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User62915's avatar

Jeff did not really rebut in detail the claims about land speculation causing conflicts of interest among the American elite, which seems like the central thesis.

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"But Canada and Australia found peaceful paths to independence from Britain."

Yes, but Canada and Australia did that in a world where Britain had lost a major colony to revolution. It's not clear that peaceful exit from British control was available before that.

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