it is not anymore Kaliningrad: named after Russian mass murder Kalinin: ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalinin ) - Poland governmental institution changed naming convention back to history name Królewiec=Königsberg - ( pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Królewiec )
I’ve often seen comments here like, “This guy is talking nonsense, panicking, just making things up to create videos, blah blah blah.” And today, I saw news about a new act of sabotage-how the underwater cables between Estonia and Finland were destroyed. Don’t listen to anyone. Keep making new and high-quality videos like you always do.
I live in Estonia. He is spot on. They also told us we were overreacting when Russian troops were lined up along Ukraine’s border before the full invasion. Thank you for not following the Russian propaganda (or American one for that matter) and finding the information.
it started long before that, friend. The CIA has been fooling around in the ukraine since the 1950's That nationalism and money for it didn't come from nowhere.
12:47 Dane here. Honestly by stirring up things in the Baltic region, all Russia achieves is to bring the countries surrounding the Baltic (sans Russia), closer together and ensure both governments and populations willingness to spend even more on aid to Ukraine as well as strengthening of defense and cooperation among these countries. Russia didn't learn anything from Sweden and Finland joining Nato...
Russia is so petty. Maybe focus inwards on your own country, your own people, making your country rich successful and appealing like western countries. With the resources it has Russia should be like the Scandinavian countries instead it's a bully with most of the country in poverty while a few oligarchs have all the money. It's just sad.
Any large country is a massively-parallel processing cluster. They don't need to focus on one thing, they always do many things simultaneously, inside and outside. And no, Russia is definitely not "petty" at all. Russia is fine with her enemies having such delusions, though. In fact, kinda encourages them.
At whose expense do you think Europe has become so rich? For example France!) or England, which took the entire gold reserve of Argentina to London a couple of months ago!) And no one talks about it)
If you’re concerned about your privacy then paying for a service like incogni isn’t exactly going to do that for you. I’d argue it will effectively do the opposite. You have to provide them with even more personal info so they can make the take down requests on your behalf. Then you have to trust that they’re not going to use your data maliciously AND you have to trust they’re actually making the takedown request AND that they’re even making them properly. Even if a takedown request doesn’t go through I believe they may be incentivized to lie. Don’t trust big corporations. End of story.
LOL even if all of the trust you mentioned is there and nothing bad happens.. Incogni itself could (Will eventually be) hacked and whatever info they hold will be leaked online. It's just a bad idea..
You're commenting on the video of a guy who had been doing ads for Established Titles. He doesn't give a rats fuck about how garbage a product he is advertising on his channel, and probably doesn't do a shred of research before he accepts them.
Если бы кто-то не разбомбил Ирак, Ливан, Сирию, Ливию и т.д., не вооружал сепаратов, курдов всяких и пр. может быть тогда и беженцев не было бы? Промытые, вам знакомо слово - "логика"? И, кстати, беженцы не в нищую Польшу или прибалтику бегут, а в Германию и дальше
"Nato chipped away...." ususally something from Russia. This time the influence in the baltic. This wording does not convey that the actions of Russia in Ukraine brought Finnland and Sweden to apply for NATO Membership. The only power limiting Russias influence in the baltic in that regard is Russia itself by its questionable actions, which led neutral countries to seek shelter under the umbrella of NATO.
Ошибаешься, Швеции и Финляндии пообещали, что скоро будут делить убитого медведя и они поверили😁В НАТО эти страны преследуют свои хищнические интересы, никто им не угрожал со стороны России до вступления в НАТО. А теперь они такая же законная цель в случае открытого конфликта России и НАТО.
@@taintedbloodlives6851это мнение озвучивали некоторые эксперты в России и прямых доказательств в таких делах быть не может, такие договорённости будут всегда не официальными. Но скорость бега Швеции и Финляндии в НАТО не случайна и это точно не угроза со стороны России, "российская угроза" - только предлог для агрессивных действий против моей страны.
@@ЭдуардШкумат-ч4г You can start to worry about an invasion when NATO has at least over half a million troops ready to go at your border. Finland has also to mobilize first, because as they are so predatory, their regular military is too tiny for an adhoc invasion. As nobody in NATO has mobilized, there are not enough man to sustain an invasion, and we talk about good old fashioned Propaganda from your so called experts. For the record: Hitler had a million ready, and it wasn`t enough. Napoieon tried it with around 600.000 with the same outcome.
Russians threaten its neighbours with occupation or nuclear annihilation then gets upset when they join in military alliance. Russian intelligence is amazing.
Can you do me a favor and search in youtube for "Jeffrey Sachs - How the US Provoked the Invasion of Ukraine ". This might change your perspective. Russia is not the aggressor here, ask yourself which countries caused most misery in the world? Nato bombed north africa in the 2010s, they bombed Iraq, afghanistan etc etc. And dont come with the bullcrap that they do it for democracy and freedom. Funny how they want to install this system in every resource rich country. Who has 100s of bases far away from their country? oh its usa. You cannot expect peace when planting 100s of bases everywhere, like comeon man. They are actually highly intelligent to maintain such a vast and big country without it getting split. Look at US, texas wants independence and guy becomes girl based on their feelings. Russia has lost the information war bigtime, but the real deal is different. Also, to broaden your perspective about this issue, check out "The other side documentary" just released, a brittish journalist going to the Russia side to show things. Before you judge based on the media you see everyday research for your own facts. Im not saying Russia is perfect but its pretty obvious they got provoked into this. Biden wants to start ww3 before he leaves, hence agreeing to allow Ukraine to use missiles inside Russia. Ukraine = money laundering machine for the west.
What about US invading Cuba, who do not even have a direct border with the US, for the same reasons ? Obvious, your "intelligence" is also amazing. Go back to school, kid, read some History books...
@@nuhardusnytitdigivafflan8511oh nah they said U.S is the utopia & best democratic country.. what’s new is this world not ruled by NATO again and this is good for all humans
That will not happen cause we all know they don't have any missiles left only shovels and they sabotaged their own pipeline when they also controlled the on and off button.
how can he make a video when it's still unclear who did it, or he does it ambigously says that either usa or russia or ukraine or uk did it or he can't make a decision since there is none for now...
@@trugssgogorf6371 lol, Canada? Is this one of those "Russia isn't bad, look the US does the exact same thing!" moments? You have to be pretty clueless to think Canada is to the USA as Belarus is to Russia.
@@Vsor Someday you will understand that the actions of states are based on strict calculation. And believe me, when the US needs a resource base, Canada will cease to exist. Whether you like it or not.
The baltic countries, I have lived with baltic people in the past..lovely people, but they are absolutely sick with hate towards russians. They sound like you know who talking about the jews.
@@elfornicador11 Don't be shocked. After all, look at History and see who Estonians and the rest of the Baltics aligned with in WW2, and you will have an answer.
@@elfornicador11 They remember the stories of their grand parents who saw the occupation and were deported and they daily encounter descendants of those Russian occupiers who still after half a century have not learned the country's language. Russians have been working hard to earn the hate.
You can't "ditch" members of alliance like in a videogame. They are members of EU and NATO, which would force others to intervene or later would guarantee their own economies collapsing and countries destroyed if they didn't respond.
Russian ships in the Baltic are like Chinese ships in the first island chain, nothing but fish in a barrel. The probably will not last a day if war breaks out.
@@Кипящийразум Why is Russia such a loser country? Crammed with natural resources and glum, poverty stricken, chippy people always wanting to get into a fight, always stopping neighbors from choosing their own governments and always supporting the bad guys (eg Assad). Who'd want to live there given the choice?
I don't understand the fundamental adversarial role Russia adopts towards Europe. It's as though the current regime can not fathom the possibility of working in cooperation with the rest of Europe without being fundamentally in a position of dominance.
In that last part you understood Russian mentality. It's dominate or be dominated. Probably some leftover cultural trauma from the Mongols. It's why Russia would never join the European Union or NATO. These organisations require you to compromise and work with other states as equals. How can Russia treat former imperial possessions as equals? It's literally beyond comprehension for them.
What you, and many others, don't understand is: Russian political thought centers on zero-sum thinking. Your enemy's gain is your loss. As a consequence, it's almost impossible to have win-win deals with Russia, because any win for the other party counts as a loss for Russia. Also, doing harm to others is a gain for Russia, in their minds. Expect much more of the same until Nato gets serious. Because even, and in particular, the Russians respect force, power and determination.
Honestly Russian geography sucks ass and explains their “hostile, belligerent, expansive” foreign policy. They might look menacing, but in reality Russia is incredibly vulnerable in a conventional war. With that being said, it’s only vulnerable in the modern world because of its imperial aspirations, if it was content with being a middle power (i.e France/UK with nuclear weapons to deter any would be aggressor and focused on improving its economy by actually utilizing its vast natural resources, it could have been considered a great power, but instead the lunatic in the kremlin reduced it to a shithole.
Your view of Russia is honestly delusional. On all counts. For one, its vulnerability is also an asset- nobody thus far (besides the Mongols) successfully occupied all of Russia with brute force. Any invading army would get stretched to breaking, whether by land or air. Secondly- Russia TRIED to become a second power, a large force within the sphere of Europe. Right after the USSR, Yeltsin showed almost comical eagerness to play along with the US geopolitically. How was this kindness repaid? By sending US Treasury employees to Moscow to liberalize its economy and completely destroy any quality of life from the USSR. That meant hyperinflation, collapse of institutions, and a complete selloff of state assets. Before you say that it was inevitable, Poland was put under the same 'transition' program, but was given different parameters which conspicuously led to stabilization and enrichment. Why did they insist that Russia privatize EVERYTHING, when Poland had been allowed to keep its courts and state-run companies intact just a few years earlier? It was malice. Kicking the enemy while he was down. Russia learned a difficult but valuable lesson: America is an ill-intentioned country. Acting "normally" by abiding by the rules doesn't work when they're actively trying to make your standing in the world worse- that means domestically, too. Had the USSR not spread communism, the US would still have tried to sabotage it, because it simply doesn't like peer competitors in any area. Lastly- Putin inherited a shithole from Yeltsin. Go watch old videos of the breadlines and empty grocery stores that resulted from capitalism entering Russia. Or just ask any Russian over 40. They'll gladly tell you what life was like under "Gorby" and his drunken successor. You might not like his authoritarianism, but he inarguably improved the quality of life within Russia. If that makes you mad, ask yourself why.
@@michaellarge4139to be real Germany attacked Russia who was unprepared due to their agreement to essentially not invade each other and at Stalingrad was a turning point this happened before dday if I remember correctly and Napoleon took the L in the end in pretty sure
And for every time Russija pushes there is even more pushback against Russija. I for one refuse to speak russijan since 2022. Russija really should learn to back off, and live in peace.
@@meteorknight999 Russia doesn't have any right to tell sovereign countries what alliances they are allowed to join, especially when most of them are countries that russia occupied and oppressed for decades / centuries
@@Infosphere-cr5bk so you are calling putin right for being unpeaceful since peace didn't matterw anyway ? They will have right to join in unpeaceful times too, so peace useless yea ?
@@Infosphere-cr5bk Putin tried to make a deal with Ukraine because it causes threat to Russia. Ukraine denied it - so they get what they get. You can be super cool 100% sovereign country until it won't make threats to your neibours.
Russia is losing 4 times more men than Ukraine, even the North Koreans won't help, and if NATO sends men to help Ukraine, Russia is gone. Russia could finally grow up and not be like a little child always bullying others
The majority of Russia's military in Kaliningrad has been sent to Ukraine. And with its armor horribly depleted, just what would Russia invade the Baltic with? So the Kremlin can claim anything they want but they no longer have the military power to implement it. NATO can easily mine both Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg harbors. Given the Russian navy's impotence, as demonstrated in the Black Sea, it is but huffing and puffing against a stone house.
Realistically, only poland would be both able and willing to respond in time and in sufficient strength to disrupt a russian plan to cut off the suwalki gap. The thing is, any attempt by russia to amass troops in Belarus would be so obvious that a western response would be inevitable
@@doomerbloomer6160 True. Though Poland's military is very large and capable (on paper at least). I'd wager Poland alone could defeat Russia if they had a conventional war today.
Nobody talks about the fact that if an enemy force were to break through sawalki gap, that force would then be encircled on at least 3 sides, and completely surrounded if the corridor is closed off behind them
@@doomerbloomer6160 Funny because the bridges between Kaliningrad and Poland or Lithuania and Kaliningrad cannot carry more than 50 tons and all NATO tanks are more than 50 tons while Russian tanks are less
It doesn't matter that moscow at one point controlled half of Baltic coast. It's because moscow occupied other nations and other countries. Baltic sea and coast never belonged to moscow through centuries. Konigsberg is still occupied, it's the matter of time when Konigsberg will be liberated.
Russia gave back Germany under the condition NATO wouldn't expand eastward. USA broke that deal repeatedly and wanted to put missile systems close to Moscow. America doesn't allow a shred of Chinese or Russian influence anywhere close to their border but Russia is supposed to accept missiles right next door after a deal was broken? Insanity.
Sure or as russia got stronger more nations runned away from them and into arms of Nato . By UN charter every country has a right to join any alliance it wants to . People like u forgot that on night of invasion of Ukraine , russia send a ultimatum for all western institutions to move our of old eastern block and that this is 9th war of expansion since commies fell...
Finland isnt a threat. If a war with NATO started Finland would fall in like, a week, together with the baltics. Ukraine on the other hand would be a great jumping point to get to Moscow. Similar to the whole Cuba situation in the cold war with the US. Imagine if Mexico joined the Warsaw pact, thats the American equivelant to Ukraine
The missing aspect here is that Russia does not only cause delays and disunity, it also causes the opposite with many actions. The way the script of this video was written sounds like Russia is trying anything to maybe get a few tiny changes that might give it the upper hand in Ukraine. I don't see any point in the script that indicates Russias behavior might (and often has) have the opposite result of what was intended.
If you factor into account the growing complacency of european and american populations, then the tragectory is clear. Ukraine is slowly being abandoned.
@@doomerbloomer6160 Not according to the polls. I mean, if Russia's victory against the west rests on everyone in the west losing interest and giving up, Russia is just going to continue paying for its costly blundering.
@@doomerbloomer6160 I wouldn't call that complacency, Europe should care and solve their own problems but America was always a foreign actor, they have no obligation not to withdraw support for Ukraine, just like the rest of the world
4:10 On the contrary, Russia has a vast coastline - in the Arctic and the Pacific. But they are increasingly aggressive to impose their control where that coast actually gives access to something of value
I love Caspian report but as a Lithuanian I have to say that this video is a bit of a nothing burger. The leaked document is less valuable than used toilet paper. Yes it shows possible kremlin intent and is essentially yet another empty threat. Why empty? Russia is powerless in Baltic sea right now and they definitely are not ready to start a conflict in the Baltics for another ~5 years at least. They are very likely to continue with various sabotages and provocations. That will mostly serve for the Baltic sea countries to cooperate and integrate with each other even more. I do hope, however, that Nato will start taking a tougher stance on Russo-China provocation BS
West wont risk nuclear war because of some small Baltic countries, you are on your own, NATO wont save you, start learning how to live in peace with your neighbor instead of been used like Ukraine
Yes and no. for example Gulf of Finland. couple nautical miles means nothing, when Russian fleet has to sail 150 miles along Finnish coast. Both Estonian coast and Finnish coast have ability to dominate the gulf with pretty basic coastal defense missiles. Nothing fancy. Truck mounted RBS-15, Harpoon etc. pretty basic and by now decades old tech. Launchers which as regards to the ships are hiding in massive ground clutter of the coast. No way the ships know where the missiles might be until ones launch. Plus there is this thing called naval mine. Any stuff starts up in baltic, Finland will truck out their naval mines stockpile and blockade the Russian end of Gulf of Finland with naval mine fields. That was the working plan in WWII and given geography having not changed its still the plan. Naval mine fields blockade the whole gulf, over watched by coastal missile launchers, which will sink any minesweepers trying to come to clear a path through the mine field. Oh and all out war at Finlands Eastern border ofcourse, but like that was always the scenario. Now it's just with "oh NATO has maybe time to spare some reinforcements for us at some point" addition. St. Petersburg is a non issue. it is geographically blocked. Worry more about Kaliningrad, it has more direct open sea access. Not that we Finns will agree to single meter of undue border changes. That border line has been mapped and haggled decades ago after WWII peace negotiations.
Russia didn't controll shit. It was Soviet Union who controlled. It was the power of many not just Russia. It's like Italy claiming the power and influence of Roman Empire😅
1) No, it isnt, as Rome wasnt federalized 2) Italy wouldnt even exist as a nation state idea for 1300 years after the collapse of the Roman Empire. 3) What nation held all power in the USSR?
Russia is such a loser state. If it gave up its "glory to mother Russia" crap it would be a way better nation. If it had become democratic and a Western ally it would be such a successful nation. How the heck does Russia have 140 million people, was a former colonizer upto thr 1990's, has the most natural resources, connected to Europe culturally and geographically and yet has the GDP of a small European nation. This is hillariously incompetent. Russia being democratic and an European ally would have probably become the leader of Europe by now with a 8 trillion gdp.
@@pavelvladimirov2651 lmao, kacap feelings hurt. Yes, russia is a loser state. Imagine having all the resources in the world and still living like shit XD thats ruski mir for you
@@pavelvladimirov2651 What is your excuse for having GDP smaller than Italy? They have 58M people, Russia has 143M, more than double, AND you're the richest country by resources, somehow still living like 20th century peasants. It's mind blowing. This is not the Slavic way, this is the Mongoloid way. If you had any pride, you would not send your kids to their deaths, Slavs killing Slavs. For shame if you can feel it.
@@DakuHonoo That is just adorable, if that was the case, then Taurus would've been sent along with Leopards and other things since day 1. Germany is more influenced by Russia then U.S, if you know what you're talking about. You wouldn't know that since you're just a useful idiot, or a plain kremlin bot.
Russia will lose their exclave and Kaliningrad will once again be called Königsberg. To dispel any harsh feelings, it will become a separate and independent Baltic state.
My favorite channel for geopolitics. Not only are your view points, interesting, and often outside of the box, but your graphics are top-notch as well. Keep up the good work.
The Russian Army and Marines just took Vuhledar after 2 years, a place similar in size to the small welsh town of Haverfordwest. I dont think they can deceive anyone about taking the Suwalki gap anymore...
*Final quote:* Redrawing borders or threatening to do so is crucial to Russia's hybrid war against NATO. Should the Baltic allies give way, they will quickly find that Russia doesn't just redraw maps; it redraws rules too.
Giant Russia calling for rat North Korea for help to defeat midget Ukraine. who for 3 years has held off Giant Russia and given it a bloody nose....its that embarassing.
“Midget Ukraine”???? They have been subsidized by the whole western world, since 2014. It’s a proxy war being fought. Although not a proxy on both sides. It’s the United States vs Russia, although the U.S. has not committed any of their forces. Yes North Korea is a rat. But so is ALL of Western Europe and the U.S.
@deypriyajit Large differences in a planned pullout (albeit uproot and poorly handled) but America always stated they were leaving Afghanistan. It's not the same situation in the slightest. Russias failure to Take Kiev was legitimately pathetic. The war since has shown their weaknesses, and some strengths. But they aren't the big bear we were all afraid of, and if it weren't for nuclear weapons, they'd be in a class w/ Iran.
russia is not even in war, most people just live thir lives not giving shit about whats happening, there was no mobilization except that 300k in the beginning. and no evidence of a single north korean was shown anywhere. and ukraine is no midget, it is like what? 30 million people country I guess? armed by the whole NATO alliance? whats embarrassing here?
Hardly breathtaking. Maritime disputes exist all over the globe. The major one being in the South China Sea with China's so called nine dash line. In the Past the UK has also had disputes with Norway and France until we surrendered to the EU.
@@daszieher Yes he bombed, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, Laos, Bosnia, Yemen, Panama, Grenada etc, etc, nuked Hiroshima, Nagasaki, invaded Russia in First World War. Yes that’s true and verifiable, check out the history of Americans invading Russia from both ends Vladivostok and St, Petersburg. I am sure the war monger Putin caused all that and a bag of chips.
Easy to say that when you don't live in those border countries? Ordinary citizens of Baltic don't want their country to become ukrane 2.0, so instead of escalating war, make peace and try go back how things were back in 2000s
The truth is that the baltic sea is losing relevance and importance to Russia as time goes on. Global warming have melted the majority of ice in north pole which opens up a gigantic shore where Ru can build up new sea routes. It's Russia now who has more stake in its control with its dominance in the north pole which is a mega shortcut east to west.
The resource that russia is after in the baltics (and pretty much everywhere else) is not just the sea. It craves dominance over the people for taxes, along with knowlage and hardware. 2 things that the russian gov fails to build in its own borders due to the systems in place. A common pattern for russia is "If you can not steal it, build it". Meaning thay will put maximum effort on theft and if that fails, thay will maybe cobble something together from scraps.
You are right! Baltic marine route is no longer that important as it was in 19th century. Baltic states now dying wasteland The Black Sea marine route is now playing crucial role for Russia's trade with the other world. That is why Putin fighting for Crimea tooth and nail
@@DarrelX-im2hb If baltic sates are a wasteland, then russia is a dystopian nightmare. But its good that you recognized why the russian führer really went into Crimea. He didnt go to "save" the people, he went to conquer a strategic military resource.
If Turkey has control over who goes through their strait of Bosperous in times of war, Denmark and Sweden should have control over our Strait... and should have been blockading all Russian shipping since the start of the war..
15:09 "Russia doesn't just redraw maps, it redraws rules." Well, to be frank, we, the West, have been redrawing rules for years. I mean, we always speak of the "rules-based order", but we actually mean our rules, and on our orders. So, let's tone down the bias. Because... Well, let's use a bit of nuance, here. Do you know which country military intervened or invaded the most other sovereign countries during the last 3 decades? It isn't Russia or China - the countries we, the West, like to categorize as "warmongering". No. It's the US. This is a fact, you can look it up yourself, if you want. The US invaded or military intervened in: Grenada, Nicaragua, Libya (twice), Panama, Honduras, Colombia, Iraq (twice), Somali, Sudan, Afghanistan (twice), Serbia, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, etc., etc. It waaaay outweighs what any other country has done in the last 30 years, and then I'm not even counting the interventions "by proxy". So, it's all good and well to now tout our moral superiority, but if you really look into it, we're extraordinary hypocritical in this, and really have no standing to lecture others. And, yes, if our governments see no qualms in invading other sovereign countries, then so may other countries decide the same. You can't just apply "international law" selectively, and punish others if they do it, but not if we do it ourselves. So. If we remain consistent, then: if we can redraw the rules, then so can another.
NATO has been surrounding and isolating Russia since 1990 and when Russia reacts it is suddenly labeled as the aggressor. Strange business and strange use of words to mislead people.
@@rena-mq2bgthese countries doesn't count the fact that Russia did try to be friends in 1991, Russia made generous step and withdrew forces without any war, although it was strictly against our security interest. But there countries think of themselves only, why after this betrayal we think ever about their interests?
Nato , a mysteriously unelected body needs to be held to account for the many war crimes they have committed (Libya ffs for starters ) and general political interference resulting in Ukraine etc .
Ork spotted. Also "Mysterious" really? One can look up now nsgo is organized and how it's leaders are determined on Wikipedia, on God's forsaken Wikipedia.
Russia has influence on their own territory they somehow overlook. Remove corruption, create conditions for investment, educate population. But it is easier to fight hypothetical external military threats and convince population that "Anglo-Saxon empire wants to conquer Russia to steal its vast resources".
Excellent work my friend!! Spreading the word of the mischievous actions of the Russians is of utmost importance. Keep up the great work and continue your extensive research and produce more insightful and knowledgeable videos!
This video is pure propaganda. What research? He just gets the text from the CIA at this point. He was once objective, but now it's like he is part of the operation Mockingbird..
@@thetruechaby impossible, we all have been told that only Russia and a few of her allies can do bad things. Us in the west are just morally better in every way right? We have never invaded a country out of national security, we’ve never conducted operations because a state has attacked our citizens. We’ve never lied to the public about what we do abroad… oh wait. Maybe is in the west aren’t morally superior to Russia
Sweden have the ability to takw out the whole russian baltic fleet in one strike and have had so for half a century. Ussr once chalange this in 1981 but the amiral in comand remebered that he didnt want to die that day and chickened out. Yea.. when ussr staired eye to eye with sweden . The incident got the name "wiskey on the rocks"
Russia wants to change their maritime borders like China has done, and continues to do. Why can't countries like Russia and China be happy with what they have? Why do they need to add constant stress on other countries?
Because strategy. Both of these countries are easly crushed by any major power, simply by blockading them. China need a lot of Oil from the Middle East, and send their exports on the same naval way. The problem is, that they don't have any real naval control, and their opponents can blockade one naval straight and bleed Chinese economy out. They also locked up by a naval chain, unable to do any military operation freely, and there is an unsinkable carrier (Taiwan) in their doorsteps. In the case of Russia, it has 4 Naval exit, all locked up. Black Sea fleet is controlled by Turkey alone. Baltic Fleet by Norway, Denmark, Poland, and now even Sweden Finland etc. Pacific fleet locked up by Japan and South Korea. And the North Fleet is by USA Canada and the UK. In the case of Ukraine, they controled the most important naval port, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, has many resource, good industry, AND (which also true to Taiwan) if the Russian (or Chinese) realize, that Ukraine (Taiwan) there able to work as a modern, democratic European (Or should I call it "West") state, then the autocratic corrupt systems of Russia (China) would also fall. In short: To keep your system, you need outside enemies to blame. To be capable against those enemies, you need strategic geopolitical locations, which can control your whole economy. To get those, you made more enemies, who join up with your already made enemies.
They already know who did it. It was Ukraine. I think the German government responded with something along the lines of "it wouldn't help with public perception if we revealed who did it". Don't remember the actual wording though, but that's the general idea.
If a country said Russia did it, it would warrant a response and nobody wants to carry it out. If a country said someone else than Russia did it, it would undermine alliances. So there is no interest in publically stating anything. The pipeline was a disgrace and should never have been built in the first place anyway, so good riddance.
Could you make a video about Cuba and your opinion about the future of its communist regime? Please note that the Cuban regime is an open collaborator and ally of Putin´s Russia, and it has even sent mercenaries to Russia to fight against Ukraine.
You're showing Finland as a part of the Soviet empire at 3:49. That is not factual. There were no soviet military presense in Finland during the cold war nor was Finland part of the Warsaw pact.
Самое забавное, что США и другие страны иногда расширяют свои воды. Но вот дела до этого нет никому, а если РОССИЯ, то все, это повод для хейта и так далее...
Oi oi oi - kak obideli bednih fashistov. Nenado bilo vsjudu leztj so svoim ruzzkim mirom. Sami nehotjat zhitj v mire , naglo okupirujut sosedei a potom udivljajutsja : za chto nas neljubjat. Vsjo im malo . Sperva navodite porjadok vo svojei neobjatnoi . Nespravljajetesj s 90 % svojei strani . P.S. Nachinaite zakrivatj Ustj-Lugu :)
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it is not anymore Kaliningrad: named after Russian mass murder Kalinin: ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalinin ) - Poland governmental institution changed naming convention back to history name Królewiec=Königsberg - ( pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Królewiec )
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Poor NATO! Would all keyboard warriors please report to the front!
Keep supporting your USA country !! No sane people respect USA anymore
Best propaganda channel on youtube. Keep the us and west lies 👍
I’ve often seen comments here like, “This guy is talking nonsense, panicking, just making things up to create videos, blah blah blah.” And today, I saw news about a new act of sabotage-how the underwater cables between Estonia and Finland were destroyed. Don’t listen to anyone. Keep making new and high-quality videos like you always do.
Society reserves great punishment for those who are right too soon.
I live in Estonia. He is spot on. They also told us we were overreacting when Russian troops were lined up along Ukraine’s border before the full invasion. Thank you for not following the Russian propaganda (or American one for that matter) and finding the information.
Americans and West- and central Europeans don't understand what is happening. They are still asking "can't we all just be friends?".
@@CaspianReport Are you going to release a little pocketbook of quotes? You do like to turn a phrase lol
The "Ukraine War" started in 2014, not 2022.
That's a separate war but is part of the greater russo ukraine wars
@ it is not a separate war.
“On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.”
Is fucking propaganda what you expect ?
The truth ?
They keep calling it an invasion. When they created the coup.
Technically you're right but there was no real war back then@@oleksacrowley9580
it started long before that, friend. The CIA has been fooling around in the ukraine since the 1950's
That nationalism and money for it didn't come from nowhere.
Russia can "change things" as long as NATO does absolutely nothing in response, as it is still the case.
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@@U.R_Cristiiano Argument of a rapist. USA and EU provoked russia by existing 🤡🤡🤡
Nuclear pile of 💩💩💩
@@U.R_Cristiiano I know you get paid in roubles any way, but, provoking how? A sovereign nation joining a defense alliance is forceful expansion? lmao
@@blind999а почему он бот,а ты реалист😂
@@Fonxyесть болезни,которые не возможно ,,, вылечить,,,
12:47 Dane here. Honestly by stirring up things in the Baltic region, all Russia achieves is to bring the countries surrounding the Baltic (sans Russia), closer together and ensure both governments and populations willingness to spend even more on aid to Ukraine as well as strengthening of defense and cooperation among these countries. Russia didn't learn anything from Sweden and Finland joining Nato...
"The Treaty of Nystad" taught nothing to the "proud Vikings"; they want to kiss Russian foot wraps again
So they will finally start paying their nato 2% dues ?? Impressive (…not).
@@bluesclues132 Does NATO have a membership fee these days?
Their playbook is kind of outdated. They appear to have not learnt much in the past 100 years...
@@bluesclues132actually, all nations bordering the Baltic meet or exceed the 2% of GDP spending target
Russia is so petty. Maybe focus inwards on your own country, your own people, making your country rich successful and appealing like western countries. With the resources it has Russia should be like the Scandinavian countries instead it's a bully with most of the country in poverty while a few oligarchs have all the money. It's just sad.
Who want whose resources
Answer western countries
@@gireeshan-bd6hi what's your point?
Any large country is a massively-parallel processing cluster. They don't need to focus on one thing, they always do many things simultaneously, inside and outside. And no, Russia is definitely not "petty" at all. Russia is fine with her enemies having such delusions, though. In fact, kinda encourages them.
@@gbeziuk its petty as fuck. 50-60% of people dont have indoor toilets :) Please, its petty and pathetic
At whose expense do you think Europe has become so rich? For example France!) or England, which took the entire gold reserve of Argentina to London a couple of months ago!) And no one talks about it)
I had a senior moment when he said "sub-marine cables going down". Submarines don't have cables...oh no, wait a minute...!
lol, that’s funnier than it should be.
I had it too, I saw submarines with power cords circling because they can go further
In fact, submarines have lots of cables on board!
well, speaking of the famous Green Transition... I guess now they do!
They usually plug in there cables into the ocean outlet near the shopping fish
If you’re concerned about your privacy then paying for a service like incogni isn’t exactly going to do that for you. I’d argue it will effectively do the opposite. You have to provide them with even more personal info so they can make the take down requests on your behalf. Then you have to trust that they’re not going to use your data maliciously AND you have to trust they’re actually making the takedown request AND that they’re even making them properly. Even if a takedown request doesn’t go through I believe they may be incentivized to lie. Don’t trust big corporations. End of story.
At least don't stop thinking yourself.
LOL even if all of the trust you mentioned is there and nothing bad happens.. Incogni itself could (Will eventually be) hacked and whatever info they hold will be leaked online.
It's just a bad idea..
I'm definitely suspicious of it. Any service or product advertised this much is probably dirty.
You're commenting on the video of a guy who had been doing ads for Established Titles. He doesn't give a rats fuck about how garbage a product he is advertising on his channel, and probably doesn't do a shred of research before he accepts them.
@ that’s great. My comment wasn’t for him.
you forgot to mention hybrid war when russians/belarusians send hundreds of immigrants illegally to baltics brothers and poland.
like Turkey, the most unruly NATO member and ally ?
Если бы кто-то не разбомбил Ирак, Ливан, Сирию, Ливию и т.д., не вооружал сепаратов, курдов всяких и пр. может быть тогда и беженцев не было бы? Промытые, вам знакомо слово - "логика"? И, кстати, беженцы не в нищую Польшу или прибалтику бегут, а в Германию и дальше
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Europe likes immigrants, don't talk like fascists.
@@cosmopolitanbay9508yes
"Nato chipped away...." ususally something from Russia. This time the influence in the baltic. This wording does not convey that the actions of Russia in Ukraine brought Finnland and Sweden to apply for NATO Membership. The only power limiting Russias influence in the baltic in that regard is Russia itself by its questionable actions, which led neutral countries to seek shelter under the umbrella of NATO.
Ошибаешься, Швеции и Финляндии пообещали, что скоро будут делить убитого медведя и они поверили😁В НАТО эти страны преследуют свои хищнические интересы, никто им не угрожал со стороны России до вступления в НАТО. А теперь они такая же законная цель в случае открытого конфликта России и НАТО.
@@ЭдуардШкумат-ч4г 🤣
@@ЭдуардШкумат-ч4гAny evidence?
@@taintedbloodlives6851это мнение озвучивали некоторые эксперты в России и прямых доказательств в таких делах быть не может, такие договорённости будут всегда не официальными. Но скорость бега Швеции и Финляндии в НАТО не случайна и это точно не угроза со стороны России, "российская угроза" - только предлог для агрессивных действий против моей страны.
@@ЭдуардШкумат-ч4г You can start to worry about an invasion when NATO has at least over half a million troops ready to go at your border. Finland has also to mobilize first, because as they are so predatory, their regular military is too tiny for an adhoc invasion. As nobody in NATO has mobilized, there are not enough man to sustain an invasion, and we talk about good old fashioned Propaganda from your so called experts.
For the record: Hitler had a million ready, and it wasn`t enough. Napoieon tried it with around 600.000 with the same outcome.
Russians threaten its neighbours with occupation or nuclear annihilation then gets upset when they join in military alliance. Russian intelligence is amazing.
There are some Olympic level mental gymnastics, used to make Russian propaganda
Can you do me a favor and search in youtube for "Jeffrey Sachs - How the US Provoked the Invasion of Ukraine ". This might change your perspective.
Russia is not the aggressor here, ask yourself which countries caused most misery in the world?
Nato bombed north africa in the 2010s, they bombed Iraq, afghanistan etc etc. And dont come with the bullcrap that they do it for democracy and freedom. Funny how they want to install this system in every resource rich country. Who has 100s of bases far away from their country? oh its usa. You cannot expect peace when planting 100s of bases everywhere, like comeon man. They are actually highly intelligent to maintain such a vast and big country without it getting split. Look at US, texas wants independence and guy becomes girl based on their feelings.
Russia has lost the information war bigtime, but the real deal is different.
Also, to broaden your perspective about this issue, check out "The other side documentary" just released, a brittish journalist going to the Russia side to show things. Before you judge based on the media you see everyday research for your own facts. Im not saying Russia is perfect but its pretty obvious they got provoked into this. Biden wants to start ww3 before he leaves, hence agreeing to allow Ukraine to use missiles inside Russia.
Ukraine = money laundering machine for the west.
Russia threatens wars while America starts wars
What about US invading Cuba, who do not even have a direct border with the US, for the same reasons ? Obvious, your "intelligence" is also amazing. Go back to school, kid, read some History books...
@@nuhardusnytitdigivafflan8511oh nah they said U.S is the utopia & best democratic country.. what’s new is this world not ruled by NATO again and this is good for all humans
Hybrid warfare is all well and good until it drags you into actual warfare, then you better hope your military can back up the fight you're starting.
what military
@@EtaCarinaeSCthe military the whole of Europe and NATO are struggling to get out of Ukraine
@@DejiNova I don't see whole Europe and NATO fighting in Ukraine. Their weapons are used but not their armies... Just like Afghanistan in the 80s.
@@DejiNova Are you stupid, bot or a troll. NATO gives some weapons to ukraine = whole NATO what?
Well Russia started the attacks on Sweden at the same time as the invasion of Crimea with data strikes, physical sabotage, psyops etc
Still waiting on caspian reports video on the sabotage of the nordstream pipeline 🤫
building a pipeline was a sabotage itself
That will not happen cause we all know they don't have any missiles left only shovels and they sabotaged their own pipeline when they also controlled the on and off button.
You're gonna be waiting for a while...he's deep throated NATO propaganda for too long, so now that's the only taste he knows
how can he make a video when it's still unclear who did it, or he does it ambigously says that either usa or russia or ukraine or uk did it or he can't make a decision since there is none for now...
@@hermaeusmora2945 are you angry because he doesn't spew the propaganda from the kremlin))))
With NATO surrounding over 85% of the Baltic Sea, it should be renamed to NATO Sea.
"The only thing separating it from the rest of Russia"
not even going to pretend Belarus is a different country anymore, eh Caspian?
Belarus exists as long as Russia wants it to. The same situation with Canada. it's just a fact
@@trugssgogorf6371 lol, Canada? Is this one of those "Russia isn't bad, look the US does the exact same thing!" moments? You have to be pretty clueless to think Canada is to the USA as Belarus is to Russia.
@@Vsor Someday you will understand that the actions of states are based on strict calculation. And believe me, when the US needs a resource base, Canada will cease to exist. Whether you like it or not.
@@trugssgogorf6371sharp and calculated words, albeit the truth
@@trugssgogorf6371 Russian takes what it wants at extreme human cost from its supposed allies, the rest of the world does not. Cope harder
From 'Soviet lake' to 'NATO lake', good job Putin.
The consequences will not look nice fir europe!
Congrats fir the less than clever NATO's expansion!
From Roman Lake to international superhighway for uncontrolled immigration.Good job Europe.
@@fingerprint8479if youre saying nukes others have em too
@michakrynicki7299 Others? WHO will be the brave one to respond.........
@@michakrynicki7299 ..... and immediately become the next destination for demolition? Hahahaha
Please tell me. Hahahaha Hahahaha
Always good for a laugh when russia brings up international law 🤣 Greetings from Estonia
The baltic countries, I have lived with baltic people in the past..lovely people, but they are absolutely sick with hate towards russians. They sound like you know who talking about the jews.
@@elfornicador11 Don't be shocked. After all, look at History and see who Estonians and the rest of the Baltics aligned with in WW2, and you will have an answer.
@@elfornicador11 They remember the stories of their grand parents who saw the occupation and were deported and they daily encounter descendants of those Russian occupiers who still after half a century have not learned the country's language. Russians have been working hard to earn the hate.
@@elfornicador11 You should hear what Russians say about Ukrainians! Certainly explains the horrific acts Russians perpetuated in occupied Ukraine.
Why wouldn't you try to use something that your enemies care about if it gives you an advantage?
The Baltics make efforts to the max to support NATO, but the latter can easily ditch those small countries if the situation becomes dire.
You can't "ditch" members of alliance like in a videogame.
They are members of EU and NATO, which would force others to intervene or later would guarantee their own economies collapsing and countries destroyed if they didn't respond.
Ousting Russia from Kaliningrad would make things a lot easier for the other Baltic nations
Вытеснение НАТО из Балтий облегчит жизнь россиянам и беларусам.
Kaliningrad should be offered independence with admission to EU and NATO if they accept their own country by referendum
The problem is it's filled with Russians. It's value is negative until the Russians there are sent back to Russia.
@@Lernard-dg6xw No it doesn't mean WW3. Russia will huff and puff and threaten like when Ukraine crosses the millionth red line into Russia.
Who gives a crap about Baltic nations of 2-3 mill population with 20% Russian speakers lol. We have to focus on fighting turkey.
Russian ships in the Baltic are like Chinese ships in the first island chain, nothing but fish in a barrel. The probably will not last a day if war breaks out.
What a formidable warrior you are. Didn't your grandfather tell you how much he enjoyed fighting with us?
It's not always about strategic positioning if war breaks out. Sometimes the positioning of the resources is part of a political strategy.
Why are you even here?@@Кипящийразум
@@Кипящийразум Why is Russia such a loser country? Crammed with natural resources and glum, poverty stricken, chippy people always wanting to get into a fight, always stopping neighbors from choosing their own governments and always supporting the bad guys (eg Assad). Who'd want to live there given the choice?
Who destroyed Nord Stream 2? Who did it?
Everybody knows, it is just not allowed to say it online.
@@IvanCoDFanIt was a Ukrainian vessel acting independently. No one in Europe seems to care. Watch my comment not get deleted.
Remember the logic used by the New York Times and Wall Street journal - The Russians blew it up against Russia.
Ukrania lol
@@MarshallTheArtistand they left their passport so everyone knows it was them lol
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What program or software is used to make these gorgeous animated maps?
One of the best informative videos on UA-cam
I don't understand the fundamental adversarial role Russia adopts towards Europe. It's as though the current regime can not fathom the possibility of working in cooperation with the rest of Europe without being fundamentally in a position of dominance.
Because its ran by the soviet old guard who still see everything that the US does as being hostile to Russia, even when it explicitly isn't.
In that last part you understood Russian mentality. It's dominate or be dominated. Probably some leftover cultural trauma from the Mongols. It's why Russia would never join the European Union or NATO. These organisations require you to compromise and work with other states as equals. How can Russia treat former imperial possessions as equals? It's literally beyond comprehension for them.
What you, and many others, don't understand is:
Russian political thought centers on zero-sum thinking. Your enemy's gain is your loss.
As a consequence, it's almost impossible to have win-win deals with Russia, because any win for the other party counts as a loss for Russia.
Also, doing harm to others is a gain for Russia, in their minds.
Expect much more of the same until Nato gets serious. Because even, and in particular, the Russians respect force, power and determination.
Let me guess. Europe's strategy is win-win for all parts involved. Sure thing.
@@velisvideos6208 sounds exactly the same as US and EU
Honestly Russian geography sucks ass and explains their “hostile, belligerent, expansive” foreign policy.
They might look menacing, but in reality Russia is incredibly vulnerable in a conventional war. With that being said, it’s only vulnerable in the modern world because of its imperial aspirations, if it was content with being a middle power (i.e France/UK with nuclear weapons to deter any would be aggressor and focused on improving its economy by actually utilizing its vast natural resources, it could have been considered a great power, but instead the lunatic in the kremlin reduced it to a shithole.
Your view of Russia is honestly delusional. On all counts.
For one, its vulnerability is also an asset- nobody thus far (besides the Mongols) successfully occupied all of Russia with brute force. Any invading army would get stretched to breaking, whether by land or air.
Secondly- Russia TRIED to become a second power, a large force within the sphere of Europe.
Right after the USSR, Yeltsin showed almost comical eagerness to play along with the US geopolitically.
How was this kindness repaid? By sending US Treasury employees to Moscow to liberalize its economy and completely destroy any quality of life from the USSR. That meant hyperinflation, collapse of institutions, and a complete selloff of state assets.
Before you say that it was inevitable, Poland was put under the same 'transition' program, but was given different parameters which conspicuously led to stabilization and enrichment. Why did they insist that Russia privatize EVERYTHING, when Poland had been allowed to keep its courts and state-run companies intact just a few years earlier?
It was malice. Kicking the enemy while he was down.
Russia learned a difficult but valuable lesson: America is an ill-intentioned country.
Acting "normally" by abiding by the rules doesn't work when they're actively trying to make your standing in the world worse- that means domestically, too.
Had the USSR not spread communism, the US would still have tried to sabotage it, because it simply doesn't like peer competitors in any area.
Lastly- Putin inherited a shithole from Yeltsin. Go watch old videos of the breadlines and empty grocery stores that resulted from capitalism entering Russia.
Or just ask any Russian over 40. They'll gladly tell you what life was like under "Gorby" and his drunken successor.
You might not like his authoritarianism, but he inarguably improved the quality of life within Russia. If that makes you mad, ask yourself why.
Tell that to Napoleon and Hitler.
@@michaellarge4139to be real Germany attacked Russia who was unprepared due to their agreement to essentially not invade each other and at Stalingrad was a turning point this happened before dday if I remember correctly and Napoleon took the L in the end in pretty sure
And for every time Russija pushes there is even more pushback against Russija. I for one refuse to speak russijan since 2022. Russija really should learn to back off, and live in peace.
@@meteorknight999 Russia doesn't have any right to tell sovereign countries what alliances they are allowed to join, especially when most of them are countries that russia occupied and oppressed for decades / centuries
@@meteorknight999 Russija was not peaceful just look at how they waged war in the Caucus.
@@Infosphere-cr5bk so you are calling putin right for being unpeaceful since peace didn't matterw anyway ? They will have right to join in unpeaceful times too, so peace useless yea ?
😂Это большая потеря для нас, что ты не говоришь на русском языке🇷🇺
@@Infosphere-cr5bk Putin tried to make a deal with Ukraine because it causes threat to Russia. Ukraine denied it - so they get what they get. You can be super cool 100% sovereign country until it won't make threats to your neibours.
No matter how many aid NATO gives to Ukraine, they cannot AID manpower that is losing heavily everyday.
Russia is losing 4 times more men than Ukraine, even the North Koreans won't help, and if NATO sends men to help Ukraine, Russia is gone. Russia could finally grow up and not be like a little child always bullying others
NATO countries has been very stingy and slow with sending weapons to Ukraine! Lots of promises but but no fulfillment of them!
Russia keeps digging itself into an ever deepening hole
I always trust "leaked reports"
The majority of Russia's military in Kaliningrad has been sent to Ukraine. And with its armor horribly depleted, just what would Russia invade the Baltic with? So the Kremlin can claim anything they want but they no longer have the military power to implement it. NATO can easily mine both Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg harbors. Given the Russian navy's impotence, as demonstrated in the Black Sea, it is but huffing and puffing against a stone house.
sounds like there's nothing to worry about, NATO could be disbanded tomorrow :))
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For a success at the Suwałki as described NATO would need to be totally unaware that this "weakness"exists.
Realistically, only poland would be both able and willing to respond in time and in sufficient strength to disrupt a russian plan to cut off the suwalki gap. The thing is, any attempt by russia to amass troops in Belarus would be so obvious that a western response would be inevitable
@@doomerbloomer6160 True. Though Poland's military is very large and capable (on paper at least). I'd wager Poland alone could defeat Russia if they had a conventional war today.
Nobody talks about the fact that if an enemy force were to break through sawalki gap, that force would then be encircled on at least 3 sides, and completely surrounded if the corridor is closed off behind them
@@doomerbloomer6160 Funny because the bridges between Kaliningrad and Poland or Lithuania and Kaliningrad cannot carry more than 50 tons and all NATO tanks are more than 50 tons while Russian tanks are less
@@abrahamsorby8193 The idea, NATO countries don't have tanks to work in the passage while bridges at this region can't bear more than 50 ton
The Baltic nations are doing the right thing.
pimpin' for the petrodollar
@charleszilich3523 Cheaper than the ruble.
I wonder if Russia would built a tunnel to Kaliningrad similar to the channel tunnel that exists underneath the British channel.
Even if that were possible, tunnels don't "project" power.
It doesn't matter that moscow at one point controlled half of Baltic coast. It's because moscow occupied other nations and other countries. Baltic sea and coast never belonged to moscow through centuries. Konigsberg is still occupied, it's the matter of time when Konigsberg will be liberated.
Не мечтайте Калининград навсегда русский
@@ГеннадийСеднев-м3щ bot or idiot.
that "other countries" never existed before 20 century
Russia: "Stop NATO expansion" by invading Ukraine
*New NATO member joins due to threat from Russia.
Russia: *Surprise Pikachu face
@@TheGggg321123And Russia wasn't accepted into NATO.
Russia gave back Germany under the condition NATO wouldn't expand eastward.
USA broke that deal repeatedly and wanted to put missile systems close to Moscow.
America doesn't allow a shred of Chinese or Russian influence anywhere close to their border but Russia is supposed to accept missiles right next door after a deal was broken?
Insanity.
@@TheGggg321123 Agreed, Russia taking part of Ukraine was in response to NATO STILL expanding after 1991...
Sure or as russia got stronger more nations runned away from them and into arms of Nato .
By UN charter every country has a right to join any alliance it wants to .
People like u forgot that on night of invasion of Ukraine , russia send a ultimatum for all western institutions to move our of old eastern block and that this is 9th war of expansion since commies fell...
Finland isnt a threat. If a war with NATO started Finland would fall in like, a week, together with the baltics. Ukraine on the other hand would be a great jumping point to get to Moscow. Similar to the whole Cuba situation in the cold war with the US. Imagine if Mexico joined the Warsaw pact, thats the American equivelant to Ukraine
The missing aspect here is that Russia does not only cause delays and disunity, it also causes the opposite with many actions. The way the script of this video was written sounds like Russia is trying anything to maybe get a few tiny changes that might give it the upper hand in Ukraine. I don't see any point in the script that indicates Russias behavior might (and often has) have the opposite result of what was intended.
If you factor into account the growing complacency of european and american populations, then the tragectory is clear. Ukraine is slowly being abandoned.
@@doomerbloomer6160 Not according to the polls. I mean, if Russia's victory against the west rests on everyone in the west losing interest and giving up, Russia is just going to continue paying for its costly blundering.
@@doomerbloomer6160 I wouldn't call that complacency, Europe should care and solve their own problems but America was always a foreign actor, they have no obligation not to withdraw support for Ukraine, just like the rest of the world
Bruh, this is just basic regurgitated western propaganda to farm clicks from those who have been indoctrinated into it by the media.
@@doomerbloomer6160 Americans don't need to worry about Ukraine.
Excellent report! Thank you 🙏🏻 for this
4:10 On the contrary, Russia has a vast coastline - in the Arctic and the Pacific. But they are increasingly aggressive to impose their control where that coast actually gives access to something of value
europe decide to be pawn of the game. So it will be a fun game for them
I love Caspian report but as a Lithuanian I have to say that this video is a bit of a nothing burger. The leaked document is less valuable than used toilet paper. Yes it shows possible kremlin intent and is essentially yet another empty threat. Why empty? Russia is powerless in Baltic sea right now and they definitely are not ready to start a conflict in the Baltics for another ~5 years at least. They are very likely to continue with various sabotages and provocations. That will mostly serve for the Baltic sea countries to cooperate and integrate with each other even more. I do hope, however, that Nato will start taking a tougher stance on Russo-China provocation BS
Yes, Russo china provocations are rampant in Baltic region. It’s BS
West wont risk nuclear war because of some small Baltic countries, you are on your own, NATO wont save you, start learning how to live in peace with your neighbor instead of been used like Ukraine
Regardless of how strong russia has been in it's history on land, their navy was always a incompetent joke. I agree.
It's funny to read comments of people who don't know how Russia works. Like telling to car manufacturer how to produce cars...
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Hope it works not for long.
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@@pwp8737 oof... You have been spotted
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There is one best line in your video “In these waters one nautical mile mean strategic depth gain or lost”
Yes and no. for example Gulf of Finland. couple nautical miles means nothing, when Russian fleet has to sail 150 miles along Finnish coast. Both Estonian coast and Finnish coast have ability to dominate the gulf with pretty basic coastal defense missiles. Nothing fancy. Truck mounted RBS-15, Harpoon etc. pretty basic and by now decades old tech. Launchers which as regards to the ships are hiding in massive ground clutter of the coast. No way the ships know where the missiles might be until ones launch.
Plus there is this thing called naval mine. Any stuff starts up in baltic, Finland will truck out their naval mines stockpile and blockade the Russian end of Gulf of Finland with naval mine fields. That was the working plan in WWII and given geography having not changed its still the plan. Naval mine fields blockade the whole gulf, over watched by coastal missile launchers, which will sink any minesweepers trying to come to clear a path through the mine field. Oh and all out war at Finlands Eastern border ofcourse, but like that was always the scenario. Now it's just with "oh NATO has maybe time to spare some reinforcements for us at some point" addition. St. Petersburg is a non issue. it is geographically blocked. Worry more about Kaliningrad, it has more direct open sea access.
Not that we Finns will agree to single meter of undue border changes. That border line has been mapped and haggled decades ago after WWII peace negotiations.
The "leak" of the document wasn't a mistake, it was intentional with a goal of looking "mistake".
Russia didn't controll shit. It was Soviet Union who controlled. It was the power of many not just Russia. It's like Italy claiming the power and influence of Roman Empire😅
I think russia here means Russian empire that ruled much of Baltic Sea coast from 1721-1917.
No-one objected to Russia being the legal successor to the USSR.
@@gvibration1 That still does not mean Russia did anything in its history all on its own.
1) No, it isnt, as Rome wasnt federalized
2) Italy wouldnt even exist as a nation state idea for 1300 years after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
3) What nation held all power in the USSR?
@@rick7424Russia did a lot by themselves...
maybe the real Baltic Sea borders were the friends we made along the way
Russia is such a loser state. If it gave up its "glory to mother Russia" crap it would be a way better nation. If it had become democratic and a Western ally it would be such a successful nation. How the heck does Russia have 140 million people, was a former colonizer upto thr 1990's, has the most natural resources, connected to Europe culturally and geographically and yet has the GDP of a small European nation. This is hillariously incompetent.
Russia being democratic and an European ally would have probably become the leader of Europe by now with a 8 trillion gdp.
you have been brainwashed very well
@@pavelvladimirov2651 200 roubles have been deposited into your account. Well done comrade!
@@joebamna69 You get paid 200 rubles, I get paid in dollars
@@pavelvladimirov2651 lmao, kacap feelings hurt. Yes, russia is a loser state. Imagine having all the resources in the world and still living like shit XD thats ruski mir for you
@@pavelvladimirov2651 What is your excuse for having GDP smaller than Italy? They have 58M people, Russia has 143M, more than double, AND you're the richest country by resources, somehow still living like 20th century peasants. It's mind blowing.
This is not the Slavic way, this is the Mongoloid way. If you had any pride, you would not send your kids to their deaths, Slavs killing Slavs. For shame if you can feel it.
6:52 How has NATO chipped away Russian influence? Quite the contrary they have less dependence on the West and strengthen alliances from the East
Lmao
As always, great work!!
most likely, RUS are not nearly as genius as they believe themselves
Maybe so but they don't fuck around like we in the west and US does. The Russians have more balls than any of us.
Or they are working with other nations, and they are testing the western capabilities, while they are preparing for all our war.
Russia needs cia
yeah... that's a given. The mongols clearly dropped them on their head too many times.
What an ignorant comment. This channel is filled with bots
6:04 😂 Freudian slip there lad. Belarus isn’t russia, although it has increasingly felt like it
Russians invaded Ukraine from Belarus territory.
I beg the difference? =)
@@stoissdk about the same as Germany not being the US
@@DakuHonooNot even close
@@DakuHonoo That is just adorable, if that was the case, then Taurus would've been sent along with Leopards and other things since day 1.
Germany is more influenced by Russia then U.S, if you know what you're talking about. You wouldn't know that since you're just a useful idiot, or a plain kremlin bot.
Russia will lose their exclave and Kaliningrad will once again be called Königsberg.
To dispel any harsh feelings, it will become a separate and independent Baltic state.
Or just a EU no tax haven, where scandinavians can buy cheap beer and vodka ;)
@micumatrix I like the way you think! 😊
Its Coercion not Coertion ;) I had to look it up as a native english speaker, really appreciate the work you put into your videos.
Thanks for yet another excellent video
Russia must be pushed back to their 1420 Border, with no sea access
Who are you to decide that?
@@FensouNMiles God
Go ahead and do it then though guy 😂😂
@@FensouNMiles People with the best guns decide. That ain't Russia.
@@IloveDoubleD *Coughs in Oreshnik*
Great content, Shirvan. Thanks!
A chinese shipping vessel just cut two fiber optic cables connecting Finland and Germany.
Bs Chinese vessels are not operating in the Baltic Sea, that's the same as saying that invisible North Korean Troops are attacking Kiev!
The ship was Russian crewed, so it was a Russian operation all along.
@@Shiwator same thing
Imagine if russia put the same effort into their own well being as they put into harassing their neighbours
"chinese"
it just changed flags from russian the week before the sabotage
plans don't always survive first contact was gold
Thsnk you very much for this very insightful analysis of the current situation in the baltic sea ! ❤😊💎
My favorite channel for geopolitics. Not only are your view points, interesting, and often outside of the box, but your graphics are top-notch as well. Keep up the good work.
Favorite channel for propaganda, has also been wrong about everything on the Ukrainian war
Ukraine doesnt even have a navy and decimated the Black Sea Fleet
The Russian Army and Marines just took Vuhledar after 2 years, a place similar in size to the small welsh town of Haverfordwest. I dont think they can deceive anyone about taking the Suwalki gap anymore...
Haverfordwest is a metropolis bro 💪 Greatest town in the world
NATO should have taken Koenigsberg the day Putin took Crimea. Smiled across the table and said "you got your oil fields, we got the Baltic back"
*Final quote:* Redrawing borders or threatening to do so is crucial to Russia's hybrid war against NATO. Should the Baltic allies give way, they will quickly find that Russia doesn't just redraw maps; it redraws rules too.
Giant Russia calling for rat North Korea for help to defeat midget Ukraine. who for 3 years has held off Giant Russia and given it a bloody nose....its that embarassing.
“Midget Ukraine”???? They have been subsidized by the whole western world, since 2014. It’s a proxy war being fought. Although not a proxy on both sides. It’s the United States vs Russia, although the U.S. has not committed any of their forces. Yes North Korea is a rat. But so is ALL of Western Europe and the U.S.
Like American Retreat in Afganistan 😅
@deypriyajit
Large differences in a planned pullout (albeit uproot and poorly handled) but America always stated they were leaving Afghanistan.
It's not the same situation in the slightest. Russias failure to Take Kiev was legitimately pathetic. The war since has shown their weaknesses, and some strengths. But they aren't the big bear we were all afraid of, and if it weren't for nuclear weapons, they'd be in a class w/ Iran.
@@deypriyajit like Russia struggling to beat Ukraine for 3 years now hahaha
russia is not even in war, most people just live thir lives not giving shit about whats happening, there was no mobilization except that 300k in the beginning. and no evidence of a single north korean was shown anywhere. and ukraine is no midget, it is like what? 30 million people country I guess? armed by the whole NATO alliance? whats embarrassing here?
Hardly breathtaking. Maritime disputes exist all over the globe. The major one being in the South China Sea with China's so called nine dash line. In the Past the UK has also had disputes with Norway and France until we surrendered to the EU.
There is no other country that behaves so much as an empire and still claims to be anti-imperialistic #MakeRussiaSmallAgain
Try the USA
Try USA, FR, GB
Lithuania
Why do you want to return Little Russia (part of modern Ukraine without Novorossiya and Lviv)?
Nicedy written. If you remember the CGP Grey videos of early UA-cam, yours are just as well executed and informative. Thanks for your work.
Russia wants a second front? Well, then let's give them one 😂
Sure, war monger:)
@sikandarrana6377 that name applies best to Putin, who actually caused the first shots to be fired.
@@daszieher Yes he bombed, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, Laos, Bosnia, Yemen, Panama, Grenada etc, etc, nuked Hiroshima, Nagasaki, invaded Russia in First World War. Yes that’s true and verifiable, check out the history of Americans invading Russia from both ends Vladivostok and St, Petersburg. I am sure the war monger Putin caused all that and a bag of chips.
Easy to say that when you don't live in those border countries? Ordinary citizens of Baltic don't want their country to become ukrane 2.0, so instead of escalating war, make peace and try go back how things were back in 2000s
@@daszieher Are you fighting in Ukraine?
ever after the cable video I just think this guy over dramatizes a bit all the time xD but i guess views are money (:
I can’t believe It’s been ten years now. I remember watching the origins of isis video a decade ago this time. Shirvan still going strong
It's called consistency
Nah, he sold his soul. Now it's just a NATO propaganda channel..
Wow… thank you for sticking around for so long!
@@CaspianReport Great work Shirvan. Thanks for doing this.
An extremely valuable report! Thank you.
Please leave the clear mark where where ads are so we can skip that part. Ty.
Did ChatGPT write Russian strategy? It is just same tone deaf waffle every time.
The Nordics need to just close the straits to all Russian shipping.
and then Russia will close traffic across the entire Baltic Sea
@@pavelvladimirov2651 How? With their "navy" swimming onto NATO waters? They would get deleted faster they could blink in their rustcans LMAO
@ lol. Russia is too weak to do that.
@@blafonovision4342 Lol so Sweden is now stronger than Russia?
@ consider that Ukraine is a lot weaker than Sweden? Yes.
Take a bow good sir good, great geopolitical, non-bias content
VERY VERY interesting and enlightening. Thank you
The truth is that the baltic sea is losing relevance and importance to Russia as time goes on. Global warming have melted the majority of ice in north pole which opens up a gigantic shore where Ru can build up new sea routes. It's Russia now who has more stake in its control with its dominance in the north pole which is a mega shortcut east to west.
The resource that russia is after in the baltics (and pretty much everywhere else) is not just the sea. It craves dominance over the people for taxes, along with knowlage and hardware. 2 things that the russian gov fails to build in its own borders due to the systems in place. A common pattern for russia is "If you can not steal it, build it". Meaning thay will put maximum effort on theft and if that fails, thay will maybe cobble something together from scraps.
You are right! Baltic marine route is no longer that important as it was in 19th century. Baltic states now dying wasteland
The Black Sea marine route is now playing crucial role for Russia's trade with the other world. That is why Putin fighting for Crimea tooth and nail
@@DarrelX-im2hb If baltic sates are a wasteland, then russia is a dystopian nightmare. But its good that you recognized why the russian führer really went into Crimea. He didnt go to "save" the people, he went to conquer a strategic military resource.
@@DarrelX-im2hbda Komrad. Zdesj tvoj 5 rubl
How about you stop deleting and censoring comments?
*nm* -- means nanometer, and this abbreviation is already used internationally. Please, do add confusion with other meaning of *nm*
@robertab929 Don't get me wrong but anyone with common sense would understand that nm means nautical mile in this context, especially with maps.
@@kasugaryuichi9767 Author could use abbreviation *nmi* OR *NM* which are used by many organizations
@@robertab929 Well he didn't, and you could still understand what it means, given the context as the first reply said.
Bravo for getting the geography right 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
If Turkey has control over who goes through their strait of Bosperous in times of war, Denmark and Sweden should have control over our Strait... and should have been blockading all Russian shipping since the start of the war..
15:09 "Russia doesn't just redraw maps, it redraws rules." Well, to be frank, we, the West, have been redrawing rules for years. I mean, we always speak of the "rules-based order", but we actually mean our rules, and on our orders.
So, let's tone down the bias. Because... Well, let's use a bit of nuance, here. Do you know which country military intervened or invaded the most other sovereign countries during the last 3 decades? It isn't Russia or China - the countries we, the West, like to categorize as "warmongering". No. It's the US. This is a fact, you can look it up yourself, if you want. The US invaded or military intervened in: Grenada, Nicaragua, Libya (twice), Panama, Honduras, Colombia, Iraq (twice), Somali, Sudan, Afghanistan (twice), Serbia, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, etc., etc. It waaaay outweighs what any other country has done in the last 30 years, and then I'm not even counting the interventions "by proxy". So, it's all good and well to now tout our moral superiority, but if you really look into it, we're extraordinary hypocritical in this, and really have no standing to lecture others.
And, yes, if our governments see no qualms in invading other sovereign countries, then so may other countries decide the same. You can't just apply "international law" selectively, and punish others if they do it, but not if we do it ourselves.
So. If we remain consistent, then: if we can redraw the rules, then so can another.
NATO has been surrounding and isolating Russia since 1990 and when Russia reacts it is suddenly labeled as the aggressor. Strange business and strange use of words to mislead people.
@@DD-1971 Isn't weird that countries once under the influence of Russia run away from Russia as fast as they can?
@@rena-mq2bgthese countries doesn't count the fact that Russia did try to be friends in 1991, Russia made generous step and withdrew forces without any war, although it was strictly against our security interest.
But there countries think of themselves only, why after this betrayal we think ever about their interests?
@@vladsome6026 If you are a victim of abuse, would you stay with the abuser because he offers you coffee and cake one time?
Nice whataboutism, disregarded
In order to change any sea borders, one needs to have a navy. Russia doesnt. Whats the problem, again?
I’m not sure any of those Baltic countries have a real navy.
Nato , a mysteriously unelected body needs to be held to account for the many war crimes they have committed (Libya ffs for starters ) and general political interference resulting in Ukraine etc .
Spotted the Kremlin bot. :)
Ork spotted.
Also
"Mysterious" really? One can look up now nsgo is organized and how it's leaders are determined on Wikipedia, on God's forsaken Wikipedia.
I didnt learn anything from this video, and what is the situation but its still a nice vid. Keep it up man
Russia has influence on their own territory they somehow overlook. Remove corruption, create conditions for investment, educate population. But it is easier to fight hypothetical external military threats and convince population that "Anglo-Saxon empire wants to conquer Russia to steal its vast resources".
Excellent work my friend!! Spreading the word of the mischievous actions of the Russians is of utmost importance. Keep up the great work and continue your extensive research and produce more insightful and knowledgeable videos!
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This video is pure propaganda. What research? He just gets the text from the CIA at this point. He was once objective, but now it's like he is part of the operation Mockingbird..
And, never spread the word of the mischievous actions of any other country other than Russia. Yeah, keep up the great work.
@@thetruechaby impossible, we all have been told that only Russia and a few of her allies can do bad things. Us in the west are just morally better in every way right? We have never invaded a country out of national security, we’ve never conducted operations because a state has attacked our citizens. We’ve never lied to the public about what we do abroad… oh wait. Maybe is in the west aren’t morally superior to Russia
@@thetruechaby If you are saying you are pro Russia or stand side by side with anything regarding Russia, just announce it. Don't sugar coat it
Biden's last gift to the world
The worst president in history
Trump about to surrender to Russia
@@awlex you mean stopping ww3
Biden left this mess intentionally
@@Brandonhayhew Trump will surrender intentionally
This is so skewed, it's almost funny. Who is this channel funded by?
Some anti-Russian westener, probably.
Skewed to what? Russia is an aggressor, and does not deserve advocacy or the illusion of equality to Ukraine in the war,
By most of these Nafo bots
Very strange feeling when @CaspianReport doing video about your country.
These 3 words describe US and NATO.
Sweden have the ability to takw out the whole russian baltic fleet in one strike and have had so for half a century.
Ussr once chalange this in 1981 but the amiral in comand remebered that he didnt want to die that day and chickened out.
Yea.. when ussr staired eye to eye with sweden . The incident got the name "wiskey on the rocks"
DO you not realize what a single Sarmat missile can carry or are you just a masochist lobbying for the weapon industry?
Russia wants to change their maritime borders like China has done, and continues to do. Why can't countries like Russia and China be happy with what they have? Why do they need to add constant stress on other countries?
Because strategy.
Both of these countries are easly crushed by any major power, simply by blockading them.
China need a lot of Oil from the Middle East, and send their exports on the same naval way.
The problem is, that they don't have any real naval control, and their opponents can blockade one naval straight and bleed Chinese economy out.
They also locked up by a naval chain, unable to do any military operation freely, and there is an unsinkable carrier (Taiwan) in their doorsteps.
In the case of Russia, it has 4 Naval exit, all locked up. Black Sea fleet is controlled by Turkey alone. Baltic Fleet by Norway, Denmark, Poland, and now even Sweden Finland etc. Pacific fleet locked up by Japan and South Korea. And the North Fleet is by USA Canada and the UK.
In the case of Ukraine, they controled the most important naval port, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, has many resource, good industry, AND (which also true to Taiwan) if the Russian (or Chinese) realize, that Ukraine (Taiwan) there able to work as a modern, democratic European (Or should I call it "West") state, then the autocratic corrupt systems of Russia (China) would also fall.
In short: To keep your system, you need outside enemies to blame. To be capable against those enemies, you need strategic geopolitical locations, which can control your whole economy. To get those, you made more enemies, who join up with your already made enemies.
Because they are ruled by thugs and when you give in to thugs, they’ll come back for more.
Meanwhile NATO can’t make a decision on who blew up Nord Stream
I did it.
They already know who did it. It was Ukraine. I think the German government responded with something along the lines of "it wouldn't help with public perception if we revealed who did it". Don't remember the actual wording though, but that's the general idea.
@@lycanthossэто была не Украина, это было НАТО (США, Великобритания). Скидывают ответственность на покойника, которому всё равно не жить
involving 3 of its members mind you: Holland, Denmark and Germany. Next thing you know, half of Europe is buying more expensive gas.
If a country said Russia did it, it would warrant a response and nobody wants to carry it out. If a country said someone else than Russia did it, it would undermine alliances. So there is no interest in publically stating anything. The pipeline was a disgrace and should never have been built in the first place anyway, so good riddance.
Could you make a video about Cuba and your opinion about the future of its communist regime? Please note that the Cuban regime is an open collaborator and ally of Putin´s Russia, and it has even sent mercenaries to Russia to fight against Ukraine.
You're showing Finland as a part of the Soviet empire at 3:49. That is not factual. There were no soviet military presense in Finland during the cold war nor was Finland part of the Warsaw pact.
It showed it as part of RU empire, which is factual
Самое забавное, что США и другие страны иногда расширяют свои воды. Но вот дела до этого нет никому, а если РОССИЯ, то все, это повод для хейта и так далее...
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