Power of Geography: Ten maps that reveal the future of our world

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  • Опубліковано 19 лис 2024

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  • @nohbuddy1
    @nohbuddy1 3 роки тому +12

    Seeing all this really goes to show how lucky the US is

    • @nohbuddy1
      @nohbuddy1 8 місяців тому

      @shevashevasheva777 Guess

  • @Poctyk
    @Poctyk 3 роки тому +4

    9:16 [Sevastopol] is their only warm water port
    ... What happened to Novorossiysk? Did it finally got nuked?

  • @karlopeternel7685
    @karlopeternel7685 Рік тому +1

    I really enjoyed this discussion 🙏

  • @paulheydarian1281
    @paulheydarian1281 2 роки тому +1

    Australia seems like a fine place to visit, even if it's too far away and too expen$ive for most folks.
    How about using sea coastal technologies that can provide potable water?
    I'm not talking about de-salinisation plants, specifically.

  • @monarchistheadcrab8819
    @monarchistheadcrab8819 3 роки тому +3

    About Iran, eventhough the US basically handed over Iraq to Iran, but with the recent conflicts in Afghanistan, it made Iran's eastern borders unsecure by letting Taliban/Pakistan taking over Afghanistan, they took a good lesson from Iraq, and didn't let Iran to take control over Afghanistan just like Iraq.
    And a very important point to understand Iranian expansionism, just take a look at the Achaemenian empire's map. Since Alexander, Iranians always wanted to restore dominance over the lands between Hindu kush mountains and the Mediterranean sea.

    • @Zeyede_Seyum
      @Zeyede_Seyum 3 роки тому +3

      How about splitting Afghanistan between Iran and Pakistan?

    • @David-eq8wf
      @David-eq8wf 3 роки тому +1

      How about, hell no. Better to be with Iranians than with the world's terrorist factory

    • @paulheydarian1281
      @paulheydarian1281 2 роки тому +1

      @@Zeyede_Seyum To be sure the Afghanis wouldn't like this idea. It's their country after all. Afghanistan should be left alone to sort itself out.

    • @adwaye
      @adwaye 2 роки тому

      @@paulheydarian1281 No, Afghanistan means land of the Pashtun. The Pashtun are in Pakistan as well.

    • @danielthuku8192
      @danielthuku8192 11 місяців тому

      The reason Afghanistan is not a problem to Iran is because of geography!

  • @listener523
    @listener523 3 роки тому +5

    Slight correction the US has 11 Super Carriers....

  • @Hassan_Rajput_PAS
    @Hassan_Rajput_PAS 9 місяців тому

    Geography is important because it does not change, it remains the same. Actors do change, but geography does not.
    The geography factors allow you to understand and make educated decisions

  • @GoodTravelChannel
    @GoodTravelChannel 6 місяців тому

    One of my favourite books ❤

  • @MD-ib4ix
    @MD-ib4ix 2 роки тому +1

    Great talk

  • @LARDinhoFC
    @LARDinhoFC Рік тому

    Thank you.

  • @anthonynicoli
    @anthonynicoli 5 місяців тому

    Tim- yes Star Trek is the fictional example of human cooperation in going to space, but recall the origin myth.
    Humanity has not yet made (or maybe publicly admitted?) first contact with extraterrestrial species, which was the compelling event triggering unity in Star Trek.

  • @oreganoregan5947
    @oreganoregan5947 Рік тому

    Can Russia be invaded when it has so many nuclear weapons? What difference does it make if there is flat ground in front of Russia?

  • @tibchy144
    @tibchy144 8 місяців тому

    knowing a country's geography means understanding their foreign politics

  • @artursbondars7789
    @artursbondars7789 3 роки тому +2

    Uhh...again, the flat terrain of Europe is the caus of wars. It's the wrong assumption. And referencing only eastward expansions by European powers to Russia, not referencing Russian invasions of western regions is also wrong.

  • @stevensmith2078
    @stevensmith2078 3 роки тому +1

    The comments on Africa are quite interesting and presuppose that Africans will not be protagonists of their own destinies. Tied “aid” has been around forever, and will determine along with the lack of standards how the PRC is perceived. They will not be seen in a good light. But, yes, it is an economic story.

    • @favvids3779
      @favvids3779 2 роки тому +1

      Leave Africa to develop on its own and on their own terms. They will be ok. Europe has under developed the continent. It’s time to leave.

  • @swissbiggy
    @swissbiggy 3 роки тому +7

    So many aspects are not taken in conseration in this video. Most important one is the financial aspect. Within now and the next twenty years the dollar will colapse, which is only logic if you see the enormous debt the US has towards other nations. The reason the US have to withdraw their troops from around the world has only one reason, they simply don't have the money to sustain it. They don't even have the money anymore to save their crumblin infrastructure or to provide their hard working people with a descent health care program. So it is already on the brink of becoming a second world nation. The moment other nations stop borrowing the US money so that Americans can buy foreign products/oil, it will be over with the US.
    Europe is of no importance anymore, yes on paper maybe. But we have to many differences in our tiny nations to really ever become one Europe.
    China has been very smart the last thirthy years, instead of bombing nations in the name of peace, like the Americans do. China has been investing trillions in other nations. Take east Africa for example or even overhere in Europe. China invested billions of Dollars/Euros in Greece at the moment that we (The other Europeans. I'm Dutch.) didn't give a damn if Greece was bankrupt. Okay, okay, the EU did borrow Greece a lot of millions, but at huge interest. And the Eu did never provide Greece with any future. China invested billions in the port of Piraeus, which enables the Greeks to make their own money again.
    It is a long story maybe, and I could give you hundreds of other examples. But China is the one and only number one in this new world, and not by killing others, but by bringing prosperity.

    • @edthoreum7625
      @edthoreum7625 3 роки тому +1

      Another aspect is that in 500 years or less earth may not be so habitable b/c high seas or temp.
      , or few too many lab created virus/pandemics or nuclear accidents.
      What is prosperity in a world requiring an antinatalism attitude?

    • @tommyodonovan3883
      @tommyodonovan3883 3 роки тому +2

      USA is The Indispensable Nation.
      USA beat the English empire, French, Spanish, Prussian, German, Japanese and the USSR, now China wants to fuk with US,
      *bring it on BITCHES!*

    • @lazloholyfield9902
      @lazloholyfield9902 3 роки тому +3

      China has a few things going against it, demographics, water issues, lack of prosperity outside of major cities, energy, and finally corruption in the government. Demographics is the biggest one though, ageing population, and man to woman ratio out of balance.

  • @jonesdc3122
    @jonesdc3122 2 роки тому +1

    Amazingly accurate

  • @idesofmarchUNIAEA
    @idesofmarchUNIAEA 2 роки тому +1

    8:33 What about the Canadians? Are you being racist?
    44.00 Builder thorium molten salt reactor, and use the excess heat for water desalinization, petroleum distillate manufacturing. I can't blow up, it's not pressurized

  • @brigitteirwin9435
    @brigitteirwin9435 2 роки тому

    The chapter on Russia is prophetic.

  • @seancidy6008
    @seancidy6008 2 роки тому

    No mention of the Korean war?

  • @BiboNassim
    @BiboNassim 2 роки тому +1

    Did the Americans go to the moon? This professor did not mention energy anywhere in his spiel. But he did mention water. Europe is about to learn this winter the importance of energy.

    • @paulheydarian1281
      @paulheydarian1281 2 роки тому

      Perhaps Europe could trade its Water for Energy from North Africa and the Middle East. Keep in mind that food is a form of water exchange.

    • @tourajtayebi2189
      @tourajtayebi2189 2 роки тому

      @@paulheydarian1281 that is too reductionist and more confusing than informative.

  • @croatianhistoryandidentity8261

    12:49 Map is wrong for the South-West Croatia, Turkey never occupied it.

  • @edthoreum7625
    @edthoreum7625 3 роки тому

    @24:30 control of space

  • @hajoos.8360
    @hajoos.8360 3 роки тому +5

    The British pirates unleashed 2 WWs, destroyed the Empire, additionally the dominance of Europe. How stupid someone could be, Tim?

  • @karlxu1548
    @karlxu1548 3 роки тому +3

    21:07 not south korea, it's japan in the quad

    • @tommyodonovan3883
      @tommyodonovan3883 3 роки тому

      SK will join, so will the Russians but the Auzzies, IDK. If I had to bet, I'd say that the Auzzies & the EU will be neutral which is the same as saying that they will be an enemy of the USA.
      And we will take a personal interest in seeing them suffer.

    • @paulheydarian1281
      @paulheydarian1281 2 роки тому

      I'm sure he didn't mean it. 😉 It's so easy to mix-up those Asiatics.

  • @tourajtayebi2189
    @tourajtayebi2189 2 роки тому

    Wise at @45:34

  • @bonkersblock
    @bonkersblock Рік тому +1

    Japan called off the invasion of Australia because their entire plan was derailed in the battle of Corregidor and Bataan! 😂

  • @jamesg2382
    @jamesg2382 3 роки тому

    Thanks for the video. One correction, Australia is a net exporter of food, we can more than feed ourselves.

  • @Hassan_Rajput_PAS
    @Hassan_Rajput_PAS 9 місяців тому

    4:46 4:52 4:56

  • @chrisk7118
    @chrisk7118 Рік тому +1

    lol Such a Brit commonwealth centric view of the world. Australia is of zero importance. The resistance in the Philippines was the game changer in ww2, the Brit’s and Aussies capitulated in Singapore in a few days vs 8 months of Filipino resistance against the Japanese. This is why MacArthur had a dim view of Australians!

  • @Hassan_Rajput_PAS
    @Hassan_Rajput_PAS 9 місяців тому

    4:50

  • @Hassan_Rajput_PAS
    @Hassan_Rajput_PAS 9 місяців тому

    4:28 read

  • @perro4996
    @perro4996 3 роки тому

    Book 2 hours next time...

  • @hondazxr2303
    @hondazxr2303 3 роки тому +3

    War its gona start this year in southern Serbia province kosovo.Serbian army against albanian terorists and kfor(int.army),and Rusia jump on Serbian sidebof course.

  • @juliane__
    @juliane__ Рік тому

    I would make the case, that Africa will be more important in 30 years than China was. More people, more ressorces, beginning of a real african union in the east, wealth growth in the east, everyone who wants to do business speaks an european language, europeans aremost invested and present in nearl every nation. So if it doesn't change drastically, and China didn't change that so far, it will be most important for Europe and the US/Canada in doing business outside. Maybe India will catch up too by then. Additionally Africa south of Sahel are nearly all christians or becoming cristians. All of that will lead to power up Europe and Americanas. Not China and definitely not Russia. It won't be a complete takeover, but i think it is inevetible that European/American system of managing the world will emerge on the top. China will be second forever, as the Soviet Union was. Europe however will have a great chance to reemerge from the doom perspective what is talked about too much. People want to go to Europe or the US. No one wants to immigrate to China - really. So if all this continues, we don't have to ask ourselves, if China would ever overcome the West. No they won't, a like the Soviet Union never did.
    Now we can talk about serious changes that could be possible to change this trajectory. I can't think of one, which would favour China. My only bet it is that Africa will more ore less unite like Europe and becomes another important powerhouse. Anyone who has an idea, which could be seriously change that, be welcome.

  • @jackholler3572
    @jackholler3572 2 роки тому +2

    The comments about Turkey was as shallow and as biased as possible...

  • @Hassan_Rajput_PAS
    @Hassan_Rajput_PAS 9 місяців тому

    39:34 lis

  • @tommyodonovan3883
    @tommyodonovan3883 2 роки тому

    *"I admire the Chinese Government.... They get things done!"*
    -Justin Trudeau (Canada PM)

    • @meadowswta8657
      @meadowswta8657 2 роки тому +1

      have a read about the development and growing use of behavioural science as the base deciding factor of government policy, a good place to start is with the fields base definition of ''human psychic instances'' and the origins an ''mechanics of cognitive processes''.
      humans are robots that all suffer a delusional state of reality in witch humans are all individually conscious, acting thinking choosing, all upon there own life effected by family the political system and other such social an cultural differences.
      the behavioural science being adopted to policy simply put claims fact to be humans have nothing of there own, they do not have any control over what they say, think an feel, every action or thought that's ever happened was a simple mental model built by genetic history an geo political factors.
      normally find reference to there claimed ''fact'' that individualism as a base for politics has long failed an collectivism must be the base line for future policy, why run a system with access to opportunity an new directions for humans to engage with when they dont think or choose independently in every instance, there is only one path available leading to a better tomorrow, a better life, government must treat the collective human mental illness creating the delusional state of our true existence within reality, human life must be totally scripted from start to finish in order to stop the mind from reacting without thought to events occurring around it subsequently creating defective moments within the system.

    • @tommyodonovan3883
      @tommyodonovan3883 2 роки тому +1

      @@meadowswta8657 thanks, I'll look that up, also see NIMH's *"Mouse Utopian Experiment(s)"* 70's & 80's.

    • @meadowswta8657
      @meadowswta8657 2 роки тому +1

      ​@@tommyodonovan3883 its been mentioned over the years
      always slipping my mind.
      im watching it now,. Thx

    • @paulheydarian1281
      @paulheydarian1281 2 роки тому +1

      Is Justin Tudeau actually capable of independent thought?

    • @anypercentdeathless
      @anypercentdeathless Рік тому

      Reading this video's comments I was impressed at the ideas being discussed...until this juvenile comment reminded me I was on UA-cam.

  • @davidotness6199
    @davidotness6199 2 роки тому

    If speaking of the Uighurs it is imperative to begin by speaking the truth about them. Not by Western propaganda as your base. Re: the instability across the Sahel, ask yourself who chose to destroy Libya, the anchor of the region and beyond, and why.

  • @hajoos.8360
    @hajoos.8360 3 роки тому

    The Chinese introduced Nationalsocialism.

    • @masterblaster4784
      @masterblaster4784 2 роки тому

      I'm sure there was a certain party operating in Germany in the 20s and 30s called the National Socialist Party. Well before china's socialism

    • @hajoos.8360
      @hajoos.8360 2 роки тому

      @@masterblaster4784 Of course, Deng Xiaoping adopted it.

  • @styx4947
    @styx4947 2 роки тому

    Regarding the Black Sea and Mediterranean for this to be an impediment we have to assume that the Bosphorus and Suez will always be hostile. Not to mention free access to the Pacific Ocean. I believe that classical geopolitics has it's place in understanding the modern world or the future. But you must remember that sectarian animosity in the case of Iran-Iraq didn't exist 3000 years ago. If purely territorial considerations determine success or failure in international relations than the USSR should have crushed the US. Geography, History and People can make the world change above and beyond natural obstacles. Why could the US pull off something like D-Day or the "Island hopping" campaign in the Pacific from thousands of miles distance. Do you think if it was Churchill heading the USSR in 1941, they would have crushed the Germans? Would it have taken 3 years or more? People in charge make the difference I think.

  • @--Dani
    @--Dani 2 роки тому +1

    I'm so tired of climate change garbage, that is the least of my worries, climates change that's what climates do.

  • @hajoos.8360
    @hajoos.8360 3 роки тому +1

    No one will build a base on the moon. This is technically not possible. Maybe in 200 years....

  • @hondazxr2303
    @hondazxr2303 3 роки тому +6

    Rusians are welcomed here in Serbia and balkan but usa and uk NO!

    • @johnbblezer4298
      @johnbblezer4298 3 роки тому

      We go where we want when want

    • @shasha259
      @shasha259 3 роки тому +6

      @@johnbblezer4298 You just got the bum's rush from Afghanistan, after all that freedom + democracy they got.

    • @arthurbc6
      @arthurbc6 3 роки тому +4

      @@johnbblezer4298 You pay the price, middle class go poor and don’t know why

  • @direwolf6234
    @direwolf6234 3 роки тому

    a pointless presentation when the talk isn't coordinated with the maps...