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china is unlikely to make friends with russia because they are white people and for them, they cannot be trusted, china also sees russia as a western country because of being white people
I got a sudden chill when you started talking about water scarcity and how conflicts may arise from it. The saying that my parents used to say that "one day, there will be a war for water" is beginning to come into fruition.
Russia does still have nuclear weapons and an official doctrine to use them if the territorial integrity of the nation is threatened. And I am sure Soviet planners during the cold war did take into consideration that the Chinese border could be threatened as well. The rewards would be huge, but the gamble is unpredictable.
I don't know why people would even think that China would invade it's only major ally who's not only a regional power but also the principal enemy of it's rival. It would be like the US attacking the UK during ww2 just to conquer Canada.
Just a small correction, the territory ceded by China to Russia in 1858 was Manchuria in its entirety not just Outer Manchuria. Inner Manchuria was eventually returned to China while Outer Manchuria remained in Russian hands and is where the port city of Vladivostok is located. You can see this discrepancy in your own maps, with your statement on supposed 'outer Manchuria' encompassing the border with North Korea while in the next map which still talks about outer Manchuria that territory suddenly shrunk(inner Manchuria back to Chinese hands as it currently is).
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I love your style of explaining current world affairs through geography. It makes it simple to understand and leaves all the political bias at the door.
It's oversimplified and biased. There are no signs of water shortage in China, but here it is told like thirsty Chinese are eager to kill Russians and die on Russian soils only to drink some water. In reality water is no expensive thing and I am pretty sure that it will be way easier for Chinese to buy any amount of water they need, than to take any aggressive steps and show every partner of China that China is no thrustworthy partner. This video is more of a wishful thinking with some pictures
i get that you mean they’re not talking about like issues that are contentious between the left and right wings of north american and democracies but just for the record, geographic determinism is in fact a political bias
one thing i have noticed watching these modern conflict videos is that the more these major contries strive for security in the event of conflict the more they bring about said conflict
"The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space." - Aleksei Leonov, Russian Cosmonaut
@@redsampler2017 Shapes of this type are called ellipsoids and many planets, including the Earth and Saturn, are oblate spheroids. The difference between a sphere and the Earth's shape is small, only about one part in 300. In other words, the Earth is a spheroid because it rotates. Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are flattened by rotation more than the Earth.
It can be difficult to step outside our perspective and interests and even harder still to see the whole board which is why I love these little nuggets. It’s one of the reasons I’ve become obsessed with understanding the dynamics of Central Asia, specifically how it pertains to water.
Please take note of joint naval exercises currently taking place in the Indian Ocean with involvement of both Russia & PRC alongside South Africa. Many believe that South Africa is heading toward civil war and see these naval exercises as an attempt the the ANC government (who's popularity has recently been in decline), to gain support from these superpowers in the event of civil war. Would be very interesting if you could do a video covering this issue
@@pierrecurie ruling ANC government is bleeding the country dry through corruption. The country is without electricity up to 10 hours per day due to indefinite rolling blackouts. Elections next year. Very unstable.
@@pierrecurie Apartheids over politically but still present economically. The same disparities that existed under apartheid exist now, only the ANC isn't a part of the solution anymore
@@pierrecurie Um... the situation in South Africa is not good, widespread corruption has really taken its toll on the nation, It has gotten so bad that now the nation is on track to becoming a failed state by the mid 2030s sadly.
In 1979 I was on an official UK government mission to China. Our hosts kept going on about reclaiming Siberia north of the Amur River. It wasn’t about a few islands in the river, but about Czarist Russia seizing eastern Siberia from China. Yes, there is a geopolitical deep tension between China and Russia.
China doesn't forget anything that happened in China, so being a Chinese can be emotionally tiring。 The Qing Dynasty enslaved the real Chinese people, and the Chinese people have to feel sorry for the downfall of the dynasty that enslaved them, and accompany him to be defeated by all his opponents, and swallow the humiliation together, it's hard, really。
@@yuejiang4601 Taiwan was never a separatist state. They are what remains of the Republic of China. It's effectively its own country, the "real china" so to speak.... 🤣👍
@@yuejiang4601 I don't think you could consider the CCP a dynasty though, they seem much different at an organizational, and ideological level. In any case it seems the war with the ROC hasn't really ended since WW2 and if they really wanted to they could invade quite easily. Only question left would be whats stopping them? 🤔
I would find it useful if you added a north arrow when you rotate the map. It gets really confusing seeing continents and small countries upside down when I take my off the screen for a second then try to reorient myself viewing these maps.
@@VVayVVard for map nerds like me it's no problem. Of course I don't take my eyes off the screen when he shows those maps. But I can see how other people might have a problem with it.
The problem here for the western world and the creator of the video is that they will always have the same interests. Also he forget that braking this relationship will isolate one of the nations on the global stage.
You know what’s interesting? My grandmothers husband (complicated relationship, look below) who is Latvian and was conscripted into the Russian army during our subjugation by the USSR, traveled quite far and wide. Learned quite a lot about Russia itself, all thanks to his conscription. Few years back we were chatting, on the topicsof world relations and geopolitics. The only thing I remember from that discussion was his dead look in my eye and saying “Russia is scared of China”. Apparently back in his day Russia genuinely knew it was the second rate power. And honestly? Kinda looks the same right now.
There was a well-known story following the collapse of the USSR, where an American General said that years earlier his Russian counterpart leaned over to him during one of those occasional American-Russian cold war conferences and said (I'm paraphrasing) that the US and Russia aren't really enemies and one day will be allies again but that China will be the enemy of both and they were the genuine threat to humanity. I recall hearing this story at least 25 years ago and heard it again through the years. If it is a genuinely accurate account of what happened, it will likely prove to be prophetic. China has never forgotten or forgiven Russia's theft of what is Outer Mongolia/Manchuria. I am certain that the Chinese leaders are looking to see a weakened Moscow.
I haven't gotten to the video yet, but - during the Nixon administration, Russia asked if we would mind if they nuked China. China makes 50 year plans - there is no way they have forgotten this. Also, Russia has a lot of natural resources and not many people for the amount of land they have. China has people, wants the resources, and is the far stronger partner. My prediction has been that in the next couple decades, there will be "joint development deals" in the Russian Far East, with China administrating the area. This will lead to a gradual hand over.
It's a very interesting thing that in this whole comprenehsive analysis of the region, Mongolia, sitting right in between the two countries, and more specifically exactly between China and Lake Baikal, is never mentioned.
Mongolia is very curious country. I've been wondering since forever how they keep both agressive neighbours from invading. Maybe because of harsh terrain and lack of valuable resources?
@@aidarosullivan5269 Russia protected Mongolian independence, but did not add them as a 16th SSR because they could dangle returning Mongolia to China as a diplomatic chip. Mongolia repeatedly asked to join the USSR and were told no. Now that Russia is so weak...?
China invading Outer Manchuria while Russia is weak would be insane, and the crazy thing is that I think they could easily get away with it. It's not like Russia has a long list of allies ready to jump to their aid right now.
@@Ajee02 "We are taking Outer Manchuria and we end it here here are our ethnic nationals after all" "But we got the noookies" "Pull the trigger piglet"
I love these videos because you make extensive use of beautiful graphically articulated maps. Count De Marenches, the former head of the French secret service, said that: “If you want to understand political motivation, you need to look at the map.” While I may not agree 100% with your interpretations, you do provide an excellent collection of important insights. Thank you.
You are absolutely right! PRC was against Soviet Union in the 60s and 70s, and was the biggest military force against it during the heights of cold war. You mentioned in the video that 1.5 million Chinese troops was stationed at outer manchuria, a total of 6 million Chinese troops was along the border at that time, mostly on the Mongolia side, because Beijing is so close to the border with plain field between.
@@skywolf2012 That's because they shared the same enemy (U.S) back then, and it does not change the fact that PRC and soviet union were at each other's throat in 60s and early 70s, until PRC changed course and sided with U.S against soviet union and Vietnam in 1979
During that period, the Kremlin asked the White House of what their reaction would be, if they attacked China with nuclear weapons. The USA said they disliked the idea and it ended there. So China and Russia don't have do much love for each other.
At around 11.30 mins, rail connections with China are mentioned. Beware, Russia and China use a different rail gauge, so transfers by rail are cumbersome and expensive - same problem with rail links between Russia and Western Europe. This is why Russia depends so much on ports such as Primorsk (Baltic) and, in the east, ports at the end of the Trans-Siberian and Baikal-Amur (BAM) rail lines.
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They do use different gauges, but gauge changing trains are 100% a thing, with more than one manufacturer making them for decades. You wouldn't bother with gauge changing trucks on a coal train, but for a passenger train or intermodal it makes the crossing more or less painless.
That and being predominantly upside down! Very poor layout and presentation decisions. The rest of the video's quality is high enough that I can only assume the map decisions were intentional! Absolutely terrible and should never have left the draft stage.
Maybe to present the information from China's and Russia's perspective. To me, for example ,it makes it more obvious why China may feel entrapped when the map is not presented with the north up. Anyways, directions of maps are arbitrary. We just took the idea of north being up from early civilizations.
The friendship agreement between Russia and China prompted me to think of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. They might be cooperating now, but there is no guarantee for now long that may last.
It's goona last till US exists which is likely forever anyway I read a English translation of a russian book which basically says that russian strategist are aware of the fact that china is a threat and they want to take control of lands to the persian gulf.
I strongly dislike the global hegemony of the United States of America (which now seems to fortunately be decreasing), but I dislike China even more than the United States of America. Instead of Russia temporarily teaming up with China to counter the United States of America, Russia should be temporarily teaming up with the United States of America to counter the most dangerous threat to BOTH the United States of America AND Russia in the long-term future and that threat is China. As flawed and hypocritical as America is, at least I can criticise America without being imprisoned or even executed in America. However, if I criticise China, I CAN be imprisoned or even executed in China. That's all the perspective I really need on this issue. I am not a fan of America, but at least America still contains a semblance of liberty and human rights. If China replaces America as the world's next sole superpower, the world will become even more nightmarishly bad than it already is because China will openly stomp out liberty and human rights from every part of the world to make life not worth living. America, Russia, India, the Republic of China (AKA Taiwan, which is the REAL China) and Japan should put their petty differences behind them to unite to counter China. That's priority number one. After China has been successfully countered, we can continue arguing over our petty differences.
I like how people only give ww2 example firat cuase they dont know anything else from history, second cuase they do not understand modern geopolitics, third cuase it sounds cool and ,,right" but its not.
@@penneyworth BECAUSE BIG AND LOUD IS WOW. When you read between the lines this channel aint much better than others. They repeat themselves saying the same thing in different ways as well, so often, someone REALLY paying attention hates it. This video specifically? It said a whole lotta nothin. Russia and China are allies because of similar interest and reasons. THAT WHAT TOOK THEM 32 mins to say. While their title is a fucking clickbait. Absolute shame.
@@penneyworth There is definitely a balance needed for it. On the opposite end of the spectrum we have channels who read the script so monotone that it's impossible to stay awake.
Thank you for always bringing high quality content. A few days ago, I was wondering about Ukraine's counter-attacks and strategy for year 2 so perfect timing. Once again, thank you for fueling my addiction of knowledge and history. Keeping the light of knowledge alive in an age of distractions and fake reality.
Ukraine have taken lands which Russians weren't able to defend because of complicated logistics (river crossings). So Russia did leave territories, but did save their soldiers, which it lacks of. In any other direction Ukrainians didn't succeed, as now we can clearly see in Bakhmut. Better be realistic.
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We'd love to see video for the Balkans - Serbia-Kosovo, Serbia-Croatia-Bosnia, Bulgaria-Macedonia, Romania-Hungary, Greece-Turkey. So much interesting and complicated conflicts.
The basic Balkan summary is Serbia as a bunch of assholes who believe they have the right to kill people for not being Serb. They complain when other people don’t let them get away with their genocide. soUnds liK anotheR nAItioN, Eh?
It's interesting seeing you flip the map so that it's useful from a russian or chinese perspective rather than the age old global perspective that we've seen forever.
china will never going to make friends with russia because russians are white people and while chinese people are asian, most east asian perceive white people as alien and thus they are not liking them
Imagine China’s and Russia’s embarrassment when they go to war over the Russian Far East only to have New Zealand sweep in with a Tourism victory while nobody’s looking.
HOLY COW was this video informative. We in the West do not hear enough about Asian geo-political interests. What we do hear, tends to be on the Pacific side, (which of course, impacts the US far more). Thanks for doing all this research and sharing in such a (relatively) simple to understand fashion.
I agree. I hate that when we study "World History," it's just Western History. I would love to learn about Africa, India, and even the 5,000 years of Chinese history.
In fact, we have a widespread opinion in Russia that China wants to take Siberia (rich in natural resources) for itself. Because the Russian empire took over vast Chinese territories in the far east in the early 20th century. Also, the Chinese are now secretly cut down wood in our forests.
Just wait until next month when Finland joins NATO who shares a border with Russia almost as long as Ukraine does with Russia Sweden who is right beside Finland is also set to join nato at the same time Finland does. After that happens NATO has Russias western front almost totally flanked if not for Belarus.
This channel is spreading that nato misinformation. China's actually trying to mediate peace between Ukraine and Russia, while the u.s wants more bldd and a longer war.
But he is so wrong it’s sickening. I’m no fan of Russia invading Ukraine, but I’m sorry, this interpretation of Ukraines “supposed” dominance makes him sound like a completely uninformed moron. It’s like he is getting all his information from CNN, which is nothing but CIA propaganda at this point. Anyone willing to open their eyes will soon begin to realize that the only reason Ukraine is still in the fight is because the US has been dumping 10s of billions on them. The US doesn’t give a fck about the future of Ukraine, they just want to bleed Russia for as long as possible, that’s why they’ve only ever given Ukraine just enough support to hold their head above water. When the US feels Russia has been sufficiently weakened, they will drop their support and buy up Ukraine and its resources for 10 cents on the dollar. In addition most of the US support has been in the form of “lend/lease,” so regardless of the outcome, Ukraine will be paying back their debt to the US for decades. In the meantime, Ukraine has suffered FAR more casualties then Russia, the losses on both sides is horrifying, but Ukraine’s losses are at least 4x that of Russia and they are simply running out of able bodied men that can fight at this point, Russia total available military manpower is estimated at 1,330,900 in 2023, they have no shortage of men that can fight. The US is just doing what they do best, fking over other countries for their own benefit and greed.
This video is a clever Russian Propaganda - he is always saying hat Russia needs territory to secure her borders, he never says this about Europe. Europe was invaded by Russia many times before. This is exactly what official Putin propaganda says for the last 12 years and this is how I know that this channel is payed by Kremlin. There are other red flags. ...
If you are an international relations student focusing on China, do you know if Indonesia is more of a Chinese ally, or not? I can't seem to get a good idea.
@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle David, I recommend making inquiries into some Journals such as China Quarterly or the magazine Foreign Policy. Even Wikipedia does a good job summarising things. But Indo tends to stick to its long standing non alignment policy and will likely continue to do so. Balancing both US and China. But if China pushes too hard in SCS, Indo might become more inclined against China, and I’m sure China is mindful of this.
@reallifelore once you rotate the maps during your presentations, it becomes difficult to maintain orientation. Pls keep maps north aligned so that maintaining geographical orientation remains easy for users. Thanks
Have u guys never looked at a map before? Do u believe europe is east of russia and china? Or that china is north of russia? Its really not that hard to follow when the map rotates
Yeah but India considers Russia an ally, because at one point Russia sided with India against China. So India is essentially trying to play both sides of the fence when it comes to Russia
There is no denying that if India were strong, Russia and the US would unite with China against India. Without the McMahon Line, China and India might be friends, but the West will not allow India and China to move towards a stable development opportunity together. China understood all this, so when the Cuban missile Crisis attacked India, let you calm down for decades, and we also exchanged for decades of peaceful development opportunities. So India should use the time of peace to find its own way instead of inheriting the system left behind by the colonists. Pirate culture is not suitable for great power civilization.
It’s basically Russia’s in the middle of the friend group, India’s holding onto Russia’s right arm and China’s holding onto Russia’s left arm while also giving each other death glances..
@@sonyjoseph5426same for India duh. Probably more beneficial for the international community when it comes to India because unlike China ; India is not a hostile threat
India played multiple sides back in the 1970's and 1980's in order to obtain benefits and concessions. Some people said they were almost like a bandit taking advantage of the USSR and the USA fears of each other.
Very interesting indeed and well researched. I spent most of my career working with maritime companies focused on the transportation of raw materials, mostly in the pulp, paper and metallic aluminum segments. I wrote a paper on Russia back in 2001 as a side document to a larger study on China. I used the phrase that Siberia represents a vast pantry for China right on its northern border containing all the resources China requires to fuel its economic growth, including future access to the Northeast Passage. Allow me to take issue with your use of rotating maps. It is confusing and makes it hard to follow your comments at the same time. For better or worse, we are all accustomed to see the world on a north-south axis
@@SunriseLAW but the US doesn't need a war to get those resources. China needed the Russian military gutted to take over Russia, and Ukraine did the job.
I liked the map rotation, because the aim was to show things from the Russian perspective, centred on Russia, not from on of our typical perspective (e.g. europe-based, mediterranean-based, atlantic based, etc). Also normal projections distort Russia too much. So something based on a globe works better. So it is never going to look like a map and also actually be realistic.
@@SunriseLAW Those damns make China pretty vulnerable. Anyone at war with them could hit those damns with missiles, killing 100's of millions of people, cutting China off from fresh water/power, all while destroying their ports down steam.
Just coming back from watching this on Nebula, but since I can only leave my comment here... I like your analysis a lot, but his one is simply brilliant. Thanks for educating me with such depth and comprehensible ways!
Another excellent video! I've learned more about foreign-affairs/geography/international history/politics than I ever did in school. Thank you for continuing to make these videos.
Actually this video is oversimplified and biased. There are no signs of water shortage in China, but here it is told like thirsty Chinese are eager to kill Russians and die on Russian soils only to drink some water. In reality water is no expensive thing and I am pretty sure that it will be way easier for Chinese to buy any amount of water they need, than to take any aggressive steps and show every partner of China that China is no thrustworthy partner. Same goes to oil. Russia already sells oil to China and Russia will be pretty happy to sell oil even with discount as long as China consumes big volumes of oil. This video is more of a wishful thinking with some pictures
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Thank you for this very informative, well written and obviously thoroughly researched piece of current military events. I learned a great deal and have liked and subscribed. Why can’t modern news media present current events such as this? Kudos, keep em coming! 🙏🇺🇸💪👊🤝
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This video is a clever Russian Propaganda - he is always saying hat Russia needs territory to secure her borders, he never says this about Europe. Europe was invaded by Russia many times before. This is exactly what official Putin propaganda says for the last 12 years and this is how I know that this channel is payed by Kremlin. There are other red flags. ,,,,;;;;;;;;
I am glad you mentioned the nations of Central Asia. Because ever since I’ve learned more about the belt and road initiative I have kept an eye on the former Soviet republics. I could reasonably see china gaining more and more influence there. And making them a new alliance along with Pakistan. Could be interesting.
Turkey is also silently working on winning them over, I say in 50 years it will be turkey and China fighting over Central Asia while Russia rots and plots like the old Ottoman Empire
The opening northern sea route was not mentioned in this video but that alone gives China an incredible incentive to extend its boarder north. This would immediately open up not only trade but also military defense and dramatically lessons the malacca dilemma.
Except, the video completely forgets about Russian nuclear stockpile, which is orders of magnitudes better than Chinese junks. That should be a deterrence to any Chinese aggression.
@@eliasziad7864 ,that is irrelevant, as Russia can only be invaded from the West, and during winter. All the militaries of the world, including 90% of the Russian military, couldn't defeat even 10% of the Russian military, while invading from the east. It's literally logistically impossible, without spending decades building uparmored fanboats and hovercrafts.
@@mosheshekelsteinspanbergbl5624 I think Mongolians did pretty good job invading from the east, and that was before all the modern equipment and knowledge of terrain... The land is sparsely populated and defending it is just as hard as attacking it, if not harder because of vast area that needs to be covered. The only difference is Russia would have so much time to react and would be practically unhurt if attack comes from east as opposed to west.
Russia didn't invade Crimea they were all ready there ( Black Sea port) after the US lead coup in 2014 the Russian speaking Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and Russia only invaded Eastern Ukraine in 2022 when the US allowed the Neo Nazi Western Ukrainians to kill 14000 Russian speaking Eastern Ukrainians since 2014 starting a civil war. This presentation leaves a lot of reality out the usual western lines of propaganda.
The... we in the west will get an existencial crisis conundrum 😂 "Russia is a threat!" We China will eliminate your problem, also Russia stole part of our lands, also we do this for yo and our interests. " We US will still agitate you, we are the best, how DARE you solve our problems even though we know you China wont bother go to war vs US waaaaaa!"
baltics were "soviet" for a couple of decades when the west and russia split lands occupied by germany after the war. Balts were there for 1000s of years
Report this channel please, This channel is 100 percent Russian Propaganda, Notice how is is always stating that "Russia needs to conquer as much territory as possible because they they were invaded by the West" This is absolute lies, Russia invaded West many times before, Russia is the imperialist aggressor. This channel is clever Russian propaganda
Everybody and their mother has weighed in on this already, but I LOVE Your rotating the map to fit the point of view of the nation being discussed. It's so simple, but it helps to take your viewers out of the mindset of their own country and switch lenses for a moment. Looking out on Europe from Russia's borders, with all of the natural lines of defense highlighted, I did feel vulnerable and exposed. Likewise with China looking out on the first island chain. On an ordinary map, I've always viewed these countries from the outside-in, despite being aware of some of these geopolitical concerns. Really, Eurasia and East Asia are surrounded by US client states, all potentially containing checks against Chinese and Russian nuclear deterrents.
Could not agree more. The orientation of the map is a great eye-opener. Mix in unprovoked attempted invasions from France (Napoleon) and Germany (Hitler), and you can understand Russia being more than a little nervous at the build up of, essentially, US power in Europe.
The key misunderstanding of "geopolitics" by people is that it is not NATO (USA) that is holding Russia back in the west, but China in the east. It is the neighboring countries of these imperial dictatorships that do not want to be swallowed up by them, therefore seek under the protection of the democratic USA. And the phrase "client states" is nothing more than a propaganda stamp.
Useful analysis. The only pending issue in this overview that is not discussed is how the demographic problem impinges on China and will become entirely defining in the next 50 years.
After the Second Opium War, Russia occupied more than 1.5 million square kilometers of territory in China, and instigated Mongolia's independence from China after the Second World War.
I am using Google Translate. There is an error in this video. The islands northeast of Hokkaido, Japan are Japanese territory. stipulated in the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951.
Just a reminder that the 9-Dash Line (11-Dash at first, now 10-Dash for PRC which envelopes Taiwan) was first published by the Republic of China. Taiwan/ROC still claims the South China Sea along with (Outer) Mongolia and Senkanku/Diaoyu Islands.
While your statement is true, this is an oversimplification of the situation in Taiwan. Taiwan has two main political parties. The current ruling party (which is pro US) does not lay claims to the South China Sea, Mongolia and Senkanku. However, the other main political party (which is pro China) does lay these claims. Since both parties have half of the support of the country, yes, Taiwan does claim said areas, but at the same time, Taiwan also does not claim such areas.
@@AwesomeNPro That's interesting. Are these published position documents by DPP leaders or simply statements to the press? What are DPP positions on Tibet and Xinjiang?
Wow, are all your videos this awesome? I’m gonna find out. Thank you so much. It took me three hours to watch this thing because I kept rewinding it because I was learning so much. I consider myself a pretty smart guy so yeah thank you so much.
Great video! I know that there is no up or down when talking about the glowe, but my brain was on 110% trying to find which way im looking at the maps 😂
Amazing informative video! I love the lenghty and detailed analysis. However the constant rotation of the maps or the switch to an already weirdly rotated map, genuinely gave me a headache. I am certain no one of the mentioned countries uses sideways rotated and stretched maps.
I feel the same. It is really irritating. It seems like the author is using scatterbrain method of narrating by always rotating the maps and not following the normal norm of North being up. Crazy!!!! Maybe he is taking metaampetamines that is why his mind and maps kept on rotating.
it is great because it leaves possible analysis results to you: unlike we were always been told, almost all of the diplomatic and political issues of the last years were lead by simple military thoughts (such as which paths tanks could come along in the case of a conflict) - from both sides, russia as well as nato - and the countries between are only a mere pawn for these two players (with the ukraine beeing the perfect example) between china and USA there is a similar game runnning since 70 years, but until now china was not stupid enough to overreact; let´s hope they keep this up.
Agreed. Gratuitous map rotation adds unnecessary complexity and detracts from the clarity of the narrative which is otherwise very well thought out. Better to stick with the conventional north-up orientation.
Never would I have thought that my home city of Khabarovsk would be mentioned in RealLifeLore video😅 To add to you - there were 2 treaties in 19th century - in 1858 and in 1860 to get the territories that are now the Russian Far East. And Khabarovsk was built in 1858 right after the treaty, but was actually not on the Russian territory (it is on the left side of the Amur river, but in 1858 only the right side of Amur was Russian), and became legal only in 1860, 2 years after establishment
@@IllkaPaananen That's actually very interesting thank you! I wouldn't ever have managed that especially after the 2000s countries would still freely exchange territories. Even if the country is as huge as Russia
Don't forget the Lumber supplies and taking Vladivostok. China has had a claim on Vladivostok for years. More so if they take north Eastern Siberian they gain a degree of control over the Barents sea and a foothold in the arctic.
@@Cheesecake99YearsAgo The problem with that idea is that it itself makes you inherently rely on a foreign entity that may or may not have your best interest at heart. The possibility of you for example building an industry that requires something you don't have but need increases with the more instances of this that exist at any given time. An example, oil. OPEC nations have on multiple occasions in the past exploited this resource scarcity to try and achieve their goals by cutting off those opposed to them or shutting the tap when it benefits them. Russia during the most recent war attempted to freeze out Europe while China has speculated on things like rare earth mineral export bans to try and crush various western industries. The point being that China is going to look a the concept of, we could buy it but 40 years from now we could get fucked over or we could directly control this resource eliminating the middle man and saving us the taxes ad tariffs that are often used during said trade. Example Egypt, their water supply relies on Ethiopia allowing the Nile to flow. Ethiopia has dammed the Nile river, something that downstream nations have called an act of war. A scenario in which a nations survival relies on the good will of a foreign entity that could be avoided by direct control.
@altairsync China is an enemy idk what you are smoking. They can fix things if they release claims on the South China Sea and walk back their threats of attack on Taiwan. They are building up military forces for war ao idk whst you're smoking, but give me some.
I find the map rotations very helpful. It allows your brain to really see the topographical issues when they're not presented in the cliche north-south alignment that we take for granted.
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Nebula is becoming a kind of certification mark for quality video channels. This is the first video I see from this channel, but participating in nebula made me watch the video.
@@jannetteberends8730 all these platforms are founded by the bill and Melinda gates foundation. There is a reason why all these educational UA-camrs have the same sponsors, watch "How Kurzgesagt Cooks Propaganda For Billionaires" maybe that explains it better than me. I still enjoy kurzgesagt and this channel btw, I just take their information with a grain of salt, since their information are usually a bit biased
Zeihan says a lot of things. people predicted that Chinese people would colonize eastern Russia by large immigration numbers. didn't happen. in fact, Chinese people are leaving the north and moving south. Zeihan also predicted China's economic collapse would happen in the 2010s. didn't happen. he did change the date to 2030 though.
@@donderstorm1845 For about the past two decades, shopping malls, apartment complexes and manufacturing complexes that are being built in Eastern, i.e., "Asian" Russia have been primarily financed by China...in reality the PLA who owns part of every business in China! Depending how Putin's War ends, it's likely that China will just annex most of Eastern Russia, and there is little which an aging, dying and BROKE Russia will be able to do about it!
There's almost no other channel that explains this angle of these stories and global chess plays. Almost every other channel that pretends to be neutral actually doesn't fully go through it like this channel. It's amazing. It makes it so clear what's really going on and why. While on TV and Reddit and other places, people just yell as loud as possible about the most basic & black and white way of viewing things.
I rarely watch youtubers like him anymore. He repeats topics so so often. Hes an expert in talking but not actually giving any new information. This 36 minute video could be told in 10 minutes and you’d know just as much
he has a lot of false statements in this video and also repeats russian and chinese propaganda about claiming those lands, I bet he was paid to make this video.
people on reddit live in a cartoon world like their favorite marvel movies. good and bad doesn't exist in geopolitics, only sides that work in their own interests. the respective propaganda paints one or the other as 'good' or 'evil'
I think both Russia and China also were aware that the current closed relation is based on the mutual competitor and benefit. This is mature attitude to world reality.
Amazing video! But I am curious as to why recently you have pivoted on showing maps rotated (i.e. not always keeping north up) Sometimes it is difficult to understand the map but also interesting and want to know what made u take this choice
Showing China from its side helped show the long front line if you will. Couple that with the overwhelming manpower advantage China has, it made for an effective illustration I think.
@@markwalker8374 why do you have to mentally invert it? I just recognise it and listen to what he's saying. I think it kind of gives you a sense of looking from out that countries perspective.
@@InnocenceExperience i don't think anyone looks 'out' from the centre of their country in a rotating perspective when reading a map. If you want to see how things look from a country's perspective just look at all the official maps they use in the country. They are almost always bog standard north-up orientation.
This is true, the largest losses of life have been in China over the millennia Heck the Chinese cultural revolution was more deadly in loss of life then the entire Russian losses in WW2, and remember Russia lost a whopping 20 million during that conflict
I’d MUCH rather get UA-cam out of Google’s hands than open yet another streaming subscription w whoever owns Nebula, but your stats/editorial ratio is SO good.
Every video I post here on UA-cam goes up early and without any ads on Nebula, while I also have dozens of exclusive videos over there you can go and watch right now in my Modern Conflicts series, including this video's companion video detailing the Ukrainian counter-offensives last fall in depth. It's only $2.50/month with the annual plan when you use my link and discount here: nebula.tv/reallifelore
Why did you delete the video about Scotland?
china is unlikely to make friends with russia because they are white people and for them, they cannot be trusted, china also sees russia as a western country because of being white people
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Please leave out the flashing lights in between the cuts. Thank you.
I always saw the Russian-Chinese "alliance" as the definition of "there are no allies, only common interests".
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
And both side are fully aware of that.
@rundown132 more like "The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy."
And NATO isn't?
This is clearly propaganda I hope the viewers don’t fall for it
I got a sudden chill when you started talking about water scarcity and how conflicts may arise from it. The saying that my parents used to say that "one day, there will be a war for water" is beginning to come into fruition.
It's a natural resource, just like everything else humanity has fought over since the dawn of time.
Any resource will eventuality be fought over, Sadly more and more wars that are related to resources will very likely happen
Water will never be scarce. The Middle East can literally filter ocean water
@@kyrierose170 very expensive technology. when they get the price cut down yeah that will be a game changer
Isn't the population going down in developed countries so demand will decrease
Since Russia invaded Ukraine I've always thought it was a great opportunity for China to overtake valuable lands to their north.
Russia does still have nuclear weapons and an official doctrine to use them if the territorial integrity of the nation is threatened. And I am sure Soviet planners during the cold war did take into consideration that the Chinese border could be threatened as well.
The rewards would be huge, but the gamble is unpredictable.
The nukes will make it impossible.
And if it wasn’t for the nukes, the threat of the west makes them Allies.
Where specifically? Like the Japanese islands occupied by Russia?
I don't know why people would even think that China would invade it's only major ally who's not only a regional power but also the principal enemy of it's rival.
It would be like the US attacking the UK during ww2 just to conquer Canada.
Most of north east russia up to the amur river was taken from China in the 1800s by russia....
Thanks!
Welcome
I am Mongolian, the friendship between Russia and China is beneficial for us, but it also brings danger.
I have talked to Chinese people who say that Mongolia is part of China.
@@franciscosaldana2879 Correct I think so.
@@franciscosaldana2879 it's belong to us.
@@franciscosaldana2879
Mongolian Empire once ruled Russian and China, now Chinese claim it's part of China. So ironic.
@@charleshoang566 Mongolia belonging to you is as justified as much as the US belongs to the UK
If not less
Just a small correction, the territory ceded by China to Russia in 1858 was Manchuria in its entirety not just Outer Manchuria. Inner Manchuria was eventually returned to China while Outer Manchuria remained in Russian hands and is where the port city of Vladivostok is located. You can see this discrepancy in your own maps, with your statement on supposed 'outer Manchuria' encompassing the border with North Korea while in the next map which still talks about outer Manchuria that territory suddenly shrunk(inner Manchuria back to Chinese hands as it currently is).
Well spotted, I thought there was something off there.
Thanks for pointing it out
我们失去，总有一天会夺回来。当我们和俄罗斯失去共同利益时，就是要算账的时候，我们永远记着，谁是抢夺了中国领土最多的国家。
You fail at trying to act smart. It was just Outer Manchuria hence why most maps, outside this channel's you like, show Inner Manchuria as Chinese.
Come on! Give this piece of US propaganda a break. Its mission is not accuracy, but brainwashing gullible, naive Americans.
"No nation has friends, only interests." - French President Charles de Gaulle
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"Being an enemy of the US is dangerous, being their friend is lethal." - Kissinger, right around the same time
Nordstream....perfect example.
That is because Gaulle was an amoral twat.
Thanks
It would have been great if you talked about the impact of having Mongolia right between China and Russia in this.
Mongolia is not important .
those guys must feel like the meat in a sandwich
Nah Mongolia feel like they should own both China and Russia.
@@Zenovarse Haha good comment 😁 but time of horse nomads are gone long time ago
@@davexorus9836 even to this day there are nomad herders in Mongolia. But sadly the days of being able to conquer cities on horseback is long gone.
I love your style of explaining current world affairs through geography. It makes it simple to understand and leaves all the political bias at the door.
geopolitics is all about that map and resource control, so the only way to really understand it is by looking at the map and terrain
It's oversimplified and biased. There are no signs of water shortage in China, but here it is told like thirsty Chinese are eager to kill Russians and die on Russian soils only to drink some water. In reality water is no expensive thing and I am pretty sure that it will be way easier for Chinese to buy any amount of water they need, than to take any aggressive steps and show every partner of China that China is no thrustworthy partner. This video is more of a wishful thinking with some pictures
Geography is Destiny. (It is my saying for everything).
i get that you mean they’re not talking about like issues that are contentious between the left and right wings of north american and democracies but just for the record, geographic determinism is in fact a political bias
north american and european democracies*
Just signed up to Nebula. Your content is just too well done to do otherwise. Thanks!
Amazing, thank you!
Thank you Chinese soldier @RealLifeLore
@@RealLifeLoreyou take these "dontaions" how can you be trusted?
one thing i have noticed watching these modern conflict videos is that the more these major contries strive for security in the event of conflict the more they bring about said conflict
"The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space."
- Aleksei Leonov, Russian Cosmonaut
Very pretty. Now get the hell out of Ukraine.
oblate spheroid (pearshaped) according to neil degrass tyson.🤭
Boycott xina
@@redsampler2017 Shapes of this type are called ellipsoids and many planets, including the Earth and Saturn, are oblate spheroids. The difference between a sphere and the Earth's shape is small, only about one part in 300.
In other words, the Earth is a spheroid because it rotates. Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are flattened by rotation more than the Earth.
@@bits_for_bytes impossible...the world's "stuff" is in china...
Thanks for this! It's good to see the perspectives of other nation states and the geopolitical history laid out in very easy to digest ways.
I knoww
It can be difficult to step outside our perspective and interests and even harder still to see the whole board which is why I love these little nuggets. It’s one of the reasons I’ve become obsessed with understanding the dynamics of Central Asia, specifically how it pertains to water.
lol. You know the guy is American right?
@@James7995 Imagine how impressed you'll be when you hear from an actual Central Asian person!
@@SteveSherman-tf7df Wrong most Americans Don't give a fuk about Rssia.
Please take note of joint naval exercises currently taking place in the Indian Ocean with involvement of both Russia & PRC alongside South Africa. Many believe that South Africa is heading toward civil war and see these naval exercises as an attempt the the ANC government (who's popularity has recently been in decline), to gain support from these superpowers in the event of civil war. Would be very interesting if you could do a video covering this issue
What happened in South Africa? Isn't apartheid over?
@@pierrecurie ruling ANC government is bleeding the country dry through corruption. The country is without electricity up to 10 hours per day due to indefinite rolling blackouts. Elections next year. Very unstable.
@@pierrecurie Apartheids over politically but still present economically. The same disparities that existed under apartheid exist now, only the ANC isn't a part of the solution anymore
@@pierrecurie Um... the situation in South Africa is not good, widespread corruption has really taken its toll on the nation, It has gotten so bad that now the nation is on track to becoming a failed state by the mid 2030s sadly.
@@pierrecurie
Blacks’ policies are pushing whites to potentially break away and form their own nation.
In 1979 I was on an official UK government mission to China. Our hosts kept going on about reclaiming Siberia north of the Amur River. It wasn’t about a few islands in the river, but about Czarist Russia seizing eastern Siberia from China. Yes, there is a geopolitical deep tension between China and Russia.
China doesn't forget anything that happened in China, so being a Chinese can be emotionally tiring。
The Qing Dynasty enslaved the real Chinese people, and the Chinese people have to feel sorry for the downfall of the dynasty that enslaved them, and accompany him to be defeated by all his opponents, and swallow the humiliation together, it's hard, really。
China and Russia are now in the honeymoon period. The most important thing at the moment is to prevent Taiwan from separatist behavior.
@@yuejiang4601 Taiwan was never a separatist state. They are what remains of the Republic of China. It's effectively its own country, the "real china" so to speak.... 🤣👍
@ MarcABrown-tt 1fp Every dynasty in China will have separatist forces, but they will eventually be unified.
@@yuejiang4601 I don't think you could consider the CCP a dynasty though, they seem much different at an organizational, and ideological level. In any case it seems the war with the ROC hasn't really ended since WW2 and if they really wanted to they could invade quite easily. Only question left would be whats stopping them? 🤔
I would find it useful if you added a north arrow when you rotate the map. It gets really confusing seeing continents and small countries upside down when I take my off the screen for a second then try to reorient myself viewing these maps.
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Agreed. It's very useful to see it from those other perspectives too, but does get disorienting
I prefer the cleaner current look. I guess you get used to shifts in perspective if you play long enough with Google Earth.
Bad how annoying is it, what’s the point of flipping the map on its head anyway
@@VVayVVard for map nerds like me it's no problem. Of course I don't take my eyes off the screen when he shows those maps. But I can see how other people might have a problem with it.
Literally applying the concept of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" until they no longer have a common enemy
That’s wrong… we indian say “ neighbor of your neighbour is your long term ally” look t Russia India Iran… 🤣🤣
@@akp3097 but Iran is Muslim?
@@user-op8fg3ny3j but they are an ally
The problem here for the western world and the creator of the video is that they will always have the same interests.
Also he forget that braking this relationship will isolate one of the nations on the global stage.
Humanity in its entire history in a nutshell.
Great video, but I can't get over the fact you use a Mercator's Projection map, which makes Russia comically large in comparison with China.
What about the constant spinning of the maps throughout the video?
@@midnightcdc It's SO ANNOYING.
He should just use a globe like Caspian Report. Much better to look at imo.
@@midnightcdc it’s nauseating
@@midnightcdc the map is spun to illustrate the country's perspective
Your videos are amazingly good. I learn so much from them. Thank you.
You know what’s interesting?
My grandmothers husband (complicated relationship, look below) who is Latvian and was conscripted into the Russian army during our subjugation by the USSR, traveled quite far and wide. Learned quite a lot about Russia itself, all thanks to his conscription.
Few years back we were chatting, on the topicsof world relations and geopolitics. The only thing I remember from that discussion was his dead look in my eye and saying “Russia is scared of China”. Apparently back in his day Russia genuinely knew it was the second rate power. And honestly? Kinda looks the same right now.
Good for him for not being a German at least
China is a non aligned country
Without using Nuclear, Russia cannot win China
There was a well-known story following the collapse of the USSR, where an American General said that years earlier his Russian counterpart leaned over to him during one of those occasional American-Russian cold war conferences and said (I'm paraphrasing) that the US and Russia aren't really enemies and one day will be allies again but that China will be the enemy of both and they were the genuine threat to humanity. I recall hearing this story at least 25 years ago and heard it again through the years. If it is a genuinely accurate account of what happened, it will likely prove to be prophetic. China has never forgotten or forgiven Russia's theft of what is Outer Mongolia/Manchuria. I am certain that the Chinese leaders are looking to see a weakened Moscow.
I haven't gotten to the video yet, but - during the Nixon administration, Russia asked if we would mind if they nuked China.
China makes 50 year plans - there is no way they have forgotten this.
Also, Russia has a lot of natural resources and not many people for the amount of land they have. China has people, wants the resources, and is the far stronger partner.
My prediction has been that in the next couple decades, there will be "joint development deals" in the Russian Far East, with China administrating the area. This will lead to a gradual hand over.
It's a very interesting thing that in this whole comprenehsive analysis of the region, Mongolia, sitting right in between the two countries, and more specifically exactly between China and Lake Baikal, is never mentioned.
Because the video is about the borders they already share.
@F L mongolia is a satellite state of USSR and still a close ally of russia today, you can simply consider this country russia
a country with 3 million population cant do much resistant, unless fast increase of population and very high support from outside powers like US
Mongolia is very curious country. I've been wondering since forever how they keep both agressive neighbours from invading. Maybe because of harsh terrain and lack of valuable resources?
@@aidarosullivan5269 Russia protected Mongolian independence, but did not add them as a 16th SSR because they could dangle returning Mongolia to China as a diplomatic chip. Mongolia repeatedly asked to join the USSR and were told no.
Now that Russia is so weak...?
China invading Outer Manchuria while Russia is weak would be insane, and the crazy thing is that I think they could easily get away with it. It's not like Russia has a long list of allies ready to jump to their aid right now.
The only way they could do anything would be to press the "turn humanity back to the stone age" bottom
Nobody invades Russia, it has nuclear weapon hello
That's just not how the game works with nuclear capable countries
@@Ajee02 "We are taking Outer Manchuria and we end it here here are our ethnic nationals after all"
"But we got the noookies"
"Pull the trigger piglet"
This video makes no sense why would 2 bricks countries invade each other, China wants Taiwan
Great explanation! Great content. Understanding this is necessary
for what
@@voidpasklfd1 don’t you know?
even if u are an "expert" at this, theres absolutely nothing u can do to influence it in any way@@djowsvideos
I love these videos because you make extensive use of beautiful graphically articulated maps. Count De Marenches, the former head of the French secret service, said that: “If you want to understand political motivation, you need to look at the map.” While I may not agree 100% with your interpretations, you do provide an excellent collection of important insights. Thank you.
I want to be an IAS officers video like this have given me confidence for speaking for a brighter India.
I like the presentation, but the constant map rotation is disconcerting; better to leave it aligned to the north and just pan or zoom.
wayyyyy too many commercials!
people of european descend are a threat to human nature, not China
You are absolutely right! PRC was against Soviet Union in the 60s and 70s, and was the biggest military force against it during the heights of cold war. You mentioned in the video that 1.5 million Chinese troops was stationed at outer manchuria, a total of 6 million Chinese troops was along the border at that time, mostly on the Mongolia side, because Beijing is so close to the border with plain field between.
England and france where enemies many times through out history many times. Yet for the last 100 years they are close allies
@@wm4934 Weird time line we live in…
Not entirely, Russia shipped AK 47S to Vietnam through China ,ask our vets
@@skywolf2012 That's because they shared the same enemy (U.S) back then, and it does not change the fact that PRC and soviet union were at each other's throat in 60s and early 70s, until PRC changed course and sided with U.S against soviet union and Vietnam in 1979
During that period, the Kremlin asked the White House of what their reaction would be, if they attacked China with nuclear weapons. The USA said they disliked the idea and it ended there. So China and Russia don't have do much love for each other.
At around 11.30 mins, rail connections with China are mentioned. Beware, Russia and China use a different rail gauge, so transfers by rail are cumbersome and expensive - same problem with rail links between Russia and Western Europe. This is why Russia depends so much on ports such as Primorsk (Baltic) and, in the east, ports at the end of the Trans-Siberian and Baikal-Amur (BAM) rail lines.
We're grateful to Putin for contribution to development of great China!
after his cleansing of Russian people, Russia will be hopeful frontier for Chinese to civilize. So many people will enjoy Beautiful ski slopes and luxury resort hotels. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
They do use different gauges, but gauge changing trains are 100% a thing, with more than one manufacturer making them for decades. You wouldn't bother with gauge changing trucks on a coal train, but for a passenger train or intermodal it makes the crossing more or less painless.
Why is the video rotating so much? It makes the maps very hard to follow.
That and being predominantly upside down! Very poor layout and presentation decisions. The rest of the video's quality is high enough that I can only assume the map decisions were intentional! Absolutely terrible and should never have left the draft stage.
Horrible... It gives me nausea
Maybe to present the information from China's and Russia's perspective. To me, for example ,it makes it more obvious why China may feel entrapped when the map is not presented with the north up. Anyways, directions of maps are arbitrary. We just took the idea of north being up from early civilizations.
@@josegutierrez2328 🤦🏻♂️
The friendship agreement between Russia and China prompted me to think of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. They might be cooperating now, but there is no guarantee for now long that may last.
It's goona last till US exists which is likely forever anyway I read a English translation of a russian book which basically says that russian strategist are aware of the fact that china is a threat and they want to take control of lands to the persian gulf.
I strongly dislike the global hegemony of the United States of America (which now seems to fortunately be decreasing), but I dislike China even more than the United States of America. Instead of Russia temporarily teaming up with China to counter the United States of America, Russia should be temporarily teaming up with the United States of America to counter the most dangerous threat to BOTH the United States of America AND Russia in the long-term future and that threat is China. As flawed and hypocritical as America is, at least I can criticise America without being imprisoned or even executed in America. However, if I criticise China, I CAN be imprisoned or even executed in China. That's all the perspective I really need on this issue. I am not a fan of America, but at least America still contains a semblance of liberty and human rights. If China replaces America as the world's next sole superpower, the world will become even more nightmarishly bad than it already is because China will openly stomp out liberty and human rights from every part of the world to make life not worth living. America, Russia, India, the Republic of China (AKA Taiwan, which is the REAL China) and Japan should put their petty differences behind them to unite to counter China. That's priority number one. After China has been successfully countered, we can continue arguing over our petty differences.
I like how people only give ww2 example firat cuase they dont know anything else from history, second cuase they do not understand modern geopolitics, third cuase it sounds cool and ,,right" but its not.
I mean if they divide mongolia and central asia amongst themselves sure - otherwise this alliance has nothing to do with molotov Ribbentrop
Same as the support the US and EU are giving to Ukraine. Plenty of cases when after a while the States or the EU got tired of their commitments...
That was a great video👍 I especially love the fact that it had a hell of a lot less overemphasizing of every third word
Agree 1000000%
I always wonder if I'm the only one annoyed by the constant overemphasizing of words, especially numbers.
@@penneyworth
BECAUSE BIG AND LOUD IS WOW. When you read between the lines this channel aint much better than others. They repeat themselves saying the same thing in different ways as well, so often, someone REALLY paying attention hates it. This video specifically? It said a whole lotta nothin. Russia and China are allies because of similar interest and reasons. THAT WHAT TOOK THEM 32 mins to say. While their title is a fucking clickbait. Absolute shame.
@@penneyworth There is definitely a balance needed for it. On the opposite end of the spectrum we have channels who read the script so monotone that it's impossible to stay awake.
@@SuperCatacata You're absolutely right.
@@SuperCatacata true, but this guy was really overdoing it
Thank you for always bringing high quality content. A few days ago, I was wondering about Ukraine's counter-attacks and strategy for year 2 so perfect timing. Once again, thank you for fueling my addiction of knowledge and history. Keeping the light of knowledge alive in an age of distractions and fake reality.
Ukraine have taken lands which Russians weren't able to defend because of complicated logistics (river crossings). So Russia did leave territories, but did save their soldiers, which it lacks of. In any other direction Ukrainians didn't succeed, as now we can clearly see in Bakhmut. Better be realistic.
NATO failed so bad! Now they (you) turned to disunite China and Russia! 😂
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@@vinvin1082 nato failing so hard Russia pooped their pants to stop them from getting closer
@@indiasuperclean6969 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
The second I saw CIV6 icons I was like heck yeah. Love this!! Don’t know why I’m so pumped about that but I am
We'd love to see video for the Balkans - Serbia-Kosovo, Serbia-Croatia-Bosnia, Bulgaria-Macedonia, Romania-Hungary, Greece-Turkey. So much interesting and complicated conflicts.
The basic Balkan summary is Serbia as a bunch of assholes who believe they have the right to kill people for not being Serb. They complain when other people don’t let them get away with their genocide. soUnds liK anotheR nAItioN, Eh?
Not to forget the age-old Denmark-Sweden "situation" 😁
There was already a video on Turkish/Greek conflict (possibly it is on Nebula, if not on YT)
conflicts arent interesting. solving of conflicts through peaceful means is interesting.
Tack mina vänner jag ska hjälpa er
It's interesting seeing you flip the map so that it's useful from a russian or chinese perspective rather than the age old global perspective that we've seen forever.
It's annoying.
Does Russia use world maps that are upside down just to be different or something? I agree with Alex, it's annoying.
I love it ❤
It's wonderful, really helps you understand a different perspective.
i hate it
I liked the civilization resource icons. Great job on the informative video!
china will never going to make friends with russia because russians are white people and while chinese people are asian, most east asian perceive white people as alien and thus they are not liking them
Imagine China’s and Russia’s embarrassment when they go to war over the Russian Far East only to have New Zealand sweep in with a Tourism victory while nobody’s looking.
@@BlueSunHiredGun new zealand and south america is probably the safest nations in WW3.
Wait till the chinese decide they should not have to pay for that oil.
Russia is far more powerful than China 🙄
ant u a smart boy with a big big brain
😊how about get east siberia back rather than cost billions to buy oil every year from russia😅
HOLY COW was this video informative. We in the West do not hear enough about Asian geo-political interests. What we do hear, tends to be on the Pacific side, (which of course, impacts the US far more). Thanks for doing all this research and sharing in such a (relatively) simple to understand fashion.
I agree. I hate that when we study "World History," it's just Western History. I would love to learn about Africa, India, and even the 5,000 years of Chinese history.
As usual evil crooked cunning lies and propaganda .
In fact, we have a widespread opinion in Russia that China wants to take Siberia (rich in natural resources) for itself. Because the Russian empire took over vast Chinese territories in the far east in the early 20th century. Also, the Chinese are now secretly cut down wood in our forests.
Just wait until next month when Finland joins NATO who shares a border with Russia almost as long as Ukraine does with Russia Sweden who is right beside Finland is also set to join nato at the same time Finland does. After that happens NATO has Russias western front almost totally flanked if not for Belarus.
This channel is spreading that nato misinformation. China's actually trying to mediate peace between Ukraine and Russia, while the u.s wants more bldd and a longer war.
I'm binging on a lot of geopolitics videos since the last year and I got to say, this one is really brilliant. Very insightful
From the Western point of view😂
Same man , I just got bored of tv series and anime so I started geopolitics
But he is so wrong it’s sickening. I’m no fan of Russia invading Ukraine, but I’m sorry, this interpretation of Ukraines “supposed” dominance makes him sound like a completely uninformed moron. It’s like he is getting all his information from CNN, which is nothing but CIA propaganda at this point.
Anyone willing to open their eyes will soon begin to realize that the only reason Ukraine is still in the fight is because the US has been dumping 10s of billions on them. The US doesn’t give a fck about the future of Ukraine, they just want to bleed Russia for as long as possible, that’s why they’ve only ever given Ukraine just enough support to hold their head above water. When the US feels Russia has been sufficiently weakened, they will drop their support and buy up Ukraine and its resources for 10 cents on the dollar. In addition most of the US support has been in the form of “lend/lease,” so regardless of the outcome, Ukraine will be paying back their debt to the US for decades.
In the meantime, Ukraine has suffered FAR more casualties then Russia, the losses on both sides is horrifying, but Ukraine’s losses are at least 4x that of Russia and they are simply running out of able bodied men that can fight at this point, Russia total available military manpower is estimated at 1,330,900 in 2023, they have no shortage of men that can fight.
The US is just doing what they do best, fking over other countries for their own benefit and greed.
This video is a clever Russian Propaganda - he is always saying hat Russia needs territory to secure her borders, he never says this about Europe. Europe was invaded by Russia many times before. This is exactly what official Putin propaganda says for the last 12 years and this is how I know that this channel is payed by Kremlin. There are other red flags. ...
@@wm4934 this video is fine. It isn't biased and at least talks about everyone's POV instead of saying "russia bad" or "usa bad"' or "china bad"
As an IR student focusing on China, this is the best video you’ve ever made! Very well researched and you’ve captured a lot of the nuance
Did you meant international relations
If you are an international relations student focusing on China, do you know if Indonesia is more of a Chinese ally, or not? I can't seem to get a good idea.
Also, I hope you know the issue across the Straight and the SCS, and also the BRI.
@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle David, I recommend making inquiries into some Journals such as China Quarterly or the magazine Foreign Policy. Even Wikipedia does a good job summarising things. But Indo tends to stick to its long standing non alignment policy and will likely continue to do so. Balancing both US and China. But if China pushes too hard in SCS, Indo might become more inclined against China, and I’m sure China is mindful of this.
@@kaylenscurrah5435 👍
@reallifelore once you rotate the maps during your presentations, it becomes difficult to maintain orientation. Pls keep maps north aligned so that maintaining geographical orientation remains easy for users.
Thanks
Agree. The constant rotation is an unfortunate problem.
I had to lock my phone and rotate it upside down from 7:56 to 9:17
Have u guys never looked at a map before? Do u believe europe is east of russia and china? Or that china is north of russia? Its really not that hard to follow when the map rotates
There are only four (main) directions on a rectangular map, it’s not that deep.
Yeah but India considers Russia an ally, because at one point Russia sided with India against China. So India is essentially trying to play both sides of the fence when it comes to Russia
There is no denying that if India were strong, Russia and the US would unite with China against India. Without the McMahon Line, China and India might be friends, but the West will not allow India and China to move towards a stable development opportunity together. China understood all this, so when the Cuban missile Crisis attacked India, let you calm down for decades, and we also exchanged for decades of peaceful development opportunities. So India should use the time of peace to find its own way instead of inheriting the system left behind by the colonists. Pirate culture is not suitable for great power civilization.
That geopolitics strategy is working for china , for now . Cheap oil , fertilizers , gas without upsetting usa , europe , china , russia
It’s basically Russia’s in the middle of the friend group, India’s holding onto Russia’s right arm and China’s holding onto Russia’s left arm while also giving each other death glances..
@@sonyjoseph5426same for India duh. Probably more beneficial for the international community when it comes to India because unlike China ; India is not a hostile threat
India played multiple sides back in the 1970's and 1980's in order to obtain benefits and concessions. Some people said they were almost like a bandit taking advantage of the USSR and the USA fears of each other.
"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."
-Albert Einstein.
@bringer ash what comes first? The chicken or the egg. You’re both wrong
"In other words, as long as my tribe can manipulate nations to war, we will." - Albert "I urged the building of the A bomb!" Einstein
@@doorman5966 you actual dumbass please do tell how did Jewish people spur on the wars of the Bronze Age or even the fucking gulf war.
Said the jewish globalist cabal narrator.
-coming from a mf that helped develop nuclear weapons 💀
Very interesting indeed and well researched. I spent most of my career working with maritime companies focused on the transportation of raw materials, mostly in the pulp, paper and metallic aluminum segments. I wrote a paper on Russia back in 2001 as a side document to a larger study on China. I used the phrase that Siberia represents a vast pantry for China right on its northern border containing all the resources China requires to fuel its economic growth, including future access to the Northeast Passage. Allow me to take issue with your use of rotating maps. It is confusing and makes it hard to follow your comments at the same time. For better or worse, we are all accustomed to see the world on a north-south axis
@@SunriseLAW A very apt comparison. Canada was indeed referred to years ago as; Hewers of wood and carriers of water.
The map rotating around definitely took away from an otherwise good video 😵💫
@@SunriseLAW but the US doesn't need a war to get those resources.
China needed the Russian military gutted to take over Russia, and Ukraine did the job.
I liked the map rotation, because the aim was to show things from the Russian perspective, centred on Russia, not from on of our typical perspective (e.g. europe-based, mediterranean-based, atlantic based, etc). Also normal projections distort Russia too much. So something based on a globe works better. So it is never going to look like a map and also actually be realistic.
@@SunriseLAW Those damns make China pretty vulnerable. Anyone at war with them could hit those damns with missiles, killing 100's of millions of people, cutting China off from fresh water/power, all while destroying their ports down steam.
Thanks for the video MUGA
Just coming back from watching this on Nebula, but since I can only leave my comment here...
I like your analysis a lot, but his one is simply brilliant. Thanks for educating me with such depth and comprehensible ways!
Another excellent video! I've learned more about foreign-affairs/geography/international history/politics than I ever did in school. Thank you for continuing to make these videos.
Actually this video is oversimplified and biased. There are no signs of water shortage in China, but here it is told like thirsty Chinese are eager to kill Russians and die on Russian soils only to drink some water. In reality water is no expensive thing and I am pretty sure that it will be way easier for Chinese to buy any amount of water they need, than to take any aggressive steps and show every partner of China that China is no thrustworthy partner.
Same goes to oil. Russia already sells oil to China and Russia will be pretty happy to sell oil even with discount as long as China consumes big volumes of oil. This video is more of a wishful thinking with some pictures
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Unfortunately we learn almost nothing in school.
As a history teacher, I have to say I’m very impressed by this rather historically accurate educational video. 👍
Except of the part where he says russia gets invaded a lot when its russia who invades a lof
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*WW1,WW2,Crimean war, Napoleonic wars, Polish invasion of moscovy Russia Mongol invasion of moscovites left the chat*
@@it.is.mario.and 1919 when everyone had a go.
I thought this was a good educational video until minute 32, when pure western propaganda came to light.
The un returnable part of hong kong has left the chat
Thank you for this very informative, well written and obviously thoroughly researched piece of current military events. I learned a great deal and have liked and subscribed. Why can’t modern news media present current events such as this? Kudos, keep em coming! 🙏🇺🇸💪👊🤝
Very well made video! Well researched and nicely edited
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@@indiasuperclean6969 STOP SPAMMING! Bot
This video is a clever Russian Propaganda - he is always saying hat Russia needs territory to secure her borders, he never says this about Europe. Europe was invaded by Russia many times before. This is exactly what official Putin propaganda says for the last 12 years and this is how I know that this channel is payed by Kremlin. There are other red flags. ,,,,;;;;;;;;
I am glad you mentioned the nations of Central Asia. Because ever since I’ve learned more about the belt and road initiative I have kept an eye on the former Soviet republics. I could reasonably see china gaining more and more influence there. And making them a new alliance along with Pakistan. Could be interesting.
中国致力于一个和平的亚欧大陆 这符合中国和欧洲还有中东利益 和平与自由贸易
但是美国不希望见到这些
Turkey is also silently working on winning them over, I say in 50 years it will be turkey and China fighting over Central Asia while Russia rots and plots like the old Ottoman Empire
That's just what it is now Russia and china are both the military/cultural and economic parteners respectively in Central Asia
I grew up in South America. The U.S. supported the worst dictators there.
@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq Every major power has supported terrible dictators to further their interests.
The opening northern sea route was not mentioned in this video but that alone gives China an incredible incentive to extend its boarder north. This would immediately open up not only trade but also military defense and dramatically lessons the malacca dilemma.
Lol
Except, the video completely forgets about Russian nuclear stockpile, which is orders of magnitudes better than Chinese junks. That should be a deterrence to any Chinese aggression.
Or you know, continue being a Russian ally to completely eclipse it.
@@eliasziad7864 ,that is irrelevant, as Russia can only be invaded from the West, and during winter. All the militaries of the world, including 90% of the Russian military, couldn't defeat even 10% of the Russian military, while invading from the east. It's literally logistically impossible, without spending decades building uparmored fanboats and hovercrafts.
@@mosheshekelsteinspanbergbl5624 I think Mongolians did pretty good job invading from the east, and that was before all the modern equipment and knowledge of terrain... The land is sparsely populated and defending it is just as hard as attacking it, if not harder because of vast area that needs to be covered. The only difference is Russia would have so much time to react and would be practically unhurt if attack comes from east as opposed to west.
China used to have direct access to Lake Baikal. Tannu Tuva was once part of Mongolia, and the Mongolia was once entirely under Qing Empire.
Everything is starting to make sense now.. thank you for your hard work! You explained everything real smooth
China is too smart. It set itself up to win no matter what happens.
And??????? What is your next step from now on ???
Lol you have no common sense
Russia didn't invade Crimea they were all ready there ( Black Sea port) after the US lead coup in 2014 the Russian speaking Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and Russia only invaded Eastern Ukraine in 2022 when the US allowed the Neo Nazi Western Ukrainians to kill 14000 Russian speaking Eastern Ukrainians since 2014 starting a civil war. This presentation leaves a lot of reality out the usual western lines of propaganda.
Excellent historical and strategic analyses of the geopolitical situation
That was a good statement for 2021. War in Ukraine changed everything.
I'll bet 100 grand you live paycheck to paycheck
These global political videos are so good at making me understand why countries behave the way they do. Brilliant
Great vid. Thank you so much!
As a die-hard Civilizations player, the resource icons had me rolling!!!😂🤣😂🤣
hahaha I was searching for that comment
Great work! I learned a lot. Will recommend you!
WHAT? Russia stole so much land from China, and committed Genocide on China. Yall got the title wrong
It would be very interesting to see how we in the west would react to China invading russian territory. Awesome video as always!
The... we in the west will get an existencial crisis conundrum 😂 "Russia is a threat!" We China will eliminate your problem, also Russia stole part of our lands, also we do this for yo and our interests. " We US will still agitate you, we are the best, how DARE you solve our problems even though we know you China wont bother go to war vs US waaaaaa!"
Joe Biden would forget that it’s happening and go back to sleep
@@Beeboop00 😂😂😂
@@odinulveson9101 ...that was barely even coherent
@@odinulveson9101joe biden is that you?
baltics were "soviet" for a couple of decades when the west and russia split lands occupied by germany after the war. Balts were there for 1000s of years
Baltics were part of the russian empire from 1721 to 1917.
@@kollo3457 that is not what he was talking about in the video
Report this channel please, This channel is 100 percent Russian Propaganda, Notice how is is always stating that "Russia needs to conquer as much territory as possible because they they were invaded by the West" This is absolute lies, Russia invaded West many times before, Russia is the imperialist aggressor. This channel is clever Russian propaganda
It was 47-48 years, but yeah.
The graphic around the 2:30 mark is amazing in how it unfolds so easily to understand. Well done 👏
i just dislike that he has to twist the map. keep the north-south orientation
i just dislike that he has to twist the map. keep the north-south orientation
I’ve watched several of your videos tonight. They are very interesting and informative!!
Everybody and their mother has weighed in on this already, but I LOVE Your rotating the map to fit the point of view of the nation being discussed. It's so simple, but it helps to take your viewers out of the mindset of their own country and switch lenses for a moment. Looking out on Europe from Russia's borders, with all of the natural lines of defense highlighted, I did feel vulnerable and exposed. Likewise with China looking out on the first island chain. On an ordinary map, I've always viewed these countries from the outside-in, despite being aware of some of these geopolitical concerns.
Really, Eurasia and East Asia are surrounded by US client states, all potentially containing checks against Chinese and Russian nuclear deterrents.
Could not agree more. The orientation of the map is a great eye-opener.
Mix in unprovoked attempted invasions from France (Napoleon) and Germany (Hitler), and you can understand Russia being more than a little nervous at the build up of, essentially, US power in Europe.
The key misunderstanding of "geopolitics" by people is that it is not NATO (USA) that is holding Russia back in the west, but China in the east. It is the neighboring countries of these imperial dictatorships that do not want to be swallowed up by them, therefore seek under the protection of the democratic USA. And the phrase "client states" is nothing more than a propaganda stamp.
It has inspired me to print continents, arrange them in arbitrary directions, and put them on my wall.
@@auntiecarol You seem blind in both eyes to all the unprovoked attempted invasions of russia.
@@Slavdya I am unaware of Finland, the 'stans and China. Arguably of the Balkan states an maybe maybe Cuba.
You are right. I know nothing.
Useful analysis. The only pending issue in this overview that is not discussed is how the demographic problem impinges on China and will become entirely defining in the next 50 years.
After the Second Opium War, Russia occupied more than 1.5 million square kilometers of territory in China, and instigated Mongolia's independence from China after the Second World War.
I am using Google Translate. There is an error in this video. The islands northeast of Hokkaido, Japan are Japanese territory. stipulated in the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951.
@@farmers740王公公英文蛮不错的嘛😅
@@MG-42-nz所以他哪里说错了吗？what's your problem? Have u ever educated to behave yourself ?
amerimutt using google translate lmao@@MG-42-nz
Just a reminder that the 9-Dash Line (11-Dash at first, now 10-Dash for PRC which envelopes Taiwan) was first published by the Republic of China. Taiwan/ROC still claims the South China Sea along with (Outer) Mongolia and Senkanku/Diaoyu Islands.
These westerners will always ignore these facts.
It's funny because the Republic of China (Taiwan) claims more territory than the current PRC.
True
While your statement is true, this is an oversimplification of the situation in Taiwan.
Taiwan has two main political parties. The current ruling party (which is pro US) does not lay claims to the South China Sea, Mongolia and Senkanku. However, the other main political party (which is pro China) does lay these claims. Since both parties have half of the support of the country, yes, Taiwan does claim said areas, but at the same time, Taiwan also does not claim such areas.
@@AwesomeNPro That's interesting. Are these published position documents by DPP leaders or simply statements to the press? What are DPP positions on Tibet and Xinjiang?
Wow, are all your videos this awesome? I’m gonna find out. Thank you so much. It took me three hours to watch this thing because I kept rewinding it because I was learning so much. I consider myself a pretty smart guy so yeah thank you so much.
Great video!
I know that there is no up or down when talking about the glowe, but my brain was on 110% trying to find which way im looking at the maps 😂
I fell like I got an associates degree on geopolitics on China and Russia in 30 minutes. My brain is exhausted. This dude is brilliant!
By
Try Coin Bureau ~~ very interesting subjects by another brilliant fella.
I just got an associates degree on how the human mind can be so gullible and naive and arrogant at same damn time!! Astonishing...
Amazing informative video! I love the lenghty and detailed analysis.
However the constant rotation of the maps or the switch to an already weirdly rotated map, genuinely gave me a headache. I am certain no one of the mentioned countries uses sideways rotated and stretched maps.
I feel the same. It is really irritating. It seems like the author is using scatterbrain method of narrating by always rotating the maps and not following the normal norm of North being up. Crazy!!!! Maybe he is taking metaampetamines that is why his mind and maps kept on rotating.
I thought it was great, provided a new perspective.
Agreed. Geography has enough challenges without spinning maps around like a carousel.
it is great because it leaves possible analysis results to you:
unlike we were always been told, almost all of the diplomatic and political issues of the last years were lead by simple military thoughts (such as which paths tanks could come along in the case of a conflict) - from both sides, russia as well as nato - and the countries between are only a mere pawn for these two players (with the ukraine beeing the perfect example)
between china and USA there is a similar game runnning since 70 years, but until now china was not stupid enough to overreact; let´s hope they keep this up.
Agreed. Gratuitous map rotation adds unnecessary complexity and detracts from the clarity of the narrative which is otherwise very well thought out. Better to stick with the conventional north-up orientation.
Excellent commentary!
Never would I have thought that my home city of Khabarovsk would be mentioned in RealLifeLore video😅
To add to you - there were 2 treaties in 19th century - in 1858 and in 1860 to get the territories that are now the Russian Far East. And Khabarovsk was built in 1858 right after the treaty, but was actually not on the Russian territory (it is on the left side of the Amur river, but in 1858 only the right side of Amur was Russian), and became legal only in 1860, 2 years after establishment
Also I can add that since 2000 couple of islands and one half of an island have been given (gifted) to China, like Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island
@@IllkaPaananen are you ready to see your hometown be under Chinese control one day. I think we can make your city better
@@IllkaPaananen
That's actually very interesting thank you! I wouldn't ever have managed that especially after the 2000s countries would still freely exchange territories. Even if the country is as huge as Russia
You have Ukrainian surname. I wonder why your hometown is Khabarovsk
@@IllkaPaananen so.small.part lol😂
at around 10:00 there's a typo it's the strait of Malacca not the straight of Malacca. Great video!
Am I the only one that loves how he uses the oil, coal, and copper pictures from Civ 6?
And the commercial districts
nice to see others have noticed this...I think it was a deliberate shout out to the best game dealing with geopolitics ever created
@@kungflufighter1184 Went scrolling for this exact comment haha
I think The Bear and the Dragon is about this. Siberia is right there and China needs them minerals.
Don't forget the Lumber supplies and taking Vladivostok. China has had a claim on Vladivostok for years. More so if they take north Eastern Siberian they gain a degree of control over the Barents sea and a foothold in the arctic.
No need to wishful thinking. In this world, resources are easier to buy. You can win back resources only from those who cannot fight back.
China can just buy them unless you all has being brainwashed to think China is the enemy lol
@@Cheesecake99YearsAgo The problem with that idea is that it itself makes you inherently rely on a foreign entity that may or may not have your best interest at heart.
The possibility of you for example building an industry that requires something you don't have but need increases with the more instances of this that exist at any given time.
An example, oil. OPEC nations have on multiple occasions in the past exploited this resource scarcity to try and achieve their goals by cutting off those opposed to them or shutting the tap when it benefits them.
Russia during the most recent war attempted to freeze out Europe while China has speculated on things like rare earth mineral export bans to try and crush various western industries.
The point being that China is going to look a the concept of, we could buy it but 40 years from now we could get fucked over or we could directly control this resource eliminating the middle man and saving us the taxes ad tariffs that are often used during said trade.
Example Egypt, their water supply relies on Ethiopia allowing the Nile to flow. Ethiopia has dammed the Nile river, something that downstream nations have called an act of war. A scenario in which a nations survival relies on the good will of a foreign entity that could be avoided by direct control.
@altairsync China is an enemy idk what you are smoking. They can fix things if they release claims on the South China Sea and walk back their threats of attack on Taiwan.
They are building up military forces for war ao idk whst you're smoking, but give me some.
Amazing educational video!
The map rotations are confusing me so much though
Turn your head.
I wish he could stop doing that
I find the map rotations very helpful. It allows your brain to really see the topographical issues when they're not presented in the cliche north-south alignment that we take for granted.
Its actually good if you are into geopolitics
This might be the most in depth and interesting video I've seen on any platform. Great work.
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This video is so very well researched!
Really good information!
Congratulations!
I love this channel. One of my favs online. Thank you for always giving me such valuable knowledge!!
Always look forward to watching these interesting/educational videos from you my friend ! Thank you 🙏🏼
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Nebula is becoming a kind of certification mark for quality video channels. This is the first video I see from this channel, but participating in nebula made me watch the video.
It just shows bill gates propaganda lmao
@@cyberking158 what has bill gates to do with it?
@@jannetteberends8730 all these platforms are founded by the bill and Melinda gates foundation. There is a reason why all these educational UA-camrs have the same sponsors, watch "How Kurzgesagt Cooks Propaganda For Billionaires" maybe that explains it better than me. I still enjoy kurzgesagt and this channel btw, I just take their information with a grain of salt, since their information are usually a bit biased
This is great knowledge. Thank you.
This is a MASSIVELY interesting video. I learnt so much. I will watch more of your videos. Thanks for the wonderful job!
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Who the hell talks like that? Get outta here, bot!
Beautiful work brother i love this up date news
Yep something I haven't seen in decades ," News.
RealLifeLore and PolyMatter posting the same day is a huge win in my book.
To win a hundred battles is not a good thing; to subjugate an enemy's troops without fighting is a good thing. - Art of War.
stupid propaganda
😂russian sell bussiness in east sibria now to china
This was pretty much what Peter Zeihan has been saying for a decade now. His new book goes pretty deep into this.
Zeihan ? 90% fantasy.
Zeihan says a lot of things. people predicted that Chinese people would colonize eastern Russia by large immigration numbers. didn't happen. in fact, Chinese people are leaving the north and moving south. Zeihan also predicted China's economic collapse would happen in the 2010s. didn't happen. he did change the date to 2030 though.
@@MorteSeoinage lol
@@donderstorm1845 For about the past two decades, shopping malls, apartment complexes and manufacturing complexes that are being built in Eastern, i.e., "Asian" Russia have been primarily financed by China...in reality the PLA who owns part of every business in China! Depending how Putin's War ends, it's likely that China will just annex most of Eastern Russia, and there is little which an aging, dying and BROKE Russia will be able to do about it!
@@MorteSeoinage Just because he speaks the truth about how weak Russia and China actually are, doesn't make it a fantasy.
Your map animation are really good but they'd be even better if you use anything other than Mercator projection
Absolutely love that you used the resource images from Civ 6 at the 27:34 timestamp!!
rotating the map to where the top is west and north makes it confusing
There's almost no other channel that explains this angle of these stories and global chess plays. Almost every other channel that pretends to be neutral actually doesn't fully go through it like this channel. It's amazing. It makes it so clear what's really going on and why. While on TV and Reddit and other places, people just yell as loud as possible about the most basic & black and white way of viewing things.
It would be nice if he provided sources so his claims can be verified.
I rarely watch youtubers like him anymore. He repeats topics so so often. Hes an expert in talking but not actually giving any new information. This 36 minute video could be told in 10 minutes and you’d know just as much
@@derpeth2101 It really would be, not only for verification, but I'd like to read more on it aswell
he has a lot of false statements in this video and also repeats russian and chinese propaganda about claiming those lands, I bet he was paid to make this video.
people on reddit live in a cartoon world like their favorite marvel movies. good and bad doesn't exist in geopolitics, only sides that work in their own interests. the respective propaganda paints one or the other as 'good' or 'evil'
I think both Russia and China also were aware that the current closed relation is based on the mutual competitor and benefit. This is mature attitude to world reality.
Amazing video! But I am curious as to why recently you have pivoted on showing maps rotated (i.e. not always keeping north up)
Sometimes it is difficult to understand the map but also interesting and want to know what made u take this choice
Showing China from its side helped show the long front line if you will. Couple that with the overwhelming manpower advantage China has, it made for an effective illustration I think.
yes makes for frustrating watching when having to mentally invert a rotating map
@@markwalker8374 why do you have to mentally invert it? I just recognise it and listen to what he's saying. I think it kind of gives you a sense of looking from out that countries perspective.
@@InnocenceExperience i don't think anyone looks 'out' from the centre of their country in a rotating perspective when reading a map. If you want to see how things look from a country's perspective just look at all the official maps they use in the country. They are almost always bog standard north-up orientation.
PLEASE STOP Rotating maps!
Thank you so much for informing us ❤
I love your use of Civ icons for resources :) love your videos, this one was amazing!
China is absolutely resource rich as well, not poor in that regard by any means, it just lacks large amounts of oil and gas reserves.
Renewable energy is right around the corner. No one will be totally dependent on Middle East and Russian oil.
To make hydrogen you need to burn coal.
😂😊and east sibria have a lot of oil and mine
MacArthur: Nuke Em!
Truman: No!
MacArthur: NUKE EM!
Truman: NO!
MacArthur: AH COME ON!
Truman: You’re fired!
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@@KindredMid you wont get it
oversimplified lol
@@polmitol i just find the post cringe.
@@KindredMid dude, uncool
13:54 worth noting that the Taiping Rebellion and two other Chinese civil wars remain 3 of the top 10 deadliest conflicts in human history.
This is true, the largest losses of life have been in China over the millennia
Heck the Chinese cultural revolution was more deadly in loss of life then the entire Russian losses in WW2, and remember Russia lost a whopping 20 million during that conflict
I’d MUCH rather get UA-cam out of Google’s hands than open yet another streaming subscription w whoever owns Nebula, but your stats/editorial ratio is SO good.