Picking the next topic.

Hallo my dear high tier Patreons :) 

It is time again! Thank you for sticking around despite the hard month I had. Please select the topics you want on the vote, and post them in a comment. I will collect your choices at the end of the week, and then all the patreons will do two rounds of voting.

Here are video topics I have basically already researched and could go work on faster than usual:

The Origins and Decline of German Militarism: A video on how the German state was shaped and built by Prussian militarism. How it led Europe into disaster. But also a video on how German civic society was constructed as an opposing force through the free cities of the Rhine valley.

The Origins of Italian corruption: This video will have one singular and simple point: The Mafia ruined Italy. Yes, I will go through and explain the origins of various different broken state structures, in particular in the South of Italy. But the main point I will make is that those broken structures are continued by a system of corruption that was created, and is being kept alive, by the Italian Mafia. And that the Italian Mafia is a tumor on Italian society that must be removed.

How the Congo predicts the Saudi Future: This will be a video based on a paper I wrote as an undergrad history student, comparing the slave economy of the medieval Congo Kingdom, to the Oil economy of the Saudi Kingdom, and making a prediction for Saudi Arabia based on the brutal collapse into Chaos that destroyed the Congo Kingdom.

The Origins and Decline of Japanese Militarism: A video discussing the remarkable events around the creation of the Japanese nation-state during the Boshin restoration. Looking into the militaristic forces that subsumed that state, created Japanese Imperialism, and drove the Japanese state off a cliff. And how that legacy still impacts the Japanese state to this day.

The neglected Danube: Is a video comparing the Rhine and Danube rivers, and tries to answer the question of why the Danube is neglected as a transportation artery in comparison to the Rhine, and how that may change. 

Culture Wars: This would be a series of 12-15 videos that are each about 20-30 minutes long in a series in which I try to explain the Origins of the American political structures, and why they are predominantly shaped by the "culture war" rather than by state institutions.

Neutrality Reexamined: With the war in Ukraine in mind, this video would reexamine neutrality in the past and our modern-day and age. What it means for countries. Why it can be beneficial, but why it can also be detrimental.

Russia's place in Europe: A video about the 500-year-long culture war inside Russia, over if it is a European nation, or something else.

Eastern Europe isn't real: A video about why the term "Eastern Europe" is a cold war term, that is outdated, makes no geographic or political sense, and should be abandoned.

Perspectives and Geographic Determinism. This would be a video in which I address what I think of geographic determinism, and why I decided to critique it, despite its popularity.