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Which is why Hitler and friends' plan in WW2 was to effectively turn east europe to the caucuses or thereabouts into a brand new america by steadily emptying it of its native inhabitants via hunger/ethnic cleansing/extermination-throo-labor and then shipping in loyal germanic settlers to colonise the now empty land.Eastern Europes plains is a lot like the American great plains. Great farming land, and rich with resources. The curse it's lands of countless genocides. The American gift is that most of the natives were too few and the Americans too many for them to make a difference by the time we fully controlled the great plains.
It really is insane how much of a geographic advantage america has solely by virtue of having a continents worth of easily accessed and exploited land and resources under the control of a single unified nation.
Sure there are other nations like Russia/canada/australia/brazil/china that control the same kinds of resources in their borders but they are a massive geographical bitch to get at by comparison due to difficulty of access and inhospitability.