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You asked a great question and pretty much answered it as well. The French took their money and ran. They did not have the resources or infrastructure in place to maintain the land they claimed. They knew that ultimately, their ally in the newly formed government of the US, would turn against them to capture that land. Instead they left for home with honor, a bunch of money, and a military alliance with a growing superpower. This was top notch geopolitical strategy by the French.
Remember that the sale happened in 1803 in the middle of the Napoleonic wars Napoleon could not defend the land and could use the money A no brazier.
That was only a secondary benefit. You failed to even mention the primary reason the France sold the Louisiana territory. Which is that Napoleon Bonaparte was in an extended war with the rest of the Europe continent and desperately needed to raise more money for his failing war effort. They would not have sold it if they had a choice. The Canadian fur trade was making a killing and all international trade out of inner NA had to go through French-controlled Louisiana. So don't make it sound like the French at that time were just some "geopolitical strategy gurus" or whatever.
@@terryz935You nailed it Terry. The French could not afford a conflict half a world away while pursuing conquest across Europe. This is why Napoleon is viewed amongst historians as a great military strategist. Two fronts ends in disaster, and he avoided that by pulling out of North America. What also ends in disaster is trying to hold Moscow with an under supplied garrison of French troops during winter. Such is the downfall of Napoleon.
@@oc6617 To be fair - Napoleon was not failing in 1803. He obviously needed the money for his European wars, but to say that he was failing when France was beating everyone into submission, lacks in real context of the moment.
The French always do a lot of running; most of the time with white flags.
One reason Africa remains under developed is the lack of **navigable** waterways. While there are plenty of rivers, they’re too narrow, or shallow, or change elevation quickly (waterfalls), or flow in the wrong direction to get goods from the coast into the interior, or the coastline isn’t suitable for a port, etc.
on top of that corruption and lack of cooperation between leaders also plays a part
In the age of air transport, that is not a valid excuse.
@@theresedavis2526 Valid excuse for who?
@@deletenow3276 Africa remaining undeveloped.
@@theresedavis2526 do you know how expensive air transportation is 😂
rather than those massive cargo ships, we have these ships called barges that carry most goods down the rivers. Basically just really long and flat boats.
The ocean going vessels can go as far north as Baton Rouge. After that its all barges.
But we get them ocean going ships to Minnesota through the great lakes. It's how we got the invasive zebra mussel in my state.
@@reelingminnesota2855 Those come down the St. Lawerence not up the Mississippi.
As an island the U.K. doesn't really need a canal system, as everywhere is close to the ocean. Now in previous centuries canals would have been valuable.
Yeah it's at the ports that you'll get cargo transferred from river barges to ocean going vessels.
"Do you see these sorts of ships inland" Yes, that video was from the Mid-west on the Mississippi river.
Don't confuse any ship with length & containers as a container ship, those are barges linked together.
Orion, the barges still go upstream. I've seen huge barges as far as Memphis, no doubt they go much further.
seen (apparently) similar in IL :-)
Ships don't go above Baton Rouge. It's the tow boats and barges that carry the goods on the rest of the system.
There are similar ships on the Great Lakes.
Watching a European's brain break at the shear size of the United States always makes for good entertainment.
The difference between the British and Americans is as follows. Americans think 100 years is a long time. The British think 100 miles is a long way.
@@Rebecca-oh5yhSo funny and ironic. That is was just quoting that a few hours ago! On a different video. And see your comment now!
Also China and Canada is almost the same size as the US (different studies show different numbers, but usually China is a little bit smaller then the US and Canada a little bit bigger then the US) and Russia is around 1,8 bigger then US, China and Canada. Russian Empire as USSR were even bigger then current Russia. These sizes are mind blowing even for the citizens of all of these countries i think.
I'm a second-generation Cuban immigrant who came to the U.S., and my perspective on the situation between the Cuban people and their government is that they despise the Cuban government. Most try to emigrate but face a lot of trouble in doing so. The country is impoverished due to trade embargos. Still, the Cuban government sapping the people of their wealth, taking their guns, and monitoring them closely makes living standards in Cuba extremely poor. The Cuban people are fond of the U.S. because it gives them opportunity.
Yeah, That sucks. I am surprised we aren't together somehow by now.There's no issue between citizens of Cuba and US, We need a deal... just have US, Mexico, Canada..+ Cuba. I know Cuba's economy would soar too! It just makes sense.
@@xfactorb25222 There has also been a very long lobbying campaign by the very wealthy Cuban families who lost their lands and plantations in the Cuban revolution and fled to the U.S. and the failed attempts to retake Cuba. All that has faded some, but the legacy remains within the two governments.
@@KillerNetDog The lobbying campaign you speak of is not the province of the "wealthy Cuban families" as you stated, but the entire exile community, all 2 million of us. To the point, the Cuban Revolution was not a social revolution; it was about returning democratic and Constitutional governance, that is why the principal actors as well as financiers of the revolution were the wealthy and the professional class.
@@livingthejourney8833 Which is why it is a province of the wealthy, always has been. Those with wealth use it to shape policy, those without it have little say. Same goes for the U.S. government.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
As Otto Von Bismarck once remarked "God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America". The nation is unbelievably luck, and was able to capitalized on it to springboard into becoming not just a superpower but the global economic and cultural hegemon.
Bismarck said that about us? haha Interesting. Thanks.
This is thought to have inspired the quote from Star Trek "Fate protects, fools, small children, and ships named Enterprise"
@@cavaleermountaineer3839 In the end,he was correct,the USA,and Canada,are uniquely geographically situated.
AND when you sign the song, "God Bless America"....do you know that you are actually singing a PRAYER to God??? If you understood the design of the Temple of Solomon and how it is specifically laid out and then over-impose that lay-out on the USA.....I assure you...this nation is NO accident!! AND...it would NOT be this powerful by some other, or any other form of government. One day though....and I see that day accerelarating.....God's Hand of Providence will be removed from what was His Blessing to mankind. Take a real good look around what this culture, society, corporations and government have become. And it is "progressively" getting lower and lower into the depth of degeneration..."given over to a reprobate mind".....If God doesn't pronounce His Judgment upon this nation....he will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!
@@josephcernansky1794👏👏👏👏👏 I've been saying the same thing for years. This country better shape up and find its way again or we're doomed. I've always felt the US had been blessed by God, but we've turned our backs on Him and we had better be prepared for the consequences. We reap what we sow. GOD BLESS 🇺🇸
It's interesting. Obviously every country has it's positives and negatives, but I was keenly aware from a very young age that I was incredibly fortunate to have been born in the US.
I tell people all the time. Is the United States of America perfect? Hell No, we are not. We are the best country man has created so far. We drive for perfection but we will never get there but we will always keep trying. That is the way.
In my law school class on Indian Law, the professor asked why we were grateful to be US citizens. I volunteered, "Because it means I don't have to come here illegally."
We have our flaws, but we also have our correctives. Don't ever forget that, David. It will always be up to us to keep and build on what we have been given.
As a Puerto Rican born in the American colonies. I'm glad I too was born within the empire, and while my people suffer under their abuses. You know sterilizing a third our women from 1940s-1970s, then outsourcing jobs for pharmaceutical companies and textile in the 1950s to see whether nonwhites could work as well as white workers.... You know your typical racist things. Then close to 3000 Americans died in 2017 thanks to Hurricane Maria and Trump.... Still better.... The evil empire is more focused on Cuba and regime change in Venezuela and puts tight collars on the EU and its allies in South America if not outright puppet rulers.... American citizenship means access to all the imperial goods and the navy which can be used to protect us. Evil may be the empire, but it's better to live within it than as its enemies or pawn nations.
@@jalicea1650 It's the same as the ancient Roman empire. Pax Americana via eternal warfare. Be with us, or you're against us. Sigh. Do you wish Puerto Ricans would vote for statehood? It would mess up the flag again, but if we also gave DC statehood, maybe that would fix it. Hope y'all are enjoying the free paper towels. 🤕
@@trl2828 Americans as people may strive for perfection but the government absolutely does not.
Otto von Bismarck said it best, "America is lucky. Bordered to the north, and, south by weak neighbors, to the east, and, west by fish."
Imagine getting called weaker than fish by the namesake of one of the most infamous battleships of all time.
Also, on the Cuba thing, the TLDR is that it was under Spanish control until the late 1890s, when the Spanish-American War happened. After the US won, Cuba was briefly a US protectorate before gaining independence. For the early years of independence, the US and Cuba had very close relations until the late 1950s when Fidel Castro led a Communist revolution and they fell into the Soviet sphere of influence. The difference in ideologies and Castro's disdain for the US has driven that wedge, leading to events like the Cuban Missile Crisis and failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Many Cubans have fled their homeland for the US since the country became communist, and some, particularly baseball players, will defect to the US during international tournaments and events. And it has had an interesting political effect in the US as well. Florida, where the majority of Cuban expats settle, has become increasingly Republican because most Cubans tend to support Republicans due to their free market, anti-Marxist policies. And two of the most prominent Republican Senators right now, Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas, are children of Cuban immigrants (and in my home state of Virginia, the Attorney General and third most powerful politician in the state, Jason Miyares, is also Cuban-American)
Check out the RUclips channel Yoel and Mari. Hes a recent cuban immigrant and documents his reaction to whay life is like here Vs there. Example: full grocery stores. A paycheck. Etc
People from the former USSR also come here and vote republican. Funny how people that experienced it first hand vote against it non-stop yet spoiled idiots here in America tell them they don't know what they're talking about
You left the intervention on Cuban democracy which led to the pro us dictatorship and then a communist dictatorship. But pretty solid summary.
@@k.l3062 anyone from Cuba that was there before Castro said it was a great place to live. I'll go by what they said since they lived there
@@briancrawford69 before Castro, but also before Batista. I’m not disagreeing.
I just want to shed light on forgotten aspect of how Cuba ended up where it is.
To answer your question about large cargo ships coming inland- I lived in Minneapolis for 10 years, and there were some times when really large cargo ships, as big as would fit, would come through the Mississippi during the day. It was a bit of a spectacle.
Dude, you wanna see farmland that goes on for days, just drive thru Central Illinois or Iowa. But just about any flatland that isn't built up with a town is generally farmed.
Central California also. Here in the San Joaquin valley we are able to feed the nation just from the produce grown in the valley. I'm in Fresno which is pretty much right in the middle of the state and about 1.5 million people in the metro area but if u drive north or south for hours either way it's all farmland with smaller cities up and down the valley. It's also pretty conservative area unlike the crazies in LA or SF
And northern Indiana. There are plenty of flat plots in the southern part, but nothing like the northern section, Illinois, Iowa, etc.
@Doel Baughman yeah, I had family in NW Indiana, and when we'd travel up Rt 41 parralling the state line, there were a lot of farmlands once you got north of Terre Haute.
I definitely see those big barges go Inland. I live in Chicago and I see those big suckers come straight through the middle of the city. We have to lift the bridges for them to come through but our rivers are big enough to support big cargo ships
Agreed. Grew up in Missouri. Those gigantic cargo barges _definitely_ hang out on the Mississippi.
I'm in Minneapolis and have wondered if I could live on a houseboat. Down the Mississippi, to New Orleans, then through the Intercoastal Waterway around the Gulf and East Coast to NYC, up the Hudson River, through the Erie Canal, thru the Great Lakes, down the Illinois Ship Canal and River, back to the Mississippi Riveri, and back to Minneapolis.
@@Bob-jm8kl I'm going to make it my goal to eventually do that
I lived in the Chicago area as well. When them container ships drop anchor they wake the whole town up. The first time I heard it I thought something blew up.
I’m from Chicago and I’ll back you up on seeing the big barges inland. Especially there.
The waterway inside of the East Coast is simply called the intercoastal waterway. A lot of barrier islands are where tourist beaches are.
intracoastal*
@@Roonasaur Correction noted. Thanks.
Granted, American "nation building" in Afghanistan is different from Russia trying to take over and annex Ukraine, but it's amazing how Russia has suffered more losses of troops & equipment in 1 yr. than the US did in 20 -- and Ukraine is right next door to Russia.
It's because Russia was presenting a false image. You can see the effect of this image being shattered in the nations once under its protection that are now fighting each other. Outdated equipment and poor training added with mercs gaining power inside its military have contributed to its massive losses
With all due respect to my brothers in arms, and with adequate disdain for the armed forces of Russia: Ukraine is easily 10 times better at war than the Afghans... at least.
There is also the fact,of the subpar materiel,and training that the Russian military still uses.(With the noted exception of Spetznas training).
Combined with the collective memory,of Ukrainians,of the treatment they received from Russia,when they were still ruled by the USSR.
All that being said,I can from a purely logistics and tactical viewpoint,understand why Putin Needs to Annex Ukraine. In order,to ensure his overall plan,becomes feasible.
@@alkirk6 - There was no reason to try to annex Ukraine. No Western nation or ally had any intention of invading Russia. OTOH, Russia should focus on China's periodic assertions that the Vladivostok area is Chinese ... since ancient times.
@@SilvanaDil Russia really wanted Ukraine's wealth and population.
Ukraine's a massive agricultural power, it controlled Crimea which housed strategically significant ports (which since the occupation had also been cut-off from supplies and water), Ukraine has big energy reserves that can be developed to rival Russia as the energy supplier of Europe, Ukraine has many millions of people which was expected to offset Russia's population decline and brain drain, and so on.
All that and more are the real reasons for Russia's invasion. A pure power grab meant to keep Russia's imperial ambitions afloat. Of course, Ukrainians didn't want to be conquered and consigned to being oppressed second class citizens, and have been steadfast in the defense of their nation.
My grandparents grew up in a small town in western Virginia along the James River, the longest river in Virginia and one of the most important to early America. There were ditches and locks near their town from the remnants of a canal along the course of the river in their town. As a kid, I didn't get it, but as an adult I realize how important rivers were, particularly the Mississippi. The original plan was to connect both the James and Potomac Rivers to the Ohio River and, eventually, the Mississippi, allowing goods from the interior of the US to reach the major cities and ports of Baltimore, Lynchburg, Norfolk, Richmond, and Washington. Before that could finish, the railway was built and there are now train tracks running along the tow paths of the canals. It's really fascinating to see (and played a big role in the development of Virginia and West Virginia because of all the coal we produce and export using railways heading to Baltimore and Norfolk).
I grew up in surry VA. The James River runs right thru it and it's on the coast very close to Jamestown. It was so awesome growing up in an area so full of history
Imagine if they did complete it anyway it would have still brought them a lot of money. Shame they didn't.
I grew up in albemarle county and the James flows along the souther border, crazy to think about the significance it had in the creation of this country!
I grew up in Northern Virginia with the Potomac River and now live close to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. There’s so much history it’s scary
I'm in Minnesota. There is a waterfall in St. Paul, the only place the river isn't navigable, and we connected interstate 35 going from Texas up through St. Paul, and then on to the port city of Duluth. The Great Lakes connect all the way to the Atlantic. I could get on a boat 2 hours from my house, and not hit land until I was on your shores. I live in the middle of North America. It's incredible.
IIRC, Duluth is the farthest inland ocean Port in the world. It's a large part of why it's said that MN iron won WW2. The massive Iron Range in Northern Minnesota is still a major producer of iron all these decades later.
@@PaulGuy And it's very pretty there, especially as the leaves change color! Endless fishing.
I grew up up and still live in southeast Minnesota. Beautiful country. The history is really interesting from the geographical perspective; it’s importance in human progress and impact on where people settled is very interesting. It makes you appreciate how nature impacts us on a large scale.
@@PaulGuy it's also because of how good our iron ore was and the other minerals it contained or was combined with. same goes for the copper in the Keweenaw in Michigan.easier to extract, refine, and use. Also the coal on the east coast and southern usa is great black coal whereas the main European coal, especially in Germany, was brown coal, definitely not as good to use, not as efficient. England and Spain lucked out with the same coal vein as in the United States so they also have the better black coal
This narrator could add drama to an insurance seminar.
Cuba's politics are the issue and not its citizens who are treated extremely poorly. They are basically a communist/dictatorship run country and a big problem when Russia is involved. We came very close to nuking them during the cold war. The sad part is they could be such a rich, beautiful vacation destination for Americans much as they were prior to the 1950's, but they continue to choose a bad path for them and their people, who continue to attempt to escape to the USA. In fact do me a favor and check out @YoelAndMari. He married a Cuban American woman and recently moved to the US from Cuba and his experience of the US in comparison to Cuba is astonishing. Even as a Brit you will be astonished at the hardships the people of Cuba endure.
I wouldn't dismiss the importance of Great Lakes shipping prior to the 1950's. They were heavily used, (at least the lakes surrounding my state of Michigan), just not in the winter. The shipwreck graveyard in Lake Superior is full of ships that pre-date the 1950's. And, regardless of whatever feats of engineering took place in the 20th century, you still don't mess with Lake Superior in the winter.
Well said and agreed,Lake Superior's winter storms are epic.
There's a good reason why Gordon Lightfoot mentioned "the gales of November"! The Great Lakes are a weirdly shaped, inland, freshwater sea.
Yeah, I was confused about 1950's being mentioned because the Erie Canal is WAY older than that.
I’m a native from Washington in the Pacific Northwest of the US. We’ve always jokingly called ourselves “little Canada” because of how similar we are to British Columbia.
You're native what? Native to Washington state?
I’ve always considered Minnesota, and a large part of the Midwest as a whole the closest to Canada.
Wow, born and raised in WA over 5 decades, never heard of that.
@@briancrawford69I think native American
Lol, cargo ships absolutely go up the Mississippi!
Also, massive ships run the Great Lakes. We used to go watch the ships in the Soo Locks. My inlaws were married on the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, a 729 foot ship, because they're nerds! 🤣
I live in Minnesota, and yes we get those huge shipping barges inland. Minnesota is as about inland as you can get on the Mississippi. They use barges more than shipping container ships because they are more flat and are not as deep of a hull like a ship. Funny fact about New Orleans... is it is basically our Atlantis in the fact that it will be an underwater city someday. It's already below sea level on avg and it requires massive levy systems to keep it from being swallowed by the gulf... which break everytime there is hurricane.
But we do get them huge ocean container ships to Duluth through the great lakes.
@@reelingminnesota2855 true
I live in Florida and there are a lot of Cubans here, and from my experience they love the U.S. They flee Cuba in droves to get to the U.S. and will take anything that floats to get to Florida since Cuba and Florida are only 90 miles apart. So many people die trying to sail to Key West or Miami from Cuba on pretty much rafts. Florida gets refuges almost everyday that are saved from ships seeing people in the water and picking them up trying to flee from Cuba.
My husband works in the oil field. He fracs Marcellus shale. Just because we aren't always pumping it doesn't mean we can't turn the faucet on any minute. We choose to purchase oil....we don't need to 😉
3 states grow about 15% of the world's corn. Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska. When I drive through these 3 states, in that order to get to college....it was a very boring drive, it is about 880 miles. That said I didn't even go all the way through all of them as I started in Illinois and ended in Nebraska. This video mentioned about how the US grows about 1/3 of the world's corn. 1/2 of America's corn are grown in those 3 states.
20:00 Those large ships do indeed go inland. The large ocean cargo ships can go about half way up and slightly smaller ones can go all the way up to the great lakes.
The barrier island are significant because any troops that would hope to reach the mainland would have to stop at the barrier islands, unload, traverse the islands,reload, traverse the intercoastal water way, before reaching mainland.
They also protect the mainland from extreme weather conditions like storm surges and large waves.
Hearing about the largest arable land thing reminded me of "The Incredible Logistics Behind Corn Farming" by Wendover Productions which is a neat video that goes into detail on the logistics of corn farming in the US.
Thanks for mentioning it. I watched it and yeah...the process is staggering. I like watching 'Cole the Cornstar', too. It's daunting what farmers have to do to make things work.
Yes, those ships do go inland.
How do I know? Driving from Texas to Florida, going over the Mississippi River and seeing many of them heading up and down the river pretty far inland.
The waterways between the Barrier Islands and the "main land" is called an estuary. However, the go by different names along the coastline. Some are called Rivers on the East Coast of Florida, some are called Sounds as on the East Coast of North Carolina, some are called bayou as on the Southern Coast of Mississippi and Alabama, some are called simply Bays as in Virginia. Most of the East Coast's Estuaries make up the US's Inter-Coastal Waterway.
As far as cities along the Mississippi go, the biggest ones would be obviously New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Memphis, Davenport Iowa, and Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Don’t forget St. Louis.
St Louis! The sister city to New Orleans!
Dallas has no waterways and has transcended them all.
@@lutherheggs who?
I lived in Iowa when I was a kid. They call it the land between 2 rivers. Mississippi on the east and the Missouri on the west. There are also many rivers everywhere in Iowa. You can grow anything there except tropical plants. Iowa produces more agricultural products than any state except maybe California.
The major cities that can be reached by way of the Mississippi river watershed are New Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Louisville, and a plethora of smaller sized cities. Additionally, Chicago is connected by way of a man made waterway, which means that the Mississippi watershed is also connected to the Great Lakes, albeit only because of man made structures.
You asked if the UK had inland navigational waterways. You've got a fair number of navigable rivers and a substantial network of canals. I have no idea how much commercial shipping is on the canals these days, but the bulk of the canals are still in use by pleasure boaters
It's worth noting that the Mississippi River reached all time low depths last year, severely reducing its capacity for shipping.
The people of Cuba do like the US. Cubans hate their government and most Cubans dream of moving to the US. The Cuban government is horrible.
Also yea that man-made river thing is crazy. It was made during a time when the US was on an engineering spree. During this time, the US was pushing engineering to it's limits. From the first skyscrapers to the first suspension bridge etc. Was truly the "American century"
Also just to give you perspective, the great lakes together are larger than the entire UK.
Minnesotan here, so my info is largely Mississippi RIver and Great Lakes-related.
Container ships will only generally go to the big ports (Seattle-Tacoma, LA-Long Beach, Miami, Boston, etc.) and unload their containers onto either rail or trucks.
Oil products are a big time commodity on the Gulf ports (Houston, Galveston, etc.)
On the Mississippi, it's almost entirely barges with grain and bulk goods like it. Very few actual ships, if any, come up the river at all.
The Great Lakes are HUGE for iron ore, coal, and grain. Giant 1000-foot ships haul between ports along the lakes and out to sea at least 9 months of the year. I live about 3 hours from Duluth (Duluth-Superior is the 17th largest port in the US by tonnage), and watching those huge ships come in is incredible. Northern Minnesota is a giant iron ore exporter.
(If you want to watch something really cool, check out the Duluth Harbor Cam RUclips channel; live cameras of the harbors & lift bridge, and videos of the huge ships coming under the lift bridge!)
I was working for an Oil & Gas company in 2009-2011 when the Marcellus gas area opened up and it was a game changer for the industry. At the time, they had no idea how big it might be.
Chicago is a Great Lakes city that was not mentioned (Lake Michigan). Also, Louisville, KY was not mentioned (Ohio River).
You are going to have it rough if anyone tries to invade. Basically the west coast is highly guarded thanks to the military bases literally right there plus that coast gets a lot of horrible rough surf and barely ever sits calm for one day, just off the coast is a continental shelf dropping into the pacific. Hawaii isn’t much better as it’s literally a mountain. You get beyond California you have go through tons of desert and grassland. The east coast is full of dense forest that you can’t just go through without knowing what is there. You have to slog for months with any progress. Alaska is frozen tundra most of the year and your supplies would freeze solid before you get anywhere. The amount of animals that are dangerous would likely tear you limb from limb first so yeah you are screwed.
Don’t forget that there are more guns than people and we would use them as insurgents and in guerilla warfare against any invading force. Many retired officers and veterans can also train more people if needed. There are really only two ways to hurt America. EMP device exploded over North America or thermonuclear war on a large scale. There is a long road method through slowly undermining the US economically but that requires decades and careful planning and is not guaranteed to work.
East coast also has many large military installations. Camp lejeune, Fort drum, Norfolk, I meant there are over 30 bases in Virginia alone.
This doesn’t even take into account that the USA basically has 330 million armed guerrilla fighters if an invading army ever made it there lmfao
Not even the combined strengths of all of the other navies of the world could support an invasion of the continental United States.
Dont forget the MILLIONS of armed militia/citizens with fully customized AR-15's. machine guns, grenades, RPG's, body armor, drones, tactical equipment like NVG's, armored pickup trucks with machine gun, etc. If some below average equipped Ukrainians can fight against Russia, just imagine going against the US
The Mississippi River can accommodate ocean-going ships up to the port of Baton Rouge.
Yes, those large cargo vessels can make it up most of the Mississippi basin (all of the rivers on the Mississippi watershed). You drive over a bridge between, say, Iowa and Illinois, and can see one of those big cargo carriers below you.
Yeah, the Intercoastal Waterway is a great way to transport things around the coastline without having to go out into open sea, which can get pretty rough obviously. The barrier islands keep the water in these waterways relatively calm, so they act almost like rivers. And the parts of the coast that don't have them, like the west coast of Florida is usually pretty calm anyway. Unless of course there's a tropical storm or hurricane rolling thru.
That said, I live between 55 (due east) and 60 miles (northeast) from the Mississippi River and 25 miles (due west) or 50 miles (due north) from the Ohio River here in Southern Illinois. These River systems are the life blood of this country for the most part, bht we've been experiencing some major drought thus past year, and parts of these rivers are drying up. The main channels aren't so much, but their tributaries are. But there are parts of the Mississippi where islands are now accessible by foot. Sand bars everywhere. My classmate is a tugboat/barge captain, and he posts pictures of the river from his boat bridge all the time.
We've experienced this drought before. Was like that before that major flooding happened. I lived in Memphis at the time and the city of Memphis was literally flooded, it was insane.
Yes, you do see massive cargo ships inland on the Mississippi River. Though most of the ocean going vessels stop and there cargo is transferred to smaller vessels such as barges somewhere between the mouth of the Mississippi River and Baton Rouge. This is mostly due to the fact that those ship are usually too big/tall to travel under the bridges that cross the Mississippi, as well as they usually have very deep bottom clearance.
I understand how important the Chesapeake Bay is for the entire country but on the flip side it’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been and I love the bay beaches because it’s in a protected area where you don’t have all the crazy waves and strong tides of our oceanfront beaches. Not to mention you can walk out so far and still have your head above water. When I took my sons to a beach when they were younger I always went to the Chesapeake Bay just because I felt like they were safer there. It’s a great area. Plus it’s close to where we live in western virginia in the blue ridge mountains. I can drive there in only 4 hours
In medieval terms America is a mega-castle with two giga-moats.
To answer your question about if we see large ships on the mississippi river in the inland of the country, yes we do. Those massive barges, some are hundreds of feet long and with drafts of up to 40 feet crawl up and down the river all the time. the only thing that stops the biggest ships is height restrictions for the bridges they'd cruise under.
Imagine landing on the continent with the strongest ground army/ Air Force and attempting to attack a town just to find out the citizens empowered by the second amendment have potentially formed the largest conglomerate of militias to oppose you from door to door until the real army can mobilize and sweep you up. And that’s if you can land on a shore somewhere
During WW2 the Japanese General. Said whoever invades America? While meet a rifle behind every blade of grass! Something like that anyhow.
And if you are in Chicago, you have the option of sending your freight through the great lakes along the St. Lawrence seaway and out into the Atlantic.
That's what we do
It’s crazy to think tiny old Maryland has one of the largest coastlines in the county due to the Chesapeake and it’s tributaries like the Potomac.
As someone whose dad ran an RV park in northern California, I can confirm that there's a lot of connection with our Canadian Neighbors. It was extremely common to see guests from British Columbia come through. Some from Alberta, but mostly BC. And they were some of the best guests we had too.
But, this also makes sense from the perspective of the States themselves. Most Californians (that were born here) feel closer connection to Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona than we do with New York, Pennsylvania, or Florida. They are just too far away. My step dad moved out here from PA and it took him 3 days to drive across.
Another reference point for understanding the differences in East and West Coasts: the size of the states. The East Coast has many states, closely packed together, much like the countries of Europe. Taking a day trip to another state is no bid deal. But on the West Coast, we have 3 states that touch the ocean. Just 3. Going to another state is major vacation. Dad and I joke that here on the West Coast, we go through counties like the East Coast goes through States. But it's kind of true. California is even bigger than entire countries, and it is not even the largest in terms of land area.
I grew up in a small town on the Ohio River about an hour outside Cincinnati and it was common to see barges with and without goods going up and down the river daily.
It's dirty and not a favored fossil fuel use right now, but still growing and the video doesn't even mention coal. The US has massive coal reserves - a full 25% of the world's coal. It has been called "the Saudi Arabia of coal". The US is also the 4th highest hydropower producing country.
Still? I know they no longer use our dam
Coal use is quickly dying in the United States. I imagine most of coal production is going to be redirected to international markets, but that's not happening fast enough to keep American coal production steady or growing. And the major reason for that is that most of the rest of the industrialized world is moving away from coal as well. Some industrialized countries like China will keep going with coal for a while because of their intense desire to grow their economy quickly.
I imagine most of the less developed world will skip over coal entirely and go to wind and solar, primarily because it will be cheaper and it will keep them from staying dependent on coal producing and oil producing nations.
Meanwhile, the United States will steadily reduce its dependence on coal and oil for its internal energy uses, which will only make it stronger economically.
Some large container ships do go inland especially on the Great Lakes. But usually it’s barges.
Soo interesting! I'm an american and wasn't aware of some of the U.S. geography history..never too late I guess. Really enjoyed! 👍
As someone raised in TX. Yes everyone is moving here we kinda miss when Tx wasn’t a big hit
Same can be said for SC, so many people from as far west as Cali to North East, everyone is moving here. 😒
Im from Michigan and yes you do see those freighters all through out the great lakes they be making through the more inland rivers too
The big river to the west of the Mississippi is the Missouri. It's nearly as long (only 50 or 100 miles shorter). Add that to flowing into the Mississippi, which leads to the Atlantic, and you have an amazing trade route.
Napoleon sold the Louisiana purchase to the USA because he knew he couldn't hold it if the British decided to just take it. So USA profited off of Britain's predominance.
Russia sold Alaska to USA because they didn't think they could hold it if the British decided to just take it. So USA profited off of Britain predominance.
Texas has become sort of the place to be. People started moving here in droves starting in the 1980s, but it's the more recent oil shale boom combined with Austin's gradual recognition as a major cultural and tech hub that's driven up the appeal. Houston and Dallas are pretty boring cities considering their size, though you can get a well paying job and a nice sized house with money to spare in those cities...something that's becoming harder to do in places like New York and California.
The US and Cuba have a...unique and complicated relationship. A good documentary to watch to learn more about modern US/Cuba relations would be the Elian Gonzales story.
I’ve been thinking about moving away from Alabama for a bit now, would Texas be a good state to move to?
@@HaunsX ¿hablas español?
The data doesn't seem to back up that idea though. I know popular thought right now is that Texas is growing while New York and California have dropped but the data shows that while domestic migration in Texas has gone up, it's only at the levels it was in 2014-2015. And back then there was a lot more international migration to Texas, which has dropped the past few years. So the net migration is lower now than it was before. You're just hearing about Texas a lot more because the rich are complaining very loudly about taxes.
Texas and Florida are the two states to be in for sure. Texas has been that way for years. Theyre constantly booming.
I had forgotten about the Elian Gonzalez story. Thanks for the reminder. Ill watch it again.
I live on a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, the Gwynns Falls (around the corner from me) The Falls they were not navigable but they provided water for mills and factories to power them. The Falls flow into the Patapsco which with the Patuxent, the Magothy, the Susquehanna, the Gunpowder, the Potomac, and many others all are huge deep navigable rivers that empty into the Chesapeake Bay. My city Baltimore is the closest deep water port to the Great Lakes. Before the building of the Erie Canal, ships could bring in goods from the rest of the world, be placed on a train and be in Chicago in a few days.
Chicago didn't exist as an incorporated town prior to the building of the Erie canal. Trains were in their infancy. Prior to the Erie canal, Illinois sent its grain down the Mississippi River to New Orleans.
Lav is a couple videos from becoming a US citizen 😂
It is the governments of US and Cuba that have beef. It's never been about the people. There are many Cubans living in the US with family back in Cuba. Even with all of the talk of bad Cuban/US relations, the countries have close ties in some ways. I can't speak on whether Cubans hold a grudge against the US or not, but out of all of the countries the American people hold a grudge towards Cuba is not one of them.
This was amazingly informative.
More please!
This is a very good cohesive presentation - thanks for sharing it. We are all learning a lot!
Yes, the French would have lost the territory eventually. In the 1800s there was a thing going through Washington, DC called "Manifest Destiny" which was basically that the US was destined to own everything between the east coast and west coast. The Westward movement had begun.
Not the most accurate visual/pictorial examples in this mini documentary but not bad overall. You should check out some of the Great Lakes freighters. They are huge.
As an American, it's amazing how big the country is. Europeans can't even really fathom it. Just driving on highways from northern NY, like an hour away from the Canadian border, to West Ohio and it takes about 10 hours.
That’s why it’s always a point of contention between Americans and Europeans, when they tease us about how few of us have passports. Traveling throughout our own US borders is more miles, more geographical areas, variety of culture and weather conditions, than people who haven’t traveled the US can imagine. I’m not against traveling outside the US, of course! It’s just difficult to explain the vastness of our country to people who haven’t experienced it. ❤
It takes serious expertise to find and extract oil and gas deep in the ground or ocean. Petroleum engineering has been an American specialty for well over s century. I'm not remotely connected to the industry, and even I took a petroleum engineering class at university.
Really enjoyed this, enjoy your channel anyway. Keep these coming please.
In the uk, you rent a canal boat. Great way to tour the country. Originally, this was a way to move goods. These were very expensive to build and maintain and very limited in capacity.
8:50 He spelled Pittsburgh wrong. There is an H at the end.
Those large cargo ships do go all the way inland on this water system.
19:45 well while I live in Corpus Christi which is a coastal City I see large ships move more toward inland through dredged rivers(natural rivers that there depth has been increased to allow bigger ships) specifically to the Refineries. So yes.
I remember learning all this in school . Cool to see it in a video though
Hello Lav Luca.
I live in Michigan, USA. While growing up, I experienced the 'oil crisis', where cars were parked around the block, in line, awaiting their chance at what fuel was available, and being limited to very small purchases overall per vehicle, and that, only if the gas station had any fuel to sell!
The US also has people with Guns to fight off the unwanted invasion. During WWII a Japanese general that went to school in the US said do not try to take the US land mass they are like blades of grass, and the people have guns all over the place
Yes you see giant ocean going ships inland.
In my area (the Columbia river), everything past Portland is loaded onto barges and brought inland that way.
One of the most fascinating videos you have done. So much I didn't know and I live in America.
They showed honestly a smaller map of what is “arable” land in that map. Louisiana is extremely arable and the southern half thats heavy in swamps is full of crawfish and shrimp farms.
Rice, cotton and sugar cane.
I think they were focusing on places where grain can grow since it is a staple across the world. Other regions can absolutely grow other things.
The problem with the Afghan war was more political than military. It's what happens with politicians running a war. But, that is the way our system is set up. We do have a lot of oil and gas. It is stop and go depending on the political party in power at the time.
Manifest Destiny was a defining doctrine from our Founding. It was always the plan to go from Atlantic to Pacific. Some by purchase, some by annexation, some by force.
Lav! Please have a live stream marathon to raise money to visit the US. I'll donate!
No worries with the cough. 2 weeks before Christmas I missed a few weeks of work because I had the same cough. I wasn’t sick but I had a cough and lost my voice. I took a week and a half off work so that I didn’t ruin anyone’s Christmas. After almost a month and a half now I finally have my voice back.
About 90 percent of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the US border. As an American, I happen to be a big admirer of Canada. They don’t have the natural resources we have and about only 10 percent of our population, but they have some important North American resources (a lot of oil in Alberta for example) and they always punch above their weight. Socially, they do a lot of things better than the US and they are often overlooked in their wider contributions to North American culture. It’s hard living next their much bigger cousin.
At 26:44, you asked why that area of Canada is barren like a 90 year old woman. It's because of the last Ice Age's glaciers coming from above Canada, moving south, and pushing all the way into the US. The huge and heavy glaciers moved all the good Canadian top soil with it, and deposited it in to the US, when they melted. That's also why the only good Canadian soil area is in the far, far south and only in a small strip, equal to American soil's latitude. Canada still asks the Ice Age for compensation!
i love your reactions, and i hope you get feeling better.
Thank you, I’m slowly getting there
I worked decades in retail and I remember our stores close to the Canadian border would gear up for any holidays they had. Canadians would come down in droves
The reason Canadians come down in droves,is that often,it's cheaper to purchase items in the US,then to purchase the exact same item,here at home.
Houston is over 90 miles inland and is the largest port in the US in terms of tonnage....The Houston Ship Channel brings in all the oil tankers to refineries in East Houston, Galveston, Baytown and ships out refined products.
And yes, large ocean-going ships DO navigate up into river systems....Philadelphia is home of the Navl Shipyard that repairs aircraft carriers and has the Battleship New Jersy docked as a museum ship.
During World War 2....the steel mills of Pittsburgh and Johnstown PA made steel plate and armor and artillery barrels and then destroyer ships were assembled....the hulls were slipped into the Alleghany River, floated down into the Ohio and then to the Mississippi....by the time they reached New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, the destroyers were completed and ready for duty in the US Navy!!!!
From pig iron to cast iron to steel to plates and machined parts and into ships....all while transiting the Inner River System from Western PA to the Gulf of Mexico!!! THAT is how powerful the Inner River System of the USA IS!!
I have plants and snails in my aquarium from the mighty Mississippi river..... That river is teaming with life.
Cargo ships do go farther up river than New Orleans. Baton Rouge is about as far ships can go upriver. After that, barges are used.
Your question about seeing BIG ships inland is a good one and the answer is yes. Along the Great Lakes there are very large ships, easily big enough to cross oceans, that are known as Lakers. You may have heard of famous pop song from the 1970s called The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald about a ship that sunk in a storm on Lake Superior. That true story was about one of these big Lakers.
So very interesting! I learn so much about my own country from you and your desire to learn Luca. Just a couple things though regarding Cuba and Cubans, from my perspective and everything I've ever known we love Cubans. We welcome them with open arms and celebrate and rejoice when they make it here, because we know how horrible it is for them at home. I hope they can say the same from their own experience, that they have felt welcomed and appreciated once they make it here, we all know the journey wasn't easy. I look forward to a future when that's not even a thing... and also, it would be remiss of me not to make mention of the Native Americans, who paid a terrible price for everything that makes us great today. We didn't just buy it from the French or acquire it from Goodwill, we actually stole it and destroyed the animals and people that were already here to make good use of it and become a powerful Nation. Many good friends of mine are in the military and they have pointed out to me that we really are literally all over the world in little pockets making us very powerful, I just don't want it to be forgotten that that the power came at a terrible price...✌💚🌟
Have you watched Yoel and Mari here in youtube? Hes from Cuba, recently recieved his citizenship. Awesome channel to watch because it really documents what its like to immigrate from a communist country and what the differences are.
@@Lonesome__Dove thank you and yes, I have seen them from time to time. Very endearing couple indeed. so informative, I thought I knew it was bad there but when she did the grocery store episode I was truly heartbroken for them... their experiences in the large stores and amazing food have been truly heartwarming and humbling.
Nice backhanded compliment. And Native Americans were slaughtering other Native Americans to take that piece of land and territory for themselves. So I guess that was okay.
@@TheRapnep thanks for your opinion, I guess. Maybe look up the definition of backhanded compliment to get a better grasp on what it really means. For instance, if I said, 'you are so good at making people feel like s*** for absolutely no reason when it isn't warranted in any way whatsoever', that would be a backhanded compliment. My comment wasn't a compliment, it was just a comment. If you want to criticize me make sure your Paradigm is correct. I wasn't giving a history lesson, if I was I would have included the Native Americans with the Europeans as Destroyers. I was simply making a note of how noticeably absent it was from the story on the video that was otherwise very informative.
@@gennyreese420 You're welcome. I don't need you to explain a backhanded compliment. Reread what you said then maybe it'll compute. All throughout history, only the strong survive and thrive. It's the way of the world, and this country suffered much along the way as well. No other country has tried to right the wrongs they have made as much as the US has. At least you could acknowledge that. This country was born out of the fire, fighting for OUR very existence and it was a hard lesson, one that we excelled at learning. The past is what it is and what it was meant to be, and it should stay there, with the US never forgetting the wrongs it perpetrated and the wrongs that were perpetrated against it. Have a nice day.
GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸
I can confirm regularly seeing large cargo ships with shipping containers in Chicago. I never thought of how odd it was because Lake Michigan can feel like an ocean sometimes. But yes the Mississippi River is so large that those large carvo ships can go all the way up into Canada and back.
Fun fact: The U.S has the largest mine in the world. Its called Bingham Canyon Mine and is located in the Oquirrh Mountains in Utah. It produces copper, gold, molybdenum, and silver. Which helps with making a lot of things within the U.S. This combined with all the other fuckery America has been given is astounding.
Yes, the US is blessed with much! God has be good to her. "To whom much is given, much is expected." Our history is proof of that. I pray we find our moral way again. GOD BLESS AMERICA
France was kind of forced to sell, losing Haiti and needing money for another war made it a liability.
France sold the Louisiana Purchase to the USA in 1803. You need to realize that and check the timeline
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@@barryfletcher7136 Haiti slave revolt was 1791.
Regarding the size of oil fields, I didn't realize that Saudi Arabia's oil fields were that small. I thought most of the country was littered in oil fields, but no, it's just a small patch south of Kuwait. And now I know why Republidans say we produce more oil than anywhere else in the world, and that's because our oil fields are so much bigger than everywhere else. I didn't know that either. And see, had we known about al, these crude oil, shale fields, and natural gas fields back in the 80s, the whole Desert Storm thing probably wouldn't have happened, and 9/11 would have happened. Think about that for a moment.
9/11 WOULD have happened? 🤔
@Rage Kage But....how would I know if it was spelled wrong or actually what he meant to say?
Shale oil is dirty and expensive to get
So is the crap locked in sand and tar
6:05 6:51 The Missouri River is longer than the Mississippi, so....
There’s a video about driving through the state of Iowa that’s basically “corn corn corn corn corn corn - look a tree! - corn corn corn corn corn…”