It wasn’t worth it. I watched the whole thing. It’s just a lot of hand wringing by a Canadian. It got 2K upvotes and about 500 down votes. That’s not a good ratio. Don’t waste your time.
I agree. Somewhat lame. Americans are too old and fat to go to war. Americans are too wealthy to do it now; the average low income American lives in more square feet that the average euro.
CW1 did not occur because of an economic collapse. But revolutions are more likely associated with economic problems. France 1789 - poor harvests. Russia, 1917 war which resulted in economic deprivation.
He did raise the question as to who would lead the war. Well no one knew beforehand in most other conflicts; the leaders just sprung up.
The American Revolution’s most proximate cause, ie the tipping event after a long train of abuses, was the British raid on the armory at Concord which led to the battles of Lexington and Concord. The second amendment is the red line. This fact that this guy didn’t mention one of the most important and obvious events in U.S. history illustrates the fact that we shouldn’t take Canadian prognosticators too seriously on this subject.