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As I watch Althist's analysis, I realise he actually reads from a diverse source (or atleast his researchers does). I realise from some of his specific references, that he actually keeps a close track on Indian TH-camr analysis, the english speaking part of it. It would be great, if he gave credit to them though.
Instead of dismissing everyone who tried to provide some correction to his assumption as "hyper nationalist indian" and actually cared to listen. But overall reasonable analysis is gicen by whatifalthist.
BRICS was never an alliance, but a partnership made by an economist who thought that it would be beneficial for these countries to work together. This completely overlooks geopolitical, strategic and possible economic incompatibility of these countries.
@@Alehzinhah tbh This guy's take is just as credible as what a history professor could tell you on most things, maybe not on this one but a lot of things. Pretty much everything you hear or have ever heard is fake news, including this video and most of what you believe.
@@Alehzinhah Honestly if you still think undergraduate degrees impart useful knowledge in 2023, may I kindly suggest Peter Zeihan as being more your style.
Honestly, I've always steuggled to even define what the hell the BRICS actually even is on paper. It always seemed to abstract and something never truly reinforced.
@@apollyon2018 Yeah, your right its a false belief mainly born out of ignorance and face value assertions. It provides a more interesting platform to see the politicking that does go on however, like how third world nations use the threat of collaborating with Russia or China, as a boogey man to achieve concessions from the West, which hey, good for them.
Anyone who went to university in the 90s should realize that everything you learned outside of STEM is complete bullcrap bs- international relations, new economics, finance, history, Sociology, etc.....all taught by professional grifters and frauds with Phd's.
White Scumbags always favor Jihadis and keep calling everyone calling out 🅱️uslims as Hindu Nationalists. How about terms like White ☪️hristian Supremacists. White races have less historical significance than Asians and will be extinct soon
China is going to become the new religious capital of the world. Where it would become the most religious country in the world and export religion. (What to think of it?) It’s got a gaping religion hole, might happen in future.
@@1mol831 What kind of religion in China? Traditional religion grow only in Taiwan, not China. Maybe there will be some form of new age religion in China looks like Scientology, but I am not sure whether this type of religion is something you are talking about.
As an Brazilian myself, I feel like the most common trope in Brazil’s histories is to face huge institutional/political change, have an economic boom, be called “the country of the future”, then collapse based on its internal contradictions which somehow is never truly able to grow out but only readapt to the era it is in (boiling down in being a highly unequal post slavery society with an tendency to create huge bureaucracies). Then the country will probably enter an decade of stagnation and the circle restarts. Every major phase in our history plays this script: the empire, the first republic, the Vargas Revolution, the second republic, the military dictatorship and the new democracy…
As a Brazilian I'd love to say the American intelligence boycotted us or something but particularly about my country it was solely our own goddamn fault. Everyone else around the world has no idea how hard it is to be Brazilian. The literal only move is to leave to a better country. Hard mode is real
Yeah Brazil seems too be permanently stuck as a middle income country for some bizarre reason despite have a massive population, great geography, and a ton of resources. It's like you guys can't get out of your own way
It always baffled me as an Indian how can we sit with the Chinese on same block or cooperation when there are 6 divisions from both countries locked in standoff on the border.
@@kartikeyatiwari2502In which we buy far more stuff from them, than they buy from us. I am not saying the trade shouldn't happen but it benefits them overall than it does to us.
@@surajbiradar9827 It benefits both countries, were India to import the same stuff from other countries at a higher price the resulting products or services wouldn't be competitive in the global market.
India doesn't have 5000 years of caste system. It would be around 100BC-300 CE when 'Manusmriti' was written. Vedas are older than that. Vedas (1000BC-2000BC) have varna system which depends on one's behaviour. It hasn't to be confused with Manusmriti. Caste System probably originated around 0-500 CE.
As a brazilian myself, it amazes me how to this day many foreigners (and even brazilians) see Brics as an "anti-NATO", or even an economic partnership in any significant way. It's more than anything a glorified forum, reminiscent of the early 2000s "block mania" when everyone wanted to make their own club,. Not unlike the African Union, the OTS, or any "Community of X Language Countries"
Brics is entirely a power play lead by the CCP. It's explicitly anti NATO from the CCP lead side as it's literally the CCPs Hegemony vs the USs Hegemony and the CCP is attempted to steal the USs Thunder. The economic side of the equation is rather simple if ones into geopolitcal economics as a past time. The CCP lead BRICS is a pro commodity economic bloc. The WEF side (Western) is a pro finance side. Both sides are vying for power over the other to lead which ever doctrine wins out. The truth is that the BRICS side wins by default on their theory, but they're self sabotaging because the CCPs innate internal political behavior is not conducive to organic growth. Russia itself is pretty much a Despotic lead Federation and is sanctioned heavily since its invasion of Georgia during the last major economic mealt down. Iran is just... a crackpot. And Brazil has notorious corruption issues (you can't hide this. It's obvious). While the west has major issues with corruption that its better at hiding, its even better that its economic bloc is well established, robust and extremely wealthy. It's taken something as bad as a Joe Biden President and a historically low rated Congress to really drag the US down to a low nearly as bad as the late 70s. China, Russia, Iran, Brazil, they all do not have the economic stock to survive major dips once connected. A lot of that rests squarely on China which is probably the biggest liar in the world in terms of its economic health. Since 2015, their economy has been propped up mostly by propaganda and data manipulation. This has lead the potentially dominance of BRICS dead in the water before they even left port because each nation is just individually not in a peer to peer match for the WEF aligned states. However that said, the WEF igned states are currently going full retard on purpose because believe it or not, Klaus Schwab (who leads the WEF as its his brain child) is actually very interested in the CCPs style of economic governance. He directly praises Xi's State Capitalist structure over the Free Market Capitalist structure of the traditional west. What he proposes is an advanced form that's in line with Xi's Communist Theory (he's written several) that he calls 'Stake Holder Capitalism' which is the aim of Xi in China. The idea is the supplant the world's sovereign nations with an umbrella order that he quite literally named the New Liberal World Order and that forum will have Technocrats that lead a super national totalitarian technocracy. The only difference between his idea and the CCPs is that the CCP is exclusively Sinocentric and affective racist. They're nationalist so all their theories declare them being the head of the Global Hegemonic State in a form of Sino-supremacy. Western Leaders seems to be ok with that because so long as they get their slice of the pie, they don't care. That's why ESG exists, to keep their approval within the new order rather it be the WEFs idea or the CCPs. With the West following such destructive policies as ESG, SEL, CRT, CQT and more, there is a chance BRICS can succeed because despite their fascistic habits locally, they do tend to favor actual scientific study and results where as the ESG, SEL ecf models do not. The ideological gnosticism of the leaders of the West can be their downfall, allowing the CCP and Russia some leverage to rebound - although I don't see this happening by a long shot. That said, the BRICs vs the West fight has been and always was a geopolitical power play by China and close allies, Russia and Iran. Even now, Russia and India along with Iran are rekindling partnerships to secure that isolated, parallel commodity base economic bloc by revisiting seriously the Persian canal project that would build a trade traffic capable canal from the coast and through Tehran, all the way to the Caspian Sea, bypassing the western hegemonic grasp at the Strait of Harmuz. They are still trying to make it work and the obvious decoupling between the two major blocs is on purpose, part of that power play. It'll likely still fail spectacularly but the incompetence and dogmatic nature of the Western leaders to keep their virtue in this gnostic cancer of Neo Marxisf origin could make the competition close regardless.
Anyone remember “the next 100 years?” It was a book written by George Friedman, predicting that Poland and Turkey would be alongside the US and China as world leaders in the 2020s…. 😮
@@Gamerguy826 Nah Turkiye is still doing pretty great tbh. It's hit a rough patch but overall carving out its own sphere, admittedly due to the lack of any real powers in its neighborhood (12% average inflation do be a bitch though).
I'm a lowly Welder with a struggling but advancing mobile business and it troubles me that people can't see what is going on. Thank you for bringing common sense to the internet. At least I don't feel alone in my opinions.
Being somebody that's interested in getting into welding, may I ask how much math plays a role into your job? I know this is such a weird and probably dumb question but I don't want to invest so much money into getting my education only to be too dumb to get any certifications. Thanks.
Welders are such a huge deal. This nation may need you if we wind up in a civil conflict or revolution. 3D printing has gotten pretty good, but it still is no match for machining and welding.
Moved to Brazil in 2014, lived there for 7 years. Horrifying and heartbreaking how their economy unravelled and stayed that way, bordering on social apocalypse with COVID. But the more I learned about the culture, the more it made sense. My programmer friends were unusually smart and capable, but seemed to get fired every few months. Managers saw them as a threat and did everything to get rid of them, while venerating incompetents. A typical office was full of people just talking and goofing off all day, and the busiest person there was bound to be kicked out. Most of them are now outsourcing to the US. The reason Brazil seemingly cannot compete internationally in anything but commodities is quite simple - their work culture just doesn't value talent or human capital. It's sad, because a lot of Brazilians bought into the whole BRICS thing, believing that they would automatically become millionaires.
You summarized it pretty well. Brazil has a great potential and Brazilian people are extremely creative but the culture of laziness and jealousy impedes the country to compete internationally expect in small irrelevant things. If the culture changes the country changes, but this is uncertain to happen.
@@lorenzodeagostini8941 Thank you for the response. I want Brazil to do well, I really do. I like it in many ways, and would not have lived there for 7 years if I didn't. And as you point out, one of the things I genuinely love about Brazil is its creativity. The way they just do little things to turn problems into solutions. But I believe this will only start to benefit the country as a whole when Brazilians start to orient themselves to the international market. Like my brilliant programmer friends did when they gave up on Brazilian companies and outsourced to the US.
@@bennettbullock9690 All very similar problems to many countries around the world. We have a similar problem in eastern Europe, but perhaps just slightly less pronounced. Another thing true here, that I wouldn't be shocked is true in most other developing countries is horrible generational wealth transfer What I mean is this. Many people come from poor backgrounds, and they dream about earning more money any way possible, so they can share with their relatives, act as a savior and of course spoil their kids rotten. When building wealth, entrepreneurs face certain "filters" as I call them. The first one is not to overspend after initial success, and the next one is not to throw meritocracy out of the window and stuff your company with friends and relatives. Yet, that is exactly what happens in developing countries. A successful entrepreneur is seen as a savior of a family, and is expected to uplift everyone else. As a consequence everyone around him becomes lazy, unproductive and lacks any initiative of their own. Many parents build companies specifically because they want to employ their kids there, as they want to avoid them having to go through hardship. All of this usually goes horribly wrong as soon as the initial hard working founder retires or more likely dies. Offspring and relatives start scratching their heads, as they cannot for the life of them figure out what made the company tick till recently. People in developing countries need to become more what is perceived as selfish. Keep the spoils for yourself, invest into business, do help your kids, but don't hold their hand and don't be patronizing to them.
@@julius43461 That is an excellent point you make about the dynamics of family businesses. In Brazil something like 70% of large enterprises are family-owned. Anyway, thank you for your perspective. As an American, I do struggle to understand other cultures' value systems. Not to self-flagellate. One should never dislike what they are or where they come from.
Americans are extremely lazy in the workplace here also. Have you even worked in the American work force since covid? It’s literally full of lazy zombies.
Basically: Brazil: stagnation, not living up to the potential given in the early 2000s Russia: same as Brazil India: best performing out of the BRICS, frustratingly slow but steady progress, though it has it's own challenges ahead (i.e China trying to ensure people don't ally with them economically and militarily) China: significantly fast improvement in short time, but also a significant amount of challenges in the long-term that would make China stagnate South Africa: Poorest performing of the BRICS, and ahead of Brazil in this department; nothing really much to say - lot's of improvements needed.
The stagnation has already started in China - last two years they had a two percent growth only couple that with the fall in population which started this year.... It does not look ggod
I'm Canadian, thanks for that... I really mean it. People should know the stupidity of Canada. Such an embarrassment. Thanks for shining a little more light on the situation.
At this point, I think practically every (well, almost) country is stupid and embarrasing. I'm just glad more people are opening their eyes and seeing the US doesn't have a monopoly on that.
Who was really the dude that went, “hey, let’s try to bring together the 5 countries with the most varying possible types of governments on earth, that would surely work!”
meanwhile in ASEAN you have constitutional republic (indonesia, philipine), constitutional monarchy (thailand, malaysia), absolute monarchy (brunei), communism (vietnam, laos) etc.
I remember reading an article from early/mid 2000s which predicted the military challenges for the next 50 years. It was all about combating terrorism and stuff like that but what really punched me in the eye is that the author predicted that China and India would unite and grow together in a similar way how France and Germany united after WW2. Basically imagine something like the EU but composed only of China and India. And without the trauma of a giant war, alien invasion or whatever to actually facilitate it. I was 15 or so when I was reading that article and even at that time I found it really dumb and unrealistic.
They don't have a common enough civilization to do too much together mutually. At least with Germany and France one could make an argument that they're derived from western civilization.
Yes, that Economist front page kkkkkkkkkkkkkk What will happen is that the so Called Global South will make its own rules, BRICS is a precursor to that... Welcome to Cold War 2.0
@randomguy1779 how about the fact the Brics hasn't failed and has only grown stronger. Predictably so, since the West won't stop using the dollar as weapon.
China and India are the ones who are having any economic success, the other original brics mambers are not having good times. China is stagnating slightly though.
30:28 actually in India (before the British rule ) India had a system where anyone can grow crops anywhere however he must pay some amount of that crop to the king. And as like India is the best to grow crops (that's why it still agriculture driven) the poor people atleast had food. That's why Indian poor people don't revolt much. Unlike french revolution or Russian revolution where even basic necessities like bread weren't even being supplied. And now it has becomed a culture. Like people really don't care about government policies. I am sure so that even educated people won't protest if their is massive unemployment. They would rather live with their families (communally) or become immigrants for USA and Canada.
Actually, pre British Empires tax rates on Indian farmers was very high. The idea was to keep farmers at subsistence levels. Mughal tax rates ranged from 33 percent to 50 percent. This was true of the Maratha Empire and Sikh Empire too. It is just that since India was a grain superpower, the cost of grain in India was quite low. So even if most Indians were poor, cost of living was cheap. Wait...that is true even today, compared to other parts of the World. Nothing has changed much for the last 500 years.
Indian governance is frustratingly bad and corrupt I predict India becoming an actualy global power by 2035 if the govt just stops being filthy disgusting Its a country that is not being allowed to grow at full potential cuz of greed of political parties hundreds of millions are suffering cuz of greed and selfishness of thousands disgusting pigs
@@mudra5114 you know that farmers don't have to pay taxes right? and that they receive massive subsidies right? Not just farmer but majority of indians don't have to pay income taxes while i don't think that's the case with other countries. Btw any prove for your maratha, mughal tax rate claim or did you made that up?
My dad used to tell me all this nonsense too, he was a first generation immigrant from Mexico so he had his motives. I was always more patriotic for my birth nation in the United States, so I always took it with a grain of salt or try thinking of ways to overcome it. So with that said, I both appreciate this video and take it with a sense of caution. I'll certainly sleep easier knowing we have the advantage, but cautions in not using that as an excuse to not work out the problems we as a nation do face
@@candiman4243, can you name a real problem that the US has solved recently? We have a TON of problems that we just love kicking the can down the road on, what's worse is that we could solve all the problems we face without making either side have an aneurism, but being rational isn't in vouge right now.
@@robertharper3754 People like you and me are getting tired of things like that, which is once again a good sign. Once enough people care enough to vote about it, things happen
This sure aged well /sarcasm. Also this dude has such a boomer republican view on Russia and China. China constantly threaten to go to war with the US? Lmao!
Glad that you mention that Mexico became sort of a Brazil replacement, I can't speak for Colombia, but here I can tell that, despite us probably never becoming a Superpower we have made ourself indespensable to the American Economy by basically being their factory, the main industry I've heard is doing well here is cars, we assamble more cars for Japanese companies that even inside Japan, and just TODAY it was announced that Tesla is gonna open a factory in the North despite the fact there is a drought there, because car manufacturing has become a bloodline for the states near the border, granted as that implies is probably gonna lead to troubles for the working class, so is gonna be interesting to see how that gets resolved.
@@spaghettiisyummy.3623 The main industry is assembling, most parts come from outside the country, unless that changed recetly, but is all assembled here
As a Canadian I agree with your comments about us. Back in the 2010 we were doing exceptional well compared to everyone else in the 2008 crisis due to a government who was actually some fiscally competent. Since 2015 we have been subjected to Trudeau who was not qualified to be prime minister (except for the last name) and seems to just get worse with experience (especially in regards to economics). The most common memory I hear from people who cheered the truckers as the drove through the nation was that they had not realized until that moment how long it had been since the felt proud/grateful to be a Canadian.
I'm from the US. It was so cool seeing the truckers standing up to the government but holy shit seeing them freeze bank accounts and attack elderly people was a wtf moment. Trudeau seems kind of insane. Like one minute acting goofy and weird, the next ruling with an iron fist like some sort of dictator. I hope things improve for you guys, it's not going much better down here lol.
What always seemed strange to me is why everyone keeps grouping these countries up in the first place, when they have so little in common. Each of them is pretty much completely alien to all the others in most ways, whether you look at their past, present or future.
The only thing most of them share in common is an anti-west sentiments. Such foundation isn't enough for long-term existance of such block, especially with territorial disputes between each other and authoritarian regimes showing the complete opposite of what most people on Earth wluld like to be a part of.
@@swarmpope9608You make a good point. Mexico especially has a way brighter future ahead of them then South Africa does. I say that because now Mexico is fully integrated into the American economic sphere along with Canada. I’d say the only thing that really holds Mexico back is political corruption and the cartels. While these things are bad, they could be way, way worse.
God, I find myself Liking practically every video on this channel. That metaphor at around 4:57, about the girl with many suitors trying to get benefits from all of them, was so great
I honestly dont know why anyone would want to join the army today in Canada unless they were either glory seeking adventurers or just in it for the money. Either way, theyre gonna be disapppointed because army life is mostly cleaning up the barracks and you can get more money from any other way from either the market or the state.
@@Will9c less than 20% of the world lives in developed countries. Outside of the Anglo sphere you can move to Europe, developed east Asia or rich gulf countries
An absurd statement. When people are wealthy they get lax, but people say the same thing about democracies in WW2. Mustache Man assumed the US in particular would roll over, obsessed as it was with its movies. It didn't then. And no democracy worth their salt will now.
You can see how India was on the Nato map and BRICS map and same goes for Brazil, they are not the same type of alliance where Nato is a military alliance BRICS is an economic one.
India is non aligned nation. It has been so; it will be so. It is like the America before the ww2 let’s eat popcorn and make while the rest of the world fights it out 😂. Reason why America dominates the world because it stayed out of most major conflicts
I remember that BRICS ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) from my trading days. I actually made a decent profit (almost doubled my investment) on that BRICS ETF. ETF’s can be bought and sold like stocks, allowing hobby investors to buy into diversified funds without having to pay fees, like you would have to pay if you bought into a mutual fund or similar. Everyone thought the BRICS were going to become the ultimate powerhouse emerging economy. As a result the fund appreciated massively but it’s probably not worth much anymore.
Great overview of the situation of these countries. One thing that I did want to note was that culture is not destiny. Culture does matter far more than what the intelligentsia would like to give it credit for, but it's more of a reflection of the past and is only a short term predictor of the future. Often, what can be seen as a cultural tendency for 'laziness' or 'work ethic' is more of a reflection of the incentives and situation that people are subject to. Namely the presence or lack of government, rule of law, property rights, and corruption. People have no reason to work if their hard work will be taken away, innovators have no reason to invent if their inventions will be stolen and copied. The resource curse is a curse because it feeds a corrupt government. Blaming the malaise of the Brazilian economy on Latin culture is not entirely wrong, but it cannot explain the divergent paths of different latin american economies after their independence. Have you read The Narrow Corridor by Acemolgu? I think you already have a good sense of the issues at hand, but it might be interesting to you.
I believe culture may have play a larger than expected. In a country called Malaysia, the majority of population Malay were the one to receive most welfare and government job oppoturnity. But most of them are generally poor, lazy, inferior in higher education as professional, prefer to spend more money rather than hoarding. While the Malaysia chinese, that have been born in Malaysia for more than three generations, who receive no specific welfare like Malay had, are generally more rich, hardworking, taking position in most professional field (such as doctor), and own most companies in Malaysia. In Malaysia, corruption is common and yet the Chinese is hardworking. The chinese receive no specific support from government and yet they perform better than Malay. And the biggest cultural difference between Malay and Chinese is that Malay prefer to enjoy life more than the Chinese do. And malay generally do not like hoarding money like the Chinese, which of course will cause many troubles later on in their life. There was even a time where government run an education campaign to tell the public to have money hoarding habit.
it could be that both these things prop up the other. the culture of low work ethic and corruption worsens the ability for a stable and prosperous government to get into power, so the corrupt government makes hard work not pay off, which culturally makes people value work ethic even less, which causes the government to struggle even more to get value. sure culture isn't an end all, but they drive us more than we'd like to think sometimes.
You’re right about the EU being an extension of the American empire, in that the concept of empire is extremely difficult to pin down when democracy and anti-imperialist ideology gets introduced to the political mainstream of the core of the empire. The fact is that the American empire has four main levers of influence; economic, cultural, military, and political The EU is by is very nature an economic and political structure taking inspiration from the structure of the US political system. Even if the US isn’t directly responsible for its existence, it’s hard to deny it goes hand in hand with American intrests, complimenting NATO in its function. The EU itself does help the countries stand up to the US by giving us a single voice, but don’t be fooled into believing that the US doesn’t benefit from a single voice either. It’s like how employers in the Nordics are happy with the existence of trade unions, since it gives them someone to negotiate with. Especially since the demands are reasonable in the first place.
The thing about masterworks is that the international art trade is a scam. Almost all of these dramatic art sales are combinations of money laundering and tax evasion.
Not to mention that it literally treats art like a commodity, which ought to be considered obscene by anyone who gives a damn about art or their own culture.
as a south African. its fair to say our country is dying. 71 murders a day and those are the reported ones. 40% unemployment rate (everyone disagrees on the actual number) some of the most dangerous cities in the world gangsters controlling major industries such as public transport. 55.5 % poverty rate political assassinations in Kwa-zulu Natal and Mpamalunga union leaders killing each other for positions no electricity for like half the day. illegal immigrants pouring across the border when every they please. a public water crisis due to the government not maintaining the pipes. collapsing infrastructure a massive brain drain and flight in capital. and many more issues. good news is... racial tensions have cooled quite abit. (at least in my experience) tribal tensions have cooled massively since the end of conflict between the Zulu dominated IFP and the ANC ended. The economy is growing again but at a snails pace. And our corrupt and useless ruling party is on a track to losing its majority . The bad news If the ANC loses their majority it is widely believed they will go into coalition with the EFF are far left wing militant communist party. if the two go into coalition.... South africa is fucked.
@@THESUPERIORONE. I try . But unfortunately the South African bureau of statistics is corrupt and inefficient . I’ve seen like 5 different unemployment statistics from the government and private organisations .
As someone who is way older than 21-I was in grad school when BRIC became a thing-no one, literally no one, argued they would take over the world. There was a lot of optimism about emerging markets at the time. Then those four (SA got tacked on later) started thinking about forming joint development bank. This turned out mainly to be China since they were the only ones with surplus capital. So that didn’t go far. That’s it. They all have an interest in diversifying the system of global governance. They still do. But no one takes BRICS seriously. No one ever has. But just pointing out that each of the countries has issues totally misses the point which is that there is a lot of interest in a global order that is not dominated by the west. The conditions aren’t there for a change (and Russia has always been the drunk guy who ruins the party as it is doing right now). But those conditions will evolve and China, mainly, wants to be positioned to take advantage of that.
This person as in me? I’m 50. As for mister whatifist, I’m surprised and not. Definitely a smart and confident guy who sounds older. But also that much confidence is a symptom of youth. Other than Peter Zeihan-who continues to convince people that the future is easy to predict as long as you have a decent map and a few demographic statistics-people who have been around longer than 2 decades generally don’t make predictions so brazenly.
India does not like China either and is a strategic rival to China . I guess not many countries in the world want a too close relationship with China and want to keep it at an arms length .
I keep hearing references of Hindu nationalists going insane online, but I'd yet to actually see any. I'm not saying this doesn't happen, only that I just haven't been in a place to see it. To be honest, I was hoping to see some madness in this comment section... no such luck.
As a a 28yo guy from Romania, I'm impressed that I've been listening to someone 7 years younger than me all along. I imagined you were at least my age for some reason. Your analysis of these complex subjects are very mature and well documented, and often against the mainstream trends like hate towards Western culture and history. Romania did benefit greatly by "westernising" in the last 30 years and being under EU and US influence (I would love a video dedicated to Eastern Europe and it's modernization), I really hope this will not change. Great pleasure listening to you, keep up the great work brother!
I can't help but wonder what kind of rose colored glasses he is wearing. All I have to do is look at my Hometown of Portland, Oregon and see that yes we are in decline. We can't even get an interstate bridge up.
It's funny to watch people go from criticizing China's workforce to praising it to now criticizing it again. Same with their work ethic. Also funny to act as if the second largest economy being in a decline means it's "over". I mean, don't get me wrong, China's got its problems, and the real estate bubble was indeed epic, but the US had a depression, huge economic disparity, and generational issues and came out of it to become the de facto largest economy. Imagine if a British historian tried to comment in the 1930s about how the US had a great run, but clearly wasn't going to recover from its economic malaise or income disparity with oil barons & shanty towns.
@@GravitoRaize Wow. It's Almost like people can change their Opinion. Or have Multiple things to say about a certain Issue instead of barking "good" or "bad" at it. China's work Culture is HORRIFYING when it comes to the life of its Citizens, but it IS good for Economic stats and the CCP's Ego.
29:11 I'm not an Hindu/ Indian nationalist, infact I hate such people and am very critical of where our country has gotten to, but there are some things I have to rectify here. 1. India would have industrialised much earlier than it is doing rn if it weren't for colonisation. British officials have records about how Calcutta was the perfect place with the perfect conditions for industrialisation (which they then killed and made India imports dependent, hence destroying any form of industrialization.) 2. Yes India had women's rights before the arrival of Islamic conquests. It's not a shocker. It's written in ancient scriptures, Most of our tales and folklore that have been passed down for thousands of years, have instances of women empowerment. Islam and Hinduism are two extremely different religions, there was bound to be conflict and Islam happened to dominate the subcontinent due to the war culture in their empires, which Indians didn't have. 3. There has always been a (quite loose) but somewhat collective identity among the Indians of today. In many ancient scriptures the land of India, or Bharat has been described as 'the land between the mountains and sea.' The word 'Bharat' has been around for 1000's of years and many unifications have occured throughout history in India, just like China. China just happen to be more homogenous than India, which is what gives it a sense of a unified civilization, when it was just as broken up as India for the most part of its history.
i am a hindu nationalist, be proud of that, you guys seriously need to solve your inferiority complex when a foreigner says something you start believing like as if god has said that
@@finestructureconstant3921 100% agreed. But we won't stop with the past until the west acknowledges it and pays for what it did. The west still proudly lives off of slave money and looted wealth from colonies. The separation, marginalisation and suffering of many families under colonialism has still trickled down into modern India, it was less than a generation back. I for one am very proud of my past, but I don't dwell on it. I only said what I did in my above comment since people like this guy make fun of the points that Indian nationalists put across and while they may be exaggerated and stupid, they still hold some truth. Which shouldn't be forgotten.
Man I'm very impressed at your young age ands knowledge about the world. I've been trying to learn about geopolitics the last year. This was one of the best videos I've seen. Thanks for making it.
Someone gives him info about these stuff I think. Mostly that they aren’t reliable much since politics are more than just simply find problems and predictions.
Check other sources. He definitely gets stuff wrong, particularly cultural/domestic commentary. But generally i agree it’s a good and informative channel
35:15 Funny/terrifying thing: was just watching Fall of Civilizations episode of Easter Island. Apparently the current theory is that their collapse wasn't from them blowing up their ecology; rather they were a stable and functional society until European plagues wiped out half to three quarters of their population, *then* they collapsed in a truly horrifying way. And China is way bigger too...
@@Red_NeckI've never seen anything about it outside of school and an old Drew Durnill video where he uses it as a faction to fight NATO (why is this vision of BRICS even a thing istg people just want war)
@@Red_Neck nah the meeting happens every year. This year they talk about further development of BRICS bank and establishing a system to trade without dollars. Next year they might add new members.
Not gonna lie, I completely forgot this was a topic people discussed 😅. No one has brought up BRICS in years. So cool you touched on this. Keep up the good work
Quite a western favored view point rather than a non biased factual display of information. This coming from someone living in south africa. This video isnt very accurate but is a decent take. The USA has seen rapid decline in recent years compared to china tho, just as an example
@@Ana-kg5qvI’d argue the problem discussing decline and rise of nations is, yes it is bias. I live in the U.S and while things aren’t perfect. It’s still pretty good 😅. Plus I’d argue decline is still hard to argue when a decline nation is still considered the most powerful nation on earth. Militarily, financially, etc….. As someone in the U.S army, in my opinion I don’t see any concerns of decline when my equipment and training is still consider the best in the world 😅
There is a severe disconnect between the tone of your piece on India and on China, a more apt point to leave off for the both of them, is that India has continued to grow year over year (albeit a slower rate) whilst experiencing what you would regard as multiple crises; while China has remained relatively stable and transitioned towards economic imperialism with its growth temporarily stagnating in the event of crises, a hallmark of a more socially mobile and interconnected society. For all intensive purposes India has more long term potential, however China is already making first moves to gimp India's long term growth, so India's most pressing issue is its poor diplomatic position, followed by an internal social mobility issue. Specifically, my issue with your presentation on the two is the tonal difference of the presentation, and the slight lack of interplay between the two. Brazil is a little overexplained, as in it somewhat sounded like you were associating, or just including, things which did not need to be present or held little or no weight in the segment. South Africa sounded more like you just remembered something from a history class and combined it with news headlines rather than a real retrospective somewhat paired with a speculative outlook on the state from the POV of 200X. In the Russia segment you understate the cultural history despite it being your introductory argument, and due to that it comes across as both wrong and "yeah they suck anyways" (which would be almost better suited for Brasil lmao.). Pretty much the only over the top criticism I have is the coverage disconnect between some of the parts, notably India and China, and what comes across a clear lack of research for topics it seems you were uninterested in. Second criticism is the same as nearly always, you present like you're reading a list of interest points and re-making connections as to why that's your list without filling in the observer - usually a sign of improper revising of the script or failing to write and arrange scripts when preparing a presentation. That all said it is a genuinely interesting topic and thank you for introducing people to recent economic history.
@@caracalfloppa4997 Totally, he has some interesting opinions, but often time goes over the board with theories that are not even close to being factual.
@@CaptainPieBeardHe's 21...that's not being a kid. Plus, he has a master's degree in a history field (not sure the specific one). I guarantee he knows more then you
For a military alliance, sure. But the power of their cooperation is monetary, not military. They both switch to a gold standard along with Saudi, and the West collapses overnight. He who has the gold makes the rules. And Ft. Knox has never been audited.
@@grugnotice7746 read an economics book on why the gold standard failed before posting ignorant comments, you jokers really need to learn math and read an economics book before going online and yapping on topics you dont grasp
@@eduwino151 lmao just let a foreign bank print your reserves infinitely that is so much better than just using gold. But gold won't let us go to war every five minutes! That's BAD! Krugman called, he wants his penis back.
@@grugnotice7746 jokers who cant do math have been jerking off about gold standard killing the west for 3 decades now the same countries you are yapping about cant function minus western tech and markets
What you should keep in mind is that we currently live in the age of the American empire. The primary difference between the American empire and the more conventional empires, like the British empire and the USSR, is how it expands its empire and its fundamental relationship with its colonies, if the word still applies. A conventional empire would expand by force, taking territory and using force or the threat of force to maintain control over the colonies. This requires the empire to keep sufficient force over its colonies, and when the iron grip relaxes, the colonies rebel, like the British Empire after WWII or the collapse of the USSR. The American empire lets its enemies do its advertising for it. By allowing countries to retain political and economic autonomy and only requiring military cooperation, the American Empire can swallow up entire countries without going to war with them or engaging in a costly occupation. America’s fundamental method of keeping these countries on its side is to have them decide that they are better off as members of the American Empire than not. America’s loose control over its allies grants it flexibility and keeps its military liquid.
Very typical western way of thinking, all those empires that you mentioned are all Western Empire, you should look deep into history, and learn what the Chinese did in the East, the best way is to learn who is Cheng He, and what happened to his voyage.
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Actually, what you are describing is the evolution of imperialism, which is NOT unique to America. In previous centuries, the expansion and maintenance of empires required the use of force. This included the many invasions of Latin America by U.S. forces in the late 19th century. But from the 20th century on, ALL the empires shifted to a system that favored diplomacy and only resorted to violence as a last resort. This includes the USSR which you erroneously referred to as an old-school empire. The USSR would offer countries an alternative to American imperialism in the same exact way you described the American approach of letting it's enemies do the advertising and giving countries a choice. Cuba for example was deceived by the American empire and as a result chose to accept the Soviet empire instead. It was 100% their own choice. Meanwhile, the British Empire converted to a "modern" empire (often referred to as the British Commonwealth) and still flourishes to this day. It's a common mistake to assume American imperialism is unique because of it's predominance since imperialism has become more "diplomatic". But the changes have far more to do with the development of technology and global trade than any one nationality.
Pax Americana is different from other Empires because it isn't built for the same reasons. Rome needed slaves, territory, and victory. Britain needed new world imports. America needs peace. Our moral system puts human life above all other values(wrongly I say, but that's how it is). We got sick of fighting other people's wars after the world wars and decided it would be cheaper(in terms of lives) to maintain a monotarily expensive alliance rather than fight a European war every few years. Ironically, we will probably see bigger wars than the world wars as Americans forget why they pay for everything and pull out for economic gains. If history teaches us anything, it's that people don't learn from history.
The closest thing to the American empire who incidently the Americans modeled much of our country' s institutions after were the Romans. The Romans offered citizenship military aid and civilization to the peoples they conquered that 'why it lasted for so many years and still exists today in a small way in the form of the Roman Catholic Church.
@@RAIDENCHEEKS Yeah, the difference is Japan made sure to get friendly with everyone and got most of their population into decent wealth before the decline. Unfortunately China is going to decline before the transition is complete, and they will have few friends.
You’re brain is absolutely cooked if you don’t think these countries are still working together and progressively endangering american hegemony. The game hasn’t even started and you’re saying they lost. Don’t believe me, you’ll see what im talking about soon after November.
Nobody was expecting them to form any coalition. China and India hate each other. China and Russia hate each other. Brazil and South Africa are doing horribly.
Just look at America's trade deficit just look how much their state is in debt. Should they ever lose their grondious advantage in having the world reserve currency. They gonna wake up in a bad spot, for a few years. And the trust in Dollar is not what it used to be.
@@Sceptonic yes this will not effect the US only, but all in all i think the world will be a better place without dollar superiority. I like the US, but they enjoyed an unfair irrational advantage for far to long. Look at their valuation of their biggest tech companys. Most of them, even after the las crash, have insane KGVs. And the governmental debt has gone over the critical point, there is now no comming back.
As an Indian, I can say that we too have absolutely no idea where our country is going or what is to become of it. There is so much potential here but so many dangerous shortcomings and so many moving parts that i genuinely have no idea what's going to happen.
@@AMITAWAGHADE India is a very big and complex country It's harder for ordinary people to understand what's Indian government is doing,what's going to happen near future for the country
Indians will perhaps seek closer allignment with some other partners, like the EU, as they become stronger. And move away from the silicon valley created order.
@@AMITAWAGHADE bro i have been all around India. It may seem intact but there are so many things going on that and each one of them individually has the capacity to destroy countries. I'm almost convinced it's just god's will that keeps India together.
Although I don’t believe in the main theme of this video, you make some accurate points that I will think about, and I thank you for educating us. I ask if you could make a video on the pros of BRICS, however numbered they may be. This would help to get multiple perspectives on this.
I know it's a sponsorship and all, but my gamer sense tingles whenever Masterworks is discussed, if enough people hop onto the bandwagon of fine art held by shell companies then eventually it will work until it crashes out of nowhere.
In germany, we have the saying "Is it art or for the trash?" Art is only worth any money if u find another fool that buys it from u... trying to profit of spiritual values like the sense to like art is stupid. Art worth something more than the needed time and materials needed to create it is a fishy business used for people that want to brag.
I remember back in 2012 at college and a teacher I had said they were having there kids learn mandarin because they thought china was going to be a super power like us but now I laugh and wish I could run into him and ask if it was worth it
Because it's a group of *sovereign* nations, no one can agree on anything. If Europe became independent of the US and countries inside it independent of the EU you would see same struggles and inability to actually achieve anything. The real question is, what's more harmful, having a group of sovereign states which cannot agree on anything, or having a hegemon which puts everyone down to their determent but which actually gets things done.
You don't need "independence from the US" to get the EU-states to take forever to agree on anything and if France, Germany and (increasingly) Poland disagree the system grinds to a halt.
@@cahdoge actually they do need independence from us as us dragged them to their war and did not suffer from anything because of its geography...it was Europe who had to deal with refugee and subsequently terrorist attacks...it's beneficial for us that Europe cut ties with russia on the issue of oil but not so much for Europe...that's why NATO is a group of subservience afterall because of it European defence capabilities went downwards and now they are completely dependent on us when Trump asked for more money from Japan they had no option as they have monopoly of security...us often threatens other with sanctions from buying Russian weapons from russia and kill it's production line and filled the artificially created demands demand created by compulsory spending on defence to procure weapons for NATO and caatsa so that Africa and Asia don't reach to russia and keep it's production line running and in the mean time it killed the defence capacity of Europe so much so that companies are closing down at one point British govt had to support BAE and merged companies to it and formed BAES similar thing happed in russia Sukhoi and Mig are merged to keep it afloat ironically alliance was aimed for betterment and it's having similar effect on both allies and adversary...they need independence if they want to act in their interest not in some country seperated by huge sea...and to top it all up because on this monopoly of security which us holds over Europe it can bargain a lot from it....if sovereign states are on forum then structural problems can be dealt with better rules and regulations but if someone holds you hostage over security and claims to be your benefactor and thinks in its own intrest problem would be way difficult to solve
@@aayushprakhar1711 The US isn't hampering the rest of NATOs defense spending, in fact under Trump they flat out were told to do more of their fair share because the fact of the matter is the US foots the majority of the bill for Europe's defense anyway. Also there is the fact that many Americans don't want to fund NATO anyway. European countries CAN make their own choices and have been. How many times has the US come to Europe's aid in the past 100 years? you can't blame the United States for everything, grow up.
@@xXxMarqxXx grow up??stop projecting and have you read what I wrote????... every NATO country has to spend 2% of their GDP on defence and us has not ...European economy is nearly 16 trillion 2% is 380 million now most of the European countries now don't manufacture air defence icbms slrbms and even small arms these days 750 billion of United states and 380 billions of 1.13 trillion now even 50% is a lot of money that's how much they make at least...many countries in Europe who don't have beef with russia has to spend because us has beef with them Europe was buying gas until us bombed Nord stream so tell me how they are not hampering European policies...Americans want to and I will say they want to because their govt. Is doing so if it's not doing what their govt wants them to do then how are you democracy and how are you accusing rest of the world for not being democracy...and have Americans come for free????why would they as they are war dogs and they forced Germany to comply with their policy on russia, they arm twisted Japan to pay more, they dragged Europe in their war on terror and Iraq invasion and didn't suffer from consequence as there is a huge sea between middle East and us and Europe had to deal with migrant crisis....us is to be blamed as us invaded Iraq, us invaded syria, us invaded, vietnam, us invaded korea, us invaded afganistan, us threatened india with nukes in 1971 and sent 7t fleet near India and ussr saved us, us gave weapons to pakistan in 1971 using which they killed 3 million Bengalis and Hindus and raped their women and I heard war babies for the first time when I was reading about us involvement in creation of Bangladesh, us toppled democratically elected Iranian government heade by mohommad mosaddegh, us toppled Ukranian govt in 2014, us toppled Hawaiian ruler, us toppled democratic government in Cuba etc etc...not only Europe world would be better place without us as us can't keep it's hand from others pocket
The main issue with BRICS, is also one of its main strengths: It does not conform to an ideology, does not require its members to change their nations internally, unlike the EU, which does impose its values, and policies on both prospective, and active members. Where this weakness comes into play, is how some BRICS members have conflicting interests, even to the point of being direct adversaries. The big one of course, as you mentioned, being China and India. Now, the only way this situation gets put to bed, is for the grievances of the past and border disputes to be settled. If China and India both end up with pragmatic leadership at the same time, their differences getting settled, could be a possibility. As it stands, India, China, and Pakistan cooperating, stands to benefit them all greatly if they can just get passed.. well... the past. But lets look at what BRICS has going for it: It has now secured the Suez through Egypt, it is looking like the Saudis and their lesser arab monarchies are going to try and join. Turkey is likely looking to save its own dying economy by joining the SCO as well. In terms of resources and population, there's potential but it requires the weakest members of BRICS to be elevated into stable economies. South Africa right now is the biggest open wound in BRICS, and Brazil has a wealth disparity that only worsened as the decades have gone by, which ultimately stagnated its growth.
@@praddumnvats6759 Remains to be seen tbh. One of the factors that keeps other economic blocs down has been the strangulation of the dollar in international exchanges, notably the petro dollar. Its been hinted at that they're working on their own reserve currency, and if the OPEC nations are indeed pivoting towards BRICS, thats a massive step towards unshackling international commerce from the dollar and weakening competition in the process. Whether or not this ever happens, remains to be seen, but a lot of people I talk about this with have suggested we (The US) would go to war to prevent this from happening because it would destroy our economy. Its no coincidence that anytime another nation has tried to make a gold backed currency or petro backed currency, that their governments are suddenly targeted and destroyed like with Qaddafi's Libya.
"Some examples of economics being retarded" If I could go back and take my high-school economics class again I'd definitely make this the title of one of my power point slides. 🤣
I was really looking forward to this till you said India is a part of BRI and could be considered allies. India was the first country to denounce BRI and never attended any of its meetings. Even the US attended those meetings
When you were a kid thinking BRICS was gonna take over, I was the same age but thinking they would fail purely due to racist beliefs. I'll just say our score is 1:1 for now.
16:49 In all fairness I don’t think it was too out of character for Brazil to host them since it’s a country that has a deep sporting heritage. This includes 7 world cups, and on a somewhat related note, 3 F1 champions
27:58 There was a documentary on the last surviving Battle of Britain Hawker Hurricane. Apparently it had somehow come to rest in some field in India. It took years just to get permission to move the plane. And it wasn't that anyone was stone walling it; they just wanted to talk it over and over and over and over...
@@NiceBot724 Found it, finally. It was Hurricane R4118. Hurricane Heritage has the blurbs on it. It was covered in a documentary that I think was on Curiosity Stream, but I can't find it at the moment. It got transferred to India to be a pilot trainer, but ended up being used as an engineer trainer instead.
Interesting analysis. Would love to see you do the Next-11 countries and breakdown how they've fared over the last 20 years on a case by case basis. There seems to be a very wide variation on the N-11 list, with Pakistan nearly collapsing while Vietnam/Mexico soared. Go for it!
I genuinely wanted to hear your take on the failure of the BRICS. It’s a shame 1/3 of what you say is simply outlandish. Would have been nice to hear something more objective.
0:15 - That's hardly true, it was a new term then and even people from the BRICS countries were struggling to come to terms with it. Well done on the complete misportrayal.
Getting a wedding ring as a tradition wasn't invented in the post-war United States, it can be traced to ancient Rome and Greece, the modern exchange of rings derived from the customs of Europe in the Middle Ages as part of Christendom. Maybe you are refering to it specifically being a diamond ring?
@@candlestyx8517yeah because someones ability to make videos is directly correlated with whether or not they understand what it is they are talking about
I remember that hype myself, but at the time I was in my early 20s and had enough of an interest and knowledge in the histories of the countries in question to think "I have doubts". (Apart from Brazil, which I wasn't really knowledgeable enough to have an opinion, but I wasn't going to take the words of the people making the prediction either.) From an economic perspective, they all had potential, but they also had big question marks over whether they had a system that could actually realise that potential. China looked to have the best chance at the time, IF the CCP could stomach letting go of the reins rather than investing its wealth into more internal suppression and positioning itself as a rival to the West. We know how that turned out. From a geopolitical perspective - they didn't really seem to have a lot in common to bind them together, with the RIC core having unresolved sources of conflict on both axes that involved China. It was fairly clear even then that any grouping that included India and China would never truly be an alliance.
29:13 as an Indian Nationalist 1. Going by linguistic evidence and archeological evidence, most academics think the indo aryan invasion is a joke 2. Not sure about this one. IVC was kinda based tho. 3. 8000 years? 4. It did exist but wasnt rigid until 10th century. Genetic research shows that. 5. Cant really predict. 6. Maratha empire unified most of the subcontinent. 7. Mughals* 8. Probably got more intense 9. Culture changed every 10 miles 10. Depended on the place
The map at 14:48 and subsequent explanations were my favorite part (even though my country falls under "nothing"). Global economics are so important in wars and diplomacy, it feels like the economics are the true game beneath the game of geopolitics. The map at 18:28 was also really interesting I wish it was for the whole world
11:57 Speaking to your anecdote, I remember this even more vividly at the time (I'm 23). I wasn't into politics until I was 16. Even in towns in Appalachia back in the mid-to-late 2000s, we were constantly told by the TV and radio outlets, teachers, movies, TV shows, etc. how "evil" and "backward" we Americans were compared to Japan and the EU, and how much we "owed" it to the 3rd World and the environment. It's even more interesting that you experienced the Canadian side of this as well. I scoff the Canadian patriots these days.... We aren't superior, we are enduring crises of our own, and things will someday change (they always do), but it's worth pointing out that well over a decade later, we are experiencing a huge rebound despite these other countries (developed and undeveloped) experiencing more crises than we are. I love to complain how woke the world is, but honestly, Gen Z is nowhere near as horrible as we're made to be (ex: brand worship among adults is nowhere near as bad as when we were kids, some of our younger members are called "puriteens", party worship is on the decline, etc). It's just many of us haven't been redpilled yet, and for now we're still blindly following the Millennial mantra. Thank God for the internet. I shiver imagining where we'd be if we didn't have access to much of the world's available intel and be able to think reasonably if we choose to.
The red pill best shows the criticisms of the modern government and establishment and allows for greater critical thinking within individuals, its pretty decent but don’t make it your political ideology or sole beliefs
Idk, it seems that Gen Z is shaping up to be a great set of plebians for the rising empire. Also, while the internet is a great source of information, a great deal of the higher-quality info is locked behind pay walls or is simply buried underneath countless clickbait articles. This is the reason why people of this generation tend to be great at trivia, but almost never have the depth of knowledge that people previously had when books were more popular.
I've made a video called "Responding to Whatifalthist: 17 disagreements with Whatifalthist, as a fan.", which goes over things that you've got wrong (with all due respect) or overlooked, along with ideas for videos and additional media resources that I would like for you to see. Thanks.
I really don't know how to say this without sounding like a Indian Nationalist, but I disagree with your point about India always being a poor country. India and China together were the most powerful economies from ancient to medieval ages. It is even shown on the graph you displayed. At 30:55 It all goes downhill after the british.
The Indian and Chinese economies go down as a percentage of the world economy when Europe starts raising around the 16th century But that doesn't mean the Chinese and Indian economies Stared to get smaller at all The Indian economy didn't collapse after the British .. it kept growing .. it actually grown faster under the British and was bigger than the Indian economy at any other point in history before that However it's still was smaller as percentage of the world economy because the world economy was so much bigger because it now included the European economies which grow much faster So the British didn't shrink India's economy .. it was still growing .. they just overcame it as a share of the world economy..
@@ShA-ib1em it didn't grew . GDP growth under British was 2x in 200 years same as population growth of 2x. GDP Per capita in dollar PPP terms in 1700s was 570 dollar which increased to 619 dollar after 250 years in 1950s. I think it 8300 now.
@@reddragon100 At the beginning you say that it didn't grow Then state that GDP didn't grow and your reasoning is because it only grew relative to the population "which is still growth" in terms of overall GDP .. some economies don't even manage to grow relative to population so their GDP per Capita shrinks even though their overall GDP remains the same or even shrinks .. So maintaining GDP per Capita while growing overall GDP as you stated is still "growth" so your second paragraph contradicts your first statement .. In your last paragraph you state that even the GDP per Capita has grown .. which contradicts your first and second paragraph Not growing by much but it's still not shrinking ... "not going downhill after the British" and of course not shrinking ten times which one would think by hearing that India decreased from 25% of the world economy down to 2% after the British .. one might think that the British shrunk India's economy ten times of it's original size when they came to the subcontinent My point still stands based on your own numbers ... India kept growing compared to itself the year before .. but kept shrinking compared to industrialized economies during the industrial revolution . Which is basically the story of the whole world economies at that time .. Now you might argue that the British prevented higher percentages of GDP growth for India and that better results could have been achieved That's debateable considering that Indias GDP growth was typical of all Nations before the industrial revolution .. it was basically the Natural state of being .. the industrialized nations were the exception Not the rule . You should see a chart of the world GDP per Capita in the last 1000 years .. the whole world economy remains stagnant for 800 years and then suddenly it jumps exponentially .. however that exponential jump is disproportionately destributed and India wasn't included as part of it at the beginning .. of course India achieved better results after independence although not much better compared to other countries that gained independence at a similar period .. But that's not because their economy was freed from the shackles of the British.. it was because the whole world was starting to experience progress as the benefits of technology started to be enjoyed by more and more nations .. even-none industrialized nations by importing technology which became much cheaper .. In fact I would argue that India had lost opportunities during the socialist era after independence and alignment with the Soviet union ..
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hey whatif, could you do a video explaning brazilian society?
@@Zeyede_Seyum France is champignon
Bro knows India is the only one that stands a chance.
So in short India now has PTSD cause it was under foreign rule for so long 😕
the greatest lesson i take from the past decade is to never underestimate the human capacity for self deception.
Or corruption and no accountability ruins everything.
Be a memer
Not a dreamer
Also a creamer, please?
Man's capacity to deceive his fellow man is exceeded only by his capacity to deceive himself.
As I watch Althist's analysis, I realise he actually reads from a diverse source (or atleast his researchers does). I realise from some of his specific references, that he actually keeps a close track on Indian TH-camr analysis, the english speaking part of it.
It would be great, if he gave credit to them though.
Instead of dismissing everyone who tried to provide some correction to his assumption as "hyper nationalist indian" and actually cared to listen.
But overall reasonable analysis is gicen by whatifalthist.
BRICS was never an alliance, but a partnership made by an economist who thought that it would be beneficial for these countries to work together. This completely overlooks geopolitical, strategic and possible economic incompatibility of these countries.
Yes
Exactly.
@@Alehzinhah tbh This guy's take is just as credible as what a history professor could tell you on most things, maybe not on this one but a lot of things. Pretty much everything you hear or have ever heard is fake news, including this video and most of what you believe.
@@Alehzinhah Honestly if you still think undergraduate degrees impart useful knowledge in 2023, may I kindly suggest Peter Zeihan as being more your style.
Honestly, I've always steuggled to even define what the hell the BRICS actually even is on paper. It always seemed to abstract and something never truly reinforced.
My uncles worked at the BRICS Conferences before, it's more just a platform for discussion or trade, than anything like a Bloc or an alliance really.
People look at it, see Russia and China and have a military bonner, rushing to the conclusion that BRICS is somehow more than a table of discussion
@@apollyon2018 Yeah, your right its a false belief mainly born out of ignorance and face value assertions. It provides a more interesting platform to see the politicking that does go on however, like how third world nations use the threat of collaborating with Russia or China, as a boogey man to achieve concessions from the West, which hey, good for them.
exactly thats why this video sus as hell
@@garaznisokak4295 because its presenting an argument or version of events that has never existed, merely a perception of them?
Anyone who went to university in the 90s should realize that everything you learned outside of STEM is complete bullcrap bs- international relations, new economics, finance, history, Sociology, etc.....all taught by professional grifters and frauds with Phd's.
If Kazahkstan joined it would have been called BRICKS...
What about Kenya?
@@PowerSimplified1871 ......
🤣😂
Or Kyrgyzstan
Korea. Dumb asses
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
13:45 - Brazil
20:39 - Russia
25:42 - India
30:33 - China
36:54 - South Africa
Thanks daddy
3:22 - Laughing at EU
White Scumbags always favor Jihadis and keep calling everyone calling out 🅱️uslims as Hindu Nationalists.
How about terms like White ☪️hristian Supremacists. White races have less historical significance than Asians and will be extinct soon
China is going to become the new religious capital of the world. Where it would become the most religious country in the world and export religion. (What to think of it?)
It’s got a gaping religion hole, might happen in future.
@@1mol831 What kind of religion in China? Traditional religion grow only in Taiwan, not China. Maybe there will be some form of new age religion in China looks like Scientology, but I am not sure whether this type of religion is something you are talking about.
As an Brazilian myself, I feel like the most common trope in Brazil’s histories is to face huge institutional/political change, have an economic boom, be called “the country of the future”, then collapse based on its internal contradictions which somehow is never truly able to grow out but only readapt to the era it is in (boiling down in being a highly unequal post slavery society with an tendency to create huge bureaucracies). Then the country will probably enter an decade of stagnation and the circle restarts. Every major phase in our history plays this script: the empire, the first republic, the Vargas Revolution, the second republic, the military dictatorship and the new democracy…
Only issue is now we are aging pretty fast. We won't have an economic boom anymore. It will all be stagnation and depression.
for how many centuries can you be a post-slavery society?
@@ceejay1476 Until you adopt the policies that will restrain inequality, especially racial inequality.
The country of the future, and always will be!
You just described Portugal
The themes of these videos are becoming wildly unpredictable and i'm all for it.
Rudyard covers everything from economics to philosophy.
not whatifalthistory
Just wait till he goes over the history of bowls.
Yet extremely timely imo
I'm going to tell my children that this is an alternative history channel
It is so weird to me how India and China can be allies while their soldiers are skirmishing with each other in the Himalayas with medieval weapons.
America is dying a slow painful deatb
The skirmishes are just re-enactments of several medieval battles that took place in the Himalayas.
@@candyneige6609 lmao
@@chaselewis8473 Either way, China and India are friends.
At least they didn’t use guns
Never forget, Daffy Duck joined the U.S marines and saved bugs bunny from an Albanian prison
truly Daffy’s finest hour
A true American hero.
You fucking SICK weirdo.
Never Forget
@Fish World spammer
As a Brazilian I'd love to say the American intelligence boycotted us or something but particularly about my country it was solely our own goddamn fault. Everyone else around the world has no idea how hard it is to be Brazilian. The literal only move is to leave to a better country. Hard mode is real
Venezuelans: First time?
If you keep running eventually you’ll run out of places to run to
calma amigo, vamos fazer o L que passa
Yeah Brazil seems too be permanently stuck as a middle income country for some bizarre reason despite have a massive population, great geography, and a ton of resources. It's like you guys can't get out of your own way
Yeah while Brazil is the keep shooting itself, while the USA just gives Brazil the bullets.
It always baffled me as an Indian how can we sit with the Chinese on same block or cooperation when there are 6 divisions from both countries locked in standoff on the border.
Because China and India have massive trade relations
Because China is India's biggest trade partner.
@@kartikeyatiwari2502In which we buy far more stuff from them, than they buy from us. I am not saying the trade shouldn't happen but it benefits them overall than it does to us.
@@flow5718 USA is
@@surajbiradar9827 It benefits both countries, were India to import the same stuff from other countries at a higher price the resulting products or services wouldn't be competitive in the global market.
India doesn't have 5000 years of caste system. It would be around 100BC-300 CE when 'Manusmriti' was written. Vedas are older than that. Vedas (1000BC-2000BC) have varna system which depends on one's behaviour. It hasn't to be confused with Manusmriti. Caste System probably originated around 0-500 CE.
“I’m 21 and my audience is younger” shit I feel old at 30
I'm 28 and I already feel like an old man.
@@Gamerguy826 32 feeling like 22 here
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53 and I know the world isn't as simple as laid out in these videos.
Caspian report is a decent source for many things.
29, you are not alone
As a brazilian myself, it amazes me how to this day many foreigners (and even brazilians) see Brics as an "anti-NATO", or even an economic partnership in any significant way.
It's more than anything a glorified forum, reminiscent of the early 2000s "block mania" when everyone wanted to make their own club,. Not unlike the African Union, the OTS, or any "Community of X Language Countries"
A gente adora torcer pra um time, tá no sangue
@@20thcentury_toy coisa de corno
We indians see it as saying to china that
*" Ok we are enemies but just cause Russia invited us we are here "*
Brics is entirely a power play lead by the CCP. It's explicitly anti NATO from the CCP lead side as it's literally the CCPs Hegemony vs the USs Hegemony and the CCP is attempted to steal the USs Thunder.
The economic side of the equation is rather simple if ones into geopolitcal economics as a past time. The CCP lead BRICS is a pro commodity economic bloc. The WEF side (Western) is a pro finance side. Both sides are vying for power over the other to lead which ever doctrine wins out.
The truth is that the BRICS side wins by default on their theory, but they're self sabotaging because the CCPs innate internal political behavior is not conducive to organic growth. Russia itself is pretty much a Despotic lead Federation and is sanctioned heavily since its invasion of Georgia during the last major economic mealt down.
Iran is just... a crackpot.
And Brazil has notorious corruption issues (you can't hide this. It's obvious).
While the west has major issues with corruption that its better at hiding, its even better that its economic bloc is well established, robust and extremely wealthy. It's taken something as bad as a Joe Biden President and a historically low rated Congress to really drag the US down to a low nearly as bad as the late 70s.
China, Russia, Iran, Brazil, they all do not have the economic stock to survive major dips once connected. A lot of that rests squarely on China which is probably the biggest liar in the world in terms of its economic health. Since 2015, their economy has been propped up mostly by propaganda and data manipulation. This has lead the potentially dominance of BRICS dead in the water before they even left port because each nation is just individually not in a peer to peer match for the WEF aligned states.
However that said, the WEF igned states are currently going full retard on purpose because believe it or not, Klaus Schwab (who leads the WEF as its his brain child) is actually very interested in the CCPs style of economic governance. He directly praises Xi's State Capitalist structure over the Free Market Capitalist structure of the traditional west. What he proposes is an advanced form that's in line with Xi's Communist Theory (he's written several) that he calls 'Stake Holder Capitalism' which is the aim of Xi in China. The idea is the supplant the world's sovereign nations with an umbrella order that he quite literally named the New Liberal World Order and that forum will have Technocrats that lead a super national totalitarian technocracy.
The only difference between his idea and the CCPs is that the CCP is exclusively Sinocentric and affective racist. They're nationalist so all their theories declare them being the head of the Global Hegemonic State in a form of Sino-supremacy.
Western Leaders seems to be ok with that because so long as they get their slice of the pie, they don't care. That's why ESG exists, to keep their approval within the new order rather it be the WEFs idea or the CCPs.
With the West following such destructive policies as ESG, SEL, CRT, CQT and more, there is a chance BRICS can succeed because despite their fascistic habits locally, they do tend to favor actual scientific study and results where as the ESG, SEL ecf models do not. The ideological gnosticism of the leaders of the West can be their downfall, allowing the CCP and Russia some leverage to rebound - although I don't see this happening by a long shot.
That said, the BRICs vs the West fight has been and always was a geopolitical power play by China and close allies, Russia and Iran. Even now, Russia and India along with Iran are rekindling partnerships to secure that isolated, parallel commodity base economic bloc by revisiting seriously the Persian canal project that would build a trade traffic capable canal from the coast and through Tehran, all the way to the Caspian Sea, bypassing the western hegemonic grasp at the Strait of Harmuz. They are still trying to make it work and the obvious decoupling between the two major blocs is on purpose, part of that power play.
It'll likely still fail spectacularly but the incompetence and dogmatic nature of the Western leaders to keep their virtue in this gnostic cancer of Neo Marxisf origin could make the competition close regardless.
I loved the list of europeans
Anyone remember “the next 100 years?” It was a book written by George Friedman, predicting that Poland and Turkey would be alongside the US and China as world leaders in the 2020s…. 😮
POLISH POWER
He was half right by the looks of it. Poland economically speaking is doing great. Turkey on the other hand is falling apart.
I can see Poland begin the face of the EU in the future considering the social suicide of most of it's neighbours
@@porter5224 legendary polish power brother 🇵🇱💪
@@Gamerguy826 Nah Turkiye is still doing pretty great tbh. It's hit a rough patch but overall carving out its own sphere, admittedly due to the lack of any real powers in its neighborhood (12% average inflation do be a bitch though).
I'm a lowly Welder with a struggling but advancing mobile business and it troubles me that people can't see what is going on. Thank you for bringing common sense to the internet. At least I don't feel alone in my opinions.
Being somebody that's interested in getting into welding, may I ask how much math plays a role into your job? I know this is such a weird and probably dumb question but I don't want to invest so much money into getting my education only to be too dumb to get any certifications. Thanks.
@@collinb.8542 Depends on what aspect of welding your'e going to get into. I would say if you can read a tape measure, go for it.
Welders are such a huge deal. This nation may need you if we wind up in a civil conflict or revolution. 3D printing has gotten pretty good, but it still is no match for machining and welding.
Moved to Brazil in 2014, lived there for 7 years. Horrifying and heartbreaking how their economy unravelled and stayed that way, bordering on social apocalypse with COVID. But the more I learned about the culture, the more it made sense. My programmer friends were unusually smart and capable, but seemed to get fired every few months. Managers saw them as a threat and did everything to get rid of them, while venerating incompetents. A typical office was full of people just talking and goofing off all day, and the busiest person there was bound to be kicked out. Most of them are now outsourcing to the US. The reason Brazil seemingly cannot compete internationally in anything but commodities is quite simple - their work culture just doesn't value talent or human capital. It's sad, because a lot of Brazilians bought into the whole BRICS thing, believing that they would automatically become millionaires.
You summarized it pretty well. Brazil has a great potential and Brazilian people are extremely creative but the culture of laziness and jealousy impedes the country to compete internationally expect in small irrelevant things. If the culture changes the country changes, but this is uncertain to happen.
@@lorenzodeagostini8941 Thank you for the response. I want Brazil to do well, I really do. I like it in many ways, and would not have lived there for 7 years if I didn't. And as you point out, one of the things I genuinely love about Brazil is its creativity. The way they just do little things to turn problems into solutions. But I believe this will only start to benefit the country as a whole when Brazilians start to orient themselves to the international market. Like my brilliant programmer friends did when they gave up on Brazilian companies and outsourced to the US.
@@bennettbullock9690 All very similar problems to many countries around the world. We have a similar problem in eastern Europe, but perhaps just slightly less pronounced. Another thing true here, that I wouldn't be shocked is true in most other developing countries is horrible generational wealth transfer
What I mean is this. Many people come from poor backgrounds, and they dream about earning more money any way possible, so they can share with their relatives, act as a savior and of course spoil their kids rotten. When building wealth, entrepreneurs face certain "filters" as I call them. The first one is not to overspend after initial success, and the next one is not to throw meritocracy out of the window and stuff your company with friends and relatives.
Yet, that is exactly what happens in developing countries. A successful entrepreneur is seen as a savior of a family, and is expected to uplift everyone else. As a consequence everyone around him becomes lazy, unproductive and lacks any initiative of their own. Many parents build companies specifically because they want to employ their kids there, as they want to avoid them having to go through hardship. All of this usually goes horribly wrong as soon as the initial hard working founder retires or more likely dies. Offspring and relatives start scratching their heads, as they cannot for the life of them figure out what made the company tick till recently.
People in developing countries need to become more what is perceived as selfish. Keep the spoils for yourself, invest into business, do help your kids, but don't hold their hand and don't be patronizing to them.
@@julius43461 That is an excellent point you make about the dynamics of family businesses. In Brazil something like 70% of large enterprises are family-owned. Anyway, thank you for your perspective. As an American, I do struggle to understand other cultures' value systems. Not to self-flagellate. One should never dislike what they are or where they come from.
Americans are extremely lazy in the workplace here also. Have you even worked in the American work force since covid? It’s literally full of lazy zombies.
Basically:
Brazil: stagnation, not living up to the potential given in the early 2000s
Russia: same as Brazil
India: best performing out of the BRICS, frustratingly slow but steady progress, though it has it's own challenges ahead (i.e China trying to ensure people don't ally with them economically and militarily)
China: significantly fast improvement in short time, but also a significant amount of challenges in the long-term that would make China stagnate
South Africa: Poorest performing of the BRICS, and ahead of Brazil in this department; nothing really much to say - lot's of improvements needed.
Best explanation
For Brazil late 90s to early-mid 00s is more accurate.
Ligerally ignored state capture for South Africa and what the ANC had does to SOEs and infrastructure
Not to mention the kleptocracy
The stagnation has already started in China - last two years they had a two percent growth only couple that with the fall in population which started this year.... It does not look ggod
@@caniblmolstr4503 We need to wait a few more years to see how China is travelling. Covid has been interfering with evey countries economic growth.
I liked Peter Zeihan's take: "Every time someone somewhere gets offended, some people crow about 'It's the end of the dollar!'"
Zeihan is a neo con scumbag.
He is just another tool in Geo politics.
Peter Zeihan is paid by the DoD to spread misinformation and propaganda. Watch his most recent Rogan appearance....
Lost all respect for him.
Money printing
Peter Zeihan is kind of a pseudo intellectual fraud though. His predictions rarely come to fruition.
Peter ziehans is awesome love his book
I'm Canadian, thanks for that... I really mean it. People should know the stupidity of Canada. Such an embarrassment. Thanks for shining a little more light on the situation.
CanaDUH
The stupidity of your country as well as mine 🇺🇸
At this point, I think practically every (well, almost) country is stupid and embarrasing. I'm just glad more people are opening their eyes and seeing the US doesn't have a monopoly on that.
@@Hughmong_Us
Same here. Blaming America isn't a good solution.
Such a dystopia now, where will the handmaidens run to now? 🤣
Who was really the dude that went, “hey, let’s try to bring together the 5 countries with the most varying possible types of governments on earth, that would surely work!”
Hey let’s try to make an alliance of 2 countries that hate each other(India and China), sure they will comply with each other.
The Chairman of Goldman Sachs
@@WhatifAltHist can India's condition be called PTSD ?
meanwhile in ASEAN you have constitutional republic (indonesia, philipine), constitutional monarchy (thailand, malaysia), absolute monarchy (brunei), communism (vietnam, laos) etc.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 similar societies and cultures with similar economic future, or at least compared to BRICs
I remember reading an article from early/mid 2000s which predicted the military challenges for the next 50 years. It was all about combating terrorism and stuff like that but what really punched me in the eye is that the author predicted that China and India would unite and grow together in a similar way how France and Germany united after WW2. Basically imagine something like the EU but composed only of China and India. And without the trauma of a giant war, alien invasion or whatever to actually facilitate it.
I was 15 or so when I was reading that article and even at that time I found it really dumb and unrealistic.
Well both Nations will grow just not together
indian gdp will surpass Germany next year
They don't have a common enough civilization to do too much together mutually.
At least with Germany and France one could make an argument that they're derived from western civilization.
Sure you did…
@@ZenoSamaOmniKingThat's awesome but has nothing at all to do with what he said
If you live in Brasil, you know we never had a chance.
The world was complete delusional in the late 2000's
Yes, that Economist front page kkkkkkkkkkkkkk
What will happen is that the so Called Global South will make its own rules, BRICS is a precursor to that...
Welcome to Cold War 2.0
A gente tinha, só que fizemos de tudo possível pra dar errado, logo o resultado não é surpreendente
@@20thcentury_toy A gente é bom nisso de fazer as coisas darem errado!
Infelizmente desde 1889.
YES 🤣🤣🤣
This aged like milk.
He seems to be much better with his analysis of the west than he is with non western countries.
Can you give an argument what he is wrong about?
@randomguy1779 how about the fact the Brics hasn't failed and has only grown stronger. Predictably so, since the West won't stop using the dollar as weapon.
China and India are the ones who are having any economic success, the other original brics mambers are not having good times. China is stagnating slightly though.
Saudi arabia and Argentina havent joined brics formally yet so india, the UAE and China are the only non shithole countries in BRICS.
@@imfromisrael489 China not very good. India ok rest are horrible
30:28 actually in India (before the British rule ) India had a system where anyone can grow crops anywhere however he must pay some amount of that crop to the king. And as like India is the best to grow crops (that's why it still agriculture driven) the poor people atleast had food. That's why Indian poor people don't revolt much. Unlike french revolution or Russian revolution where even basic necessities like bread weren't even being supplied. And now it has becomed a culture. Like people really don't care about government policies. I am sure so that even educated people won't protest if their is massive unemployment. They would rather live with their families (communally) or become immigrants for USA and Canada.
Actually, pre British Empires tax rates on Indian farmers was very high. The idea was to keep farmers at subsistence levels. Mughal tax rates ranged from 33 percent to 50 percent. This was true of the Maratha Empire and Sikh Empire too. It is just that since India was a grain superpower, the cost of grain in India was quite low. So even if most Indians were poor, cost of living was cheap. Wait...that is true even today, compared to other parts of the World. Nothing has changed much for the last 500 years.
That's called "feudalism"
I see him clowning other countries then proceeds live in USA
Indian governance is frustratingly bad and corrupt
I predict India becoming an actualy global power by 2035 if the govt just stops being filthy disgusting
Its a country that is not being allowed to grow at full potential cuz of greed of political parties
hundreds of millions are suffering cuz of greed and selfishness of thousands
disgusting pigs
@@mudra5114 you know that farmers don't have to pay taxes right? and that they receive massive subsidies right? Not just farmer but majority of indians don't have to pay income taxes while i don't think that's the case with other countries. Btw any prove for your maratha, mughal tax rate claim or did you made that up?
Having not liking America as an Ideology doesn't really work in the long term
seems like everybody, at this point, hates America.
That's literally the worst thing u can do 😂😂
The Soviets found that out the hard way. It seems the Russian federation is a bit senile on that lesson.
We love usa 🇮🇳🇺🇸
How to not succeed: make an enemy of the most powerful player.
My dad used to tell me all this nonsense too, he was a first generation immigrant from Mexico so he had his motives. I was always more patriotic for my birth nation in the United States, so I always took it with a grain of salt or try thinking of ways to overcome it. So with that said, I both appreciate this video and take it with a sense of caution. I'll certainly sleep easier knowing we have the advantage, but cautions in not using that as an excuse to not work out the problems we as a nation do face
I would say the advantage is in having a system which actually works towards solving the problems we face, and therein lies my hope for the future
@@candiman4243 I agree, which is probably the only reason I remain optumistic about the future
@@candiman4243, can you name a real problem that the US has solved recently? We have a TON of problems that we just love kicking the can down the road on, what's worse is that we could solve all the problems we face without making either side have an aneurism, but being rational isn't in vouge right now.
@@robertharper3754 People like you and me are getting tired of things like that, which is once again a good sign. Once enough people care enough to vote about it, things happen
@@robertharper3754 what are some of the solutions?
This sure aged well /sarcasm.
Also this dude has such a boomer republican view on Russia and China. China constantly threaten to go to war with the US? Lmao!
Glad that you mention that Mexico became sort of a Brazil replacement, I can't speak for Colombia, but here I can tell that, despite us probably never becoming a Superpower we have made ourself indespensable to the American Economy by basically being their factory, the main industry I've heard is doing well here is cars, we assamble more cars for Japanese companies that even inside Japan, and just TODAY it was announced that Tesla is gonna open a factory in the North despite the fact there is a drought there, because car manufacturing has become a bloodline for the states near the border, granted as that implies is probably gonna lead to troubles for the working class, so is gonna be interesting to see how that gets resolved.
Whole cars or just the parts?
Either is very Lucrative!
Don’t sell Mexico short, my guess is the Mexicans will be the Franks to our American Rome.
@@spaghettiisyummy.3623 The main industry is assembling, most parts come from outside the country, unless that changed recetly, but is all assembled here
@@metaliguana7157 Neat!
If you guys can solve the cartel issue you could honestly become a superpower. USA will be literally shaking and crying.
As a Canadian I agree with your comments about us. Back in the 2010 we were doing exceptional well compared to everyone else in the 2008 crisis due to a government who was actually some fiscally competent. Since 2015 we have been subjected to Trudeau who was not qualified to be prime minister (except for the last name) and seems to just get worse with experience (especially in regards to economics). The most common memory I hear from people who cheered the truckers as the drove through the nation was that they had not realized until that moment how long it had been since the felt proud/grateful to be a Canadian.
“Justin Trudeau has no idea about budgets” Stephen Harper 2015.
I'm from the US. It was so cool seeing the truckers standing up to the government but holy shit seeing them freeze bank accounts and attack elderly people was a wtf moment. Trudeau seems kind of insane. Like one minute acting goofy and weird, the next ruling with an iron fist like some sort of dictator. I hope things improve for you guys, it's not going much better down here lol.
Canadians who aren't socialists have my condolences. Both of them.
The trucker movement was kind of idiotic
What always seemed strange to me is why everyone keeps grouping these countries up in the first place, when they have so little in common. Each of them is pretty much completely alien to all the others in most ways, whether you look at their past, present or future.
It's an economic union more than anything.
Think of it as an alt G20
@@zebimicio5204 Indians hate Chinese, Chinese hate Indians, no future there.
Remind them diversity is a strength. Problem solved.
The only thing most of them share in common is an anti-west sentiments. Such foundation isn't enough for long-term existance of such block, especially with territorial disputes between each other and authoritarian regimes showing the complete opposite of what most people on Earth wluld like to be a part of.
@@swarmpope9608You make a good point.
Mexico especially has a way brighter future ahead of them then South Africa does. I say that because now Mexico is fully integrated into the American economic sphere along with Canada.
I’d say the only thing that really holds Mexico back is political corruption and the cartels. While these things are bad, they could be way, way worse.
"And people probably felt racist for not having an African country" So true
God, I find myself Liking practically every video on this channel. That metaphor at around 4:57, about the girl with many suitors trying to get benefits from all of them, was so great
“Everyone want to be a body builder, but no one wants to lift those heavy ass weights” Ronnie Coleman
"Everybody wanna go to heaven but nobody wanna die" Bushwick Bill - Ghetto Boys (From memory so I think that's right, but I didn't look it up)
@@Kwekwe that’s a good one
"No one wants to die for economic zone 17." - Carl Benjamin
increasingly that's what the Anglosphere is, unfortunately. This is a lot of why people just hate their government, like in the US.
I honestly dont know why anyone would want to join the army today in Canada unless they were either glory seeking adventurers or just in it for the money.
Either way, theyre gonna be disapppointed because army life is mostly cleaning up the barracks and you can get more money from any other way from either the market or the state.
@@Will9c less than 20% of the world lives in developed countries. Outside of the Anglo sphere you can move to Europe, developed east Asia or rich gulf countries
An absurd statement. When people are wealthy they get lax, but people say the same thing about democracies in WW2. Mustache Man assumed the US in particular would roll over, obsessed as it was with its movies.
It didn't then. And no democracy worth their salt will now.
@@stephenjenkins7971 you've clearly missed the point.
They just passed the g7 in gdp. How did they fail?
You can see how India was on the Nato map and BRICS map and same goes for Brazil, they are not the same type of alliance where Nato is a military alliance BRICS is an economic one.
India is non aligned nation. It has been so; it will be so. It is like the America before the ww2 let’s eat popcorn and make while the rest of the world fights it out 😂. Reason why America dominates the world because it stayed out of most major conflicts
Peter Zeihan energy.
I remember that BRICS ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) from my trading days. I actually made a decent profit (almost doubled my investment) on that BRICS ETF. ETF’s can be bought and sold like stocks, allowing hobby investors to buy into diversified funds without having to pay fees, like you would have to pay if you bought into a mutual fund or similar.
Everyone thought the BRICS were going to become the ultimate powerhouse emerging economy. As a result the fund appreciated massively but it’s probably not worth much anymore.
It was the shitcoin of international markets, lmao.
Great overview of the situation of these countries.
One thing that I did want to note was that culture is not destiny. Culture does matter far more than what the intelligentsia would like to give it credit for, but it's more of a reflection of the past and is only a short term predictor of the future. Often, what can be seen as a cultural tendency for 'laziness' or 'work ethic' is more of a reflection of the incentives and situation that people are subject to. Namely the presence or lack of government, rule of law, property rights, and corruption. People have no reason to work if their hard work will be taken away, innovators have no reason to invent if their inventions will be stolen and copied. The resource curse is a curse because it feeds a corrupt government. Blaming the malaise of the Brazilian economy on Latin culture is not entirely wrong, but it cannot explain the divergent paths of different latin american economies after their independence.
Have you read The Narrow Corridor by Acemolgu? I think you already have a good sense of the issues at hand, but it might be interesting to you.
Excellent points. I keep his "Why Nations Fail" front and center on my main bookcase so it's ready at a moment's need. 🥰
what's an intelligentsia? Oh right, it's "them". They have a longer name now.
@@scambammer6102 whats the longer one? Must be a new one, cuz the old one is just letterz😈
I believe culture may have play a larger than expected. In a country called Malaysia, the majority of population Malay were the one to receive most welfare and government job oppoturnity. But most of them are generally poor, lazy, inferior in higher education as professional, prefer to spend more money rather than hoarding.
While the Malaysia chinese, that have been born in Malaysia for more than three generations, who receive no specific welfare like Malay had, are generally more rich, hardworking, taking position in most professional field (such as doctor), and own most companies in Malaysia.
In Malaysia, corruption is common and yet the Chinese is hardworking. The chinese receive no specific support from government and yet they perform better than Malay.
And the biggest cultural difference between Malay and Chinese is that Malay prefer to enjoy life more than the Chinese do. And malay generally do not like hoarding money like the Chinese, which of course will cause many troubles later on in their life. There was even a time where government run an education campaign to tell the public to have money hoarding habit.
it could be that both these things prop up the other. the culture of low work ethic and corruption worsens the ability for a stable and prosperous government to get into power, so the corrupt government makes hard work not pay off, which culturally makes people value work ethic even less, which causes the government to struggle even more to get value.
sure culture isn't an end all, but they drive us more than we'd like to think sometimes.
It's funny how whenever you're actually being realistic online and say anything politically instead of "America bad" you get a ton of backlash.
"Realistic" lmao
You’re right about the EU being an extension of the American empire, in that the concept of empire is extremely difficult to pin down when democracy and anti-imperialist ideology gets introduced to the political mainstream of the core of the empire.
The fact is that the American empire has four main levers of influence; economic, cultural, military, and political
The EU is by is very nature an economic and political structure taking inspiration from the structure of the US political system.
Even if the US isn’t directly responsible for its existence, it’s hard to deny it goes hand in hand with American intrests, complimenting NATO in its function.
The EU itself does help the countries stand up to the US by giving us a single voice, but don’t be fooled into believing that the US doesn’t benefit from a single voice either.
It’s like how employers in the Nordics are happy with the existence of trade unions, since it gives them someone to negotiate with. Especially since the demands are reasonable in the first place.
The US is directly responsible for the EU. It's an American project going back to the EC after WWII and then the ECM.
LOOK IT UP! 😮
The thing about masterworks is that the international art trade is a scam. Almost all of these dramatic art sales are combinations of money laundering and tax evasion.
Not to mention that it literally treats art like a commodity, which ought to be considered obscene by anyone who gives a damn about art or their own culture.
as a south African.
its fair to say our country is dying.
71 murders a day and those are the reported ones.
40% unemployment rate (everyone disagrees on the actual number)
some of the most dangerous cities in the world
gangsters controlling major industries such as public transport.
55.5 % poverty rate
political assassinations in Kwa-zulu Natal and Mpamalunga
union leaders killing each other for positions
no electricity for like half the day.
illegal immigrants pouring across the border when every they please.
a public water crisis due to the government not maintaining the pipes.
collapsing infrastructure
a massive brain drain and flight in capital.
and many more issues.
good news is...
racial tensions have cooled quite abit. (at least in my experience)
tribal tensions have cooled massively since the end of conflict between the Zulu dominated IFP and the ANC ended.
The economy is growing again but at a snails pace.
And our corrupt and useless ruling party is on a track to losing its majority .
The bad news
If the ANC loses their majority it is widely believed they will go into coalition with the EFF are far left wing militant communist party.
if the two go into coalition.... South africa is fucked.
Great to see a comment with proper data and an unbiased analysis of things👍
I am so sorry to say that you're likely correct. South Africa is such a beautiful country with a fascinating history.
@@THESUPERIORONE. I try .
But unfortunately the South African bureau of statistics is corrupt and inefficient . I’ve seen like 5 different unemployment statistics from the government and private organisations .
@@lucianogardelli10 at least south africa contributed to the world giving us Elon musk
I’m a farmer, Brazil dose not have fertile soil! It needs a shit tone of artificial fertiliser to grow anything
Average WhatIfAlthist video: *yes, everyone is in decline, except the us*
I mean. Where's the lie
@@WhatifAltHist Be careful, people will come in and start getting angry and be offended.
@@CAProductions051 nowadays having an opinion or a point = crying, how childish the world has become
@@WhatifAltHist like you yourself said that USA is in both economic and social decline
@@Tijaxtolan You’re right, people are very easily offended nowadays.
As someone who is way older than 21-I was in grad school when BRIC became a thing-no one, literally no one, argued they would take over the world. There was a lot of optimism about emerging markets at the time. Then those four (SA got tacked on later) started thinking about forming joint development bank. This turned out mainly to be China since they were the only ones with surplus capital. So that didn’t go far. That’s it. They all have an interest in diversifying the system of global governance. They still do. But no one takes BRICS seriously. No one ever has. But just pointing out that each of the countries has issues totally misses the point which is that there is a lot of interest in a global order that is not dominated by the west. The conditions aren’t there for a change (and Russia has always been the drunk guy who ruins the party as it is doing right now). But those conditions will evolve and China, mainly, wants to be positioned to take advantage of that.
is this person really 21?
This person as in me? I’m
50. As for mister whatifist, I’m surprised and not. Definitely a smart and confident guy who sounds older. But also that much confidence is a symptom of youth. Other than Peter Zeihan-who continues to convince people that the future is easy to predict as long as you have a decent map and a few demographic statistics-people who have been around longer than 2 decades generally don’t make predictions so brazenly.
@@SeanSafford No,i mean whatifthelist,the person operating the this channel.
India does not like China either and is a strategic rival to China .
I guess not many countries in the world want a too close relationship with China and want to keep it at an arms length .
Sadly for China by the time those conditions appear they won’t be in any position to take advantage.
**youtuber makes mention of india in slightest way**
Indians :- You have summoned us ✊🏼
And boy are u guys insecure
@@Mynipplesmychoice hmm u can say that I also fell like my fellow countrymen are a bit too insecure
@@Mynipplesmychoice Brazilians also act the same online unfortunately, here some call it "straydog mentality", so I can relate to Indians for that.
@@pretendtheresaname9213 are u from China??
I keep hearing references of Hindu nationalists going insane online, but I'd yet to actually see any. I'm not saying this doesn't happen, only that I just haven't been in a place to see it. To be honest, I was hoping to see some madness in this comment section... no such luck.
As a a 28yo guy from Romania, I'm impressed that I've been listening to someone 7 years younger than me all along. I imagined you were at least my age for some reason. Your analysis of these complex subjects are very mature and well documented, and often against the mainstream trends like hate towards Western culture and history. Romania did benefit greatly by "westernising" in the last 30 years and being under EU and US influence (I would love a video dedicated to Eastern Europe and it's modernization), I really hope this will not change. Great pleasure listening to you, keep up the great work brother!
Romina club
Romanian*
“America can’t be in decline, look at my big numbers compared to their little numbers!”
I can't help but wonder what kind of rose colored glasses he is wearing. All I have to do is look at my Hometown of Portland, Oregon and see that yes we are in decline. We can't even get an interstate bridge up.
It's funny to watch people go from criticizing China's workforce to praising it to now criticizing it again. Same with their work ethic. Also funny to act as if the second largest economy being in a decline means it's "over". I mean, don't get me wrong, China's got its problems, and the real estate bubble was indeed epic, but the US had a depression, huge economic disparity, and generational issues and came out of it to become the de facto largest economy. Imagine if a British historian tried to comment in the 1930s about how the US had a great run, but clearly wasn't going to recover from its economic malaise or income disparity with oil barons & shanty towns.
@@Deridus To be fair, you _do_ live in Portland which does have a certain reputation preceding it.
Exactly, a lot of America's numbers are from printing money and finance, BRICS has a massive workforce and natural resources.
@@GravitoRaize Wow.
It's Almost like people can change their Opinion.
Or have Multiple things to say about a certain Issue instead of barking "good" or "bad" at it.
China's work Culture is HORRIFYING when it comes to the life of its Citizens, but it IS good for Economic stats and the CCP's Ego.
I love a criticism of prediction by the prediction maker himself. Mad respect
29:11 I'm not an Hindu/ Indian nationalist, infact I hate such people and am very critical of where our country has gotten to, but there are some things I have to rectify here.
1. India would have industrialised much earlier than it is doing rn if it weren't for colonisation. British officials have records about how Calcutta was the perfect place with the perfect conditions for industrialisation (which they then killed and made India imports dependent, hence destroying any form of industrialization.)
2. Yes India had women's rights before the arrival of Islamic conquests. It's not a shocker. It's written in ancient scriptures, Most of our tales and folklore that have been passed down for thousands of years, have instances of women empowerment. Islam and Hinduism are two extremely different religions, there was bound to be conflict and Islam happened to dominate the subcontinent due to the war culture in their empires, which Indians didn't have.
3. There has always been a (quite loose) but somewhat collective identity among the Indians of today. In many ancient scriptures the land of India, or Bharat has been described as 'the land between the mountains and sea.' The word 'Bharat' has been around for 1000's of years and many unifications have occured throughout history in India, just like China. China just happen to be more homogenous than India, which is what gives it a sense of a unified civilization, when it was just as broken up as India for the most part of its history.
i am a hindu nationalist, be proud of that, you guys seriously need to solve your inferiority complex when a foreigner says something you start believing like as if god has said that
India has so much potential but it needs to stop dwelling on its past greatness and focus on the future..
@@finestructureconstant3921 100% agreed. But we won't stop with the past until the west acknowledges it and pays for what it did. The west still proudly lives off of slave money and looted wealth from colonies. The separation, marginalisation and suffering of many families under colonialism has still trickled down into modern India, it was less than a generation back. I for one am very proud of my past, but I don't dwell on it. I only said what I did in my above comment since people like this guy make fun of the points that Indian nationalists put across and while they may be exaggerated and stupid, they still hold some truth. Which shouldn't be forgotten.
@@finestructureconstant3921 Also, needs to stop worshipping whit people
@@idkatthispoint-s9s
The Virgin "Mandir Yahi banwgi"
The Virgin "Masjid Yahí Banegí"
vs
The GigaChad "Factory yahi Banegi"
Man I'm very impressed at your young age ands knowledge about the world. I've been trying to learn about geopolitics the last year. This was one of the best videos I've seen. Thanks for making it.
Someone gives him info about these stuff I think. Mostly that they aren’t reliable much since politics are more than just simply find problems and predictions.
Check other sources. He definitely gets stuff wrong, particularly cultural/domestic commentary.
But generally i agree it’s a good and informative channel
lol India isn't part of china's bri but this youtuber stupid says it is
With all due respect bro, you are right but he is somewhat west supremacist looking down on non - western nations
35:15 Funny/terrifying thing: was just watching Fall of Civilizations episode of Easter Island. Apparently the current theory is that their collapse wasn't from them blowing up their ecology; rather they were a stable and functional society until European plagues wiped out half to three quarters of their population, *then* they collapsed in a truly horrifying way.
And China is way bigger too...
I honestly forgot BRICS was a thing
Even they themselves did!
I sometimes hear tankies bring it up. It's hilarious how detached from reality those people are.
@@Red_NeckI've never seen anything about it outside of school and an old Drew Durnill video where he uses it as a faction to fight NATO (why is this vision of BRICS even a thing istg people just want war)
@@caracalfloppa4997 yeah they always compare NATO and BRICS, like those two are similar in anyway 🤣
@@Red_Neck nah the meeting happens every year. This year they talk about further development of BRICS bank and establishing a system to trade without dollars. Next year they might add new members.
16:34 In Brazil, we often say:
Brasil é o país do futuro que nunca chega
Brazil is the country of the future that never arrives
This is a really impressive analysis, I’m thrilled to have discovered your channel. Subscribed!
Not gonna lie, I completely forgot this was a topic people discussed 😅. No one has brought up BRICS in years. So cool you touched on this. Keep up the good work
Quite a western favored view point rather than a non biased factual display of information. This coming from someone living in south africa. This video isnt very accurate but is a decent take. The USA has seen rapid decline in recent years compared to china tho, just as an example
Everyone outside the west knows and discussing BRICS
@@minoan438 clearly under a rock 😅
@@Ana-kg5qvI’d argue the problem discussing decline and rise of nations is, yes it is bias. I live in the U.S and while things aren’t perfect. It’s still pretty good 😅. Plus I’d argue decline is still hard to argue when a decline nation is still considered the most powerful nation on earth. Militarily, financially, etc….. As someone in the U.S army, in my opinion I don’t see any concerns of decline when my equipment and training is still consider the best in the world 😅
@@Ana-kg5qv china is a walking corpse
There is a severe disconnect between the tone of your piece on India and on China, a more apt point to leave off for the both of them, is that India has continued to grow year over year (albeit a slower rate) whilst experiencing what you would regard as multiple crises; while China has remained relatively stable and transitioned towards economic imperialism with its growth temporarily stagnating in the event of crises, a hallmark of a more socially mobile and interconnected society. For all intensive purposes India has more long term potential, however China is already making first moves to gimp India's long term growth, so India's most pressing issue is its poor diplomatic position, followed by an internal social mobility issue. Specifically, my issue with your presentation on the two is the tonal difference of the presentation, and the slight lack of interplay between the two.
Brazil is a little overexplained, as in it somewhat sounded like you were associating, or just including, things which did not need to be present or held little or no weight in the segment. South Africa sounded more like you just remembered something from a history class and combined it with news headlines rather than a real retrospective somewhat paired with a speculative outlook on the state from the POV of 200X. In the Russia segment you understate the cultural history despite it being your introductory argument, and due to that it comes across as both wrong and "yeah they suck anyways" (which would be almost better suited for Brasil lmao.).
Pretty much the only over the top criticism I have is the coverage disconnect between some of the parts, notably India and China, and what comes across a clear lack of research for topics it seems you were uninterested in. Second criticism is the same as nearly always, you present like you're reading a list of interest points and re-making connections as to why that's your list without filling in the observer - usually a sign of improper revising of the script or failing to write and arrange scripts when preparing a presentation.
That all said it is a genuinely interesting topic and thank you for introducing people to recent economic history.
Yeah he contradicts himself a lot and it's a little annoying. I still stick around because he is definitely well read and makes a lot of great points.
His editing and spelling can be pretty sloppy and it doesn't seem to be improving.
He's a kid though, and I have really high hopes for him.
@@caracalfloppa4997 Totally, he has some interesting opinions, but often time goes over the board with theories that are not even close to being factual.
@@caracalfloppa4997 India will be Lebanon on steroids
@@CaptainPieBeardHe's 21...that's not being a kid. Plus, he has a master's degree in a history field (not sure the specific one). I guarantee he knows more then you
Why ? Because Brazil is a deeply corrupt country where contracts are not respected and law enforcement is almost non-existent.
Having both China and India in the same group was a really dumb idea.
The name sounded nice
For a military alliance, sure. But the power of their cooperation is monetary, not military. They both switch to a gold standard along with Saudi, and the West collapses overnight. He who has the gold makes the rules. And Ft. Knox has never been audited.
@@grugnotice7746 read an economics book on why the gold standard failed before posting ignorant comments, you jokers really need to learn math and read an economics book before going online and yapping on topics you dont grasp
@@eduwino151 lmao just let a foreign bank print your reserves infinitely that is so much better than just using gold. But gold won't let us go to war every five minutes! That's BAD! Krugman called, he wants his penis back.
@@grugnotice7746 jokers who cant do math have been jerking off about gold standard killing the west for 3 decades now the same countries you are yapping about cant function minus western tech and markets
What you should keep in mind is that we currently live in the age of the American empire. The primary difference between the American empire and the more conventional empires, like the British empire and the USSR, is how it expands its empire and its fundamental relationship with its colonies, if the word still applies. A conventional empire would expand by force, taking territory and using force or the threat of force to maintain control over the colonies. This requires the empire to keep sufficient force over its colonies, and when the iron grip relaxes, the colonies rebel, like the British Empire after WWII or the collapse of the USSR.
The American empire lets its enemies do its advertising for it. By allowing countries to retain political and economic autonomy and only requiring military cooperation, the American Empire can swallow up entire countries without going to war with them or engaging in a costly occupation. America’s fundamental method of keeping these countries on its side is to have them decide that they are better off as members of the American Empire than not. America’s loose control over its allies grants it flexibility and keeps its military liquid.
Very typical western way of thinking, all those empires that you mentioned are all Western Empire, you should look deep into history, and learn what the Chinese did in the East, the best way is to learn who is Cheng He, and what happened to his voyage.
Here at Morgan Industries, we try to avoid the label of monopoly.
The reason being that it is not out of some malicious intent or strategy that we currently hold the vast majority of the market. It is simply that our current line of products and services are of such quality that the rest of the market simply sees no need to compete.
-Sid Meyers Alpha Centauri
Actually, what you are describing is the evolution of imperialism, which is NOT unique to America. In previous centuries, the expansion and maintenance of empires required the use of force. This included the many invasions of Latin America by U.S. forces in the late 19th century. But from the 20th century on, ALL the empires shifted to a system that favored diplomacy and only resorted to violence as a last resort. This includes the USSR which you erroneously referred to as an old-school empire. The USSR would offer countries an alternative to American imperialism in the same exact way you described the American approach of letting it's enemies do the advertising and giving countries a choice. Cuba for example was deceived by the American empire and as a result chose to accept the Soviet empire instead. It was 100% their own choice. Meanwhile, the British Empire converted to a "modern" empire (often referred to as the British Commonwealth) and still flourishes to this day.
It's a common mistake to assume American imperialism is unique because of it's predominance since imperialism has become more "diplomatic". But the changes have far more to do with the development of technology and global trade than any one nationality.
Pax Americana is different from other Empires because it isn't built for the same reasons. Rome needed slaves, territory, and victory. Britain needed new world imports.
America needs peace. Our moral system puts human life above all other values(wrongly I say, but that's how it is). We got sick of fighting other people's wars after the world wars and decided it would be cheaper(in terms of lives) to maintain a monotarily expensive alliance rather than fight a European war every few years.
Ironically, we will probably see bigger wars than the world wars as Americans forget why they pay for everything and pull out for economic gains.
If history teaches us anything, it's that people don't learn from history.
The closest thing to the American empire who incidently the Americans modeled much of our country' s institutions after were the Romans. The Romans offered citizenship military aid and civilization to the peoples they conquered that 'why it lasted for so many years and still exists today in a small way in the form of the Roman Catholic Church.
Glad to see some China-Japan comparisons here. I've been comparing China to 1980's Japan for quite a while now.
中國是主權國家 而日本只是美國養的一條狗
There really isnt many similarities however, his assessment is horrible.
@@RAIDENCHEEKS how so
@@RAIDENCHEEKS Yeah, the difference is Japan made sure to get friendly with everyone and got most of their population into decent wealth before the decline. Unfortunately China is going to decline before the transition is complete, and they will have few friends.
You’re brain is absolutely cooked if you don’t think these countries are still working together and progressively endangering american hegemony. The game hasn’t even started and you’re saying they lost. Don’t believe me, you’ll see what im talking about soon after November.
Thanks for the overview. I'd heard of the BRICS, but didn't realize people were expecting them to form a coalition, just that they would do well.
Nobody was expecting them to form any coalition. China and India hate each other. China and Russia hate each other. Brazil and South Africa are doing horribly.
and they will.
Impressive. Very nice.
Let's see America's balance of trade.
I doesn't matter for usa cause all trade is done in us dollars so they can just print more money and pay the extra Trade
Just look at America's trade deficit just look how much their state is in debt.
Should they ever lose their grondious advantage in having the world reserve currency.
They gonna wake up in a bad spot, for a few years.
And the trust in Dollar is not what it used to be.
@@mam0lechinookclan607 it wont just affect the U.S though.
@@Sceptonic yes this will not effect the US only, but all in all i think the world will be a better place without dollar superiority.
I like the US, but they enjoyed an unfair irrational advantage for far to long.
Look at their valuation of their biggest tech companys. Most of them, even after the las crash, have insane KGVs.
And the governmental debt has gone over the critical point, there is now no comming back.
@@mam0lechinookclan607 after another even greater depression occurs, it could happen.
As an Indian, I can say that we too have absolutely no idea where our country is going or what is to become of it. There is so much potential here but so many dangerous shortcomings and so many moving parts that i genuinely have no idea what's going to happen.
Weird way to say you’re out of touch with you surroundings and live in complete delusion.
@@AMITAWAGHADE India is a very big and complex country
It's harder for ordinary people to understand what's Indian government is doing,what's going to happen near future for the country
put your head down and your ass to work. dont think about things you have no control over.
Indians will perhaps seek closer allignment with some other partners, like the EU, as they become stronger. And move away from the silicon valley created order.
@@AMITAWAGHADE bro i have been all around India. It may seem intact but there are so many things going on that and each one of them individually has the capacity to destroy countries. I'm almost convinced it's just god's will that keeps India together.
According to the western media, China and BRICS Alliance falls everyday😂😂
i would love a video about china - japan and usa - britain similarities. or just usa britiain cos that fascinates me the most
Although I don’t believe in the main theme of this video, you make some accurate points that I will think about, and I thank you for educating us. I ask if you could make a video on the pros of BRICS, however numbered they may be. This would help to get multiple perspectives on this.
a rudyard video shouldn't be taken for exactly what it says, but more a general direction to which to look at the problem people face.
They have been no pros to BRICS. It's just a bunch of developing countries beating their chests on how they're gonna conquer the world.
The positives might include the perception of cooperation which bolsters the public image of authoritarians and leaders with authoritarian aspirations
I know it's a sponsorship and all, but my gamer sense tingles whenever Masterworks is discussed, if enough people hop onto the bandwagon of fine art held by shell companies then eventually it will work until it crashes out of nowhere.
It's a laundry scheme, but they want to cash out of the game. Lol
Masterworks is "legitimate" in that they have all their papers tidy but I would still steer clear. Their advertisements are very misleading.
The way a company advertises says just about all you need to know.
Still, I guess it's better than Raid Shadow Legends.
In germany, we have the saying "Is it art or for the trash?" Art is only worth any money if u find another fool that buys it from u... trying to profit of spiritual values like the sense to like art is stupid. Art worth something more than the needed time and materials needed to create it is a fishy business used for people that want to brag.
I love your Go reference at 29:40! Do you ever play online? Fantastic work as usual.
"Canada is an authoritian shitshow."
Love it.
He does admit he has as much irrational bias as the next pundit.
I remember back in 2012 at college and a teacher I had said they were having there kids learn mandarin because they thought china was going to be a super power like us but now I laugh and wish I could run into him and ask if it was worth it
2012: China is the next world superpower!
2023: Wanna bet how much longer it will take before China collapses?
Insert "never learn Mandarin" 4chan post
Plenty of uses with the Mandarin still: becoming a 21st century space warlord
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD oh my god that’s one of the best green texts of all time
It still is though.
Because it's a group of *sovereign* nations, no one can agree on anything. If Europe became independent of the US and countries inside it independent of the EU you would see same struggles and inability to actually achieve anything.
The real question is, what's more harmful, having a group of sovereign states which cannot agree on anything, or having a hegemon which puts everyone down to their determent but which actually gets things done.
You don't need "independence from the US" to get the EU-states to take forever to agree on anything and if France, Germany and (increasingly) Poland disagree the system grinds to a halt.
@@cahdoge actually they do need independence from us as us dragged them to their war and did not suffer from anything because of its geography...it was Europe who had to deal with refugee and subsequently terrorist attacks...it's beneficial for us that Europe cut ties with russia on the issue of oil but not so much for Europe...that's why NATO is a group of subservience afterall because of it European defence capabilities went downwards and now they are completely dependent on us when Trump asked for more money from Japan they had no option as they have monopoly of security...us often threatens other with sanctions from buying Russian weapons from russia and kill it's production line and filled the artificially created demands demand created by compulsory spending on defence to procure weapons for NATO and caatsa so that Africa and Asia don't reach to russia and keep it's production line running and in the mean time it killed the defence capacity of Europe so much so that companies are closing down at one point British govt had to support BAE and merged companies to it and formed BAES similar thing happed in russia Sukhoi and Mig are merged to keep it afloat ironically alliance was aimed for betterment and it's having similar effect on both allies and adversary...they need independence if they want to act in their interest not in some country seperated by huge sea...and to top it all up because on this monopoly of security which us holds over Europe it can bargain a lot from it....if sovereign states are on forum then structural problems can be dealt with better rules and regulations but if someone holds you hostage over security and claims to be your benefactor and thinks in its own intrest problem would be way difficult to solve
@@aayushprakhar1711 The US isn't hampering the rest of NATOs defense spending, in fact under Trump they flat out were told to do more of their fair share because the fact of the matter is the US foots the majority of the bill for Europe's defense anyway. Also there is the fact that many Americans don't want to fund NATO anyway. European countries CAN make their own choices and have been. How many times has the US come to Europe's aid in the past 100 years? you can't blame the United States for everything, grow up.
@@xXxMarqxXx grow up??stop projecting and have you read what I wrote????... every NATO country has to spend 2% of their GDP on defence and us has not ...European economy is nearly 16 trillion 2% is 380 million now most of the European countries now don't manufacture air defence icbms slrbms and even small arms these days 750 billion of United states and 380 billions of 1.13 trillion now even 50% is a lot of money that's how much they make at least...many countries in Europe who don't have beef with russia has to spend because us has beef with them Europe was buying gas until us bombed Nord stream so tell me how they are not hampering European policies...Americans want to and I will say they want to because their govt. Is doing so if it's not doing what their govt wants them to do then how are you democracy and how are you accusing rest of the world for not being democracy...and have Americans come for free????why would they as they are war dogs and they forced Germany to comply with their policy on russia, they arm twisted Japan to pay more, they dragged Europe in their war on terror and Iraq invasion and didn't suffer from consequence as there is a huge sea between middle East and us and Europe had to deal with migrant crisis....us is to be blamed as us invaded Iraq, us invaded syria, us invaded, vietnam, us invaded korea, us invaded afganistan, us threatened india with nukes in 1971 and sent 7t fleet near India and ussr saved us, us gave weapons to pakistan in 1971 using which they killed 3 million Bengalis and Hindus and raped their women and I heard war babies for the first time when I was reading about us involvement in creation of Bangladesh, us toppled democratically elected Iranian government heade by mohommad mosaddegh, us toppled Ukranian govt in 2014, us toppled Hawaiian ruler, us toppled democratic government in Cuba etc etc...not only Europe world would be better place without us as us can't keep it's hand from others pocket
BRICS didn't fail. They just started.
The main issue with BRICS, is also one of its main strengths: It does not conform to an ideology, does not require its members to change their nations internally, unlike the EU, which does impose its values, and policies on both prospective, and active members.
Where this weakness comes into play, is how some BRICS members have conflicting interests, even to the point of being direct adversaries. The big one of course, as you mentioned, being China and India. Now, the only way this situation gets put to bed, is for the grievances of the past and border disputes to be settled. If China and India both end up with pragmatic leadership at the same time, their differences getting settled, could be a possibility.
As it stands, India, China, and Pakistan cooperating, stands to benefit them all greatly if they can just get passed.. well... the past.
But lets look at what BRICS has going for it: It has now secured the Suez through Egypt, it is looking like the Saudis and their lesser arab monarchies are going to try and join. Turkey is likely looking to save its own dying economy by joining the SCO as well. In terms of resources and population, there's potential but it requires the weakest members of BRICS to be elevated into stable economies. South Africa right now is the biggest open wound in BRICS, and Brazil has a wealth disparity that only worsened as the decades have gone by, which ultimately stagnated its growth.
well in a parallel world it might workout but not in this timeline lol
@@praddumnvats6759 Remains to be seen tbh. One of the factors that keeps other economic blocs down has been the strangulation of the dollar in international exchanges, notably the petro dollar.
Its been hinted at that they're working on their own reserve currency, and if the OPEC nations are indeed pivoting towards BRICS, thats a massive step towards unshackling international commerce from the dollar and weakening competition in the process.
Whether or not this ever happens, remains to be seen, but a lot of people I talk about this with have suggested we (The US) would go to war to prevent this from happening because it would destroy our economy. Its no coincidence that anytime another nation has tried to make a gold backed currency or petro backed currency, that their governments are suddenly targeted and destroyed like with Qaddafi's Libya.
@@QueenMooSuko hmm 🤔 good point.But dollar's dominance will end inevitably..we are starting to see that with crypto and other currency alternatives.
It seems like BRICS success would require the stars to align. Too many variables.
@@praddumnvats6759 the problem is that we all value crypto based on how much USD they are worth
"Some examples of economics being retarded"
If I could go back and take my high-school economics class again I'd definitely make this the title of one of my power point slides. 🤣
I was really looking forward to this till you said India is a part of BRI and could be considered allies. India was the first country to denounce BRI and never attended any of its meetings. Even the US attended those meetings
Does not change the fact it was considered by economists part of BRIC.
India didn't took 🇨🇳BRI funds (Trillion)
& G7's PGII Funds (600B)
There are numerous countries out there taking both like Turkey Pakistan
@@swarmpope9608 - Oh, okay. Thank you for clarifying this. I stand corrected! I have deleted my comment, in the light of your clarification!
When you were a kid thinking BRICS was gonna take over, I was the same age but thinking they would fail purely due to racist beliefs.
I'll just say our score is 1:1 for now.
Not feeling the exceptionalism right now?
@@JohnSmith-ox3gy your clucking useless disapproval noises makes you come across as a redditor
random thoughts CAN also be true. it's not the same as proof.
@@johnpersinger4358 non sequitur also you're a retard
31:44
"Cotton and Genocide"
Damn didn't know Dixie sympathizers were camping out in northwest China.
General Sherman rises from the dead and marches to Beijing
16:49 In all fairness I don’t think it was too out of character for Brazil to host them since it’s a country that has a deep sporting heritage. This includes 7 world cups, and on a somewhat related note, 3 F1 champions
I wish. Brazil has 5 world cups (still number 1 in that department). But Brazil has been in the finals 7 times.
@@CursedSwede As in, HOSTING 7.
Keep in mind, they were the host when 7/1 happened!
27:58 There was a documentary on the last surviving Battle of Britain Hawker Hurricane.
Apparently it had somehow come to rest in some field in India. It took years just to get permission to move the plane. And it wasn't that anyone was stone walling it; they just wanted to talk it over and over and over and over...
Source on this ?
@@NiceBot724 Found it, finally. It was Hurricane R4118. Hurricane Heritage has the blurbs on it.
It was covered in a documentary that I think was on Curiosity Stream, but I can't find it at the moment.
It got transferred to India to be a pilot trainer, but ended up being used as an engineer trainer instead.
Interesting analysis. Would love to see you do the Next-11 countries and breakdown how they've fared over the last 20 years on a case by case basis. There seems to be a very wide variation on the N-11 list, with Pakistan nearly collapsing while Vietnam/Mexico soared. Go for it!
I genuinely wanted to hear your take on the failure of the BRICS. It’s a shame 1/3 of what you say is simply outlandish. Would have been nice to hear something more objective.
So you were looking for confirmation bias...
What was outlandish?
@@rahkriga By your pov, any comment that does not agree with the channel is looking for confirmation bias lmao. Retarded logic.
0:15 - That's hardly true, it was a new term then and even people from the BRICS countries were struggling to come to terms with it. Well done on the complete misportrayal.
Getting a wedding ring as a tradition wasn't invented in the post-war United States, it can be traced to ancient Rome and Greece, the modern exchange of rings derived from the customs of Europe in the Middle Ages as part of Christendom. Maybe you are refering to it specifically being a diamond ring?
Yes - not weddings rings, but diamond engagement rings (and the whole "2 months salary rule") were invented by De Beers in the 20th century.
7:19 what book was that? It sounds interesting.
China has a whole region dedicated to heavy metal and I haven't even heard one of their songs.
That region is actually Inner Mongolia, so I could imagine what their music sounds like
I love these videos. You just post random graphs and babble memes. It's precious.
I don't know if I've ever seen so many blatant errors within the first minute of a video. I'm impressed.
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Whatifalthist's crack pipe
Making too much alt-history made this guy live in an alternate universe lmao
this guy lives in his own imaginary world, every country gonna collapse but america will not
Lets see you make your own videos on politics and history
@@candlestyx8517 aww, maybe we should give him credit for effort even if his videos are dumb
@@candlestyx8517yeah because someones ability to make videos is directly correlated with whether or not they understand what it is they are talking about
Hahaha, saying this while countries are lining up to join and the BRICS are launching an international trade currency
I remember that hype myself, but at the time I was in my early 20s and had enough of an interest and knowledge in the histories of the countries in question to think "I have doubts". (Apart from Brazil, which I wasn't really knowledgeable enough to have an opinion, but I wasn't going to take the words of the people making the prediction either.)
From an economic perspective, they all had potential, but they also had big question marks over whether they had a system that could actually realise that potential. China looked to have the best chance at the time, IF the CCP could stomach letting go of the reins rather than investing its wealth into more internal suppression and positioning itself as a rival to the West. We know how that turned out.
From a geopolitical perspective - they didn't really seem to have a lot in common to bind them together, with the RIC core having unresolved sources of conflict on both axes that involved China. It was fairly clear even then that any grouping that included India and China would never truly be an alliance.
29:13 as an Indian Nationalist
1. Going by linguistic evidence and archeological evidence, most academics think the indo aryan invasion is a joke
2. Not sure about this one. IVC was kinda based tho.
3. 8000 years?
4. It did exist but wasnt rigid until 10th century. Genetic research shows that.
5. Cant really predict.
6. Maratha empire unified most of the subcontinent.
7. Mughals*
8. Probably got more intense
9. Culture changed every 10 miles
10. Depended on the place
I think this video needs updating now.
The map at 14:48 and subsequent explanations were my favorite part (even though my country falls under "nothing"). Global economics are so important in wars and diplomacy, it feels like the economics are the true game beneath the game of geopolitics. The map at 18:28 was also really interesting I wish it was for the whole world
Yup, to have cultural and militaristic might you must first have economic might. It all starts with the $$$.
11:57 Speaking to your anecdote, I remember this even more vividly at the time (I'm 23). I wasn't into politics until I was 16. Even in towns in Appalachia back in the mid-to-late 2000s, we were constantly told by the TV and radio outlets, teachers, movies, TV shows, etc. how "evil" and "backward" we Americans were compared to Japan and the EU, and how much we "owed" it to the 3rd World and the environment. It's even more interesting that you experienced the Canadian side of this as well. I scoff the Canadian patriots these days....
We aren't superior, we are enduring crises of our own, and things will someday change (they always do), but it's worth pointing out that well over a decade later, we are experiencing a huge rebound despite these other countries (developed and undeveloped) experiencing more crises than we are.
I love to complain how woke the world is, but honestly, Gen Z is nowhere near as horrible as we're made to be (ex: brand worship among adults is nowhere near as bad as when we were kids, some of our younger members are called "puriteens", party worship is on the decline, etc). It's just many of us haven't been redpilled yet, and for now we're still blindly following the Millennial mantra. Thank God for the internet. I shiver imagining where we'd be if we didn't have access to much of the world's available intel and be able to think reasonably if we choose to.
It’s all good, man
The red pill best shows the criticisms of the modern government and establishment and allows for greater critical thinking within individuals, its pretty decent but don’t make it your political ideology or sole beliefs
I think you underestimate how much the internet "feed" of the average user is manicured by the tech and media companies
Idk, it seems that Gen Z is shaping up to be a great set of plebians for the rising empire. Also, while the internet is a great source of information, a great deal of the higher-quality info is locked behind pay walls or is simply buried underneath countless clickbait articles. This is the reason why people of this generation tend to be great at trivia, but almost never have the depth of knowledge that people previously had when books were more popular.
@@BingusTheWockis Assuming that someone read a lot just because the Internet didn't get exist in their time is.........
I've made a video called "Responding to Whatifalthist: 17 disagreements with Whatifalthist, as a fan.", which goes over things that you've got wrong (with all due respect) or overlooked, along with ideas for videos and additional media resources that I would like for you to see.
Thanks.
I really don't know how to say this without sounding like a Indian Nationalist, but I disagree with your point about India always being a poor country.
India and China together were the most powerful economies from ancient to medieval ages.
It is even shown on the graph you displayed. At 30:55
It all goes downhill after the british.
The Indian and Chinese economies go down as a percentage of the world economy when Europe starts raising around the 16th century
But that doesn't mean the Chinese and Indian economies Stared to get smaller at all
The Indian economy didn't collapse after the British .. it kept growing .. it actually grown faster under the British and was bigger than the Indian economy at any other point in history before that
However it's still was smaller as percentage of the world economy because the world economy was so much bigger because it now included the European economies which grow much faster
So the British didn't shrink India's economy .. it was still growing .. they just overcame it as a share of the world economy..
@@ShA-ib1em it didn't grew .
GDP growth under British was 2x in 200 years same as population growth of 2x.
GDP Per capita in dollar PPP terms in 1700s was 570 dollar which increased to 619 dollar after 250 years in 1950s. I think it 8300 now.
@@ShA-ib1emhistory is not your strength 😂 British and u can say most of Europe is built on Indian subcontinent and resources
@@reddragon100
At the beginning you say that it didn't grow
Then state that GDP didn't grow
and your reasoning is because it only grew relative to the population "which is still growth" in terms of overall GDP ..
some economies don't even manage to grow relative to population so their GDP per Capita shrinks even though their overall GDP remains the same or even shrinks ..
So maintaining GDP per Capita while growing overall GDP as you stated is still "growth"
so your second paragraph contradicts your first statement ..
In your last paragraph you state that even the GDP per Capita has grown .. which contradicts your first and second paragraph
Not growing by much but it's still not shrinking ... "not going downhill after the British"
and of course not shrinking ten times which one would think by hearing that India decreased from 25% of the world economy down to 2% after the British ..
one might think that the British shrunk India's economy ten times of it's original size when they came to the subcontinent
My point still stands based on your own numbers ...
India kept growing compared to itself the year before .. but kept shrinking compared to industrialized economies during the industrial revolution .
Which is basically the story of the whole world economies at that time ..
Now you might argue that the British prevented higher percentages of GDP growth for India and that better results could have been achieved
That's debateable considering that Indias GDP growth was typical of all Nations before the industrial revolution .. it was basically the Natural state of being .. the industrialized nations were the exception Not the rule .
You should see a chart of the world GDP per Capita in the last 1000 years .. the whole world economy remains stagnant for 800 years and then suddenly it jumps exponentially .. however that exponential jump is disproportionately destributed and India wasn't included as part of it at the beginning ..
of course India achieved better results after independence although not much better compared to other countries that gained independence at a similar period ..
But that's not because their economy was freed from the shackles of the British.. it was because the whole world was starting to experience progress as the benefits of technology started to be enjoyed by more and more nations .. even-none industrialized nations by importing technology which became much cheaper ..
In fact I would argue that India had lost opportunities during the socialist era after independence and alignment with the Soviet union ..
@@fevertinkumanoj827 I never said that