>>511254186100% true: all of Europe fought tooth and nail over bullshit for 2000 years, was exposed to generations and generations of war and famine and disease because of politics and resource scarcity and also a sizable population of people living in honestly terrible conditions, and the end result of that was to do increasingly more daring things out of survival.
When whites arrive in the new world, that ruthlessness carried with it, as well as what would have been a world-ending suite of diseases that the natives had no chance against.
In return, however, whites began to realize that hey, war and feminine and disease kind of sucks, so let's all join forces and help alleviate that, and WE FUCKIN' DID.
after the next great war, the only land left to conquer/develop is going to be south america, and then eventually africa and the middle part of australia.