The Ukraine/ Russia conflict in 10 minutes
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2023
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For the #Ukraine episode I needed a address this topic, but I soon found out there was no possible way I could fit even a fraction of the complicated topic in the episode without taking a super long time. Therefore I had to make this separate video as a reference guide that will be referred to in the episode. Thanks to the subscribers that helped me with information. Of course not everything ws mentioned so if you'd like to add anything feel free to put it in the comments.
Glory to Ukraine from Ireland 🇮🇪🤝🇺🇦
thoughts on a discord mod taking a shower
It’s 10:02 not 10:00 long
Love Ukraine from Greece 🇬🇷🤝🇺🇦
Slava Slavia from Croatia!
I couldn’t believe my eyes when he actually managed to condense centuries of cultural disputes into just 10 minutes. Absolute madman, this is why I’ve been subscribed since he did Afghanistan!
I hope he remakes his older videos, and branches into the geography of localities too!
Centuries of russian imperialism and colonialism over ukraine. And barbs did a pretty bad job here tbh with kind of justifing russian atrocities
Edit: to give you an example: this is not a 'conflict' (this somehow implies that both sides are to be blamed) - it is an unjustified invasion of Ukraine by Russia
Also Barbs if you read this I love you and your videos, don't get me wrong, no hate❤
@@malcolmy3413 Couldn't agree more, this feeling had never been leaving me throughout this video especially as he never mentioned the russian crimes against humanity at least once
Barbs is a good person, thats why tries to be objective. he thinks with such a terrible war, both sides must have done bad things. he doesnt understand that evil exists in this world, sometimes there really is a clear victim and a clear aggressor
100% about some remakes. I'll continue watching as long as he keeps doing this.
Might be tricky, new stuff is always happening and changing, it could be a neverending job
There's a famous quote from a Czech poet/politician in the 1850s: “Russian gentlemen first assure us that we are all Slavs so that they could later say that everything Slavic is Russian and must be subordinated to them.”
Yep.
I wish that every slavic nation will live in peace with each other like Czechs and Slovaks live.
Who said this? I have heard it before but for the life of me I can't remember now.
@@hebijirik Karel Havlíček Borovský. There's a sort of 'modernized' version of this quote going around on the internet with much higher frequency, but this is the original one.
@@janmoucek7926 Thank you! I was thinking it was probably him but was not sure.
As a Ukrainian, I'm surprised at how accurate this dialogue is...
Not accurate at all. This dialog sounds the way russia really want to be a friend of Ukraine. But in reality this dialog is always happening as extrimely entitled and ignorant russian spitting their fake history facts and denies Ukraine, its culture, language, history and everything else.
Same
I am Russian and I will say that many Russians (I will clarify that they are Russian by nationality, because Russia is a multinational country) have very close relatives who live in Ukraine, for example, grandparents, aunts and the majority of the population is actually not physically can deny Ukrainian culture, it’s just that those who deny do it louder@@oleksandrbespalov9713
@@oleksandrbespalov9713 Yeah. It sounds like Russia wants to be friend, but very paranoid egocentric friend, and everybody knows that these are kinds of friends better be avoided.
@@oleksandrbespalov9713
at least we don't call you asiatic mongrels threatening our aryan heritage that a failed artist with a funny moustache told us we had.
for those who don't understand the last bit, Burkina Faso, the country with the red and green flag with the yellow star in the middle, needs western help, but this war is taking up all the west's attention.
I'm Polish and just learnt that Ukrainians also call painted eggs "pisanki". So informative!
@@piotrek1175tak, bo zaraz pratzuu v inshomu miszi z polyakamy , u Litvy, i mi odin odnogo rozumiyemo. Ne znauy chi zrozumiete moje povidomlennya tut
Just for you to know , the Ukrainian language before 1933 had even more words similar to Polish language. But USSR started changing the language in 1933 for it to become more similar to russian( as a part of Russification).A lot of words were changed. But russians still cannot understand Ukrainian language 😉
@@anastasiiahodebska2492 И не поймут потому что русские никакого отношения к славянам, не имеют !!!
Actually, we call those"pysanky". Sounds like the Polish letter "y".
@@anastasiiahodebska2492 Some "repressed" words and rules are starting to come back. For example, "kramnycja", "svitlyna", "Ateny", "Mit", etc. And new words continue to appear (vpodobajka, mal'opys, igrolad, etc). I want to return the words "lanity" and "kramar"
I'm glad you did this as a separate video
Very good point 👍
Me too. If we hope that things normalize in ten or twenty years, if a school or anyone for that matter wants to watch a Geography video on Ukraine they won’t feel it’s dated.
As a Ukrainian, I can say that this is very well presented information. It's hard to imagine how long it took to make this video.
Looking at our Slavic characters and common history: he did it rather quickly ;-)
Cлава Украине друже
наратив "давайтэ мірітса" успішно ковтнув
@@egoist4672 Там нема таких наративів, не вигадуй. Єдине завершення це кордони 91 року
@@egoist4672 можливо я занадто глибоко копаю, але мені здається, що автор мав на увазі те, що у цій війні страждають також і африканські країни через те, що кацапія саботувала експорт нашого зерна до них цього року. Бо у кінці показан стяг Буркіна-Фасо, а не просто якоїсь рандомної країни світу.
Very very well done. That was the MOST unbiased analysis of this conflict I have ever seen. Showing both sides of the argument with no agenda or taking a side whilst covering all the relevant topics. Bravo!!
As a Crimean Tatar I thank you for addressing this separately and in more detail. You did a great job. I've been waiting 5 years for Ukraine episode and can't believe it's finally right around the corner!
I believe your people and culture will have more coverage in the episode
Nice to know the Russians have not killed all of you.
My heart goes out to the Tartars, the Soviet oppression and deportation is often an overlooked part of history. To me Crimea deserves to not be under any foreign rule, though obviously independence means a lot of responsibility so perhaps the next best option is not being under the successor regime to the one who stole your country.
And you even got mentioned!
I just recently learned about the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people, and i like that this was mentioned here.
As a Ukrainian i thank you for addressing this instead of ignoring it and making a normal video
And as a Russian, I assure you: there are so many of us who do not support all this nonsense that is going on between our countries, unfortunately your ppl suffer, unfortunately there are too many dumb head zombies who obey and go to do scary things for money, not for their motherland, nobody invaded us, this crazy operation shows ppl s true intelligence level, those who don't pass this test become the evil and we should treat them accordingly, at the same time those who can't distinguish good ones and the bad ones won't pass this test as well, God bless us all, we r living in 21 century and experiencing another scary event, this is gotta stop.
@@tonylaoshi-8990 As a romanian, I support Ukraine, but I don't hate the Russian people, only the government.
@@tonylaoshi-8990 you have a good heart my friend❤ I hope people like you will rebuild Russia when this is over
@@tonylaoshi-8990 West has so much power and influence they don't actually need to invade a country to hurt them, u dumb head zombie that what happens when allow single nations so much power, Russia could do the same if they were leading power and everyone would instead believe the other side is "evil", peace you get when powers is somewhat equal also century doesn't matter, I sure they said the same in 1940, you bullies and exes should learned you that we are not that different
@@malcolmy3413 we all stopped blaming German gvmt for what they did, we don't blame normal ppl, we all normal ppl want the same: happiness at home and good society around us(good neighbors)
I'm Ukrainian, and I can say that you did such an amazing job in this video! Like even I couldn't explain better 😅 thank you so much for bringing such accurate and charismatic explanation for what is happening to English-speaking people. We appreciate it so much!
Im from moldova, but I had the possibility to hear both sides of the conflict, and i can tell that your impersonation looks really accurate.
Great job!
As an Ukrainian, good job. Probably the best 10 mins that sums up Ukraine Russian relations. But there is way more to unpack to truly understand this.
There needs to be at least videos about energy politics & power, and defense politics & paranoia
I'm Curious what you could add to this
@Richard Schiffman Wars are actually the least complex of human actions. We like any other living creature from bacteria to blue whales fight for only one thing, and that is resources. And so it is in this conflict.
@@ivvan497your brain is simple go and wear your lipstick and live your simple life your not smart enough for a complex conversation about Slavic relations
@@Mr0Anonymous0 Euromaidan is one example. The Democratically elected President was overthrown even though most Ukrainians didn’t support the Maidan Revolution. Most of the violence came from Ukrainian nationalists like Svoboda and Right Sector. Ethnic Russians were persecuted and Crimeans did vote to join Russia. This has been confirmed by third parties like Pew Research Center. Because of this the Ukrainians cut off the water supply to Crimeans, even though they claim that Crimeans are their own people. The Wests views on national integrity for Ukraine have completed changed from their prior position on Kosovo, for example.
The current invasion against Ukraine, is just an attempt at territorial expansion. Though partially it was also to return Crimea’s water supply. With Ukraine as their territory, Russia would hold the majority of Europe’s grain supply which they could use as a bargaining chip. At the same time, the West has also been highly provocative and they aren’t paranoid to think that Western interference in Ukraine is an attempt to destroy Russia.
As a Russian I can only applaud! Great job! Good clear and reasoned points for both sides! Hands down.
The thing about Zelensky and using the "Jewishness" as the *excuse* of justifying the Neo-Nazi's (e.g. Azov, Right Sector, Svoboda etc.) in the country was spot on.
@@victorsamsung2921 there are Neo naz1s in Ukraine. There are pics posted everyday lol with the Naz1 flag
@@taehyungshands and there are some SS simbolics in Russian telegram chenells or even in shaman (russian singer) videos: there is bandage on his arm with Russian flag, like SS did. And there are some telegram chenells that advertising Ukrainian d.aths. and simbol they using for it is pig with Ukrainian flag on it.
@@user-uo7yk9ij2o
point being that the anti-russian camp should switch focus from saying that ukraine doesn't have a neo-nazi problem (which it does) to making it clear that russia was the one that made the neo-nazi problem worse, that its actions don't make the situation any better, and that the stated goal of denazification is a lie because the russian government has no problems with neo-nazis of their own and in western europe
@@vaylard9474 I agree with you on this one: because war with Ukraine made chauvinistic and neo-na.i movements in this country much more stronger then it was ever before.
It's not a "conflict". It's a WAR.
Its legit the same thing
@@zombiexdgamer2777 Conflict you have with your wife on kitchen. When russian Nazis invade the neighboring country, kill there innocent people by hundred thousands, and do all that because, having the biggest territory, it's never enough for them - it is called a WAR! Unprovoked, unjust, unjustifiable WAR.
@@ruslankadylak2999 Funny i didnt see this much support Ukraine is getting now for Serbia back in 1999 when they were bombed by NATO, the bombing campaign was never properly approved by UN security council.
As a Ukrainian who was in contact with Russians quite frequently, this is almost EXACTLY how the conversations go. Incredible job, Barbs! And the last frames - that is just beautifully captured.
I’m so excited to see Ukraine episode right now)
As a Russian- American I feel that.
so essentially we heard Russian built up propaganda the whole time? Those commenters claiming being Ukrainians are pathetic trolls
As a Ukrainian I would be concerned if you didn't speak to Russians, lmfao you literally speak Russian
@@johnsuckher3037 Bro, I'm a Ukrainian. We just appear everywhere where Ukraine is mentioned. We call it "inferiority syndrome", because we are tired of people not knowing anything about our contry and confusing us with russia
I am from the Baltics and I fully support Ukraine in this matter... it just seems like Russia just cant keep out of its neighbours territories , very annoying neighbour to have
Thank you for acknowledging the Crimean Tatars!
I feel like no one actually asks them what they think regarding all of this.
geography now is so based he even included the tatars of crimea
It is extremely hard to ask them now, they historically voted for Ukrainian independence and move towards Europe as integration with russia was reminding them of crimean tatars deportation, that was never denounced by russia. Now many of them fled (again) to Ukraine and Turkey without clear perspectives of returning home and the ones that stayed in Crimea are prosecuted for all kinds of fabricated actions have they even blinked favourably to Ukrainian part of story or to Crimean Tatars story
thankfully it doesn't matter because there's so little of them
@99telepath99 as a Ukrainian, i will say on behalf of most Ukrainians that it does matter. Moreover, we feel sorry for leaving Qırımtatars a little bit out, and we truly want to fully integrate them in Ukrainian society.
As a Crimean tatar, absolute majority of us has always supported Ukraine. We don't want to have anything in common with Russia. Russia has been suppressing us centuries ago and still doing it now with all of the political prisoners of Crimean tatar origin. A lot of our people are fighting in the frontlines along with Ukrainians. We just want to be back home. Back home in Ukrainian Crimea.
The holodomor was a thing not because the soviet gov-t wanted ukranians dead, that would mean less workers and farmers, but because of the massive failure that was collectivisation.
This is beautiful. Much needed for a year! Thanks for making this!
Israel: It is gonna be the hardest episode
Ukraine: Hold my Korovai
USA, UK & Yemen: 😈
@@bababababababa6124 Nah it's not the like UK is out here trying to delegitimize the USA because George Washington was Bri'ish
I think Israel is still the hardest 😬
Israel 🇮🇱 🐕🖕
@@atlaskinzel6560 okay fair enough but the US and Yemen will still be difficult episodes to make
As a Ukranian, I wanted to tell you actually did a great job! And a loved how you mentioned all those important events and referenses with texst, so that everyone can search them deeply if they feel up to it
Plus, it's just me, or our Slavic disscusions are simmilar, no matter which nations talks with each other? I mean: Poles with Russians (or just face it: Western Slavs with Russians); Serbs with any former-Yugoslavian nations (Croats, Slovenians, Bosniaks).... I wonder those kind of discussions came to life...
@@ukaszheil6672 all of the Eastern Europe was one way or another imacted, so yess. I believe the message remains wery similar for many of us🥲 And it's great thet we're starting to talk about in on international level!
@akade4374 it is good, true. However 1 problem remains (for me): what if World decides to help, completely ignoring who we are, and what our history is? They tried it at least 3 times, from which at least 2 times affected directly Slavic lands, so.... I just don't want a repeat from the past...
Ез ей юкрейніан, ти мав би засудити цю мавпу за спробу відстояти позицію рф та натяк на примирення в кінці. Так от, пішов нахуй, недоукраїнець!
As a Ukranian, I wanted to tell you actually did a great job!
Thank you so much for this video! Can't believe that someone from the opposite side of the globe can have a really accurate understanding and ability to explain quite a lot about our situation in 10 mins. It's really fantastic❤
You did a great job, Barbs. I can tell you put your soul into this, and it wasn't easy.
But the MAIN reason why Civil War has started is illegal overthrow of president, why don't include the MAIN reason here? 🤔
Indeed. Well made 👌
sir turkey isnt in europe
@@pitakotopoulos7740 It is lol 😆
@@mrcocoloco7200 3% of its lands touches europe. Their culture, language and demographics have nothing to do with europe
Thank you this brilliant video! It resonated with past arguments I had on the topic.
Thank You very much for THIS! You've done great and important thing for us all
For more context, you should have also mentioned Russia's actions in neighboring countries after the USSR ended (such as Moldova or Georgia), to show that Russia was willing to invade even countries that were not Slavic and that didn't threaten them in any way, nor wanted to join NATO (Moldova), nor had significant Russian ethnics on their soil (Georgia).
Yep they still control over 1/5 of the country , and are still hugely ethnic cleansing Georgian people
Poor Georgia, homeboys didn’t earn civil strife
because America tried to place its bases there as elsewhere. Russia will defend itself. Georgia is also close to Moscow, as is Ukraine. Better study the history and who then was in power in Georgia, also the American puppet who organized the revolution in the country. Now an American puppet is in power in Ukraine. Force America leave the whole world alone and not put their military bases everywhere, then there will be peace.
Man, could you explorethe Russian-Georgian conflict from the point of view of Abkhazia? I'd like to suggest you to start your explanation from Abkhazian-Georgian relationship since first half of 20th century
@@olzhaskenzhegulov2039 don’t confuse with what has been happening to the post-Soviet countries for 15 years due to Western coups and the consolidation of Western puppets in power in the post-Soviet countries. This is all proven and recognized by the West itself and everything is in open sources. Better spend time studying the American strategy for world domination and its military expansion and stop them, who are they to decide the fate of other countries and manage them?
"I know what it's like to be under you for 400 years and at this point everything is better". This is so accurate especially for us here in Armenia.
So sorry about what’s going on with Azerbaijan
ну вот про Армению не надо здесь. Россия никогда не вторгалась в Армению. Армения добровольно вступила в Российскую империю для защиты от геноцида турков.
@@DoK113 Армению присоединили к РИ в 1820-х, а политика антиармянская в Османской империи стартовала в 1890-х, пик пришелся на 1915.
А так - да, все сами добровольно)
The Turks called then...
They want your people back.
That's right.
Turns out, Russia isn't the worst thing that happened to you
L armenia, peasant country
Man, this video hits different. It captures exactly what's relevant and necessary to understand both nation's motivations, contextualizes the cultural and geopolitical issues, and dialogues the dispute in accessible terms. All of that, and also done in a video that hits the EXACT tone it needs to: Tragic melancholy.
Barbs, you've always been on another level, but this is a master stroke. Well done, man.
Tragic melancholy is a very good way of putting it. As someone who followed most of what was going on during the conflict and who has read up on most of the history (as good as possible) this video made me incredebly sad. However I have to state one thing clearly:
There are no two sides to this. Ukraine is fighting for its right to exist, and Russia is trying to deny that. No more, no less.
@@tiltiege7842 It's another level of sadistic when you think one killing is in any way more moral than the other killing.
@@tamastasi428 War and violence is rooted in human psyche. In some way part of us strive to get dosage of it even in peaceful times. Just observe what makes most of the games/movies. We are sadistic in so many other ways - via economic exploitation to other people, to our planet via endless and mindless exploitation and pollution, to our food, to our love ones, in basic everyday relationship. It's one constant cycle of suffering and ignorance on our small piece of rock floating in the endless cosmic void.
@Tamás Tasi because it absolutely is. The moment you decide to take my life just because you want to, or because you want to take my stuff for yourself - you forfeit your life and absolve me of any moral ambiguity regarding killing another being.
@@tamastasi428 - But it is. If someone comes into my house to kill me, and I kill them in self-defense, I am infinitely more in the moral right. If they didn't want to be killed, they shouldn't have entered by home.
That's just absolutely amazing! So precise, and - most importantly - emotional! You nailed it - it is really about how members of the same family have a conflict and hurt each other worst of all..
As a Ukrainian living nearby russian border I can approve, that your points of view shown in the video actually correctly tell the thing. And as I see, you made a great work by investigating details. Good job!
It's funny that most autors of comments here start them from "As a Ukrainian.." :)
@@Nightmareinfosда, и вправду забавно
@@Nightmareinfos Ukraine losing lolll
Valery Markus? no more
You are mindbogglingly awesome in condensing and delivering such highly interconnected, intricate, nit-picky nuanced subjects with hair-trigger sensitivities in layman terms. Like dude....hats off.
As a Slav (Croatian tho), this was surprisingly accurate. I know quite a bit about my Slavic people, but you know even more. I honestly wouldn't expect this from an American (no offense), but great job man! Cool that someone gets it.
He takes his research seriously that's why it's great and why I love to learn from barbs
the average european is smarter than the average american, but the smartest american is smarter than the smartest european. same with stupidity
He is different. He has Korean and Italian and American descendence.
How many North American people you know has a geography knowledge as him. He could be the savior of Geography in the USA. 😂
I’m an American with no Slavic heritage but the whole Ukraine/Russia feud seems pretty similar to the Croatian/Serbian feud (and since it’s the Balkans we’re talking about I might as well through Bosnians and Albanian into the mix too)
@@jdawg8487 Croat here and I can confirm that it is really similar, with the difference that Russia is actually a global superpower, but Ukraine is showing the same heart as Croatia did.
Great job! And incredibly accurate! Thank you!
This is well-made and entertaining, information overload, love it!
I am both delighted and depressed while watching this video. I am delighted that you were able to provide so much information in such a short amount of time. Not a single spoken sentence goes to waste, truly a dense and comprehensive overview.
I am also depressed by the fact that the best summary of the war that I have been able to find is this video. It should not be the responsibility of a UA-camr to inform everyone about the most significant war of our generation.
Unfortunately, that's what a lot of "journalism" has become: mouthpieces for the ones in power. Propaganda to the highest degree.
This man is not being a mouthpiece for them. He's doing what a real journalist should do: finding the truth.
"the most significant war of our generation"
That's one of the most Eurocentric comment I saw in a while. There are wars happening in Africa and Asia right now, many people are dying, but I guess the average European and North American couldn't care less for these people. In fact, they are the reason these wars are happening in these areas. But when there is a war in Europe it seems like it's the end of the world.
LMAO
Except that Russia is not fighting Ukraine. It’s fighting the entire collective West, mostly the United States. I guess the video is trying to avoid being “cancelled” by neglecting the obvious.
Our “generation” has had many more wars, the ignorant people don’t mention The war in Syria or Yemen which is much worse on a humanitarian level
@@KilamSabba What?
I mean, sure, Ukraine recieved a lot of NATO support, but Ukraine is fighting by itself nevertheless against Russia.
I've learned more in 10 minutes about this conflict than hours of rolling news. Well done Barbs, I know this wasn't easy.
for sure. it made me realize how shallow the main media narratives are. on both sides.
it is not a conflict. It is simply war. Ukraine defends her territory and russia is an invader. Russia is an invader from country beginning and it is just a sense of this country existing
@@juliadizhak8397 word conflict had chance to peace, don't you like peace? brothers sometime fighting , I hope its end this year
@@juliadizhak8397you are as shallow as a rock get back to your basement UkraNazi
I've actually known and heard all of this is the western news...
As a Ukrainian I appreciate that you made this very accurate video, and that's impressive that managed to squeeze the whole thing in 10 mins. Greetings from Lviv!
As a Russian, I can say you told the conflict really well. And also I love that you included Burkina Faso inside this 🤣🤣🤣
Note that the Constitution of the Soviet Union expressly stated that any of the republics, of which there were 15 by the end of the union, had the right to leave the Soviet Union. People normally forgot about that rule, given, you know, the Soviet Union, but once relative free speech and democracy became a thing in the late 1980s, people looked at that rule again. It was not just Ukraine but also Russia for the record actually cited that clause to leave (which eventually made Kazakhstan the last of the Soviet Republics) as well as all the other republics, except basically for the three Baltic republics which said they were never legally part of the Soviet Union in the first place.
Your forgetting one small tiny thing.. Noone asked countries occupied by russia/solviet union if they wanted to join. They were forced at gunpoint.
@@janisber111 I don't really think that is an especially interesting point given that the Russian empire existed in 1917 and the Russian Republic existed until 1918, and it would have a lot of traits aligned with a civil war and I guess you could argue that whoever was going to form the government in the capital would be claiming to reimpose the lawful authority that existed prior to the First World War.
The main norm against invasions and ethnic autonomy would really be with the League of Nations getting going, and bolstered by the Second World War and the United Nations. I chose to cite the Soviet Constitution as a document expressly stating what even was the standard for the Soviet Union to abide by (also that the Soviet Union signed the UN Charter too).
It is most straightforward to discuss the morality of a conflict after that point given that we can easily establish some ground rules binding even on political leaders.
@Ž Š That is true, but later that year, the Ukrainian SSR did hold a referendum after the August coup and had a huge majority including in every oblast that they wanted to leave.
@@robertjarman3703 There were some interesting phrasing in that second referendum. If you think that Crimea would want to go with independent Ukraine it's like serbs in Croatia wanting to stay in Croatia.
@@saratov99 "Do you support the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine?"
Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine
In view of the mortal danger surrounding Ukraine in connection with the state coup in the USSR on August 19, 1991,
Continuing the thousand-year tradition of state development in Ukraine,
Proceeding from the right of a nation to self-determination in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and other international legal documents, and
Implementing the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine,
the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic solemnly declares
the Independence of Ukraine and the creation of an independent Ukrainian state - UKRAINE.
The territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable.
From this day forward, only the Constitution and laws of Ukraine are valid on the territory of Ukraine.
This act becomes effective at the moment of its approval.
- Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, August 24, 1991
That is the referendum question and the act itself that was being voted upon. 54% of Crimeans voted in favour in December 1991. Not sure how to make it more clear that if the vote was successful it would be an independent country, and in the immediate aftermath of the referendum passing it was recognized by the rest of the world.
Also, the Soviet constitution never prescribed that a referendum was necessary, the Supreme Soviet or other highest legislative body of a republic could have invoked it on their own. The Yugoslav constitution did prescribe referendum though.
Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos
That's why he's got over 3.1 million subs.
As a Russian I must say that this is a piece of art
иди покайся
@@igorlubintsov7464 іди поплачь)
@@igorlubintsov7464В чём?
@@foy_play коллективная ответственность, сам понимаешь
@@igorlubintsov7464 А за что ответственность?
Incredible good explanation! Thanks for the video!
Thank you for actually talking about this. As a Ukrainian, my life was horribly affected, hope this ends soon, and hopefully as peaceful as possible
Tell NATO to Fk off and peace will be upon us all and we can love live laugh.
@@mehe1158 what propaganda dows to a mf
Russia is in the wrong but fighting for revenge instead of a peacful solution will only cause more destruction, I hope your goverment comes to it's sense.
Да, желаем что эта война закончится быстрее
As a Ukrainian, I hope this war ends with russians experiencing at least 1/10 of what they did to us
Well done Geography now , well done... You addressed what alot of main stream media is either too lazy to address because it doesn't feed their bottom line or simply don't want to address; "The historical basis of every conflict " this is so very important , people don't just start fighting , there were unresolved issues in their past which only precipitate years later ...
This does not change anything tho, if every single country started a war because unresolved issues in their past the whole world would be engulfed in flames. Russias invasion of Ukraine is unconscionable no matter the context it is Put in... pun intended.
Also, Russia should tread carefully, China has claims on territory taken by Russia from the chinese empire where ethnic chinese live to this day, and the same exact rethoric they are using against Ukraine today could be used against them should the chance present itself, it is a double edge sword.
Just a quick reminder that the whole "Everything happens because of past disputes" is actually very wrong as it revolves around the idea that world is never changing and the people don't change. This derives from middle ages where for about a thousand years nothing indeed did change and old wounds were constantly brought up, but in the modern times world changes so rapidly that the ´case of everything happening happening because of past simply cannot keep up. The world simply is not the same place anymore
Very well done, you captured so much of the arguments without interjecting biases.
As a Ukrainian I want to thank you for educating people on this topic. Squeezing all these controversial moments in a 10 minutes video and making it all look cohesive is a great job indeed 👏🏻
It is very rare to feel completely relieved after watching youtube video. You`ve collected true information and I feel that you understand Ukrainians, greetings from Kyiv!
Its Kiev
@@bloodkelp Why do you think so?
@@katerynaivzhenko6716 because "kyiv" is being forced too much by everyone
@@bloodkelp It is for reasons, the main being that in Ukrainian "Kyiv" is how it is actually pronounced.
I'm terribly sorry that correcting an enforced russian version of the name, as they tried their hardest to pull Ukraine from the world map, is somewhat an inconvenience to you.
@@katerynaivzhenko6716 we dont need your newspeak. I am used to "Kiev". Period
I don’t know, Burkina Faso. I really don’t know.
Okay, all joking aside, this was probably the best video you’ve made that wasn’t a normal episode. You somehow condensed so much information in a way that was easy to understand about a conflict that has so many layers. As someone who isn’t Ukrainian or Russian, this was really eye opening. Thank you, Paul. Keep up the good work.
Is there a tie in for Burkina Faso here?
thanks for saying its Burkina Faso ... hahaha i was searching for it .. haha
yeah i had to google it up too, why though ?
It was kinda random though putting Burkina Faso in there but still funny haha.
@@damirimamagic5064 I assume it has something to do with grain and other agricultural products not being shipped in high enough quantities due to the war - risking all established food security in developing nations, especially in Africa (Burkina Faso for example.)
Wow, thank you very much, I can see it was incredibly hard piece of work and analysing!
Amazing explanation. Thanks a lot for this video
I remember the days where you would comically freak out over the Greece/North Macedonia stuff, which was basically just silliness over a name and symbols. This is the kinda stuff that is genuinely stressful and concerning (though the Greece/North Macedonia stuff was pretty funny).
It's funny until you dig up some more. Then you'll be terrified over what happened here in the 20th century, despite from which side you're reading the history from.
Greetings from Macedonia.
@@DacLMK nah, they are right. It's funny
@@frfras7 It's not healthy to tie names and symbols in the the heritage and history they represent too much, it diminishes them. For instance, the American flag represents the original 13 colonies and 50 states, but also our values such as liberty and freedom... values which are preserved by allowing it to be burned in acts of protest. We don't always live up to our values anymore than Greece always lives up to its heritage, but they're what people died for.
This is why I have problems relating to Western people. You literally summed up a big issue of identity with a syntagma "silliness over a name and symbols". It's so shallow to look at like this (I am not saying you are shallow). Also this video about Ukraine is pretty much TikTok quality for kids. This war is not a football game as you see it everyday in Media, and that's how exactly this UA-camr tries to act on a video.
Remember back in 2017 when we were all laughing about how the Israel episode would be the most difficult and controversial episode he would have to make?
Yeah, those were simpler times
I dont find this topic controversial nor difficult. Russians are agressors and Ukrainians defend their freedom against them. Simple as that.
@@R3stor It is that simple. Unfortunately a lot of people fail to realize that, making this topic controversial. Controversy based on ignorance, yes, but controversy nontheless.
Thanks for such a great video!
>Can you guys ever be friends again?
Ever - maybe. In this century - unlikely. In the next 3-5 decades - impossible. Too much lives lost and destroyed, too much hatred. A couple of generations should change before it could be even talked about.
Appreciate you making this!
Excellent TLDR version of the conflict.
Wow! That was a really good interpretation and presentation style. Very informative. Also a good idea to separate it from the Ukraine episode so that it doesn’t detract or distract from the formula you use for each episode. Thank you for this!
This is pretty on point. Good job Barb!
This is great work) Thank U!
You deserve your own television show. The amount of time and care you put into your work is amazing.
Imagine what happens in my mind as my mom is Russian and my dad is Ukrainian? Thank you for the video. It is quite good high level summary.
Same here. Ukrainian dad, Russian mom- to constantly hear Americans who know nothing about the conflict say things like “all Russians need to die” and me sitting here like… K… I’m both sooo
@@geodrewbilee personally support Ukraine and I think people like that are insane. Sure, the war is terrible. That doesn't mean you should wish death on an entire race of people.
I'm Russian. And I hope Russia loses that war asap. There's no hope for Russia. But there's hope for Ukraine. If your mother has any decency she'll agree wuth your dad
How are you both doing? This must be hard on your families.
@@geodrewbilee I'm an American with a son who is 1/4 Russian and 1/4 Ukrainian (my ex-wife was 50/50 as well) so I definitely understand your situation. If it makes you feel better, the only Russians who deserve negative outcomes are the ones currently planning and/o r attacking Ukraine. Any Russian who just goes home or stays in Russia should be free to do so in peace. This war is terrible but blaming an entire ethnicity for the crimes of a few is just as bad as what Russia is doing (and in this case "few" means the politicians and the soldiers/supporters, which leaves out 100's of millions of innocent Russians.)
Thank you Barbs for doing your best to help make sense of this morass. Bless you.
Thank you for your work!
i'm a ukrainian and this is a great video! it describes it all really well, and is very accurate! very well done 11/10
You actually did a great job. As an Ukrainian, I really appreciate it.
Thank you for the great job 👍
Once again, words from Czech 19th century author K. H. Borovský about Russia are true as ever: "Russia likes to call everything russian Slavic, so that they could later call everything Slavic russian."
Hasn´t changed in 200 years at all...
wow - as an archeologist that is a fan of the polish-lithuanian empire, you did a pretty good job on this summery. bet your head hurt at some point learning this history
If you're a fan you should know Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was never an empire but a republic.
It bugs me so much I had to point it out, sorry x)
@@kaczuszkapaczuszka7979 i do know, but it's always referred to as an empire. i also call Ukraine as 'the ukraine' - as in once referring to the area under the control of the principality of kiex
@@alexanderhay7358 Is it always? I almost never hear it refered to this way.
@@kaczuszkapaczuszka7979
tbf empire and republic are not mutually exclusive terms. The term empire is vague enough that there have been lots of empires that haven't been headed by a monarch, like the French empire
I loved this video so much learned a lot lol
As a French russian guy, this is an accurate description of the current situation. What's really sad it's there are lots of people in Russia who thinks all of this domination over Ukraine is right and there are people who thinks the exact opposite but sadly, cannot speak out. I had lots of disagreements with my mom because we were not grown up at same time in history and we both have an other point of view. Yes, even in Russian families this conflict is dividing.
So you are saying the western view is right and other views are wrong? You essentially just said yourself that your mother is "wrong" in her view. There is never a right or wrong in history, only winners and losers. America loves to condemn invasions that go against their interests like this one whilst they were happy to invade many other countries themselves. That is why Russia hates the west. Russians have always been a little more observant and resilient than most people, survivors if you will. They see that America is buying people out with money and to make sure their power doesn't diminish, they are trying to make friends with insurgent groups like those in Georgia and Ukraine by promising to give them independence or to annex them as one of their autonomous republics.
Russia even asked to join NATO after the collapse and got rejected, the west have always hated Russia because they fear Russian power. If Russia was in NATO, they would essentially have the same amount of sway as the US does because they are massive and have nukes. The US don't like that which is why Russia has always been isolated in foreign diplomacy unless they need their help like with the N@zis. Then they are quick to ask for Russia's help.
Посмотрите видео еще раз и внимательно. Не только своими либералистическими глазками типо "о-о, боже! россия напала на украину" А то почему это произошло. Причинно-следственные связи, знаете? Вы же не кричите на полицейского что мол "он убил человека!". Вы сначала узнаете почему он в него выстрелил, были ли предупреждения, как долго он его предупреждал, что за человек в принципе был убит. В данной ситуации мы наблюдаем, что убитый (украина) ебаный маньяк, который убивает собственных людей, не соблюдает соглашения, двигает нато к границам ядерной державы (то есть россии). Для вас это может быть и шутки, но вы понимаете, что значит УГРОЖАТЬ ядерной державе? Это блять ни ха-ха ни разу. Это как если у вас под дверью встанет какой-то хуй с большим ржавым тисаком и будет говорить, мол "я тут просто так стою. Абсолютно просто! Я не угрожаю твоей семье и точу этот топор вообще не для тебя." Еще раз для себя поймите, что даже просто находясь под нашими границами с пво это УЖЕ угроза. УЖЕ. Понимаете?
your mom is from Russia
Да, но рос. общество само виновато в том, что оно страдает.
@@user-tn1pf5fp2b хрюкни
That was a lot better then I expected. And about that ending bit? Yeah, no. Not in this generation, not in the next one, but maybe in the third one we will start the talks about reconciliation. That's the Ukrainian pow, thanks for the vid.
For Finland, it took alot of decades to heal after the Winter war. Say 50 years, for when most had who remembered it had retired or died. However, that happened 1) after finlandization in the entire winter war and economic benefits from cooperating with the soviets, 2) The winter war happened in a time with alot of wars, and the continuation war and colaboration with Hitler was condemned especially by the left after the war, and the winter war is ultimately connected with the continuation war. Although Finland was the one being attacked first in both wars.
So anyways, I feel like it would alot more time than 50 years for Ukraine to heal, even adding things like mass media, targeting cicilians on purpose after the world had agreed not to do that, borth rates being lower etc. I am 22 years now and I'm sure the relationship will improve some time after the war, especially if Ukraine wins, but I don't see the two countries ever becoming brotherly nations again in my lifetime. Bosnia has still not healed after it's war 30 years ago for example.
@@sofiaormbustad7467 Both sides need to change their thinking for healing to occur; Ukraine may forgive Russia soon but Russia needs to learn to see Ukraine as an equal and make up for the damage caused for kinship to come back.
As a Brit I'm starting to understand this when a whole bunch of India still hates us; I think we are starting to publicly share what happened during our colonial years and the damage we caused to India as a whole. The scars and wounds we inflicted, or reopened and left to fester are still there and while I believe we've started to make some movement towards reparations I'm sure it won't be enough or its been too long a wait for many.
Really hope Russia can look at the UK and learn from our mistakes as far as facing up to, accepting and then reversing the damage we caused.
@@GCOSBenbow It's up to russia to start tbh. Ukraine owes them nothing. NOTHING AT ALL. They have been the perpetrators since the beginning.
Imagine if someone sexually assaults a woman. Do you think it's up to her to start talks with him? wtf
@@bungalowjuice7225 Absolutely agree; the ball is most certainly in Russias court. Withdrawing all their troops from occupied land would be a good start. I would think you can tell that from the content in the second half of my comment.
Bit of a weird choice comparing one country invading another to a sexual assault of an individual though.
People usually need a common threat
If i knew how and had the ability to make this go viral on reddit for you i would. More people should see this. Fantastic man.
Post it in like a bajillion subs which are even remotely related to the topic. It will go viral through at least 1
I hope someone can find a way. This deserves to be seen more widely.
As a Qazaq from Qazaqstan, who is very well aware of the topic - YOU DID A GREAT JOB!
Breaking all these arguments in this way, so majority would understand!
Qazaqstan
You did a great research! respect to you for that!!!!
I know dipping into politics like this is legitimately terrifying but I really think you did an excellent job with this. And that last part where Burkina Faso asks "Can you guys like ever be friends again?" really hit in the feels. 10 out of 10.
It surely hit some Ukrainians in the feels, me for sure. Because how dare you even ask that.
As a Ukrainian, the answer to that question is no. Not in my time, not in my children's time, not in their children's time. My great-grandfather fought the russians in WW1 in the Ukrainian unit of the Austrian army. My friends are fighting them now. My great-grandchildren may not have to fight them but the resentment will be in their Ukrainian blood.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 Did u just mention that ur great-grandfather fight on side of Austrian army as something good? So all anti-Russian = good? And if is it so whats the difference between people like u, and the people you're fighting against?
@@Foxters yes I did mention my great grandfather fighting in the Austrian army as good. If he had won, Holodomor would not have happened, millions of Ukrainian families would not have starved because of the commies, thousands would not be shot, robbed, and sent to Siberia to die. And yes, from my experience everything anti-Russian is indeed good. With the exception of Nazism. Not because russians are somehow naturally evil. But because authoritarianism is in their blood.
@Music Sauna Mixing Board 2 💨 you are illiterate
It's incredibly hard not to draw parallel between what this video depicts and what's going on in some other parts of the world. It's almost like the human history is basically a collection of predestined archetypes of stories.
I think of the Chinese as I read you comment. And then I see your name. 😉
Bunch of monkeys doing monkey things
@@huaiwei yhea but this topic that evrey one talk is an other stories is literally two china
Well done video. Gives a nice perspective of the war.
Thank you so much, that was great.
Fun fact - tsar actually originates from Bulgaria, when Simeon the Great took the title tsar as an alternative to Emperor.
Bulgarian spotted.
*Macedonian, when our tsar Samoil was crowned as the first tsar in history.
JK, just shitposting.
"I know what it's like under you for 400 years, and this point is anything better!" That meant so much.
This might be the single best video on the whole internet explaining the Russo Ukrainian conflict and reviewing all perspectives, salute, massive respect
Wow such a cool job thank you for making people friendly and united
As a Ukrainian, thank you for acknowledging the Holodomor. It genuinely means a lot, as it is the reason I have literally no living European relatives.
I’m so sorry
😂😂😂. ГРУЗИН кровавый Сталин стал русским националистом и поэтому своей комично большой ложкой съел все Украинское зерно, так ? И голод в соседней Польше тоже он устроил))))
@@ruotuzKrasnodar is an ethnic Ukrainian land. Holodomor was created by Russia in Kremlin. Ukraine was occupied by Russia in 1920.
@@ruotuz Actually Kuban wanted to be independent from Russia during 1917-1918. Read your history in normal books.
@@ruotuz Doesn’t matter Kuban was ethnically Ukrainian land in 1930s.
As a ukrainian, this is very correct. Yes, there is much more to adress and to talk about, but it would take literally hours
🇺🇦 Ukraine: I hate you, Russia
🇷🇺 Russia: oh, yeah, let’s fight
Two hours later
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🤬🤬
🇫🇷 French : Hé toi, laisse-moi ( hey you I can help you)
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🇫🇷🤬🤬
To be continue
Thanks, Barbs for this great informative convo. A very complicated matter. I hope,peace will be rule again. God blessus all. 💙
Russia: you are one of the most corrupt nation ukraine
Ukraine: yeah ,but you are the number one
Russia: 😐😐😐😡
True dat
Not exactly number one though, but yeah Russia is still higher than Ukraine.
@@radjadawamindra697 source: Nato
Ukraine can be as corrupt as they f***ing want, no reason to invade them. Stupid russian trolls - also russia is more corrupt than ukraine so they should start with their own country maybe
@@malcolmy3413 they can be corrupt but not kill ethnic Russians in Donbass smartass
Thank you Barbs for making this video. I am from Odessa, Ukraine. I was also supposed to be "freed" by Russia. There are two things which are also important to note: Russia tries to justify the invasion by saying a lot of things. In one act of justification the Russians said that Ukraine wanted to invade Russia first. This claim is very funny, when you know that Russia is an official nuclear state.
Another thing is that the goal of the war, from the perspective of Russia is still unknown: Russia calls the war a " Special military operation to defend the people of the Donbass". Then, a question arises: if the Donbass is all you want, why occupy Kharkiv, Zaporizhie, Kherson and other regions? Thank you for tackling this hard topic. I hope that you will visit Ukraine again, this time, after the war and visit Odessa. We have a lot of sights to see.
Russia annexed Zaporozhe, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson tho... Honestly, it's probably just better if Ukraine surrenders. You can't win against a country that can nuke you at any time, especially considering that Zelensky even wants Crimea. I also feed bad for Ukrainian bros who are forced to stay and fight, while so many Ukrainian girls "work" as prostitutes and cam girls around Europe. Russia is hurting Ukraine, but not as much as Ukraine is hurting Ukraine. Ukraine is hurting Russia, but not as much as Russia hurts itself. It is what it is...
Barbs amplifying russias made up reasons for its neo imperialism in Ukraine in this video is so sad to watch. I expected more from him
@@temporelucemtenebris5313 If Russia nukes Ukraine. They would have already lost. And incredibly coward thing to do.
@@malcolmy3413 Well, he did what he could. He did suggest adding stuff in the comments, if he forgot something.
@@malcolmy3413 I don’t think he’s necessarily defending Russia, but Russia’s hypocrisy on Ukraine is enough to drop your IQ below freezing.
Love the concept! Just please slow down a bit !!!
It`s brilliant. As you said, it is only on surface, but hits the bullseye. Thanks.
"... because you spent centuries Russifying everything you came in contact with" - THIS.
A surprisingly good representation of views though. But we cannot be friends "again" - we never were friends. Kinda hard to be friends with someone who has been trying to erase you and your identity for their entire existence.
When I heard this argument, I actually felt like it resonated weirdly with what came right before: Ukrainians claiming that Russian borrowed so much of their culture.
From that perspective, it doesnt' sound so much as "something-fying everything", but rather like the wheel of history just spinning and spinning. It's something that happens with all neighboring cultures... nationalists tend to argue that their culture are being replaced by other ones, and there's some truth to it. But firstly, it mostly happens through demography and economy, regardless of whether there's a political project to replace a culture or not. And secondly, it's not so much replacing as assimilating cultures.
Don't want to be "replaced" ? Make babies. Make them rich. And soon, you'll be the one ukrainifying the world.
@@Harold046 It's not like that. In the soviet union there was a policy to BAN ukrainian language as well as many others in favour of russian. Also the Kyiv was found like 1000 years before Moskow was, so... It's not like any cultural war where one is opposed to another, It's more like russian culture trying to erase all other slavic cultures
"We were never friends" is exactly the point of view, because of which we had to start this operation. Your anti-Russian propaganda has been brainwashing you for decades. I heard Zelensky's speech last May 9th. When he said: "Soon we will have two Victory Days, and someone will not have one." An absolutely outrageous statement. I supported Ukraine at the beginning of the invasion, but people like you convinced me that what we are doing is necessary. We'll never be friends, it's true. But our children will be when your fake country disappears. Сестричка.
Yes we were friends. And if you're dumb enough to fall for tha "erasing identity" propaganda, that's your fault.
As someone who's from Kupyansk, I was feeling more safe when there were Russians here
@@HeavySandvichGuy1 ну, надеюсь что в твою хату залетит шальная ракета раз уж так
every single russia ukraine video has at least some bias in it and im really glad that you made a video addressing the conflict without any bias and somehow completely explaining it in 10 minutes
This is the kind of deep analysis that is greatly and sorely missing from the mainstream media. Love how you went into the roots of not only the conflict but history, identity, treaties and culture. The conversation almost sounds like two brothers or two best friends who were once close and enjoyed each others company. Until a huge wedge pulled them so far apart they can't stand being in the same room with each other. I agree the war is way deeper than what is seen on the surface. Thanks for your analysis
Barbs, amazing episode that clarifies many things from this conflict.
However, I live in The Netherlands. Here, locals "comment" that one episode is usually forgotten: the shot of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) that was shot down by Russian controlled forces on 17 July 2014 , while flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed (total 298 people). The Boeing 777 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Thank you.
I wish you were in that plane
say hi to Ukrnaians and ask why did they use bombers on Donets one week before. And after that did not close their airspace. Ah yah. Bombing was ok, not closing arispace was also ok.
One more thing , that usually forgotten is 2 may in Odesa...and many many more things . I would say it is rather invisible in countries such yours)))
@@sguploads9601 dabble in "whataboutism" much, eh? There was no foreign military in our space, like it is now, and the Russian operatives there did not have the capability for shooting down a civilian jet plane. The MANPADs those people had cannot reach jet aircraft altitude. Thus there was little reason to close airspace over an infantry fight in urban areas.
And what/who we bomb in our lands is our business. If, say, US were dealing with a group of such operatives like we did, on their land, who organized a "rebellion" of sorts - they'd steamrolled them with all the gear they had. And everybody would say "oh yeah, good call".
@@oddie84 do I need to remind you of the "martyrs" shooting at Euromaidan protesters from their firearms from behind the police lines? I must say that you intentionally don't see some things, and then go and blab about it.
Thank you, Barbs! That was actually pretty spot on!
I'm watching your video right now sitting in the corridor on the floor, because russia decided to launch ~100 missiles today.
Russians shooting missiles into apartment buildings and so many people here trying to justify this with 'fighting nazism' in ukraine
They can't see that they themselves became the very thing they (wanted?) to fight against
How is there wifi to that do with
@@dandrecollier800 last i checked wifi doesn’t just turn off when a country is being attacked
@@dandrecollier800 Starlink probably
@@karmo1629 yeah but I thought a missile or 2 would hit a tower that would give out wifi. I mean it's 100 missiles
Just... Excellent.
Although there are really a lot more layers of controversy and nuances, I have to admit that in context of your creative style, Barb, you made it as accurate as you possibly could. Good job, man!
This is why I subscribed to this channel. The work that goes into making these videos shows how much the entire team respects the culture, history and geography of the many peoples around the world. There is always something fascinating to learn.
I don't even have words to express how well condensed, clear and well explained this video is. I can see all the effort and passion that you put into what you do. Thank you so much for this video