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Ukraine never annexed Crimea, it became independent as part of Ukraine when Ukraine became independent - it voted for independence alongside Ukraine. The Republic of Crimea ended up getting dissolved because their local government basically stopped functioning from infighting.

@@Charlie_Dogwood thank you so much for responding. I understand the history of Crimea from the time of its creation by Lenin until the end of the Soviet Union. At that point, as I understand it, it was sort of an independent republic, although still under the jurisdiction of Ukraine, akin to the way that American states have their own autonomy pursuant to the 10th amendment and bound by legitimate acts of Congress. Have I got that right? What I’m trying to understand next is this: what exactly happened in 1994 or 95? When the president of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as well as the Republic itself were dissolved, how is this not an annexation, given that it’s essentially the destruction of Crimean identity as an independent or quasi independent state? Would a good analogy be if an American state were to dissolve and become a federal territory? Maybe I’m missing what actually happened.

Crimea's weird legal situation is really just because it was an ASSR. No other part of Ukraine had that sort of weird pseudo-autonomy because Ukraine was a unitary state - so I'm not sure if a comparison to the US is the most accurate since nowhere else had that level of autonomy. You could argue in some regard that it was an annexation, but Crimea wasn't formally independent from Ukraine (nor recognized as independent by even Russia at the time). So it would be an annexation the same way Chechnya was annexed rather than say, Germany annexing Poland. Afterwards Crimea was given autonomous status again, just with a tighter leash - this is probably because Kuchma wanted to make nice with Yeltsin.

Glad you enjoyed

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Alas, there are no Emperors in the Soviet Union - only General Secretaries.

Dang it!!!!!

Completely and totally

Thanks for watching and enjoying. It's good to get a Mongolian's opinion of him - it's hard to get one normally. So thanks for providing that. I think it's fair to call him bloody and he was by no means a nice guy. That being said, the Russian Civil War and the way of war out there in general was pretty cruel by western standards in general. The Cheka and the White Guards were all pretty awful. It's good that he helped Mongolia get its independence though.

Thanks! Happy to hear you enjoyed.

They were better than the movie.

I wasn't totally certain about it when I read about it. It seems possible given how heavily he leaned away from Israel and the US during his time in the UN but at the same time it seems a little...unlikely. I haven't seen the documentary so I can't speak on what's presented in it, however. I suppose I'll have to watch it at some point!

Thank you!

@@Charlie_Dogwood Anytime man

Ah, that's a funny coincidence. Is it The Bloody White Baron? I read it and got some info from it but there's some mixed reviews on its historicity, though from what I've seen the criticisms seem to largely be around certain aspects of Mongolian culture. In any case, it's impossible to tell what is or isn't fact in the case of Baron Ungern or the Bogd Khan unfortunately.

Thank you! I appreciate that a lot.

Online. I spent a whole 2 days or so collecting photo. I do wonder if it's authentic...it appears to be authentic and there were journalists on the scene but it seems almost too good of a photo to have.

@@Charlie_Dogwood that’s incredible. I’ve tried Google searches and never got anything close to what you have

Thanks for enjoying the video! I have read Ernst Junger before - specifically Storm of Steel. Beyond that and his involvement in ARPLAN, I don't have much knowledge of his works. So maybe in the future but I would probably have to do quite a bit of research on him before I started.

Great question. While the Japanese approach to religion is markedly different than the way we approach it in the West, Shintoism is indeed more associated with nationalism. However the particular group in Runaway Horses was modeled after the group who were involved in the League of Blood Incident who were (nominally) Nichiren Buddhists. Most hardline nationalists leaned into Shintoism but these particular people were Buddhist. The concept Yogachara which is discussed in the Sea of Fertility tetrology is associated with the Mahayana school and Tibetan Buddhism, both of which have little hold in Thailand. As far as Tate no Kai's religious leanings it's true that it wasn't a Buddhist group but it also wasn't explicitly a Shinto group either. It was a political group for nationalist students so the religious aspect wasn't necessary. He was more interested in Buddhism towards the end of his life, this much is understood. Though I should mention that it's common to get a Buddhist funeral in Japan, the common phrase is 'Born Shinto, Married Christian, Die Buddhist' given the syncretism of the country.

Thanks. Happy to hear you enjoyed it. Mishima is, like I said, easily the most biographed Japanese writer out there and has WAY too many photos. I spent a day or two grabbing most of them. I still have quite a few I never got around to using. He was in magazines all the time so I assume it's partly for that reason that there are so many random photos. Unfortunately for you if you want to get much more in depth you'd probably need Japanese sources. The scene of people who research and biograph him isn't large necessarily but it is active. In the final, long version that I intend to release there will be more information added at the end which explains certain theories about the incident itself. But beyond that, I can't promise anything much deeper - at a certain point it becomes minutiae so I have to cut it. Same reason why I don't go much further into Japanese history than is required - I enjoy it but it isn't necessary for telling the story and keeping eyeballs on the video. lol

@@Charlie_Dogwood No I didn't make myself clear enough, I didn't mean more on the subject of his life. For goodness sake you covered him from early day bodybuilding chest til protective cotton up the arse seppeku! What I meant was (in this partly joking) if you had a script about interwar Japan (if I remember correctly) it sure can seem minutiae, but it is very interesting. Trust me there are many people out there looking for those spicy details not given by other youtubers. A video about the May 15 incident connected to Runaway Horses. Mostly my comment was about if you have any personal thoughts or analysis about his greater works like the tetralogy I would find that very interesting! Trust me I know it's annoying to get requests sometimes, I don't expect anything! And look forward to whatever you post in the future!

@@tatenokaienjoyer I see what you mean. A lot of the stuff that I didn't include isn't too juicy. Don't worry about that. Well, except for the actual blow-by-blow info on the final moments since it's probably too graphic for youtube. The part regarding the interwar coups is a segment I ended up cutting because it was just 2 minutes of me saying, "And then 3 months later another coup occurred when..." because of the sheer number of them. I do intend to do a video on the 2.26 Incident one day since there is an audio recording of the phone calls between the various plotters. Don't worry about it - not annoying. Thanks for enjoying!

@@Charlie_Dogwood Haha, get what you are saying. Wonderful times. But please it's not called coup, terrorist attack or such things. Just ''incident''! No, no, no it was a joke I do not mean anything about Mishimas last days! I just posed the question/suggestion about your opinions about his tetralogy! Because there are so many videos about M's books, but none about the tetralogy. And that is sick, if you have that, you must make it. If not now, then sometime! What sick inside info do you have...?! I admire and await your full version, wasn't meant as any kind of pressure. But, hope you keep the good work up! Cheers!

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I may have misspoken or maybe you misheard, it's been such a long time since I worked on the video. lol Robert had a pretty awful drug habit (particularly heroin, if you can believe it) in high school and between that and the legal problems...well I don't think it lasted long unfortunately. Happy to hear that you enjoyed.

@@Charlie_Dogwood Ah ok , it's so so sad how child stars are treated, going back to Shirley Temple and Judy Garland 😢. Thank you or making the video, I wanted to know about Bobby and you left me with no unanswered questions. I also hope you are still pursuing your writing career.

It was more or less common knowledge. That's part of why she was concerned about the other bodybuilders.

I'm pretty sure you're thinking a little too much on this. I doubt they were looking that far into the future during ESB

You're a nerd with childish thoughts. Jar Jar was never meant to be anything like that other than a comedic sidekick. And for the record in the movie he did not even need to be there. George Lucas had creative freedom over the prequels because he paid for them out of his own pocket. And look what it became. Nothing but garbage. What did he do after?... Oh look at Indy IV and Red Tails... Master movies by George Lucas! Howard the duck?... Labyrinth?... pls.