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Response to: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Odt-z_-1cA STEPHEN KOTKIN - THE WORLD IN PIECES], September 2024

Response to: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Odt-z_-1cA STEPHEN KOTKIN - THE WORLD IN PIECES], September 2024

1. USA/West have republic/democracy and populaces often resist fiscal responsibility and engage in excess spending and having aging populations and increasing populism/nativism (Talented immigrants and/or immigrants with proven work ethic are less likely to have legal immigration). Democracies less apt to initiate expensive wars, but once wars are started rulers often don't want to lose face to the public by withdrawing from wars they are losing.  Western liberals/Western want to spend more, but increasing can't do so due to financial restrictions have less appeal to public via "goodies".  

1. USA/West have republic/democracy and populaces often resist fiscal responsibility and engage in excess spending and having aging populations and increasing populism/nativism (Talented immigrants and/or immigrants with proven work ethic are less likely to have well-designed merit-based legal immigration). Democracies are less apt to initiate expensive wars, but once wars are started rulers often don't want to lose face to the public by withdrawing from wars they are losing.  Western liberals/Western want to spend more, but increasing can't do so due to financial restrictions have less appeal to public via "goodies".  

However, USA/Europe paid off WWII debt.  

However, USA/Europe paid off WWII debt.