My Friends! Thank you for watching. While I do a lot of historical context for geopolitics on this page, there are many who want pure history content. If You want my pure history content and rants, check out my actual History Of Everything Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. open.spotify.com/show/6ALnjYlFQeEOmeRwYoRlIh Here is the link to it on spotify
Kadyrov and his Caliphate are incredibly dangerous, just as are many of the Stan's that border Russia, and the only thing that has kept Russia in one piece for this long is that Russia (in whatever form) has managed to keep all of it's many factions operating together. If one falls, the chances of a Domino Effect are very real, and we must all remember that no intelligence agency in history has ever once toppled or tried to topple a Government / State, or would use such tactics during a proxy war...
@@sisi4508I think they actually had more minorities. Germany was full of poles moved after both world wars, jews killed during WW2 or fled after, Romani, French, other germanic pwoples like Danes and Swedes in the north, a ton of Hungarians, and some French and Italians.
@@AngelusNielson Not really. Violence is mostly used in political spheres to gain power. The roman senators used it e.g. for killing the Gracci brothers in order to aquire more power, the French revolutionairies used it to overcome the monarchist forces. Force should never be an option in politics, but the rule of law and humanitarian principles.
The Russian Federation system is kinda crazy. I spent hours over a couple of days recently trying to understand the differences and similarities between oblasts, republics, krais, okrugs, et cetera. I don't know if anyone else would be interested in a video about that, but I sure would be.
I saw videos on it. 2 things to note. Oblasts are basically like states, for any fellow Americans. Federal cities is like DC, our capital. And republics are like Indian reservations. Krais are just Russian for territories. I know there are 2 or 3 more things that I forgot to mention, but those are the main ones to know.
@@pancholopez8829 Oblasts are _provinces_ and krais are _reaches_ or _marches_ Same thing, really, just a more historically charged term for the latter. Same etymology as with Ukraine: "outer reach/march"
"Good news first: the world's in great shape. We've got a civil war in Russia, government loyalists against Ultranationalist rebels, and 15000 nukes at stake." "Just another day at the office."
Ironically, that game describes Ukraine pretty well, except with the western forces helping the psycho ultranationalists instead of the same government people.
It reminds me of an old quote, I think about the Ottoman Empire along the lines of “you see, the empire is actually the strongest state, because you are trying to cause its collapse from outside, and we are trying to cause its collapse from the inside, and still it stands”
@@unclesam5474 me too, a bit. He was Russia's most notorious and memetic Colombian snow enjoyer, clownish political media entrepreneur that shot in popularity to the size of local Orange man. We were all on the edges of our seats last year to see how far he would go. Sadly, our late boy Zhenya from decent Jewish family didn't learn much from his kin and picked all the wrong lessons from the streets, he backed away trusting the arch-bully to be good on his word because he counted on to be still in the group, while he never was included into inner circle truly. Big mistake. What a time to be alive, though.
1:26 "And suddenly his sword fell onto his chest, officer. I didn't know how it happened but I told him to fasten those medieval weapons more securely." -Gabby, some day (propably)...
Yeah not happening bud how many times have ,,experts" predicted it ? They have been predicting putin losing his grip on power since 2011. 13 years latter they are still wrong.
Thank you. I've been noticing the same thing about an obsessive focus on "Russia civil war". While things in Russia seem like they could be destabilizing, it seems a little too far away from civil war to be calling it that.
Honestly based on how far Pringles got with so few men apparently anybody with more than 5k men inside Russia can just take Moscow without issue. So less civil war and more revolution
@chrissiek8706 the oligarchy is loyal to whoever can maintain the status quo and keep their wallets fat. And they'd likely welcome someome who doesn't have dirt on them
Appreciate the actual information and not clickbait, thank you for providing actual information. “Russia about to collapse” every single day, it’s almost as stupid as people saying that about america, south africa and pakistan are actual failed states and aren’t going anywhere, a change of government is the most extreme possibility and it’s so unlikely in russia it’s barely worth discussing
South Africa I think it is reasonable for people to confuse as it isn't a failed state, but definitely an extremely incompetent one which successfully ruined it's standard of living to a point where the racists unironically treated the population better. I'd think you'd better hope that after 30 years one wouldn't be doing worse than under literal racial segregation.
@Air_Serpent ...I mean the spokesman of the US national security council did say today that north Korean troops in Ukraine would be a cause for the west and Korea to join the war in Ukraine. And we did just confirm that around 10k north Korean troops have been sent to Russia.
Thank you for clearing that up. I get a lot of these clickbait videos in my feed, watched one and was luckily able to call bs on that. But good to hear what is really happening there.
Just started the video, but thank you for making a video on this topic. Stuff like this is very interesting to watch, and your explanations of these events are par to none other on this platform and many others!
OK, I just have to get this out-of-the-way 1. I love watching you and the fat electrician talk about your opinions of historical figures and the way you two go back-and-forth it’s beautiful. It’s heartwarming and I love it. I hope you guys do more of it on the unsubscribed podcast.!! 2. if Steven is saying, he’s disappointed in you, there’s something about that that hits even harder than your own dad saying it.
Honestly, aren’t blood feuds and assassination plots just the Russian version of party coalitions and filibustering? They are inches away from civil war since the Romanovs took the throne. And that’s because before them Russia was in actual constant civil war. Also, assassination was basically how the Romanovs and the Soviets changed ministries and comities. Catherine the great basically arrested her husband, killed the guy and then killed a guy pretended to be him. Tsar Paul was killed by the magnates and their British allies bc he liked napoleon. If a soviet leader died, his cabinet was either co-opted, exiled or killed by the successor.
i totally understand your frustration with the click bait.... your title almost put me off but i remember your face from that great taliban video. watching and subbing now!
Between Perun and this channel, you probably get the best info about current affairs in this part of the world without the propaganda heavy nonsense that inspired the video to begin with.
Russian politics are so violent, a claimant for the tsarist throne was killed two times, one of which was being fired by a cannon. Basically, Dimitry, son of tsar Ivan the terrible, was poisoned when he was 8. Later, a guy showed up, pretending to be him and became a puppet for the polish king. He then was fired from a cannon by anti-polish the rebels.
It's not a civil war per se, it's more like "civil unrest that happens when you're an aggressor state syndrome" it's pretty commonplace amongst attacking nations, including the Vietnam war, the Korean war, the Kuwait war and even the emu war
Russian business man in the 90s “yes, I see that you have better product and marketing strategy… but have you considered that I have Kalashnikov?” I vote we call this economic model Based Capitalism.
So what you're saying is that Chechnia is what Texas would be if it kept all of its predispositions, but was an extremely ardent supporter of an aggressively expansionist federal government... 😅
Big fan of your videos. Nice to see some nuance on UA-cam, sometimes. Would love to see a video on Ramzan K. It's an area we rarely hear anything about.
Yep, exactly my thoughts. Steven: "This is absolutly wild... kinda of insane story", me, who live in this shit for 30+ years "nah, pretty normal stuff".
Says an idiot who lives in a county which has 400 protesters in prison for protesting Biden's election. Ice cream obsessed, demented dictator for a "president" who's being trying to imprison previous president, when that failed they resorted go attempted assassinations... Wanna see authoritarian regime, look at your own craphole.
i wonder if Putin will be able to talk down Kadyrov, Kadyrov somehow found a way to explain away to drop the blood feud and then fell out of a window weeks later. Or Putin just doesn't care and sacrifice those 3 targets and their family to satisfy Kadyrov and then Kadyrov mysteriously died few months later,
The fact that a blood feud still has the possibility to be called in this day and age is beautiful enough that it almost brings a tear to a grown mans eye. Return to caveman!!!
"Here's Prigozhin's ammo, deliver it to him." -Shoigu in a future message to Kadyrov Side note: holy hell that sounds like some Call of Duty Modern Warfare plot, I don't normally write like that.
February 2022: OMG, this invasion of Ukraine will lead to collapse of the Russian state! October 2022: these sanctions for sure will be the end of the Putin regime! July 2023: wow, look at what Prigozhin did, civil war at any moment! January 2024: this winter will be the end of Russia for sure! July 2024: the Russian people are so fed up, any moment now! October 2024: Blood feud, see, civil war, I'm sure of it now!
Far too many people realize that Russia exists _in spite_ of its constant backstabbing infighting. The Soviet Union fell apart because of the mess in Afghanistan, but the cracks were already there to begin with. Russia as a federation has a stronger sense of "unity" (for lack of a better term) than the USSR ever did.
Exactly, like Russia is painted as "Incompetent" but yet for the better part of the past 100yrs they've been enemy #1. The way I look at it, one's enemies should never be overlooked. Confidence is great, but cockiness is blinding and usually leads to downfall.🙏🏽🇺🇲🇺🇲🙏🏽
@@henrygonzalez360 no they never were, 100 years ago there was no Russia but the soviet union (and still in a civil war) they were the rival of the west for 1946-1991 but the soviet union not Russia
Russia is good at papering over its problems. Things will get bad slowly for a long time, then one day all at once. That was how it went with the October Revolution and the Soviet Collapse.
You earned a new sub. I have only ever seen your short about Korean turtle ships and after seeing what you have to say about this I am so glad to know I'm not the only one thinking this. I know the channel your talking about. Glad someone is being honest
Oh, also thank you for rhe distraction from the election and helping me procrastinate on going out in the rain to wok outside. Really i do thoroughly enjoy all the videos filled with important historical context to understand. Our American public educational system is lacking so much since it seems more like daycare and factories churning out worker bees for Walmart or Amazon.
Usually in modern combat, there's a 3 wounded per dead soldier, so with that 600k figure, that's about 150k dead and 450k injured, desapeared, captured etc
As someone who digs into things myself after watching videos. The sudden uptick and over simplification of these particular videos sparked huge red flags. Especially, when I saw once contradicting (typically politely) creators coming to the same conclusion with very little context. While I shall continue to dig myself to better my understanding. I am not going to lie, I almost wrote off your channel as well given the subject. I am glad I stuck to my two minute minimum viewing (not including ads should they be at the beginning of the video) and found not only a similar mind, but plenty of context and dates given that can better my own research.' While I wish for peaceful times. I am academically and intellectually intrigued to see how and when this act shall play out. Keep up the wonderful work.
It would be easier to understand situation in Russia if you keep in mind that while west is playing Hearts of Iron, Russia is stuck in Crusader Kings. Current situation is just a powerful feudal lord messing with several smaller ones. It will not, by itself, grow into a rebellion.
Yeah Kadyrovs antics rival Kim Jong Un would be worth a video. And team America is one of the best parodie of all times. There are 3 types of people in this world....
This guy just googled ukraine or Russia, and read the titles of the clickbait AI generated videos. I cant find anyhting about this on any legitimate news.
It would be cool miniseries to cover Chechnya and the Caucasus. I don't want you be over worked😅, but you take on these are so well balanced with information I'd learn so much of a place that was always in the news in the 90s. All I was told is they have been always at war until putin 🫣
A nuclear power in civil war?, nah, i don't think the west want this, but considering that Chechnya is just a small part of Russia this could be controlled, but if russia falls in a full civil war like the Russian revolution this would be a disaster to the west, especially to europe
Are you brothers with the guy from The Lore Lodge channel? You guys sound so similar, same type of speaking cadence, equally good content though he talks about mystery and you talk about history. 😅
I watch some of "The military show" videos even if i think they blow things out of proportion with their 1 video a day kinda style, just to get some idea of what's going on there and hoping to hear when it's gonna be over and how it's gonna be after.
Some of my friends are RU and we play video games together, RU very recently blocked all of Discord.. there’s work arounds but it’s limited to each region I guess.. sucks.
We love context. And "im totally disappointed" is the ultimate parenting move but maybe thats because we came up irish catholic and run completely on guilt
I thought they had evolved past the civil war stage to the more refined 'palace coup with the necessary support from military leadership' stage? Tatiana seems like the smartest person in the story, grew a giant company from scratch, got coerced into a deal that still left her fabulously wealthy and just wanted to avoid bloodshed
a lot of the issue is that russian oligarchs are losing money and putin is picking winners and losers ... so russian logic says to "be the most capable of violence" so logically the most violent oligarch will get the most of the loot and that's for 2 factors : 1)the other oligarchs are scared and putin can then use that violent oligarch as a weapon instead of acting directly himself ... and 2) putin can also then threaten his fsb to submit because he's got an oligarch that can "help someone else out of a window"... also if you notice that in russia anyone that's anyone has a military rank even if they've never been in the military... and the reason why is that they can be arrested under military authority and not civil authority and so there's no need for a trial or hearings... in essence, russian oligarchs have "caged freedom" they can do anything in the cage but can't get out... thus to say that a russian civil war is possibly starting, heck, it's been going on forever... that's the russian mir for ya...here's a russian saying "russia is the old grandmother selling rotten potatoes at an old forgotten train station to penniless passengers on an old train that doesn't run "... and now the north koreans are taking over as their saviors...
I still make quirky history content just in the audio only Spotify history of everything. Producing history videos was putting the channel deep into the negatives so we made it audio only
My Friends! Thank you for watching. While I do a lot of historical context for geopolitics on this page, there are many who want pure history content. If You want my pure history content and rants, check out my actual History Of Everything Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. open.spotify.com/show/6ALnjYlFQeEOmeRwYoRlIh Here is the link to it on spotify
Thank you for learning me. :P
I'm so here for a deep dive into the wacky bonkus
I'm good
Kadyrov and his Caliphate are incredibly dangerous, just as are many of the Stan's that border Russia, and the only thing that has kept Russia in one piece for this long is that Russia (in whatever form) has managed to keep all of it's many factions operating together. If one falls, the chances of a Domino Effect are very real, and we must all remember that no intelligence agency in history has ever once toppled or tried to topple a Government / State, or would use such tactics during a proxy war...
Drop the channel names, we as the people think disinformation sucks.
No, always 5 seconds away from civil war is a normal state of Russia since at least 1825.
HRE: Holy Russian Empire, a Tale of Warring States.
At least in the hre they were almost all Germans so they could unite under that@@TealWolf26
@@sisi4508 yeah you got a point
@@sisi4508I think they actually had more minorities. Germany was full of poles moved after both world wars, jews killed during WW2 or fled after, Romani, French, other germanic pwoples like Danes and Swedes in the north, a ton of Hungarians, and some French and Italians.
1825? They’ve been like this since Mongolia accidentally invaded them that one time.
Wait Russian political tensions possibly becoming violent? Isn’t that just all of Russian political history?
I'd argue that it pretty much describes political tensions worldwide for ages.
@@AngelusNielson Not really. Violence is mostly used in political spheres to gain power. The roman senators used it e.g. for killing the Gracci brothers in order to aquire more power, the French revolutionairies used it to overcome the monarchist forces. Force should never be an option in politics, but the rule of law and humanitarian principles.
Just for the last 100 years or so.
@@duaneaikins4621 ...What do you think happened before 1924, tea and crumpets?
@@duaneaikins4621 I meant globally, just fyi.
The Russian Federation system is kinda crazy.
I spent hours over a couple of days recently trying to understand the differences and similarities between oblasts, republics, krais, okrugs, et cetera.
I don't know if anyone else would be interested in a video about that, but I sure would be.
I saw videos on it. 2 things to note.
Oblasts are basically like states, for any fellow Americans. Federal cities is like DC, our capital. And republics are like Indian reservations. Krais are just Russian for territories.
I know there are 2 or 3 more things that I forgot to mention, but those are the main ones to know.
@@pancholopez8829 You are kinda wrong abaut republics- they are kinda us states i think Autonomous okrugs are like indian reservations
@@domenstrmsek5625 then what about olbast then? What would they be? Counties?
@@pancholopez8829 Kinda both krais oblasts are counties
@@pancholopez8829 Oblasts are _provinces_ and krais are _reaches_ or _marches_
Same thing, really, just a more historically charged term for the latter. Same etymology as with Ukraine: "outer reach/march"
"Good news first: the world's in great shape. We've got a civil war in Russia, government loyalists against Ultranationalist rebels, and 15000 nukes at stake."
"Just another day at the office."
yikes. This timeline is insane.
Ironically, that game describes Ukraine pretty well, except with the western forces helping the psycho ultranationalists instead of the same government people.
And the bad news?
I remember that happening last year too...
@@Vicarious_HeartWe've got a new guy joining us today, fresh out of selection. His name is Soap.
putin "for fucks sake not again"
*gets polonium bottle out of lead lined drawer in office*
the forbidden glow-in-the-dark tea
Yeah, and it wouldn't be a good idea to eat at the buffet right now....
They must not have much of it or they would have used it on Navalny. People survive Novichok. The moment you sip polonium tea your fate is sealed.
Fun or not so fun fact, polonium is predominantly rediating alpha rays, so keeping it in a glass blottle is usually enough.
@@etuanno also the reason why ingesting it is the worst as when it begins to circulate around in your blood it does insane damage
Russia: (is in chaos)
Russia: "must be Tuesday, da?"
😂
Any day that ends in Y
Lol
A current events channel that actually provides context, it’s a miracle!
It reminds me of an old quote, I think about the Ottoman Empire along the lines of “you see, the empire is actually the strongest state, because you are trying to cause its collapse from outside, and we are trying to cause its collapse from the inside, and still it stands”
A proper way of looking at Russia. If they had any level of competence the world would be in danger.
"SHOIGU! WHERE IS MY AMMUNITION!?"
God, that shit was hilarious
It was sold to the black market, comrade.
I mean, I needed the money for my 2nd yacht.
Ukrainians, AKA the world's deadliest comedians
I miss him so much 😂😂😂
@@unclesam5474 me too, a bit. He was Russia's most notorious and memetic Colombian snow enjoyer, clownish political media entrepreneur that shot in popularity to the size of local Orange man. We were all on the edges of our seats last year to see how far he would go. Sadly, our late boy Zhenya from decent Jewish family didn't learn much from his kin and picked all the wrong lessons from the streets, he backed away trusting the arch-bully to be good on his word because he counted on to be still in the group, while he never was included into inner circle truly. Big mistake. What a time to be alive, though.
The violence between these Russian companies reminds me of the corporate Wars from cyberpunk so much
Crazy how much you can compare Cyberpunk to the real world. Its scary to think we're not that far from that future
@@ThatCatDiaz - well, Cyberpunk was based on themes from the real world
Russia is Cuberpunk irl without the neon.
"President Putin! The Chechens are revolting!"
- "I know. They stink on ice."
@@baneofbanes and what is America then?
:D
Basically a feudal lord got into a dispute with several merchants and bureaucrats.
Less civil war, more like having a county go into war with a company?
@@pifilixxiv3192 And a few state senators
@@pifilixxiv3192Shadowrun, here we come!
Just without all the cool technology and magic.
And a lot more cold weather and mud.
So we’re not “oh shit oh shit” alert levels yet. We’re just at “hey, grab the popcorn!”
Somewhere between "I'm putting the popcorn in the microwave" and yelling from across the house that they're about to miss the show.
Napoleon: *fails to conquer Russia*
Hitler: *fails to conquer Russia*
Russia: fine, I’ll do it myself.
1:26 "And suddenly his sword fell onto his chest, officer. I didn't know how it happened but I told him to fasten those medieval weapons more securely."
-Gabby, some day (propably)...
Lol, I thought you were talking about Russian generals. Whoops.
He looked Chechen and when I heard bloodfued I was like "ahhhh, makes sense."
Russian Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo
2? Civil wars and/or revolutions are kinda just Russian history in general. Not really anything new for them….
@@lonniesmith352true, was mainly thinking about modern russian history though but there has probably been civil wars then too
@@lonniesmith352 second one for this war alone
You had a typo, you meant Russian Civil War 24: Boogaloo More
Yeah not happening bud how many times have ,,experts" predicted it ? They have been predicting putin losing his grip on power since 2011.
13 years latter they are still wrong.
Thank you. I've been noticing the same thing about an obsessive focus on "Russia civil war". While things in Russia seem like they could be destabilizing, it seems a little too far away from civil war to be calling it that.
Eh it got pretty close with Prigozhin, and he wasn’t the only guy with his own private army.
Honestly based on how far Pringles got with so few men apparently anybody with more than 5k men inside Russia can just take Moscow without issue. So less civil war and more revolution
@@Patson20you can take it, but can you keep it?..
@chrissiek8706 the oligarchy is loyal to whoever can maintain the status quo and keep their wallets fat. And they'd likely welcome someome who doesn't have dirt on them
@@chrissiek8706 you don’t need to keep it to spark a civil war.
Steven, please don't listen to haters, most of us do love longer materials and context. That's why we're here. Thank you and keep up a good work😊 ❤
My parents live in Moscow. I was very anxious to watch this video and the first minute calmed me down quite a bit. Thank you.
"Gabby killed Steven... again."
So, that's what happened with the leather armor...
As the French call it 'le petit mort'
@@cracklingvoiceA short guy named Morty?
The French say the silliest things.
Appreciate the actual information and not clickbait, thank you for providing actual information.
“Russia about to collapse” every single day, it’s almost as stupid as people saying that about america, south africa and pakistan are actual failed states and aren’t going anywhere, a change of government is the most extreme possibility and it’s so unlikely in russia it’s barely worth discussing
The amount of times I’ve heard ‘WWIII is starting’.
South Africa I think it is reasonable for people to confuse as it isn't a failed state, but definitely an extremely incompetent one which successfully ruined it's standard of living to a point where the racists unironically treated the population better. I'd think you'd better hope that after 30 years one wouldn't be doing worse than under literal racial segregation.
Pakistan would have had to be a successful state in the first place to have failed.
@Air_Serpent ...I mean the spokesman of the US national security council did say today that north Korean troops in Ukraine would be a cause for the west and Korea to join the war in Ukraine. And we did just confirm that around 10k north Korean troops have been sent to Russia.
90s Russian corporate war sounds fascinating
Similar to like the Chinese warring states after independence from Qing Dynasty
Kadyrov knew exactly which window he will trip out of as soon as Prigozhin decided to take up extreme sports.
Thank you for clearing that up.
I get a lot of these clickbait videos in my feed, watched one and was luckily able to call bs on that.
But good to hear what is really happening there.
Thank you for the detailed explanation that the US news media will never cover. Here's a comment for the algorithm.
😂❤
For the algorithm!! ✊️
If you read things and paid for journalism, you'd get this information.
Just started the video, but thank you for making a video on this topic. Stuff like this is very interesting to watch, and your explanations of these events are par to none other on this platform and many others!
OK, I just have to get this out-of-the-way
1. I love watching you and the fat electrician talk about your opinions of historical figures and the way you two go back-and-forth it’s beautiful. It’s heartwarming and I love it. I hope you guys do more of it on the unsubscribed podcast.!!
2. if Steven is saying, he’s disappointed in you, there’s something about that that hits even harder than your own dad saying it.
Honestly, aren’t blood feuds and assassination plots just the Russian version of party coalitions and filibustering?
They are inches away from civil war since the Romanovs took the throne. And that’s because before them Russia was in actual constant civil war.
Also, assassination was basically how the Romanovs and the Soviets changed ministries and comities. Catherine the great basically arrested her husband, killed the guy and then killed a guy pretended to be him. Tsar Paul was killed by the magnates and their British allies bc he liked napoleon. If a soviet leader died, his cabinet was either co-opted, exiled or killed by the successor.
i totally understand your frustration with the click bait.... your title almost put me off but i remember your face from that great taliban video. watching and subbing now!
Between Perun and this channel, you probably get the best info about current affairs in this part of the world without the propaganda heavy nonsense that inspired the video to begin with.
Hello fellow Perunite.
Eh russian politics being on the verge of civil war is like a french protest, its always happening every seconds
Short Answer: No.
I saved you 49 minutes.
Russian politics are so violent, a claimant for the tsarist throne was killed two times, one of which was being fired by a cannon.
Basically, Dimitry, son of tsar Ivan the terrible, was poisoned when he was 8. Later, a guy showed up, pretending to be him and became a puppet for the polish king. He then was fired from a cannon by anti-polish the rebels.
One nuance - his dead body was fired simbolically in general direction of Poland, they didn't actually stuff him in the barrel as a form of execution.
It's not a civil war per se, it's more like "civil unrest that happens when you're an aggressor state syndrome" it's pretty commonplace amongst attacking nations, including the Vietnam war, the Korean war, the Kuwait war and even the emu war
Russian business man in the 90s “yes, I see that you have better product and marketing strategy… but have you considered that I have Kalashnikov?”
I vote we call this economic model Based Capitalism.
So what you're saying is that Chechnia is what Texas would be if it kept all of its predispositions, but was an extremely ardent supporter of an aggressively expansionist federal government... 😅
Also if it was significantly poorer.
Big fan of your videos. Nice to see some nuance on UA-cam, sometimes. Would love to see a video on Ramzan K. It's an area we rarely hear anything about.
If the title is a question, the answer is always "No."
They had an actual hostile takeover with guns? What is this cyberpunk?
finally someone with a more in depth analysis
Weird stuff happening. But weird stuff is normal in an Authoritarian country.
The question is what will it mean long term.
Yep, exactly my thoughts. Steven: "This is absolutly wild... kinda of insane story", me, who live in this shit for 30+ years "nah, pretty normal stuff".
Says an idiot who lives in a county which has 400 protesters in prison for protesting Biden's election. Ice cream obsessed, demented dictator for a "president" who's being trying to imprison previous president, when that failed they resorted go attempted assassinations... Wanna see authoritarian regime, look at your own craphole.
i wonder if Putin will be able to talk down Kadyrov, Kadyrov somehow found a way to explain away to drop the blood feud and then fell out of a window weeks later.
Or Putin just doesn't care and sacrifice those 3 targets and their family to satisfy Kadyrov and then Kadyrov mysteriously died few months later,
If you do a video on Kadyrov, make sure to talk about when he asked Instagram to help him find his cat
The fact that a blood feud still has the possibility to be called in this day and age is beautiful enough that it almost brings a tear to a grown mans eye. Return to caveman!!!
Instead of past history, I'm learning more about recent events lately. This is how I get the news.
"Here's Prigozhin's ammo, deliver it to him."
-Shoigu in a future message to Kadyrov
Side note: holy hell that sounds like some Call of Duty Modern Warfare plot, I don't normally write like that.
As the old saying goes;
"And then it got worse!"
Corruption goes back way further than the 90s. It has always been a feature not a bug of the Russian empire.
Every former Yugoslav Republic: "Oh hey, I've seen this one before. This is a classic!"
February 2022: OMG, this invasion of Ukraine will lead to collapse of the Russian state!
October 2022: these sanctions for sure will be the end of the Putin regime!
July 2023: wow, look at what Prigozhin did, civil war at any moment!
January 2024: this winter will be the end of Russia for sure!
July 2024: the Russian people are so fed up, any moment now!
October 2024: Blood feud, see, civil war, I'm sure of it now!
Far too many people realize that Russia exists _in spite_ of its constant backstabbing infighting. The Soviet Union fell apart because of the mess in Afghanistan, but the cracks were already there to begin with. Russia as a federation has a stronger sense of "unity" (for lack of a better term) than the USSR ever did.
Exactly, like Russia is painted as "Incompetent" but yet for the better part of the past 100yrs they've been enemy #1. The way I look at it, one's enemies should never be overlooked. Confidence is great, but cockiness is blinding and usually leads to downfall.🙏🏽🇺🇲🇺🇲🙏🏽
@@henrygonzalez360 no they never were, 100 years ago there was no Russia but the soviet union (and still in a civil war) they were the rival of the west for 1946-1991 but the soviet union not Russia
Russia is good at papering over its problems. Things will get bad slowly for a long time, then one day all at once.
That was how it went with the October Revolution and the Soviet Collapse.
1918: Russia is a reliable ally and will not make a separate peace with the Kaiser!
1991: Russia will become stronger after this coup!
I appreciate your level headedness
Clearly, this will end in a triditonal ufc MMA match in Dubai as is tradition
Subscribed. Trying to handle a complex and messy topic like this is daunting for anyone, and I think you did marvelously.
Impressive and well explained video
Babe get up Steven posted!
Thnx for the vid!
I always appreciate the news update, its the only news I really enjoy watching!
You earned a new sub. I have only ever seen your short about Korean turtle ships and after seeing what you have to say about this I am so glad to know I'm not the only one thinking this. I know the channel your talking about. Glad someone is being honest
Oh, also thank you for rhe distraction from the election and helping me procrastinate on going out in the rain to wok outside.
Really i do thoroughly enjoy all the videos filled with important historical context to understand. Our American public educational system is lacking so much since it seems more like daycare and factories churning out worker bees for Walmart or Amazon.
reallife lore explaining how everything means the geopolitical collapse of china and russian civil war
Love your podcast… watching from Traer Iowa!
Usually in modern combat, there's a 3 wounded per dead soldier, so with that 600k figure, that's about 150k dead and 450k injured, desapeared, captured etc
Keep on with those videos your news coverage is fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
As someone who digs into things myself after watching videos.
The sudden uptick and over simplification of these particular videos sparked huge red flags. Especially, when I saw once contradicting (typically politely) creators coming to the same conclusion with very little context.
While I shall continue to dig myself to better my understanding. I am not going to lie, I almost wrote off your channel as well given the subject. I am glad I stuck to my two minute minimum viewing (not including ads should they be at the beginning of the video) and found not only a similar mind, but plenty of context and dates given that can better my own research.'
While I wish for peaceful times. I am academically and intellectually intrigued to see how and when this act shall play out.
Keep up the wonderful work.
Imagine getting caught between the Germans and the Soviets in WW2. Supporting either side goes against your interests
It would be easier to understand situation in Russia if you keep in mind that while west is playing Hearts of Iron, Russia is stuck in Crusader Kings.
Current situation is just a powerful feudal lord messing with several smaller ones. It will not, by itself, grow into a rebellion.
Yeah Kadyrovs antics rival Kim Jong Un would be worth a video.
And team America is one of the best parodie of all times. There are 3 types of people in this world....
How much you want to bet Russia is saying the same thing about us
This guy just googled ukraine or Russia, and read the titles of the clickbait AI generated videos. I cant find anyhting about this on any legitimate news.
YES, please do a video on Chechnya!
It would be cool miniseries to cover Chechnya and the Caucasus. I don't want you be over worked😅, but you take on these are so well balanced with information I'd learn so much of a place that was always in the news in the 90s. All I was told is they have been always at war until putin 🫣
No. Russia is literally doing ok on the home front. There is a great remembrance of the upheaval of the 90s and people aren't gonna turn on Putin yet
Finally I’ve been waiting for this since almost 3 years
Just remember, the best elections are fortified elections.
No, but we can dream.
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@@Mortablunt omg you look like a literal dick sucker. lol try not to eat your rifles muzzle when you hear the drones overhead. ;)
A nuclear power in civil war?, nah, i don't think the west want this, but considering that Chechnya is just a small part of Russia this could be controlled, but if russia falls in a full civil war like the Russian revolution this would be a disaster to the west, especially to europe
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Are you brothers with the guy from The Lore Lodge channel? You guys sound so similar, same type of speaking cadence, equally good content though he talks about mystery and you talk about history. 😅
Spy movie? Middle Ages? Sounds like Russia!
Jesus, I’m going to have to watch this again when my husband gets home and I don’t even care.
It's not 1990 anymore, Chechens are only good at making tiktoks, they've shown this on both sides during the entire duration of the war lmao
So much CONTEXT!!!! I LOVE IT!
This is a time where you start praying that Russia's nuclear stockpile might actually be so poorly maintained that none of it works.
I watch some of "The military show" videos even if i think they blow things out of proportion with their 1 video a day kinda style, just to get some idea of what's going on there and hoping to hear when it's gonna be over and how it's gonna be after.
Who'd you have in mind? There's quite a few
@@yoweedmofo19897 edited the name to show better. It's the name of the youtube channel "The military show" makes a ton of videos on the war.
@@yoweedmofo19897 I mean, the channel listed? There's several channels with Business in the name too, that are covering it in the exact same way.
New subscriber bro, great analysis!
Amazing Video 👏👏👏👏 Very interesting and Full of History you are the Best 👍
Some of my friends are RU and we play video games together, RU very recently blocked all of Discord.. there’s work arounds but it’s limited to each region I guess.. sucks.
Thanks!
Oligarchs resorting to violence is not civil war, that is just normal behavior, that got reported. Civil war requires armed conflict of a large scale.
History seems to have made Russia a land in which civil society has a hard time taking root.
I never knew about the adat law did not think it was possible to have more violent set of rules than sharia but im actually not surprised
Wow. A blood feud. That's a special kind of primitive.
The world is nowhere near as advanced as you give it credit for. All conflict is a blood feud. Always was, always will be.
Would you like a list?
Huh, that explains a lot about the region. Also, Russia's hostile business takeovers sound like something out of Cyberpunk.
I need a 3 part series on Chechnya, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. And i need it soon!
Gotta feel for the Georgians and Armenians. They truly got dealt a terrible hand
We love context. And "im totally disappointed" is the ultimate parenting move but maybe thats because we came up irish catholic and run completely on guilt
Ok, would you consider making a chanel "history in the making" for curent events?
I like the mix I'm not a fan of multiple channels I like just finding everything in one place
Dumb idea, he'd have to build that channel and he has one that's making money already
I thought they had evolved past the civil war stage to the more refined 'palace coup with the necessary support from military leadership' stage?
Tatiana seems like the smartest person in the story, grew a giant company from scratch, got coerced into a deal that still left her fabulously wealthy and just wanted to avoid bloodshed
a lot of the issue is that russian oligarchs are losing money and putin is picking winners and losers ... so russian logic says to "be the most capable of violence" so logically the most violent oligarch will get the most of the loot and that's for 2 factors : 1)the other oligarchs are scared and putin can then use that violent oligarch as a weapon instead of acting directly himself ... and 2) putin can also then threaten his fsb to submit because he's got an oligarch that can "help someone else out of a window"... also if you notice that in russia anyone that's anyone has a military rank even if they've never been in the military... and the reason why is that they can be arrested under military authority and not civil authority and so there's no need for a trial or hearings... in essence, russian oligarchs have "caged freedom" they can do anything in the cage but can't get out... thus to say that a russian civil war is possibly starting, heck, it's been going on forever... that's the russian mir for ya...here's a russian saying "russia is the old grandmother selling rotten potatoes at an old forgotten train station to penniless passengers on an old train that doesn't run "... and now the north koreans are taking over as their saviors...
thanks for clarification, see way to lil of that in todays news
I'd have talked about the Ryazan "sugar" terror attack organized by Putin in more detail, and Bucha is not pronounced as buka
Honestly, sounds like an interesting topic
Can’t pretend I absorbed all of this, but thanks for trying to explain this complex situation.
My guy love your videos but I really miss your quirky history videos
I still make quirky history content just in the audio only Spotify history of everything. Producing history videos was putting the channel deep into the negatives so we made it audio only
Ahh understandable gotta support your faimly after all good man
This will be fun.
If it happens
But it couldn’t happen to a nicer country.
Stolen nukes is fun?
As bad as Putin is, there's still the chance of someone worse taking his place.
@@dx-ek4vr China.