This and their fluctuating relationship with Kosovo, a close ally of the US in the Balkans. Also you can split Bosnia into 2, with Srpska being more pro Russia.
is this was supposed to be "The Second Cold War " map then having Russia dark red makws no sense as it should be China that should be dark red, Russia is only a local player here - "junior partner" to China
@@Cashman9111honestly what I’m observing is an ever growing ‘axis’ out of Russia, China, and Iran. They all have the common goal of breaking American hegemony but they all have immense differences in what they want from a post American world
They mostly lean towards Russia tho, historically, the USSR (and later Russia) have always had good relations. Especially when the west supported Pakistan.
@@TheAmericanPrometheus True, the U.S is indeed trying, but that's mainly to counter China, not Russia. India literally just developped a very capable missile together (BrahMos) and is buying like 13 times more oil now. It's definitely leaned towards Russia.
@@houseplant1016eh about the oil thing, india is buying more russian oil cause its cheaper for them to buy from russia, there's nothing russia can do about it cause the only way for them right now is india
Yep. India is the greatest example. And what's more difficult is they are also a US ally, however also part of BRICS. That's why I think personally they should be white. It's too difficult to decide on a side
Here are some ideas I have for other colors: Purple - Pro-Russia and Pro-West (i.e. India, Turkey) Yellow - Pro-China (i.e. China, Laos) Orange - Pro-Russia and Pro-China (i.e. Kazakhstan) Green/Lime - Pro-China and Pro-West (i.e Pakistan)
The officials of Bosniaks and Croats in Bosnia are in support of Ukraine, while the Serbs support Russia. I guess if we go by majority, Bosnia should be colored blue.
The thing is, the 2-side view of the world used to be true in the Cold War, but as we're moving to a multi-polar war, you see the sides being very different in different regions of the world. For example Russia has good relations with China and India, but those two are on the brink of war. At the same time, you see traditional allies like Turkey and Azerbaijan, that are on very good terms bilaterally and support eachother in Armenia/Nagorno-Karabakh, but have very strategies in the wider Middle-East, and especially the Gaza Crisis.
Well, Cold War actually had something like this though so it's not that unique. Moscow having good relations and ties with two of it's allies, that despise each other and are predicted to go to war? Somalia and Ethiopia before Ogaden war. Other states playing their own game in the region outside of two "oficial" sides? Rhodesia and South Africa comes to mind. Personally, I'm not quite sure the current geopolitical state of our world even qualified to be called "Second Cold War". The lines are much more blurry and the world is not divided by ideological disagreements, it's more like collective interests of the Western powers coliding against "rule-breakers" states that do not even cooperate that much with each other on the deep levels.
I disagree, while there may be local interests with countries Like Turkey or China the United States is still such a dominate power block everyone else falls into either a Pro, or Anti US camp at least for now. Turkey having it's own goals in the middle east is true for the most part all it's done is fight Iranian and Russian backed groups, and it lacks the recourses to stand as a major power on it's own. As for India friendly reactions with Russia or not if China lunches a full scale invasion they will get some level of US support, same for any country directly attacked by China, Russia or Iran, thus melding the 3 Alliance blocks together While there many things that could end it in the future, such as a war between china and Russia over Siberia, Iran causing major trouble in both of those powers with their Islamic minorities or the US taking a isolationist turn strategically, the 2 sided view of the world is viable, least for now
People are most curious about which side India will be on because of its relations with China, but it depends more on Pakistan, so if we think that India will be on the opposite side to Pakistan, it is a nice map 🔥
@@cajunpoweras I know as we do not use any hindu nationalist bjp have not problem other minorities about muslim it mostly on historical issue but as I know they do not hate muslim india most neutral on Ukraine russia war and israel Palestine war
@@cajunpowerwell ,as a hindu nationalist (not the minority oofing variety) i'd say it depends. Hindu nationalism is a large umbrella, we have many factions but 3 large groups , such as the pro west group of bjp in which I am , which makes the smallest of the 3 , according to my own experience about 17% of NDA supporters , we mainly want a hindu nation that is a democratic country and is minority friendly but embraces it's original hindu culture like the hans do in china . Then the 2nd one is Russia friendly (but not china) , they are our extreme members , they either want an autocratic state or even a theocratic state . They want a "strong man" figure to lead the country According to my experience, they make up about 21-24% of NDA members, but these are also the most vocal ones . The largest group and the absolute majority are the people who want what benefits India rather than one side of this cold war , ie they want a third side and a multipolar world , they lean somewhere between my ideology and a theocratic state Tldr : it's really complicated but we will most likely join the side that benifits us the most so probably the west since Russia is a dirt bag
Slovakia and Hungary should be white at worst. Both countries still send humanitarian aid to Ukraine after all, and don't question their membership in the Western world. They also both condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine and consider it as a violation of the international law, Orban himself said it recently during the Visegrad Group Summit
No. Slovakia scammed Ukraine about production of self propelled artillery and doesn't follow the contract, while orban openly supports ending the war by allowing Russia to stay with the lands they stole. They are definitely not neutral
I think Russia has declined to only being a middle power and the war in Ukraine proves that. The only super powers are China, USA and perhaps Europe if they get their act together. The biggest non super power is India and who they ally with will be vital in deciding the balance of power in future decades.
And plus they are just two of the factions; the Rohingyas are pro-Iran/Houthi and there are many ethnic minority rebels who are aligned with god knows who (some say China)
Switzerland is better neutral honestly. Not even for the meme, they didn't even condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine right away, rather when they were pressured into siding. They have no interest in any of the wars, nor do they want to join NATO or the EU anytime soon. I do agree that if there were to pick a side it's blue but still, white is probably the best. I do agree with everything else in your list though
You have quickly become my favorite mapping channel. Covering history is great but covering history *as it is happening* is such an amazing concept. It is also easier for us who have other ocupations to keep updated with the whole geopolitical situation. Thank you and keep up doing such amazing work!
Great idea! A few things i would change: -i haven't researched it enough but chinese influence in the pacific has been growing and i think countries might be considered leaning towards China -Armenia is also a difficult situation. They have been historically pro-russian but this seems to have changed lately. They did sign some pretty important military treaties with France lately, and some european countries (again France especially) have openly supported Armenia rather than Azerbaijan lately. So i guess maybe these 2 countries could be considered neutral, or at least Armenia could
I know it might make the map a lot harder to read, but maybe you could try colouring countries like india, pakistan, saudi arabia, hungary, etc. with red and blue stripes. for example, hungary might be medium blue/light pink, because they're a part of the EU and NATO, but are also somewhat sympathetic towards russia. politically
Perhaps Armenia could be very light blue. I remember reading that Armenia distanced itself from Russia after Moscow was silent during Azerbaijan's complete subjugation of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia has held military exercises with America, and I think was considering leaving CSTO. They've also sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine as well, I believe.
Moscow was silent because the Armenian government let the attack happen and stopped claiming the territory. Pashanyan is the biggest traitor to Armenia
@@captainmcawesome7908I don't see the lie, west are like less 30% human population and even latinamerican populations supports more russia/chinese narrative than the west one, so gtfo son
3:05 the first one was pretty good! Aspides means "Shields" in Greek. By the way, Egypt is also supporting the mission in the Red Sea, because they're losing out big time due to trade restrictions on the Suez
I had a similar idea to this as I myself also like making maps. On my map though I had the idea of coloring Russia yellow while keeping China red and the US/West blue (I thought about also maybe coloring Iran green but I don't know if I should go with that or not). I like having the multiple colors cause it shows more context on political alliances as it is a multi-polar world nowadays. India is pro-Russia but anti-China so it'd be a lighter yellow as only an example. I also think for nations allied to more than one color (think Pakistan in your case), I'd mix in both colors, but I'll leave that up to you. I think your map looks really good nonetheless. Keep it up!
This are changes I will do to this map: Pls Haití, India and Pakistan shold be in white (also Afganistan) Venezuela and Cuba should be more red Vietnam and Switzerland should be slightly in the blue colour I would like a better representation of the African conflicts anyway , great job!
I'd recommend making India neutral and colouring Hungary and Slovakia very light blue. If it comes down to it, they'll side with the west but they are still somewhat supportive of Russia
I have actually been making a map just like this for the past couple of years and used your last video on the de facto world map to expand my map. there's definitely a lot of differences between countries on mine. I even call mine the Modern Cold War map
I'm from Brazil and your point is very correct, even last year we were buying Russian oil. Our current president has always been anti-American, but that type of criticize and praise
You could perhaps do stripes or use purple colors to describe the mixed relation countries. I don't know how confusing that would be to actually do though lol Very much in favor of this becoming a weekly thing as you mentioned, I've been looking for some source of information on global matters.
I had a similar project back in 2021, I ended up not updating anymore since the map I was using didn't show every unrecognised country and because I didn't have any time for it. For the EU I had always thought about highlighting its border and colouring that, tho it probably wouldn't look as good. For India (and Iran and Türkiye as well) I chose to colour them in a different colour (green, orange, and purple respectively), together with the countries that were close to them politically (for example Türkiye, Azerbaijan, and N Cyprus were bundled up together). Anyways, I think of it as a fantastic idea, it would be really interesting and useful to follow such a project
My suggestions: 1. Serbia pink; Hungary/Slovakia stay pink, Switzerland stays white 2. Include wars in Ethiopia, Libya, CAR, Myanmar and Somalia even though they aren´t proxy wars (maybe add yellow colour for neutral warring factions) cause these wars are still necessary for a weekly world news series. 3. Include the other EAC countrys in light blue 4. MAYBE (idk so much about it) make the subconitinent situation all-white since the Anti-Indian factions are pro-chinese and India anti-chinese even though China being a major red player.
My suggestions: 1. Serbia pink; Hungary/Slovakia stay pink, Switzerland stays white, Usbekistan pink cause of SCO and GUS membership 2. Include wars in Ethiopia, Libya, CAR, Myanmar and Somalia even though they aren´t proxy wars (maybe add yellow colour for neutral warring factions) cause these wars are still necessary for a weekly world news series. 3. Include the other EAC countrys in light blue 4. MAYBE (idk so much about it) make the subconitinent situation all-white since the Anti-Indian factions are pro-chinese and India anti-chinese even though China being a major red player.
I get that this is an oversimplification, but we have to recognise a very crucial difference between the First and Second Cold War the first one was a "bipolar" conflict, i.e. Two superpowers fighting for global hegemony by fighting in proxy wars which would determine the alignment of each state. This war was won by the US, establishing a "unipolar" world order in which they alone dominate world affairs. Not everyone is happy about this arrangement and a coalition composed of emerging superpowers and regional powers emerged seeking to undermine US hegemony and create a "multipolar" world in which no power dominates globally. Other than that they have little in common and often find themselves fighting each other, like how Russia and China are competing for influence in Central Asia, China flirting with the Taliban while it is fighting Iran, and there's plenty of other examples. To keep it oversimplified I think the colours should be based on their relationship with the US alone with Blue being friendly and Red meaning hostile rather than a spectrum between Russian alignment and American alignment like how it was in the First Cold War, since it is outright wrong in some cases like China which is definitely more dominant in it's relationship with Russia or India which is friendly with both Russia and the US.
Ok, so I think there're a few things incorrect with this map, so here's my thoughts on what should change. -Brazil is still under the Lula's administration, so it should be light red. -Both India and Turkey have mixed alliances, so I would suggest painting them in a 3rd color or a mix of red and blue, as "mixed alliances". -Cambodia is currently being invested heavily by China, and it stills supports China in the South China Sea matters, so it should be red. -Call me out if I'm wrong, but isn't the post Sadamn government of Irag is a US puppet, so even if the Iraqi population resents the US occupation, shouldn't it be light blue.
Hey, I also made a west vs east map like this. Though west vs east alignments are quite ambiguous, since many countries are playing both sides and have their own immediate interests. For example I coloured turkey and azerbaijan purple as there own factional block.
EU ambassadors have allowed the allocation of 5 billion euros for the purchase of weapons for Ukraine, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU reports. This means that Ukraine will also be supported by: Ireland, Malta and Austria!
I think a major difference between this cold war and the previous one is that the third world (lead by India and Brazil) is much, much tougher. It's really an independent "don't get us involved in your silly shenanigans" bloc which is veeeerrry loosely unified by a desire to see a more multipolar world. India, Brazil, Turkey, much of South America and most of Africa and Southeast Asia aren't so much anti-western as they are ambivalent about the west, and many of these nations also have disagreements with western countries and Russia-China aligned countries. India is the biggest example. India is deeply suspicious of China, with which they have huge border disputes, conflicts over water and a grudge due to China's attempts to surround them via the string of pearls. However India is also suffering from significant democratic backsliding (or at least a backlash against western style liberalism) and retains amicable relations with Russia and Iran. India's greatest geopolitical rival, Pakistan, is friendlier to China than it is to the United States. Turkey is a member of NATO which has huge issues with Russia regarding it's support for the Assad regime, but also has huge issues with the Americans regarding American support for the Kurds, and is much more willing to negotiate diplomatically with Russia than almost any other member of NATO. Saudi Arabia has been moving closer to China since the beginning of the Biden administration and especially since the start of the war in Gaza. Finally, I would caution against depicting the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran triangle as a unified alliance rather than an informal dictator's support club unified purely based on weakening American hegemony (and in the case of Russia and China, cooperating against islamist terrorism in Central Asia - which is a rather loose term given that the Chinese Communist Party seem to think terrorism = Uyghurs). They will all quickly turn on each other if they achieve their goal of a general American withdrawal from Eurasian affairs. I'm not saying this to critique the map, which is of course amazing, and you are of course aware of how oversimplified this is. I don't want to discourage you. I think the issue with mapping the myriad entangling alliance systems and overlapping influences in the modern world is that depicting them all would create so much overlap that it would make any 100% accurate geopolitical map illegible. It's a weakness inherent in the art of mapmaking rather than any failure on your part. But this system you've invented here is by far the most comprehensive I've seen anyone use, and I look forward to seeing how you update it as time passes!
I think you should have extra colours when it comes to Turkey-Iran-Pakistan- India - China relations, as your enemies enemy isnt always your friend. Also you have a good voice, you should do more videos like this👍
I tried to make a map like this, with mostly the same results. However, I found it quite difficult to determine the allegiances of most African countries. Also, the world is more complicated today than during the first cold war. Some countries, like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and India should be colored as the centers of their own smaller regional blocks. Also: where did you get the blanc map for this? It's often hard to find a suitable one.
The idea is interesting. However, trying to simplify this 2nd cold war based on only 2 camps focusing in a single conflict (ukraine war) may be impossible. We are entering a period were there ware multiple cold wars happening at the same time. Some are aligned and others are not. Perhaps a better option (more labor intensive) would be to create multiple maps (1 for each conflict hot spot). Though this could require more work, it could provide better results. Example: * Map 1 regarding the ukraine war global position, though this could also be replaced by a map regarding Russia challenging NATO with Ukraine as the battlefield (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 2 USA vs China (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 3 regarding Israel x Palestine global position (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 4 regarding China vs Taiwan Global position (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 5 regarding Iran vs Israel global position (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 6 N.Korea vs S.Korea (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 7 India vs China (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) With those maps ready, you could use those % values in order to merge all 7 maps into a single 8th map. The color scheme would probably end up quite varied.
For countries like Brazil where there are a lot of tribal nations within it, I would suggest adding something separated like a little not that says they support one side or the other or only color the parts that are directly under the Brazilian Government's control.
1. India should stay red. 2. Serbia should turn red. 3. Haiti should be white. 4. Colombia should be blue. 5. Turkey should be white 6. Switzerland should be blue
I think that Turkey should be the same colour as Hungary and Slovakia. All 3 are in NATO but all 3 are also led by populist conservatives with pro-Russia/imperialist leanings.
The Netherlands technically sent one staff officer to fight the Houti’s. The current government is very pro us but the most probable next one is more sceptical
My take on the Myanmar conflict: the junta is hard cause China supported forces against them but otherwise: - peoples defense forces are mostly pro Western maybe light blue - the northeastern ethnic armies are + kachin, wa, the communists, ... are reliant on China and should maybe be lite red - other ethnic armies are mostly neutral
*Map of political alignment* Community: "100 nuanced takes, on the history of superpowers" *Is there a genicide in gaza?* Community: "haha Transnistria belongs to Bolivia haha"
5:36 it won’t flare up. There is only one road that crosses the border and it goes through Brazil. Any offensive would have to go through dense uninhabited forrest with no roads. Such a war is unfeasible and to say otherwise is a maduro cope
I feel like Chile should be neutral, especially with the current government, they are in situation like Brazil but with the US, west leaning but openly critical of some OTAN policies. Chile openly supports Ukraine, but it also strongly disapproves of Israel campaigns in Gaza. Chile also has very positive relations with China.
Love the work, and I agree in the global possessions as you represented them, but I feel like the Western and Eastern Blocs are different in nature. While NATO has strengthened their alliance and structure after the Soviet Collapse, the new Eastern Bloc works differently. Key players present complete different ideologies, they may work together because of shared objectives at any given time, but their geopolitical affinity is the result of Western pressure rather than anything else. I think the big 3 players: China, Russia and Iran, should each have a unique color, maybe in tonality of a warm color to denote their closeness. I do agree that there are players that play differently, Turkey and India, maybe Brazil, but their influence outside their border is limited. I don’t like the idea of them being a mixed country. At the end Turkey is part of NATO and India of the BRICS+ I do adhere to the notion that the world, geopolitically, is going in to be multipolar, with different nations taking regional relevance and their alignment to the great powers will be more limited than seen in the Cold War.
Switzerland 🇨🇭, although all the memes or jokes say that they are the most neutral country in the world I would say they would be Ukraine/USA leaning because first they have eu policy’s and they have somewhat recently condemned Russia 🇷🇺 in the war in ukrain
Sri lanka is not allied to china against india. Srilanka is allied to both india and china in a kind of mediocre way. And sri lanka is way more leaning to the red team than blue.
Armenia is distancing from Russia. It should not be pink in this map. + Azerbaijan clearly has allience with Russia since february 2022, 2 days before the Ukraine invasion . They cooperated in the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh and they are prepearing for invasion on Armenia, Azerbaijan from outside and Russia from inside of Armenia. I don't know what opinion will you have on this , but Azerbaijan is not the country of the West that much .
@@hazzmati yes, I am totally serious. Currently Azerbaijan controls Armenian territories , and from the day of invasion , CSTO did nothing to help Armenia, Russia did nothing too. Azerbaijan is planning the invasion , and they will not stop until they occupy the Syunik province of Armenia .
@@armenianmapper3168 but why? Sorry for all the questions I'm trying to understand the conflict as best as possible. I looked it up Syunik province is populated almost entirely by Armenians and it is not an exclave within Azerbaijan like Nagorno-karabh. Plus its rightful territory of Armenia.
@@hazzmati Starting from 1918-1921 and 1991 Azerbaijan tried to occupy the whole Syunik province. Nakhijevan was cleansed from Armenians during 20th century, Artsakh canished last year , now the Syunik province is the last barrier between Turkey and Azerbaijan. They call it "Zangezur corridor" and they will do everything to occupy this territory , and this is now a life or death question for Armenia and its independence. Even if Syunik is full of Armenians , Azerbaijan will do a genocide to clean Armenians out of the Syunik. In Azerbaijan right now there is a total propaganda , where Armenia is called "Western Azerbaijan" and claim that Armenians never existed and they came only when Russians occupied these territories in 19th century (I'm serious). They are falsificating the whole history and also they destroy the physical marks of Armenian presence. Churchs , Crossrocks and Christiann-Armenian architectures are being destroyed right now in Artsakh, like how they did that happened in Nakhijevan. The only provacators here are Russia , Turkey and Azerbaijan. Armenia is the one who is defending itself from ethnic cleansing and occupation from the dictatirships .
I think trying to compare this to the previous one is problematic. We used to be in a bipolar world during the previous one while now we’re moving to more multipolar world. I’d say adding more colors and nuance to the different sides
acho que você está correto em deixar o brasil branco, nossa política externa é de neutralidade apesar de atualmente haver esforços para não penalizar a rússia devido ao BRICS - é algo a se pensar. ótimo vídeo :).
If Hungary and Slovakia are red, Serbia should definitely be red also. They're even more supportive of Russia.
This and their fluctuating relationship with Kosovo, a close ally of the US in the Balkans. Also you can split Bosnia into 2, with Srpska being more pro Russia.
@@ninjawarrior8994didn’t they stop being staunch allies of Russia after the invasion of Ukraine and is now actively trying to get closer to the west?
is this was supposed to be "The Second Cold War " map then having Russia dark red makws no sense as it should be China that should be dark red, Russia is only a local player here - "junior partner" to China
@@Prororo Vucic still makes declarations favouring Russia tho
@@Cashman9111honestly what I’m observing is an ever growing ‘axis’ out of Russia, China, and Iran. They all have the common goal of breaking American hegemony but they all have immense differences in what they want from a post American world
I would call India neutral, I think their non alignment policy is pretty huge
They mostly lean towards Russia tho, historically, the USSR (and later Russia) have always had good relations. Especially when the west supported Pakistan.
@@houseplant1016 India does cooperate with the US on security issues via the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue though
@@TheAmericanPrometheus True, the U.S is indeed trying, but that's mainly to counter China, not Russia. India literally just developped a very capable missile together (BrahMos) and is buying like 13 times more oil now. It's definitely leaned towards Russia.
Nah the true alignment is cricket. Combine all the cricketing countries, like Australia (totally no discrepancies in this blanket statement)
@@houseplant1016eh about the oil thing, india is buying more russian oil cause its cheaper for them to buy from russia, there's nothing russia can do about it cause the only way for them right now is india
This is hard, because “pro-Russian” doesn’t necessarily mean allied with China as well
Yep. India is the greatest example. And what's more difficult is they are also a US ally, however also part of BRICS. That's why I think personally they should be white. It's too difficult to decide on a side
Personally, I would do a purple color for countries that are kind of aligned with both sides (India, Pakistan, Hungary, etc.)
He added that now
Here are some ideas I have for other colors:
Purple - Pro-Russia and Pro-West (i.e. India, Turkey)
Yellow - Pro-China (i.e. China, Laos)
Orange - Pro-Russia and Pro-China (i.e. Kazakhstan)
Green/Lime - Pro-China and Pro-West (i.e Pakistan)
I feel like India should be white, Serbia should be red, and I think Bosnia should be blue.
Bosnia can be colored blue only if Srpska is separated and colored red. They have been much more supportive of Russia than Serbia itself.
Serbia does not side with Russia in this conflict, they are warm towards Ukraine, and India leans towards Russia heavily
Maybe the "klošars" (degenerates/masses/riff-raffs) support russia but the government is 1000% neutral
The officials of Bosniaks and Croats in Bosnia are in support of Ukraine, while the Serbs support Russia. I guess if we go by majority, Bosnia should be colored blue.
If Imran Khan comes to power in Pakistan again you can pretty safely shift Pakistan to lean red
The thing is, the 2-side view of the world used to be true in the Cold War, but as we're moving to a multi-polar war, you see the sides being very different in different regions of the world. For example Russia has good relations with China and India, but those two are on the brink of war. At the same time, you see traditional allies like Turkey and Azerbaijan, that are on very good terms bilaterally and support eachother in Armenia/Nagorno-Karabakh, but have very strategies in the wider Middle-East, and especially the Gaza Crisis.
I agree, I think this map isn't a bad idea but, as you said, the current world isn't as 2-sided as like the Cold War
Well, Cold War actually had something like this though so it's not that unique. Moscow having good relations and ties with two of it's allies, that despise each other and are predicted to go to war? Somalia and Ethiopia before Ogaden war. Other states playing their own game in the region outside of two "oficial" sides? Rhodesia and South Africa comes to mind.
Personally, I'm not quite sure the current geopolitical state of our world even qualified to be called "Second Cold War". The lines are much more blurry and the world is not divided by ideological disagreements, it's more like collective interests of the Western powers coliding against "rule-breakers" states that do not even cooperate that much with each other on the deep levels.
Yeah, I think you have the Western Bloc, the Russian Bloc, China, and non-aligned States
I disagree, while there may be local interests with countries Like Turkey or China the United States is still such a dominate power block everyone else falls into either a Pro, or Anti US camp at least for now. Turkey having it's own goals in the middle east is true for the most part all it's done is fight Iranian and Russian backed groups, and it lacks the recourses to stand as a major power on it's own. As for India friendly reactions with Russia or not if China lunches a full scale invasion they will get some level of US support, same for any country directly attacked by China, Russia or Iran, thus melding the 3 Alliance blocks together
While there many things that could end it in the future, such as a war between china and Russia over Siberia, Iran causing major trouble in both of those powers with their Islamic minorities or the US taking a isolationist turn strategically, the 2 sided view of the world is viable, least for now
if this is "multipolar" then the sino-soviet split should've made the cold war a 3-way.
People are most curious about which side India will be on because of its relations with China, but it depends more on Pakistan, so if we think that India will be on the opposite side to Pakistan, it is a nice map 🔥
India should be neutral however as of lately, it depends more on the Hindu Nationalist.
@@cajunpoweras I know as we do not use any hindu nationalist bjp have not problem other minorities about muslim it mostly on historical issue but as I know they do not hate muslim india most neutral on Ukraine russia war and israel Palestine war
Omg JirMirza!!!
Ever since the coup against Khan, Pakistan's western alignment is clear as day, and yes they're indeed trying to abandon cooperation with China
@@cajunpowerwell ,as a hindu nationalist (not the minority oofing variety) i'd say it depends.
Hindu nationalism is a large umbrella, we have many factions but 3 large groups , such as the pro west group of bjp in which I am , which makes the smallest of the 3 , according to my own experience about 17% of NDA supporters , we mainly want a hindu nation that is a democratic country and is minority friendly but embraces it's original hindu culture like the hans do in china .
Then the 2nd one is Russia friendly (but not china) , they are our extreme members , they either want an autocratic state or even a theocratic state . They want a "strong man" figure to lead the country
According to my experience, they make up about 21-24% of NDA members, but these are also the most vocal ones .
The largest group and the absolute majority are the people who want what benefits India rather than one side of this cold war , ie they want a third side and a multipolar world , they lean somewhere between my ideology and a theocratic state
Tldr : it's really complicated but we will most likely join the side that benifits us the most so probably the west since Russia is a dirt bag
Slovakia and Hungary should be white at worst.
Both countries still send humanitarian aid to Ukraine after all, and don't question their membership in the Western world.
They also both condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine and consider it as a violation of the international law, Orban himself said it recently during the Visegrad Group Summit
True
Yeah, but not 100% supporting Ukraine now means your a traitor these days.
No. Slovakia scammed Ukraine about production of self propelled artillery and doesn't follow the contract, while orban openly supports ending the war by allowing Russia to stay with the lands they stole. They are definitely not neutral
Hungary absolutely not.
@@houseplant1016 Why?
I think Nepal and Bhutan should be white due to their "silence" politically.
Nepal is communist, so i think they are pro-east
Indeed
There's a civil war in Myanmar, I would argue the military government is Russian friendly and the democratic forces are western friendly
I think Russia has declined to only being a middle power and the war in Ukraine proves that. The only super powers are China, USA and perhaps Europe if they get their act together. The biggest non super power is India and who they ally with will be vital in deciding the balance of power in future decades.
He should add that war, it's one of longest civil wars in history
@@communist750 longest genocides*
And plus they are just two of the factions; the Rohingyas are pro-Iran/Houthi and there are many ethnic minority rebels who are aligned with god knows who (some say China)
No Myanmar is a unique situation, there are no real pro-US factions there
I think you could also colour the Netherlands dark blue since they are also involved in the Red Sea crisis
Changes I would make:
Blue: Japan, Switzerland
Light Blue: India, Colombia, Egypt, Vietnam
White: Turkey, Hungary, Slovakia, Armenia
Light Red: UAE, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Red: Venezuela
Why Switzerland Blue
Switzerland is better neutral honestly. Not even for the meme, they didn't even condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine right away, rather when they were pressured into siding. They have no interest in any of the wars, nor do they want to join NATO or the EU anytime soon. I do agree that if there were to pick a side it's blue but still, white is probably the best. I do agree with everything else in your list though
Also blue for South Korea
India should be white
Japan blue but Switzerland light blue
Last time i was this early, rome was under German Control
1940s or collapse of roman empire
What flag is that?
@@pakistanimapperr Collapse of the Roman Empire
@@mrcocoloco7200 Collapse of the Roman Empire
@@Usonan-Foderation2016 Huh?
You have quickly become my favorite mapping channel. Covering history is great but covering history *as it is happening* is such an amazing concept. It is also easier for us who have other ocupations to keep updated with the whole geopolitical situation.
Thank you and keep up doing such amazing work!
Cuba: survive
Great idea! A few things i would change:
-i haven't researched it enough but chinese influence in the pacific has been growing and i think countries might be considered leaning towards China
-Armenia is also a difficult situation. They have been historically pro-russian but this seems to have changed lately. They did sign some pretty important military treaties with France lately, and some european countries (again France especially) have openly supported Armenia rather than Azerbaijan lately. So i guess maybe these 2 countries could be considered neutral, or at least Armenia could
I know it might make the map a lot harder to read, but maybe you could try colouring countries like india, pakistan, saudi arabia, hungary, etc. with red and blue stripes.
for example, hungary might be medium blue/light pink, because they're a part of the EU and NATO, but are also somewhat sympathetic towards russia. politically
Perhaps Armenia could be very light blue. I remember reading that Armenia distanced itself from Russia after Moscow was silent during Azerbaijan's complete subjugation of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia has held military exercises with America, and I think was considering leaving CSTO. They've also sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine as well, I believe.
Moscow was silent because the Armenian government let the attack happen and stopped claiming the territory. Pashanyan is the biggest traitor to Armenia
For now it'd be safer to put it light red or neutral. Not outright western as of now
Biden: Putin has been isolated from the world
*Also Putin:*
You can always convince some african warlords of your shit just by spouting "but the colonialist west!!!111"
Isn't Xi Jinping the leader of the second eastern block
Putin has been isolated from everywhere that isn't a struggling third world nation or dictatorship
@@marceltelang7825Definitely, Russia is just the most outspoken anti-west power at this point apart from maybe Iran
@@captainmcawesome7908I don't see the lie, west are like less 30% human population and even latinamerican populations supports more russia/chinese narrative than the west one, so gtfo son
"WW3 proto" 💀
Bro is preparing for the future, but I remember he also did a "how russia would invade ukraine" before it actually happened. So not too surprising.
@@averytiredman4857You're not helping my man
The world is divided by a new Iron Curtain.
i would love to see that true map of the world video, sounds so interesting, but please do whats best for you man
Thanks mate!
@@VologdaMapping What color is Singapore? I can't see.
I would love this as a monthly series or so
Oh :( I'm so sad you abandoned the de-facto world map, I was so excited for it
3:05 the first one was pretty good! Aspides means "Shields" in Greek. By the way, Egypt is also supporting the mission in the Red Sea, because they're losing out big time due to trade restrictions on the Suez
Heard his voice for the fist time😃
I had a similar idea to this as I myself also like making maps. On my map though I had the idea of coloring Russia yellow while keeping China red and the US/West blue (I thought about also maybe coloring Iran green but I don't know if I should go with that or not). I like having the multiple colors cause it shows more context on political alliances as it is a multi-polar world nowadays. India is pro-Russia but anti-China so it'd be a lighter yellow as only an example. I also think for nations allied to more than one color (think Pakistan in your case), I'd mix in both colors, but I'll leave that up to you. I think your map looks really good nonetheless. Keep it up!
This are changes I will do to this map:
Pls Haití, India and Pakistan shold be in white (also Afganistan)
Venezuela and Cuba should be more red
Vietnam and Switzerland should be slightly in the blue colour
I would like a better representation of the African conflicts
anyway , great job!
Finally, a map when Vietnam is neutral
I'd recommend making India neutral and colouring Hungary and Slovakia very light blue. If it comes down to it, they'll side with the west but they are still somewhat supportive of Russia
I’d be very excited to see something like this!
I have actually been making a map just like this for the past couple of years and used your last video on the de facto world map to expand my map. there's definitely a lot of differences between countries on mine. I even call mine the Modern Cold War map
I'm from Brazil and your point is very correct, even last year we were buying Russian oil. Our current president has always been anti-American, but that type of criticize and praise
You could perhaps do stripes or use purple colors to describe the mixed relation countries. I don't know how confusing that would be to actually do though lol
Very much in favor of this becoming a weekly thing as you mentioned, I've been looking for some source of information on global matters.
Would love to see where you go with this! Do you have a link to a non-red/blue map?
I had a similar project back in 2021, I ended up not updating anymore since the map I was using didn't show every unrecognised country and because I didn't have any time for it.
For the EU I had always thought about highlighting its border and colouring that, tho it probably wouldn't look as good.
For India (and Iran and Türkiye as well) I chose to colour them in a different colour (green, orange, and purple respectively), together with the countries that were close to them politically (for example Türkiye, Azerbaijan, and N Cyprus were bundled up together).
Anyways, I think of it as a fantastic idea, it would be really interesting and useful to follow such a project
My suggestions: 1. Serbia pink; Hungary/Slovakia stay pink, Switzerland stays white
2. Include wars in Ethiopia, Libya, CAR, Myanmar and Somalia even though they aren´t proxy wars (maybe add yellow colour for neutral warring factions) cause these wars are still necessary for a weekly world news series.
3. Include the other EAC countrys in light blue
4. MAYBE (idk so much about it) make the subconitinent situation all-white since the Anti-Indian factions are pro-chinese and India anti-chinese even though China being a major red player.
the prelude to the 3rd great clan war
Switzerland stays neutral because it’s Switzerland.
My suggestions: 1. Serbia pink; Hungary/Slovakia stay pink, Switzerland stays white, Usbekistan pink cause of SCO and GUS membership
2. Include wars in Ethiopia, Libya, CAR, Myanmar and Somalia even though they aren´t proxy wars (maybe add yellow colour for neutral warring factions) cause these wars are still necessary for a weekly world news series.
3. Include the other EAC countrys in light blue
4. MAYBE (idk so much about it) make the subconitinent situation all-white since the Anti-Indian factions are pro-chinese and India anti-chinese even though China being a major red player.
We are in a second cold war, a good way to demonstrate the complex dynamics.
I get that this is an oversimplification, but we have to recognise a very crucial difference between the First and Second Cold War
the first one was a "bipolar" conflict, i.e. Two superpowers fighting for global hegemony by fighting in proxy wars which would determine the alignment of each state.
This war was won by the US, establishing a "unipolar" world order in which they alone dominate world affairs.
Not everyone is happy about this arrangement and a coalition composed of emerging superpowers and regional powers emerged seeking to undermine US hegemony and create a "multipolar" world in which no power dominates globally.
Other than that they have little in common and often find themselves fighting each other, like how Russia and China are competing for influence in Central Asia, China flirting with the Taliban while it is fighting Iran, and there's plenty of other examples.
To keep it oversimplified I think the colours should be based on their relationship with the US alone with Blue being friendly and Red meaning hostile rather than a spectrum between Russian alignment and American alignment like how it was in the First Cold War, since it is outright wrong in some cases like China which is definitely more dominant in it's relationship with Russia or India which is friendly with both Russia and the US.
Awesome video my dude
Impressive. Very nice.
This proves that geopolitical does not have hard alliance, as every country got their own personal intrest.
Ok, so I think there're a few things incorrect with this map, so here's my thoughts on what should change.
-Brazil is still under the Lula's administration, so it should be light red.
-Both India and Turkey have mixed alliances, so I would suggest painting them in a 3rd color or a mix of red and blue, as "mixed alliances".
-Cambodia is currently being invested heavily by China, and it stills supports China in the South China Sea matters, so it should be red.
-Call me out if I'm wrong, but isn't the post Sadamn government of Irag is a US puppet, so even if the Iraqi population resents the US occupation, shouldn't it be light blue.
I am Serbian you should put us the same color as Hungary and Slovakia
After the failed western color revolution in Belgrade, I think its far to put Serbia as slightly red yes
I ja sam iz Srbije i Slovak, upravu si. Srbija treba da bude minimum svetlo crvena.
Hey, I also made a west vs east map like this. Though west vs east alignments are quite ambiguous, since many countries are playing both sides and have their own immediate interests. For example I coloured turkey and azerbaijan purple as there own factional block.
EU ambassadors have allowed the allocation of 5 billion euros for the purchase of weapons for Ukraine, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU reports. This means that Ukraine will also be supported by: Ireland, Malta and Austria!
I think a major difference between this cold war and the previous one is that the third world (lead by India and Brazil) is much, much tougher. It's really an independent "don't get us involved in your silly shenanigans" bloc which is veeeerrry loosely unified by a desire to see a more multipolar world. India, Brazil, Turkey, much of South America and most of Africa and Southeast Asia aren't so much anti-western as they are ambivalent about the west, and many of these nations also have disagreements with western countries and Russia-China aligned countries. India is the biggest example. India is deeply suspicious of China, with which they have huge border disputes, conflicts over water and a grudge due to China's attempts to surround them via the string of pearls. However India is also suffering from significant democratic backsliding (or at least a backlash against western style liberalism) and retains amicable relations with Russia and Iran. India's greatest geopolitical rival, Pakistan, is friendlier to China than it is to the United States. Turkey is a member of NATO which has huge issues with Russia regarding it's support for the Assad regime, but also has huge issues with the Americans regarding American support for the Kurds, and is much more willing to negotiate diplomatically with Russia than almost any other member of NATO. Saudi Arabia has been moving closer to China since the beginning of the Biden administration and especially since the start of the war in Gaza. Finally, I would caution against depicting the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran triangle as a unified alliance rather than an informal dictator's support club unified purely based on weakening American hegemony (and in the case of Russia and China, cooperating against islamist terrorism in Central Asia - which is a rather loose term given that the Chinese Communist Party seem to think terrorism = Uyghurs). They will all quickly turn on each other if they achieve their goal of a general American withdrawal from Eurasian affairs.
I'm not saying this to critique the map, which is of course amazing, and you are of course aware of how oversimplified this is. I don't want to discourage you. I think the issue with mapping the myriad entangling alliance systems and overlapping influences in the modern world is that depicting them all would create so much overlap that it would make any 100% accurate geopolitical map illegible. It's a weakness inherent in the art of mapmaking rather than any failure on your part. But this system you've invented here is by far the most comprehensive I've seen anyone use, and I look forward to seeing how you update it as time passes!
Poland should be deep blue
I think you should have extra colours when it comes to Turkey-Iran-Pakistan- India - China relations, as your enemies enemy isnt always your friend. Also you have a good voice, you should do more videos like this👍
I tried to make a map like this, with mostly the same results. However, I found it quite difficult to determine the allegiances of most African countries. Also, the world is more complicated today than during the first cold war. Some countries, like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and India should be colored as the centers of their own smaller regional blocks.
Also: where did you get the blanc map for this? It's often hard to find a suitable one.
The idea is interesting. However, trying to simplify this 2nd cold war based on only 2 camps focusing in a single conflict (ukraine war) may be impossible. We are entering a period were there ware multiple cold wars happening at the same time. Some are aligned and others are not. Perhaps a better option (more labor intensive) would be to create multiple maps (1 for each conflict hot spot). Though this could require more work, it could provide better results. Example:
* Map 1 regarding the ukraine war global position, though this could also be replaced by a map regarding Russia challenging NATO with Ukraine as the battlefield (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay)
* Map 2 USA vs China (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay)
* Map 3 regarding Israel x Palestine global position (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay)
* Map 4 regarding China vs Taiwan Global position (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay)
* Map 5 regarding Iran vs Israel global position (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay)
* Map 6 N.Korea vs S.Korea (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay)
* Map 7 India vs China (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay)
With those maps ready, you could use those % values in order to merge all 7 maps into a single 8th map. The color scheme would probably end up quite varied.
Columbia and the US are fairly close but they aren’t really outspokenly against russia
0:32 "news of the world" is great album :D 👍
For countries like Brazil where there are a lot of tribal nations within it, I would suggest adding something separated like a little not that says they support one side or the other or only color the parts that are directly under the Brazilian Government's control.
This is an amazing map 👏 👏 👏
Please include wars in Ethiopia, Somalia, Central Africa
1. India should stay red.
2. Serbia should turn red.
3. Haiti should be white.
4. Colombia should be blue.
5. Turkey should be white
6. Switzerland should be blue
Armenia's current government is more western-leaning
And now I am asking you guys: How can you support the Eastern Faction? It is a bunch of Autocracys (exceptions confirm the rule) starting all the wars
I think that Turkey should be the same colour as Hungary and Slovakia. All 3 are in NATO but all 3 are also led by populist conservatives with pro-Russia/imperialist leanings.
The Netherlands technically sent one staff officer to fight the Houti’s. The current government is very pro us but the most probable next one is more sceptical
My take on the Myanmar conflict: the junta is hard cause China supported forces against them but otherwise:
- peoples defense forces are mostly pro Western maybe light blue
- the northeastern ethnic armies are + kachin, wa, the communists, ... are reliant on China and should maybe be lite red
- other ethnic armies are mostly neutral
+ little mistake in Oman enclave in the UAE not being colored
Nooo I was so looking forward to the de facto World Map
He gave up lol, we Brazil defeated him 😅😂
I also think Djibouti should be neutral because they have so many allies and everyones chill with them
*Map of political alignment*
Community: "100 nuanced takes, on the history of superpowers"
*Is there a genicide in gaza?*
Community: "haha Transnistria belongs to Bolivia haha"
I think Serbia and Brazil should be pink, and also I think India it's ok with pink color
5:36 it won’t flare up. There is only one road that crosses the border and it goes through Brazil. Any offensive would have to go through dense uninhabited forrest with no roads. Such a war is unfeasible and to say otherwise is a maduro cope
I feel like Chile should be neutral, especially with the current government, they are in situation like Brazil but with the US, west leaning but openly critical of some OTAN policies. Chile openly supports Ukraine, but it also strongly disapproves of Israel campaigns in Gaza. Chile also has very positive relations with China.
What program you use?
Italy should be lighter blue, it has a commercial trade with China
*Sees your naming of the file in the top left*
HEHEhehe...heh O_O
Indonesia should be slightly red
Love the work, and I agree in the global possessions as you represented them, but I feel like the Western and Eastern Blocs are different in nature. While NATO has strengthened their alliance and structure after the Soviet Collapse, the new Eastern Bloc works differently. Key players present complete different ideologies, they may work together because of shared objectives at any given time, but their geopolitical affinity is the result of Western pressure rather than anything else. I think the big 3 players: China, Russia and Iran, should each have a unique color, maybe in tonality of a warm color to denote their closeness. I do agree that there are players that play differently, Turkey and India, maybe Brazil, but their influence outside their border is limited. I don’t like the idea of them being a mixed country. At the end Turkey is part of NATO and India of the BRICS+
I do adhere to the notion that the world, geopolitically, is going in to be multipolar, with different nations taking regional relevance and their alignment to the great powers will be more limited than seen in the Cold War.
Brics is not nato it just economic military and trade talk are there it not military alliance
I like to call this the little cold war. what do you think?
Were you also playin CON?
Switzerland 🇨🇭, although all the memes or jokes say that they are the most neutral country in the world I would say they would be Ukraine/USA leaning because first they have eu policy’s and they have somewhat recently condemned Russia 🇷🇺 in the war in ukrain
Friend, you missed a lot of things. For example, Libya and Ethiopia are both at war. So is Myanmar. They should be similar to Sudan in the picture.
Sri lanka is not allied to china against india. Srilanka is allied to both india and china in a kind of mediocre way. And sri lanka is way more leaning to the red team than blue.
Awesome map
Great work but imo China should either be an equal to Russia or its own faction.
Armenia is distancing from Russia. It should not be pink in this map.
+ Azerbaijan clearly has allience with Russia since february 2022, 2 days before the Ukraine invasion . They cooperated in the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh and they are prepearing for invasion on Armenia, Azerbaijan from outside and Russia from inside of Armenia.
I don't know what opinion will you have on this , but Azerbaijan is not the country of the West that much .
Are you serious about Azerbaijan wanting to invade Armenia? They already got Nagorno-Karabakh what more could they possibly want.
@@hazzmati yes, I am totally serious. Currently Azerbaijan controls Armenian territories , and from the day of invasion , CSTO did nothing to help Armenia, Russia did nothing too. Azerbaijan is planning the invasion , and they will not stop until they occupy the Syunik province of Armenia .
@@armenianmapper3168 but why? Sorry for all the questions I'm trying to understand the conflict as best as possible. I looked it up Syunik province is populated almost entirely by Armenians and it is not an exclave within Azerbaijan like Nagorno-karabh. Plus its rightful territory of Armenia.
@@hazzmati Starting from 1918-1921 and 1991 Azerbaijan tried to occupy the whole Syunik province.
Nakhijevan was cleansed from Armenians during 20th century, Artsakh canished last year , now the Syunik province is the last barrier between Turkey and Azerbaijan. They call it "Zangezur corridor" and they will do everything to occupy this territory , and this is now a life or death question for Armenia and its independence. Even if Syunik is full of Armenians , Azerbaijan will do a genocide to clean Armenians out of the Syunik.
In Azerbaijan right now there is a total propaganda , where Armenia is called "Western Azerbaijan" and claim that Armenians never existed and they came only when Russians occupied these territories in 19th century (I'm serious).
They are falsificating the whole history and also they destroy the physical marks of Armenian presence. Churchs , Crossrocks and Christiann-Armenian architectures are being destroyed right now in Artsakh, like how they did that happened in Nakhijevan.
The only provacators here are Russia , Turkey and Azerbaijan. Armenia is the one who is defending itself from ethnic cleansing and occupation from the dictatirships .
it's crazy that there's a second cold war happening and everybody knows about it but nobody talks about it
That file name though...
Make the conflicts different Colours it would help understand it more
Oh shit
Definitely make this weekly, you will be capturing history!
I think trying to compare this to the previous one is problematic. We used to be in a bipolar world during the previous one while now we’re moving to more multipolar world. I’d say adding more colors and nuance to the different sides
WARSAW PACT COME BACK MY FREND😂❤
Armenia should be blue now
Damn, mid-late 20’s and early 30’s are gonna be fire fr🔥🔥 (i’m gonna die young in WW3 and civilization will be wiped out in nuclear fire😅)
I think Nepal should be light pink as the Prime Minister is a Maoist
3:40
only 4% of sri lankans have a negative view on india and they are large trading partners
am i missing something??
acho que você está correto em deixar o brasil branco, nossa política externa é de neutralidade apesar de atualmente haver esforços para não penalizar a rússia devido ao BRICS - é algo a se pensar. ótimo vídeo :).
I would say Serbia is light pink because of the hatred for Kosovo,
Also Palestine (including Gaza) is light pick or light red
3:01 it's pronounced as "Aspeedhes"