🇦🇷

Some of the comments made in this video are a little misleading. While it is true that Argentina has a well-developed agricultural sector, income from manufacturing surpassed that of agriculture in 1947, thus marking the transition to an industrial economy. Also, from 1932 to 1974, Argentina's economy grew almost fivefold (or 3.8% in annual terms) while its population only doubled. This expansion was well-distributed making Argentina one of only two predominantly middle-class Latin American nations (the other being Uruguay). If it hadn't been for the various dictatorships that ruled the nation from 1976-1983 which is mainly responsible for destroying the economy, Argentina would probably have joined the ranks of the world's developed nations by now.

"That ship has probably sailed" You said it, buddy. As an Argentinian, I feel sad, but it's the truth...

The downfall of Argentina is all Messi fault

Curious if the American confederate states would have followed a similar pattern if they remained separate from the rest of the union.

I used to think that the tallest mountain lies in Ecuador, the Mt. Chimborazo.

Vamos. Hermanos trabajemos. Juntos es tiempo de unisnos como pais

Argentina was never close to being a Super Power they are just too isolated

The major error of this video is not explain the Dictatorship from 1976 who kill all the politicians, economics, culturals "thinkers"(i dont know the traslation,sory), trade unionist, etc... So we return to democratic on 83' without politics actors, with the society divided, all of the natural "resources" selled and a LOT, LOT of Debt... But its a good video, im happy that you took the time to investigate and make this video.. Thanks you 😁 You are welcome to came here wherever you want 😁

I've just saw your video and i can say as an Argentinian, the problems are that politicians like to print money when instead of adjusting the treasury of the state, that's one, we have like 13 types of dollars here, and you tell me "what do you mean you have 13 types if it only exists one" well, the thing is that we have different dollars because it has different uses (and they have different values of course), as an example you have Dollar Qatar which was used for when Argentina was playing the soccer world cup (Argentinians were travelling to Qatar and they paid with dollars), and then you have more for varied uses, and second we have a lot of taxes that if you see how much they collect in reality it obstructs the economy. It has a lot of reasons but these are the main ones i think. I believe in Milei 2023, and we're going to make a long-term plan to make the country rise again.

I believe at one point in time the UK gov considered seizing Argentina from Espana but as usual, Britain was bogged down in their ruling classes 'Jewel In The Crown', cholera and poverty stricken India.

Argentina:I could have been a contender.😔

To be a power, never mind superpower, there require tremendous sacrifice of sweat, tears and blood of the people…only very few are willing to pay to make this reality for themselves and their children

Es magnifico el Glaciar Perito Moreno. Recomiendo visitarlo, se van a enamorar