What if Anyone Won the War of 1812? 

Lmaooo seriously? That's fucking awesome. If there's anything saying "God is not on our side" it's that.

That’s “Mongolians not conquering Japan because they got hit by a typhoon both times” tier

That’s fucking hilarious.

Mother nature is the ultimate victor of 1812

Sure they burned the White House, but we had God as our cavalry

Oh Monty Python never change.

Battle of York

"Victory is mine! We thank thee lord, that in my-" *KICK* "Have at you!"

@@FelipeJaquez your stupid, York wasn’t and still isn’t Canada’s capital.

@@mervynlan7727 true

I mean if that wasn't us we just wouldn't be America.

America in WWII Europe organized and efficient America in the Pacific (especially Midway): LEEEEROY

@@exudeku I feel like Japan would be the one yelling leeroy and Germany is the one who is talking about the facts and plan as the Japanese just banzai into pearl harbor.

Through luck, bullshit, and plot-armour, the Americans were able to out-manoeuvre the highly-organized Japanese navy, resulting in a decisive victory for the allies. Seriously though, who has THAT much luck?!

@@No1Poop midway in a nutshell

Nice

interesting!

Well, must be a pretty nice town

Lol and that town... Is New York City... Haha jk

@@JunkBondTrader it probably is lol

Most Canadians don’t take responsibility for burning the White House probably because we want to keep our good image

@@nekkerscam what do you mean I tell Americans we burnt the White House down all the time, it gives us something to brag about, just don’t tell them I said that

@@nekkerscam Every Canadian I know brings up burning down the White House eventually lol

Well technically all the troops who burned it down we're from the Canadian colonies . Just to Let everyone know I'm f****** with everyone

@@nekkerscam speak for your self, and we’ll fucking do it again

Ironically, the song was created by the French.

@@thomaswilson3827 Sacré bleu!

@@thomaswilson3827 cause the french king had ass pain

@@thomaswilson3827 Actually it was originally an old German anthem called Heil Dir Im Siegerkranz

Don't tell me what I can and can't argue about. Wanna fight about it?

that's a terrible history professor. My high school self would have been able to clear this up

That's kinda funny.

Ok

@@nakedgorillasoutback ok

Technically you're calling Britain "glorious" as Canada was a puppet of the British Empire

@@oliversherman2414 was

I know but just on a technical level you know

@@jim7601 To be fair most countries on earth have done horrible things. Canada is no exception. Buuut at least we acknowledge it and (most) Canadians wants to be better than our ancestors.

@@gunterthekaiser6190 lol what ? I'm just pointing out his hypocrisy I dont think anyone of today is responsible

The day of the Rake is nigh.

Smh as a canadian I am sad

@@jim7601 Canada was just mildly less bad than the US when it came to the natives.

UK: "What are you going to do, bleed on me?" US: "I'M INVINCIBLE!!!"

US: destroys the Bri’ish at New Orleans UK: “we totally won that”

@@Jjb-gk4ce dude you won one battle? Burning your enemy's Capitol > winning one battle lmao

@@stefvanderstraeten8921 Battle of York, entire Canadian capital turned to ash

@@Jjb-gk4ce The British overall killed more, the battle was fought after the treaty, before the battle concluded they had thousands of more dead Americans compared to British troops, they basically stomped on them while not caring.

I am from Nunavut it’s pretty cold up here

I’m from Ontario I’m a basic Canadian

@@silver3331 Hey a fellow basic Canadian! What’s up my guy?

@@MacTac141 it’s going great.

I'm an Albertan and I was pretty miffed as well. Granted, I'm in Edmonton, but still.

When yall get tired of funding the social programs of Ontario, we got a new us flag already prepped

@@daltonfarris LOL, Alberta would be crazy to swap to the USA. They think they got it bad in a country where they contain 12% of the population, so they jump ship to be 1% of the population of the USA? Alberta has been the home of 3/23 prime ministers, and gets piles of federal support for pipelines and oil sands development. If they swapped to the USA they'd get nothing of the sort, the entire Alberta economy is smaller than that of Houston, and their population is half that of New York City. They may be Canada's Texas, but as part of the US they'd be a nothing more than a second Louisiana.

@@agilemind6241 their vote could sway control in presidental elections. The tax rates would be halfed.

Being a British colony at the time, it was them.

@@6hughmungus9 The British army weren't Canadians.

As A Canadian!! No the Canadian militias where not involved with burning of the White House. Huge deference between Militia and Red coated British regulars!! I tried to teach my fellow Albertans about this and they get mad as fuck at me.

@@RevengeOfTheKaizer Canada wasnt a nation then... "Canadian" if anyone actually called themself that, was just a term for the british people living in Canada. The british army wasnt comprised of Canadians, but Canada was absolutely British at the time. I know it hurts american feelings that the White House got burned down. But this pretending like Canada wasnt involved and that the war was a draw is incredibly petty. Only American historians claim it was a draw.

@@jaredisley-oliver389 Theres a difference in the fighting forces but not in the nation they represent. Whether militia or red coat they were all representing one nation. You might be educating some on the difference in coat colour, but you might want to brush up on the political history of the nation you're from.

In the overall scheme of things it really wasnt

Privateers used pirate tatics sooo, kinda lol

@@jab4043 But does that really warrant a D when only a single part of the paper was about Jean Lafitte

@@morganv7895 She wrote that quote in the margins on my paper. Honestly the only thing different between a Pirate and a Privateer is that a nation bribed them for preferential treatment.

@@SixWingZombi That is True. I would agree with you more.

Your culture would be the exact same, except more accepting of your Americanness

The US and Canada are perhaps the two most culturally similar countries on Earth. It’s just that Canada’s constant inferiority complex forces it to overemphasize minor differences.

@@donaldwobamajr6550 everyone wants to be their own special snowflake

I mean we'd have to pay for healthcare

​@@azure4622 Lol, maybe in this alternative timeline, we'd actually have affordable Healthcare? Pribably not though

They fought 3 wars for tea for goodness' sake.

-unless there was a huge economic incentive to do so *sips tea*

the native buffer state would be the periphery of the periphery, and they'd have little to offer commercially to the UK itself (although there could certainly be significant trade between canada and the native state via the great lakes. The american fur trade after 1800 is way less important to the uk than something like the situation in china/opium wars where they were opening the worlds richest and most populous country to european exploitation. Also even though this was the start of its imperial century, the UK was a naval power through and through and even with a large canadian great lakes fleet there's only so much they can do to support the new native state against the americans militarily. I'd expect a lot of more covert economic and technical support though

Falkland Islands: Are you sure about that

@@arcticlaw9198 Was just going come and make a similar comment.

Apparently George Washington was pissed from the heavens.

so, basically imperial Japan?

@@fighter1375 *If George Washington Showed Up In American Gods:*

Washington did well

He descends down like Zeus and vaporizes the entire invading British force by just looking at them with his lightning bolt stare.

It’s true but he shouldn’t say it

bruh yeah same

Isn't there a group in Alberta that wants to join the US?

Heh, I was first actually told this by a guy from Calgary. Based on what I know, Alberta's culture is strikingly similar to say Texas or Montana.

@@RoxRock4ever def Texas. People see Texas ‘The Southern State’ but I think that title goes to Arkansas. Texas really is in many ways more of just a Midwestern state with a big population

More like America's brain.

@@HamishDuh2nd *weird Russian noises* Have yuo forgot about a Nordic comrade Cyka?

Big time American here. Yet I couldn't help but find that comment "you're not America's hat, you're America's lid," strangely hilarious! Loved it!

We Canadians are the loft apartment. Above a insane party, Yelling "Keep it down, People are trying to sleep!!" >.< Then come up hear ranting and raveing drunk, break our lamp say " sorry bro" then go back down stairs. americans -_-

@@mattsamoto4451 The desire to just Amex your country keeps growing. I mean, it’s not like your military would actually put up a fight. But at the same time, Canada doesn’t have any actual worth. So maybe it would be more fun to just pour money into Quebec and western Canada. If I remember correctly they both love Canada with a passion so it’ll be fun to see how that plays out.

If it makes them feel better about themselves. Just let them have their moment

What a bore you are. Just because the colonies weren't yet united into a single state doesn't mean they couldn't perfectly reasonably collectively be called "Canada".

John Jacob Astor had already started setting up fur trading in present day Eastern Washington, I think Rupertland was actually larger then he showed, and Quebec but it was a 1763 thing.

@@cringefairy2687 but they didn't call it that.

@@TheLesterino So what?

We all would bro Here’s my fanfic: Based President John Quincy Adams is elected to a record five terms, during which he enacts women’s suffrage, gets slavery abolished, doesn’t commit genocide, and ascends to the heavens at the ripe old age of 103 He is posthumously declared as having the most big-dick energy in American history and unofficially deified Then everyone clapped

The good timeline

Better Jackson than Obama.

I would prefer a scenario about US history with Teddy Roosevelt as President during WWI.

@@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu That is a thing you said openly on the internet for everyone to read.

Thats kinda how napoleon worked till now and it worked till russia... The best scenario would be for napoleon to isolate the russian in a "defansive" war to wipe the russian army therefore scaring the prussian out of another coalition and when russia is to weak and will either ruins the british to keep on fighting or more likely make another peace, Napoléon could properly take care of Spain and get rid of the huge attrition for the french forces there. Invading russia with napoleonic technology is simply not worth it

@@erwannthietart3602 Napoleon wasn't going to "properly take care of Spain." He was centuries too soon to counter an insurgency by any means other than to make a desert and call it peace. If he did that I think even the America of the time would decide England was the lesser evil. Napoleon is no longer effectively fighting back on the seas at this point because he and his Spanish allies have lost too much institutional knowledge and maintaining an age of sail navy on station is relatively cheaper than a steam powered navy. Britain can keep going for decades at sea; pretty much forever if the expanded US doesn't maintain a timber embargo.

@@nathanbrown8680 by "properly take care of Spain" i would mean settle for a few region of Spain and call it a day, its easyer to maintain controll over a few region than the whole place, and if Napoleon was wise enough to realise Russia isnt worth invading , he would be wise enough to realise spain isnt worth keeping under those condition. As for the Brits sure they COULD keep going for a long long time, but its not worth it for buiseness, even if they can fund another coalition or 5 no one would try to face france in the open (on land), so might aswell settle for a peace deal and focus on the colony like they did in real life.

@B Whit youre right im not saying Russia is weak in the 19th, im saying Napoleonic France was powerfull large and skilled enough to crush any army in the open at that point, only winter and the bold russian strat of burning their own land to prevent supply from getting into the invaders hand saved this united Russia in 1812. Therefore not invading Russia and simply settle to crush their army in poland (and yes the Russian would likely be crushed, even with the austrian and prussian they lost so alone...) would be enough to force Russia into peace. (Btw the mongols were divided already when united russian won against them. The remains of the golden horde aint the mongol empire.) General winter is Russia greatest weapon, and main reason why invading this huge country is NOT worth it.

@@erwannthietart3602 Contrary to popular belief the reason Napolean and Hitler failed at invading Russia is actually because of the fall. There is so much mud that moving supplies becomes almost impossible. That is one reason scorched earth actually worked. The only way for these armies to get supplied is by living off the land. Since no supplies were ever going to arrive since carts(for Napolean) and trucks (For Hitler) filled with supplies would never arrive.

More like The US: Ok we can stop now. Signs a peace treaty The US: Just one more battle, while we wait for the treaty to arrive back. Wins the battle of New Orleans. The US: We totaly won the war. USA! USA! The British: Eh whatever off to fight Napoleon again.

The war was declared over before the battle of new orleans its just that information traveled slower than

@@KKKKKKK777js Napoleon had already been exiled by then

If the British actually gave a single shit about the War of 1812, the US probably wouldn't be around today.

@@KKKKKKK777js You do realize napoleon was exiled by then?

I haven’t watched this but I know it will be controversial

@@vancetheseas3471 I already see people arguing about who really won in the comments.

The best part of this video is when Cody mentions hid great grandaddy S. Cauldren, I loved that part, it felt sweet for some reason to find out who was your grandfather: sort of like when Underwood found out his grandpop fought in the Civil War.

I’m like 500 :)

It's pretty confusing since there are some pretty solid arguments for both sides I think. One being the US didn't accomplish it's war goals, while on the other side the UK had paid the US reparations for it. That kind of means nobody really won and there were only losers.

That’s a lot of grandfathers

@Oritra Kar and everyone knows we did

@Oritra Kar Sure, the UK did it's duties, but they probably didn't really want to. This is why this is a war nobody really understands too well. It was after that war that hostilities between the US and the UK ended. Basically "let's be nice with that new country so we don't have to do that anymore". I think people are too simple minded on the subject of war, because they just comprehend the idea that if there was no border expansion then it was a failure. Kind of like Viet Nam. It was a defensive war for the southern area, but of course American didn't conquer anything so it was a loss... right? So simple minded.

@@sik3xploit seeing as South Vietnam ended up being pretty brutally annexed, it was an actual failure and defeat as a defensive war, not merely perceived as a defeat by the public. Korea would be a better illustration and might be what you meant. I agree with the point you're making, though.

America is just Britain with an attitude and a heavy dose of narcissism. Their constitution was written using British enlightenment philosophy.

@@elias_xp95 lol it was one of the congressmen back then that said "We didn't make anything new, we just took the best of what's already made". And yes, very much like British philosophy. It's why it was designed as "constitutional", but instead of a monarchy it was made a republic.

Different Perry.

wrong Commodore Perry, this was Oliver Hazard Perry, Jacan-opener was Matthew Calbraith Perry

This was Matthew Perry's brother actually.

Which Perry played Chandler Bing? :-D

@@akosleoszilagyi2529 nice

I have a friend from “Trois-rivière?” And he says he’d rather be a US state. Is he the one Canadian that likes America ?

@@saberwing753 I'm an American, so I'm not reallyyyyy too sure. But I think there's something of a sub-culture (mostly in western Canada, particularly Alberta) of secret pro-Americans

@@guacre2675 in Alberta it's not really secret, half of us hate the idea of being American and half of us already believe they live there. ...somehow...

@@thepurplepanda4 Well, to the second half, I say welcome to an identical country

For now.

Ah yes, Canadia

I, too, love adding extra vowoels to words.

They got their capitol (York) burned by American troops and the real fighting was done by British soldiers sent from the Spanish theater, Canada did jack shit in the war.

@@liammcshane7985 ah another person who slept through history class I see

Zontar Likewise, what? Are you from Canada where they teach you that nonsense drivel? Must suck being Canadian, at least the Yanks have got their Revolution and moon landings, we have our Empire, and you well, you have your hand carried by us British and your greatest national identity moment was carried and won by us. Terribly sorry but your history is frankly worthless.

Well, "Canadian culture" (other than Quebec) isn't different from American culture in general (er, North American culture tbh). True, there are obviously differences between the two in things like government or a few Canadian TV shows. But virtually everything else is, in fact, the same (which most Americans don't even realize, and Canadians seem to reject the idea of) ~more on a second comment~

Ultimately, things like food, language, lifestyle, history, a lot of the history, etc. are nearly the same (again, except for Quebec). Even (from my experiences with South Africans) South Africans acknowledge the fact that their culture is heavily influenced by/largely taken from the USA--and they live... well, pretty far.

@@guacre2675 I think "virtually everything else is the same" is definitely overstating it, and in many ways Canadian culture is still a hybrid of British and American (tilted more towards American, to be sure, but definitely not identical to it 'apart from government and a few TV shows'). Certainly linguistically it's pretty indisputable that there are quite a few key differences between Canadian and American English (with Canadian English having many holdovers from British English as well as plenty of its own idiosyncrasies). And if we're talking about things like temperament, national character, or whatever nebulous labels for these concepts you want to use, it's hard to quantify specifically but IMO there are definitely important distinctions we can make between the two countries. The stereotypes like 'the individualistic American' and 'the apologetic Canadian" exist for a reason because there is some truth to them, and even though, as Sean said, many of the differences are slowly fading away as time passes, I think they're still widespread enough to be noteworthy. Even among relatively recent arrivals. They may not have the same ethnic heritage, but they - and especially their children - adopt many of the same attitudes and values.

@@siukong 1) The language is just absurd. Spelling differences can hardly be called culture. That's way, way, way too specific. Culture is about lifestyle (hobbies, religion, food, language (not spelling differences--I mean the fact that we both speak English), values/mannerisms, etc). 2) Stereotypes are not culture either. Canadians don't say they have DIFFERENT values/ways of showing respect, manners, etc. So even if the stereotype is true of them being better at sticking with their values, they still have the same values.

Also, "national character" is not only almost impossible to quantity, it doesn't mean anything to common folk. A nation is not made of ridiculous top-down ideas like that, but a nation is made up of the people who live there and their finer details like culture.

No? Americans teaching inaccurate Americanised alternative reality? The British won the war of 1812 the Americans sued for peace after failing in most their objectives with the British literally securing every last one of there's.

@Kai Sullivan everything west of Ontario would be easily assimilated

THE UNITED NORTH AMERICAN STATES

@Kai Sullivan I might've worded that wrong, I meant he would sweat nervously like, "Oh, tell me more."

lol

Now imagine if the USA Conquered Canada Mexico Central America the Caribbean Greenland keeps Liberia and the Philippines that’s what all of the USA’s territorial ambitions combined was

To be fair we did burn your capital to the ground first so it’s all good. 👍

It’s not like we can’t rebuild

@@DocuNamics well; Although the explosion of the powder keg of York did explode, it was not intended; it initiated Admiral Ross in Bermuda to burn DC; and DC was a capital federally, when York was one of several colonial capitals at war with the USA, having their federal government in London (which was not burned during this war) :)

I mean fair. Who wouldn’t flex that your country burned the capitol of the worlds strongest super power.

your righ

What if is Cody's signature description for an event that could have happened but didn't

You can't be too mean, Cody is American, it's hard for him to see things objectively.

Yah american friend.

Britain, did you forget something? Namely a short Frenchman in a big hat?

@@kennandunn7533 Nappy wasn't short

@@LordVader1094 SHH, don't let the British know!

@Seaworth the ultimate strategy of running away...

Well the USA got Carleton island and West Florida in the war.

We could be resource-independent now if not for bureaucracy.

@@macsenplays Hahahahahahaha

​@@macsenplays you are resource independent my guy. Food, oil, metals. You got it all.

The one the British don't care about, because waterloo

Eh we brits haven't really forgotten it. Just not talked about. We do learn it in a very oversimplified way when Learning about napoleonic wars.

@@A2pattingPod042 Most non-history interested peeps don't know of it. Heck i'm pretty into history and even I only really know about the burning of the whitehouse part. It's generally just remembered as the time we dabbed on those yankee traitors.

British didn’t win. As the video states.

@@TheIceman567 Hmm Idk about that one. Here I’ll state it like this, America’s war aims: Stop Impressment and arms sales to Indians, to be achieved through the conquest of Canada the only thing the US can actually do to hurt the UK. So their political objectives are made irrelevant almost instantly because news arrives from the UK that Britain has decided to stop those things (but the news was delayed). Now the Americans could simply call it quits... but no they want their military objective of taking Canada, but now Canada is thee only reason for the USAs war. So America’s war objective is take Canada... did they succeed? No. Britain’s war objectives: None we just got war declared on us. What does the UK want to do? It wants to focus on winning the French who are 10 times the threat. So what do they do about the USA? Answer their aims are simply hold on to Canada and to end this stupid side show as quickly as possible so they can finish off Napoleon. Did they succeed? Yes. So what were the peace terms? Status quo... what was the geo strategic situation when the treaty was signed (to the best knowledge of the diplomats)? The situation was the American invasions of Canada had failed the UK had raided the US coast, and the battle of New Orleans hadn’t happened yet and neither side new about it happening because it hadn’t actually occurred when the deal was made (the most decisive battle for the US in the war had zero impact on the peace treaty). As far as those diplomats were concerned the Americans had failed to take on the colonies of Canada backed by the small North American squadron, while Britain had been primarily focused on a continental war against Napoleons empire. Now Napoleon was gone Europe was at peace and Britain could now send reinforcements to North America en mass if it so wished. If it wanted to it could finish the job. So to reiterate America’s apparent justification for declaring war was made redundant, so the sole focus became taking Canada, which they then hopelessly failed to do. Britain’s war objective boiled down to: Just peace out and don’t lose Canada and if there’s time bonk America for trying to take it. Yeah these war objectives tell the story really...

As a spaniard, if someone said the war of 1812, everyone would think of our War of Independence, which is kinda a weird name. But we have to get creative when naming our civil wars...

@@Ditidos Mexico declared independence declaring allegiance to the House of Borbón, so, yeah, it was a Spaniard independence from Napoleonic France.

Well considering the Napoleonic war was going on in the beginning of it yeah they probably didn't even know a war was happening in North America. Hell most people in America don't even know how many wars are going on around the world today.

Europe: Napoleonic Wars? Latin America: War of independence?

@@jgr7487 Yeah, but I mean the one we had on the Iberian Peninsula. After all, Napoleon's brother got the throne completely legaly, it was a weird thing. And in retrospective, it might have been better to let Spain in the hands of Napoleon's brother... Unless you mean Mexican independence war was the same one, in that case the name has much more sense.

Join us

@@seandonahue4469 Not going to lie Texas’s second Amendment stance makes that offer tempting

Except Alberta has more common sense and is colder

@@elharvey5032 Spoken like someone who doesn't live here!

@@elharvey5032 and we still couldn't get a pipeline down to the refineries around Texas City.

The more I think about it the more it does

Yes

That sounds more like a disney rip off

Sounds like an israel politician name.

Sounds like my next DND character's name.

Sorry about that. I'll try to keep it down. Have a good day. enjoy the weather eh

There’s so many of them around here pissed about it

Just a friendly American imperialist stopping by to say hello

@@jacksauce Hey there! Wanna go rob someone of their oil?

@@michaelsoland3293 happens. Patriotism and all

Because it was a one day coastal raid. It's not like a city made of wood is somehow fire resistant due to it's political importance. Did a cow win a strategic victory because it burned Chicago? They lit a cheeky fire a fucked right off

I mean we burned down the capital of Upper Canada so it is pretty even

First Canada wasn’t a country, if you asked people from Canada at the time what they considered themselves they would say British.

Oh montey

Meanwhile: Crusaders: *burn constantinople* Byzantium: *fucking dies*

Other way around, actually.

@@RevengeOfTheKaizer fr tho

Only Americans think they "won" or they call it a draw. The British knew they won hence why Wellington said the war in Canada was successful

Just the white house. The rest of Washington was saved by divine intervention. That isn't much of an exaggeration since that freak storm was in fucking DC of all places, and absolutely massive.

@@whodareswins486 It's not like we burned down Toronto or anything like that. The British didn't win anything; they had to give up their claims on lands south of the 48th parallel and vacated the area. If anything, America won a political victory by proving that it could hold its own and achieved further recognition as a legitimate, sovereign state.

THANK YOU SO MUCH

Didn't he literally say something like that in the video already?

@@MagnustheMage people quote the video everyone just watched all the time. It’s annoying

@@baker7280 I mean we ain't exactly looking for introspective pieces of art in here. If people want to quote their favorite part of the video, that lets others comment under that quote and expand on that topic. This has the same energy as getting mad at someone for quoting a book line in a book club. Like bro, come off a little

@@totaldan99 you go to book clubs often?

@@baker7280 I mean my gf does, i just go when i got nothing better to do tbh

@Robert Ortiz-Wilson With DC possibly becoming a new state I too think more so it should

maybe all of canada can join the US as well.. JKJK -unless-

Saskatchewan considered it too, depending on how the last Quebecois referendum turned out.

@@prestonjones1653 almost all of Canada debated it. But the thing is, it wouldn’t work. Even though Alberta and Saskatchewan pretend they’re different. They still have strong Canadian pride. They wouldn’t vote to leave, just to replace the government.

@@owenplourde3934 although the government fucking sucks you’re right, here in Alberta there’s nothing we love more then Canada.

Good reading comprehension

I think there is a case that the Vikings were unable to establish a permanent settlement in America because the native population was more robust and confrontational at that time, but there was a major population collapse about 100 years before European settlement, so you had a lot of weak and fractured tribes that couldn't organize a resistance to british colonies.

I think that would occur if the Vinland settlements had survived, they would have brought alot of those diseases over much earlier, giving natives more time to recover from the exchange, but the Columbian Exchange was going to happen one way or another

The thing is, I don't know if ultimately anything would've changed, just our pace of expansion would've slowed down. Disease isn't what let Spain conquer Central and South America, it was using the hatred of the tribes for each other to their advantage (and in the case of Pizarro, he showed up in Peru right at the exact perfect time because there was a complete political shitshow going on in the Inca Empire that made them unable to focus on him). One of the big reasons the American Indian tribes failed to stop us is in no small part because they couldn't stop fighting each other long enough to form a united front. The Little Bighorn wasn't notable just because we lost but also because it was a rare time that several tribes teamed up like that.

@@SeruraRenge11 you said american indian do you mean indigenous peoples

@ The American Indian Movement saw pejorative connotations in the term native and reappropriated the term Indian in the 1990s, to the point that most of them preferred calling themselves American Indians over Native Americans. Russell Means, an Oglala Lakota activist, opposed the term Native American because he believed it was imposed by the government without the consent of Native people. He has also argued that the use of the word Indian derives not from a confusion with India but from a Spanish expression en Dios meaning "in God".

And you got a big (F), right Ioser?

They didn’t do the A B C for grade thing in my school they did the numbers

@@GenericCommenter-by4zi And you got a big Zero or Minus Hundred (-100), right Ioser ???

No I think I did ok like around the 80s

@@unclejeffthechad9459 That feels like an attack :/

"What if Coronavirus didn't happened?" "Well, first of all i think Covid wasn't such an important event in our history. It wouldn't stop the US intervention in the Midlee east, nor the russian anexation of Ukraine. If we see it by a modern view, we would realise it wasn't even that deadly, it's not like the world stopped work-" "NO"

*BLAM*

It isnt?

@@wehatetimmy Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

Yep, Americans only like it because it's good music to blow things up to. Literally, it's fireworks music and we as Americans can just gloss over that whole stuff about autocracy saving Russia from the ravages of republican ideas because things are exploding big and pretty in the sky. This is, of course, why America is #1.

As a kind, as some people should note. We don't know until we get older and look it up. Also it does not in fact happen as often as some Europeans like to make it out to be, but most Americans, at least adult Americans, do not think it's about the War of 1812. We already know Tchaikovsky is a Russian name and that the style of 1812 Overture is distinctly Russian.

​@@nathaniellindner313 Or Americans like it because Americans also like classical music. As for Americans liking that sight of pretty exploding stuff in the sky because we have simple, unrefined brains when it comes to proper culture. Have you seen the metal and techo, trance, dance scene in Europe? Have you seen the the firework displays and the light shows of those concerts? It's huge over there, and is bigger there than it is here.

Be very lucky he didn't, South Africa is a racist cesspool now and days, and not good ol' American racism that you're used to

Too much land and people. America already can't manage what land they have. Northern Canada would probably be poorer. Or the same.

@@hex1233 it’s really not. Most of Canada’s population is already close to the border. And the state of California has more people than the entirety of Canada. It would manage

@@hex1233tell me you know nothing about what you’re talking about, without directly telling me

Though there would be a fair chance Russia never sells Alaska to the US, as a big part of that sale was to prevent the British from simply seizing it in a war, and selling it at least generates some cash from the territory. With no British presence in North America, they may hold onto it long enough to find the oil and mineral riches it holds. Or they may decide it's not worth the trouble to explore it all and sell it anyway, they have wars to prepare for afterall, can't waste time and money on what seems to be a vast expanse of snow and pine trees.

Time to illegally overthrow the democratically elected government and install an American puppet dictatorship that will commit countless violations of basic human rights!

@@idot3331 The Soviets their entire history: Time to overthrow the democratically elected government and install a Communist puppet dictatorship that will commit countless violations of human rights!

@@iterationfackshet1990 and how does that make americans any less fascist, exactly?

@@512TheWolf512 Imperialist and interventionist are the words you’re looking for. Stop destroying the meaning of fascism.

@@ZeteticPhilosopher dude, I don't get why people is so stupid that have no idea what Fascism is. Like you said, it was interventionist and imperialism. Other point is what of those governments were, but most of them were military juntas not Facist states.

The Quebeckers would have. They had been calling themselves canadiens for over a 100 years before confederation.

Maybe we could've been North Americans instead of Americans. That would've been nice.

@@crowpotking1100 You mean to say there's a second, southern America? What the fuck is that garbage?

@@kingstarscream320 I'm also a bit amused that his "US wins" scenario has Americans moving to 19th century Quebec and out-populating the locals. The high local birth rate and ready access to warmer, more productive land in other parts of NA meant that Quebec was more a source of migrants -- both those born in Quebec and those just stopping there on the way to somewhere better -- than a magnet for migrants.

@@kingstarscream320 Doesn’t Quebec also like to keep talking about how they are going to secede but never do, like a Canadian Texas?

Ww1 had a much bigger part to play in that

@@godlovesyou1995 idk. I think the fact that everyone wasn't salty anymore helped more create the alliance in ww1

@@godlovesyou1995 the US and UK were very friendly with each other prior to WW1. WW1 just solidified their alliance as a military one

It's kind of funny how the relationship between the US and the UK is incredibly similar to the 'characters that start as enemies but become best friends after a fight' trope seen everywhere in fiction.

@@nonameisopen it's like the father and son reconciling after years apart. They both started to understand each other's position, they might not agree with it, but at least they respect it.

Pretty good point.

I'm from Norway and thought Edmonton was in America for a while, so

Can confirm, we burnt it down but they were in on the whole thing. ;-)

Alberta is _not_ American.

@@infinitecanadian Ok, bud.

Why not the US did the same with ww1 and 2 turned up late and picked the bones and cost us our empire.

@@Robert399 The Battle of New Orleans was in 1815.

@@infinitecanadian Oops :)

The Russians got Napoleon first but sure!

And it was the last time a European power won a world-wide war against another European power without US help.

@@RedneckRapture give them WWI. The US was influential in WWII.

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Literally this. **Types name into ancestry** Ancestry: Here is a blank tree for you to fill in.

"... starting with you, you frat fuck"