>>45534
That's part of why I hate them so much, I don't think it did need such exploitive decision makers nor do I think it even had them. It was a rich and empty, continent sized land, all it needed was people to fill it and it would become a superpower. And as you say, they had plenty of people willing to do that too, there were always some Europeans disgruntled over something plus you have overpopulation in general.

So for example, nothing George Washington did actually made a difference, nothing anybody in that war did made a difference, the war itself did not make a difference. If the US had lost that war or failed to start it they would have become independent later down the line anyway, either through another war or through peaceful means. England was never going to be able to hold on to a Europe sized country of similar people to itself over a vast ocean.