From the little bit I understand about the region Wallonia alongside flanders which were both catholic just got out from the protistant dutch boot in a political revolution right before the english industrial revolution so there wasnt really a entrenched upper class as the dutch one just got destroyed so the industrial revolution had a easier time taking root within the rubble if that makes sence at least thats my best guess. and since the english helped belgium gain independence from the netherlands political ties were very close to the british which also might play a role. This also might explain why the dutch industrial revolution took so long and was so weak when it did happen since the dutch had the opposite a very intrenched upper class.

It's a very good question. I don't have any answer because I don't understand Belgium at all.

But I do want to throw in that France is much more culturally similar to England than there endless antagonism would lead you to believe. The other thing to throw in is that industrialization requires such huge investment that stable property laws are essential. England is really good at that. The rest of Europe lagged quite a bit, but since the French Revolution, French property laws have been absolutely stable.

If you ask Belarus as you say in Eastern European history

Ive heard french had fought so many major wars before ww1 and even kinda treating the napoleonic wars like a total war so they had experiance and resiliance by the time the world wars came around, yet this also ment they started at a much lower birthrate by the time everyone elses collasped. France continued with neo imperialism and treating the eu kinda like how the us treats the world order.

If Europe population is still slow growing, but we can having bright future of empires and nations.

I am from ohio there is a very weak ohio identity around hating michigan, replacing any heart with ohio state boarders and fantasising about industry returning and stuff like that but probably the reason the texan one is so much stronger than the ohio one is texas is the only relevant state in the great plains with oil texas has a very similar culture to south dakota or alberta which have the same conditions but since those are rarley talked about texan has become the "oil plains culture group".
Also having a rebellion and a flag of there own also helps

Texas is basically just the best bits of California and Florida smashed together, with almost none of the drawbacks of either state.

Texas was once an independent country and did try to secede

Obviously communism was a big deal, but also there’s the fact that falls outside of the Western alliance structure. Because Turkey is a strategic ally, they being Azerbaijan into the fold, making it more or less impossible for it to become a Western ally despite arguably being culturally inclined to become one in any other case. Armenia’s a small landlocked nation effectively locked out of the world’s most powerful geopolitical block.

The best hope for Armenia is arguably for the Armenian diaspora to form some sort of powerful lobbying group abroad, like an Armenian AIPAC.

I have wondered about this too.

One thing that cannot be overlooked, is that Azerbaijan is oil rich, so that is certainly a contributing factor to Azerbaijan's greater success. There are a plethora of factors that could/do play a role in Armenia being less successful than Israel. 1) Israel has a 50 year head start. 2)80 years of communism. 3) Israel has received enormous amounts of very skilled immigrants from multiple sources over several decades whereas skilled Armenians mostly just leave for other places. 4) Israel gets American Military Aid. 5) Culture, the Jews are extremely successful almost everywhere they go.

And is there a possibility that we could post questions before the livestream by sending an E-mail?
Although I understand that the more people join the worse that question flood would become.

What do i have to do to get E-mail notifications for upcoming events?

Thanks