Important note: Bosnia and Georgia are a part of a Membership Action Plan but that is NOT the same as a formal invitation or application for membership which is the yellow color in the video. Membership Action Plans are like getting ready for a formal application.
If you didn’t know. In 1954 the USSR asked to join NATO. NATO declined this offer. The same was in 2000 when Russia asked to join NATO. And Bill Clinton said NO.
sweden has eventually succeeded to join after doing nothing since Napoleonic wars That's crazy! ( talking about aggressive actions not anything like trade and support)
20 years of NGOs, and still they were scared of actual swedes voting on it, seeing how less than 57% wanted to join in a 2023 poll says it all. they are afraid of people voting wrong.
@@Kajzer857 More like sensasionalist fools taking power in Sweden in Finland who ditched long established and actually working policy over nothing but pure paranoia.
I love all the lakes that appear when I assume dams are built. You even managed to remove the lake in Ukraine when the dam was destroyed. That's quite the attention to detail!
France 1966: I want to still be a member, but I don't want to help anybody with military weaponry France 2009: Alright alright alright I'll do it, jeez....
"I don't want to help anybody with military weaponry" That isn't accurate. They were still ready to use weapons and they did when the US invoked the Article 5 after the 9/11 attacks. What France didn't want is to have it's troops under American command.
@@Finkaisarthey have the most effective weapon ever. It can be used as a drone, sword, projectile, even spy. It’s called baguette in French but I don’t know what it’s called in American
France and America signed an undercover secret deal in 1966 essentially telling France that if the international situations require France's complete involvement in the NATO structure, they would need to rejoin. From 1966-2009, this wasn't a big issue. Politically, this decision had great support by the French people in 1966. They were kinda busy with other things at that point. If NATO requested that they joined the NATO structure during the time period of 1966 to 2009, they were required to do so. However, this never happened and they simply rejoined fully in 2009.
i love the attention to detail with things that are completely unnecessary for the information to be presented. zuiderzee works, the creation of reservoirs and the destruction of kakhovka reservoir.
@@andrius505 If that happened NATO would have lost a vital ally to Russia because 1. Hungary has a party completely with Russia 2. They would have felt betrayed and have their own wants in Ukraine
Russia is definitely the underdog in any conflict against NATO. NATO currently has a military spending of $1,307,329,588,778 ($1.31 trillion dollars) with 10,260,945 square miles of land compared to Russia’s $109,000,000,000 ($109 billion dollars) in military spending with 6,323,142 square miles of land. NATO has over 8,671,080 military personnels to Russia’s 3,708,000 military personnels. Seeing this trend, NATO might have a military budget that surpasses Russia’s entire nominal economy.
This lakes are not lakes, but “water reservoirs” (including Rybynsk reservoir that was created in 1930s). They had appeared after building of dams and hydroelectric power stations on Volga and Dniepr. During this several settlements were flooded (for example small town of Mologa near Rybynsk, in the Middle Ages it was local center of fiefdom). Big natural lakes in Russia and neighboring countries are Onega, Ladoga, Pskov and Chud. All of them located near borders
@@Timur_Iz_Timuridov Aren't dam reservoirs (often) also lakes? E.g. the reservoir of the Aswan dam in Egypt is called Lake Nasser and the reservoir of the Hoover dam in the US is called Lake Mead.
Interesting how former Warsaw Pact members are now in NATO. Especially Poland who went through excessive Soviet interference from 1945 is now poised to be the leading member of NATO in the East against Russia.
@chinsaw2727It's kind of fair enough considering that the Russians were the primary force behind the partitions of the PLC and a participant with the Germans in 1939. The Russians and polish have been geopolitical rivals fighting over eastern Europe for the last 500 years. The Russians are like enemy number 1 for them historically. That type of animosity takes time, respect and effort to change, and neither side seems willing to do so.
@chinsaw2727nah it was because they installed a puppet stalinistic regime which had to do whatever Moscow commanded. We wouldn't join Warsaw Pact otherwise no matter who "liberated" us (just clarifying since you clearly got the spirit of the message right :p)
@@MatejaMicic Yes, but they have been candidates since the dawn of time (and they risk having to wait a long time since they do not respect human rights)
@@WorldOrderOfIdiocracy Putin and his regime are actively replacing Ukrainians in their occupied cities with central Asians and Chechen Islamists, they share the same values as the globalist west and I do not wish to die for either of them.
Putler's 5D chess for sure played out well with two more nations rushing to join NATO. No other master geostrategist managed to bring Europe together as much as he did
@Felix-fy4gq Yeah but all of those countries are safely behind several NATO countries. Sweden and Finland were the most vulnerable and committed to neutrality.
I feel like Georgia should've been on the "Invited / Applied" list during 2008, when they voted to join and was welcomed, but Russia invaded them to make sure it didn't occur.
NATO did not welcome Georgia in 2008. Instead, they were promised eventual membership, but were denied a Membership Action Plan or any other concrete measure
Did you use the thin line to denote territorial claims in Europe but the dynamic front line in Syria/Iraq? Or did territorial claims in the Middle East just evolve that rapidly? Thanks for the video, amazing as always
Not quite. Ajara never governed by an entity which claimed independence from Georgia, whereas South Ossetia and Abkhazia did claim (and even secure) independence from Georgia.
I love all the extra little details, like the blowing of the kakhovka reservoir and doing it by month rather than by year! small thing, I don't think Tunisia or Morocco were ever covered by NATO. Algeria was as it was a part of metropolitan France, but other African territories by NATO member states aren't covered unless specified (like how Algeria was specified specifically to be covered by NATO when it was a part of France), so France's other North African territories weren't covered, including Spain's African cities of Ceuta and Melilla
@@EmperorTigerstar fair point, but not technically true NATO officially states in Article 6 that the treaty only covers the territories above the tropic of cancer which are in Europe, North America, Turkey, and North Atlantic islands, not just anything above the tropic of cancer, Algeria was a special case which France argued for
Here are the countries that have joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the years they joined: 1949: The original 12 founding members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States 1952: Greece and Turkey joined 1955: West Germany joined, which became Germany in 1990 1982: Spain joined 1999: The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined 2004: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia joined 2009: Albania and Croatia joined 2017: Montenegro joined 2020: North Macedonia joined 2023: Finland joined 2024: Sweden joined
do you just base maps for every year that you add onto for each video? cause i can't imagine you're manually going through and adding all the lakes and the syrian borders every time??? surely not?
It'd be convenient to have a little timeline along the bottom with events marked on it (perhaps color-coded), especially on long vids where the map changes suddenly and drastically.
Russia: I’m here to stop the expansion of nato Russia 20 years ago: let’s former Soviet lands join nato and eu Also Russia right now: the war they caused two more countries to join
So you're faulting them for spending years trying to avoid armed conflict? Would this war have been somehow better if it was fought decades ago for far fewer and less justifiable reasons? Shills have no thought process.
Such a great hidden lie on the second point. Russia was against expansion from beginning and started war when NATO got too close. Isn't that obvious? What is the cause of expand after Soviet Union collapse? The answer is simple. Greed, control, power.
России плевать на Швецию и Финляндию,но России не плевать на Украину, вступление Украины в НАТО опасно для России, вступление Швеции и Финляндии в НАТО безразлично для России,это очень слабые в военном отношении страны с маленьким населением,и не сильно увеличивают опасностью для России,но если НАТО нападёт на Россию, Россия применит своё ядерное оружие, понимая что в этом случае не будет победителей,но если в мире не будет России,то не будет и мира вместе со всеми странами НАТО, Россия это не Югославия и не Ливия,по зубам НАТО от России получит очень сильно.
A decade later these videos are still coming, and with incredible attention to detail! I love watching those lakes appear in Russia, or the land reclamation in the Netherlands, or even seeing the frontlines shift in Syria. No one else would have included those things and it's great how you do.
Kind weird to paint accurate frontline movements in Syria, but for Ukraine to use russian annexation claims instead of actual current frontline. This video makes it look as if Russia currently controls Zaporizhia and Kherson cities, but it doesn't
That Baltic Sea is now a beautiful NATO-lake. Congratulations to Sweden for becoming a member of NATO. Greetings from your eastern frienemesis 🇫🇮❤️🇸🇪 And congrats to Putin for his successful anti-NATO -policies very well played!
@bodassassin6387 They sometimes claim the war in Ukraine was to halt NATO expansion but actually made Finland and Sweden join NATO and Ukraine to apply as well.
I think it would've been good showing Bosnia and Georgia and aspiring members as well, especially when Bosnia has Membership Action Plan and Georgia suffered war due to it's aspiration.
Disagree. After the war in 2008. Georgia is treading more carefully and it effectively abandoned the goal of NATO membership. Bosnia and Herzegovina on the other hand doesn't actually want to join either because Republic of Srpska is strongly opposing that idea.
I’d rather that we could be an independent alliance than bends over backwards towards foreign superpowers that has zero interests towards our Nordic people.
Soviet Union tried to join nato in 1954, if that happened the Cold War would be WAYY more stupid. Imagine having Italy be communist but Czechoslovakia be democratic due to the coups being “allowed” because everyone’s in the same alliance.
i don't think coups are allowed in between nato countries. if the ussr did join, nato would basically just become like the un security force localised to europe. only ever used for conflicts that would've had both sides agree anyway (ig like the boxer rebellion or the somali pirates stuff but during cold war europe) the west would just make a new nato without the ussr anyway
Going from a puppet of the east to a puppet of the west. What’s with Czechs and their willingness to surrender their sovereignty? You’ve been doing it for over a thousand years.
@@jelen7217 >Kingdom of Bohemia loosing it’s political power within the HRE and became a puppet state for Hapsburgs. >Actively Germanised until Czechs became a minority in Prag throughout HRE and 19th century imperial rule. >Briefly became independent as interwar Czechoslovakia. >lost it to the reich anyway. >post WW2 became a puppet of the east and violently crushed when trying to become sovereign. >post Cold War becomes a puppet to the west ruled by an elite that once again wishes to see Czechs become a minority in their homeland trough mass immigration. You have been truly independent for approximately 20 years.
@@megakillerx Joining Nato was a choice while being Warsaw pact member was made by force and Warsaw pact was the only alliance to invade its own members. Calling the police in order not to be hurt anymore is not "lack of sovereignty"
@@EmperorTigerstar Thank you for quick response. I am honoured :D Having this oportunity I would like to thank you for your great work and passion. Since I was very little I always liked to watch old maps and shifting borders throught history fascinated me. Keep up with good work :)
A good way to refute the official purpose of NATO - that it's a defensive alliance - is by simply pointing out where Portugal, one of it's founding members, is on a map. There are only two circumstances in which Portugal would be in need of collective security: Either it gets attacked by one of it's nearby neighbours, all of whom are in NATO, or it gets attacked by an enemy that has steamrolled through Europe and defeated most other NATO states first. Either way, any scenario in which Portugal needs NATO's help is one in which NATO doesn't work.
@@Mahakhala Those three countries are neutral well except austria. Austria didnt join NATO but the EU in 1995 alongside Sweden and Finland and austria could have joined nato too cause that treaty with the USSR is not valid anymore. Now austria has political problems thanks to Karl Nehammer which he is against EU, Ukraine and NATO and Pro Russia. Also he vetoed Romania and Bulgaria (two NATO Members that are also EU) To join schengen area. Now if Austria wants to join NATO they will get not only from romania and Bulgaria but also from Turkey,Greece,Germany,Italy,France and Slovenia a Veto cause their democracy and the schengen accesion of romania and Bulgaria wasnt even fair
@@Vanduo610 Because its in a proxy war with NATO? He even included the Ukraine war in the video. Plus Russia and Belarus do consider NATO as unfriendly and viceversa and there have been expulsions of diplomats by both sides, they are basically enemies like NATO and WP
@@duduchannel6729 Do you understand that CSTO does not work like NATO? Even Armenia would have joined NATO if not ruzzia. CSTO is just puppets of ruzzia. That is all. Without ruzzia support all of their leaders would not be leaders at all. Also it even has Uzbekistan as a member. Dude it is second North Korea after Iran.
@@niteshmurti Those were created on the times of USSR, the country you mentioned in heartland of Russia is tatarastan, which about 60% of people are muslim tatars and same with chechnya near georgia, hope that helps!😁
Russia: Asks NATO not to expand their borders east now that there is no cold war anymore* NATO: Refuses* Russia: Asks NATO to stop funding coups in neighboring countries* NATO: Refuses* Russia: Asks NATO to stop ethnically cleansing Russian parts of Ukraine* NATO: Refuses* Russia: Responds with hostility after decades* NAFO: VATNIK VATNIK VATNIK GHOST OF KEEEEEV IS MAI WAIFU SLAVA UKRAIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIII
Потому что НАТО ни когда не было оборонной организацией, НАТО всегда была агрессором и всегда нападало на другие страны, Югославия, Ирак и Ливия это доказывают.
@@kamilmagomedov2278 Ничего это не доказывает? В Югославии сербы проводили этническую чистку, Ирак оккупировал Кувейт, поэтому там НАТО и проводили военные действия.
@@kamilmagomedov2278 Чушь полная!!! Разве НАТО в последствии оккупировало Ирак или Ливию? Нет, это независимые государства. Даже Сербия спокойно находится в окружении стран НАТО. Так что НАТО является агрессором - лишь ваши влажные мечты.
It's weird to think that if the First Cold War had ended in the other direction, all NATO states outside the US/UK would probably be in the Warsaw Pact by now.
@@XYZ_55 neutrality was the soviet demand so they give up their occupation zone. Soviets also tried to create a neutral united Germany, but the soviet leader who proposed it was deposed soon.
They didn't join because of an agreement between Nato and the USSR. It was occupied by the victorious powers just like Germany, but it was made a neutral republic in the 50s. But after the Warsaw pact collapsed, they were surrounded by Nato members. So they had no reason to join and they kept their neutrality.
@stefanodadamo6809 For the first thing, they get the option to either stay and become naturalised German citizens (like Russians already living in Germany are), or they go back to where they came from (Russia proper). Heck, if they cause trouble, they can be deported, just like how the Germans living in the area prior to 1945 were. Same thing with Finland. Viipuri was Finland's second-largest city before it was annexed by the USSR and repopulated with Russians.
the Saar protectorate was a seperate entity from France, whereas Algeria was considered a core part of France itself, and where Cyprus was considered a core extension of Britain as it was a crown colony which was in Europe and above the tropic of cancer which fits the definitions to a NATO member's territory covered by NATO
I have an idea for a video make a all moon landing video with a map of the moon and all landings over time even if it’s just a spacecraft or a human mission
Hah, then why all Russian military bases are empty near Finnish and Baltics borders? 😂 If Russia/Putin was truly worried about that, he would have NEVER thrown all his forces to Ukraine and actually done something about Finland and Sweden.... But no reaction to that at all, which just shows that Putin is using it as excuse, in reality he knows darn well that NATO doesn't pose any threat unless he would invade NATO country and thats EXACTLY why countries in Eastern Europe joined NATO because they have known all along that Russia could one day again be threat to their independence and Russia showed exactly that when it invaded Ukraine and Georgia before that in 2008. RUSSIA/Putin have only themselves to blame that European nations see them as threat and they have proven to be exactly that
The NATO is only seems as defensive alliance, but it is not really it, because they also can intervente in other countries around the world, and their expansion makes more risks to WW3 to happen. And no matter which government country has, the risk always exists.
1. Sort of, it only intervenes when countries risk war 2. Their expansion makes less risks for WW3 to happen because NATO is trying to stop Russia from causing WW2 3. You literally disproved yourself, it’s a DEFENSIVE alliance so how is there risk???! 4. You probably are just a Russian bot or smth lol
@@AmericanGuy0 1. NATO's expansion makes more risk because it is bordering Russia, and the situation is escalating. 2. Yes, it is a defensive alliance, but don't forget that they also have nukes and can do same as Russia. 3. They didn't trying to stop Russia, because before any modern conflicts, NATO also expanded to Eastern Europe, the post Warsaw Pact countries. 4. Their targets always was defeat Russia because of historical conflicts and the modern relations. And the Putin's government even better than be under pro-Western liberal, who will sell us to USA. 5. I don't need your and others opinion :)
@@AGamer2 I'm unsure of any agreement signed between that denied NATO expansion, as from what I can recall there isn't any agreement. NATO is a defense alliance that countries willingly joined. Legit none of these are opinions, just factual information. You've just made up the "NATO agreement", made up geopolitics as well in justifying modern relations.
Important note: Bosnia and Georgia are a part of a Membership Action Plan but that is NOT the same as a formal invitation or application for membership which is the yellow color in the video. Membership Action Plans are like getting ready for a formal application.
Thanks for the correction fellow feline
If you didn’t know. In 1954 the USSR asked to join NATO. NATO declined this offer.
The same was in 2000 when Russia asked to join NATO. And Bill Clinton said NO.
@@rey6349 Okay? If Germany applied to join the Allies in 1939, should the UK say yes?
@@jerryhu4763 The USA is Nazi Germany in this scenario. Has been since 1945. Nothing short of an absolute scourge upon the world.
@@jerryhu4763 The USA is N@zi Germany in this scenario. Has been since 1945. Nothing short of an absolute scourge upon the world.
sweden has eventually succeeded to join after doing nothing since Napoleonic wars
That's crazy!
( talking about aggressive actions not anything like trade and support)
I call it "the damned Vladimir effect"
20 years of NGOs, and still they were scared of actual swedes voting on it, seeing how less than 57% wanted to join in a 2023 poll says it all. they are afraid of people voting wrong.
@@Kajzer857 More like sensasionalist fools taking power in Sweden in Finland who ditched long established and actually working policy over nothing but pure paranoia.
with no vote
@@Kajzer857 NGOs and miltiary style proppaganad used on civilians
I love all the lakes that appear when I assume dams are built. You even managed to remove the lake in Ukraine when the dam was destroyed. That's quite the attention to detail!
Not only that, but also the Netherlands slowly draining the IJsselmeer 1:07 xD ♥
Neo-Nazis could not have destroyed their dam. I only feel sorry for the Russians in Kherson.
@@UbysatoShineko You flooded your own soldiers and now you blame Ukrainian civilians as neo-nazis.
👏👏
1:24 turkish dams
The attention to detail is chef's kiss. So much history visible in just this.
I came for a NATO video and found an accurate video of the War against ISIS
THIS.
more like war by the US to illegally occupy oilfields breaking yet again international law
I was more focused on the lakes lol.
@@404_nowheresnotfound3"Black Sea joins NATO" "Caspian Sea joins Warsaw Pact"
The war against Isis was started by Russia, americans financed Isis ;))
France 1966: I want to still be a member, but I don't want to help anybody with military weaponry
France 2009: Alright alright alright I'll do it, jeez....
"I don't want to help anybody with military weaponry"
That isn't accurate. They were still ready to use weapons and they did when the US invoked the Article 5 after the 9/11 attacks. What France didn't want is to have it's troops under American command.
@@seneca983Sadly most people just think france left Nato
@@Finkaisarthey have the most effective weapon ever. It can be used as a drone, sword, projectile, even spy. It’s called baguette in French but I don’t know what it’s called in American
It’s the closest we’ve got to a Franco-American Split and like the Sino-Soviet Split afterwards they became allies again after the Cold War ended
France and America signed an undercover secret deal in 1966 essentially telling France that if the international situations require France's complete involvement in the NATO structure, they would need to rejoin. From 1966-2009, this wasn't a big issue. Politically, this decision had great support by the French people in 1966. They were kinda busy with other things at that point. If NATO requested that they joined the NATO structure during the time period of 1966 to 2009, they were required to do so. However, this never happened and they simply rejoined fully in 2009.
i love the attention to detail with things that are completely unnecessary for the information to be presented. zuiderzee works, the creation of reservoirs and the destruction of kakhovka
reservoir.
Poland, the czech Republic, and Hungary joined NATO 25 years ago
Hungary plays a bad girl and more worse then good for NATO, maybe... Should be kicked out from NATO and at that matter EU also....
I was surprised to see Turkey joined so early on
@@andrius505 If that happened NATO would have lost a vital ally to Russia because 1. Hungary has a party completely with Russia 2. They would have felt betrayed and have their own wants in Ukraine
@@andrius505 Keep yapping 🗣
@@andrius505you are weird
Russia is definitely the underdog in any conflict against NATO. NATO currently has a military spending of $1,307,329,588,778 ($1.31 trillion dollars) with 10,260,945 square miles of land compared to Russia’s $109,000,000,000 ($109 billion dollars) in military spending with 6,323,142 square miles of land. NATO has over 8,671,080 military personnels to Russia’s 3,708,000 military personnels. Seeing this trend, NATO might have a military budget that surpasses Russia’s entire nominal economy.
@@Gernachorfr
@@Gernachorприезжай к нам,пошутим над тобой
@@GernachorSays the one that has a cringy pfp
Nukes
Then explain why do u u need 32 nations to contain just 1 nation ? @@Gernachor
would you mind letting your videos play longer at the end, it would be nice to admire the end product without having to pause it so abruptly. thanks!
That is exactly my thoughts too.
Didnt know all those russian lakes were artificial
Dam moment
@@Kakashi_SenseiofficialIs it a God dam
This lakes are not lakes, but “water reservoirs” (including Rybynsk reservoir that was created in 1930s). They had appeared after building of dams and hydroelectric power stations on Volga and Dniepr. During this several settlements were flooded (for example small town of Mologa near Rybynsk, in the Middle Ages it was local center of fiefdom).
Big natural lakes in Russia and neighboring countries are Onega, Ladoga, Pskov and Chud. All of them located near borders
You can usually tell from the shape! Reservoirs tend to be long and squiggly
@@Timur_Iz_Timuridov Aren't dam reservoirs (often) also lakes? E.g. the reservoir of the Aswan dam in Egypt is called Lake Nasser and the reservoir of the Hoover dam in the US is called Lake Mead.
Reuploaded to fix a label mistake. Sorry for the inconvenience. Enjoy the video!
What was the mistake?
Better hope this is your only reupload. 😂
Forgot to change Turkey to Türkiye
communist expansion is a threat!
communist expansion is a threat!
1945-1990
now:
n-nato expansion is not a threat! kappa
@@SamTaylorsVersion everuything
Interesting how former Warsaw Pact members are now in NATO. Especially Poland who went through excessive Soviet interference from 1945 is now poised to be the leading member of NATO in the East against Russia.
Our countries suffered alot cuz of the soviets (and not only them), it was only logical to join NATO
@chinsaw2727It's kind of fair enough considering that the Russians were the primary force behind the partitions of the PLC and a participant with the Germans in 1939. The Russians and polish have been geopolitical rivals fighting over eastern Europe for the last 500 years. The Russians are like enemy number 1 for them historically. That type of animosity takes time, respect and effort to change, and neither side seems willing to do so.
@chinsaw2727 i mean poles never chose to join the pact, thats just want the puppet regime did
dude they all were ussr proxy states with 0 independency
@chinsaw2727nah it was because they installed a puppet stalinistic regime which had to do whatever Moscow commanded. We wouldn't join Warsaw Pact otherwise no matter who "liberated" us (just clarifying since you clearly got the spirit of the message right :p)
Countries joining NATO: "Sure, just wait a couple of hours"
Countries joining the EU: "You guys still waiting?"
POV: you are Turkey 😭😭🤣
The most recent discussions of full membership began in the 2005 and nothing happened. It's been 19 years by now
@@rechi-hr4wcturkey doesn't deserve to be in the eu,they are not european
@@MatejaMicic Yes, but they have been candidates since the dawn of time (and they risk having to wait a long time since they do not respect human rights)
@@rechi-hr4wc an islamic state that doesn't respect human rights shouldn't be in the eu
Dude did NOT have to include the frontlines in the Syrian civil war but did anyway. Cool
Welcome to the compass club Sweden
You mean welcome to being a thrall state?
@@megakillerx vatnik moment
@@megakillerx You mean welcome to the alliance where you won't be attacked by an imperialistic dumb*ss?
@@WorldOrderOfIdiocracy Putin and his regime are actively replacing Ukrainians in their occupied cities with central Asians and Chechen Islamists, they share the same values as the globalist west and I do not wish to die for either of them.
@@megakillerxthe internet user
Great vodeo for anniversary of Poland's admission to NATO! it happened 25 years ago!
I don't support your words..
@@AGamer2are you polish?
@@404_nowheresnotfound3 Goodly, not
@@AGamer2 why do you get to decide what Poland does then?
@@404_nowheresnotfound3 It seems AGamer2 is russian.
I wonder what that strange application boost was around 2023 🤔
Putler's 5D chess for sure played out well with two more nations rushing to join NATO. No other master geostrategist managed to bring Europe together as much as he did
@Felix-fy4gq Yeah but all of those countries are safely behind several NATO countries. Sweden and Finland were the most vulnerable and committed to neutrality.
@Felix-fy4gq Neutrality is codifed in the Austrian constitution. What is the point of bringing this up?
@@aidan883Austria is just a self-governing extension of Germany let's be real
2 countries that were already effectively in NATO
@@phencyclidine7880Not effectively since they never had article 5 protection. It's a huge upgrade from mere cooperation.
Great video
I feel like Georgia should've been on the "Invited / Applied" list during 2008, when they voted to join and was welcomed, but Russia invaded them to make sure it didn't occur.
NATO did not welcome Georgia in 2008. Instead, they were promised eventual membership, but were denied a Membership Action Plan or any other concrete measure
Грузины против НАТО.
Georgia began a membership action plan but that’s not technically the same as an outright invitation or application.
@@EmperorTigerstar EmperorTigerstar!!!!
@@EmperorTigerstarwere there countries that formally received an invitation?
From 3:22 I got distracted by ISIS and forgot what this video is about
You forgot the strategic port of Saint Pierre et Miquelon. The great French bastion off of Canada!
The only Remnant of New France 😂😂
Excellent video!
If I'm not mistaken, in the earlier upload you had forgotten to add West Berlin?
Nah he had it in there
Nope. That was there.
To remove "(Fr.)" from northern Italy I believe.
Lovely that you also included the Netherland's expansion into the sea ;-)
Did you use the thin line to denote territorial claims in Europe but the dynamic front line in Syria/Iraq? Or did territorial claims in the Middle East just evolve that rapidly? Thanks for the video, amazing as always
At least some of those are actual control rather than claims.
Correction: Georgia had no control over its southern province until 2003, you could have outlined that too
Not quite. Ajara never governed by an entity which claimed independence from Georgia, whereas South Ossetia and Abkhazia did claim (and even secure) independence from Georgia.
No. You’re are not true
. Abkhazia and South Ossetia Had separatist views with Georgia since 1991 , as well as Transnistria
I love all the extra little details, like the blowing of the kakhovka reservoir and doing it by month rather than by year!
small thing, I don't think Tunisia or Morocco were ever covered by NATO. Algeria was as it was a part of metropolitan France, but other African territories by NATO member states aren't covered unless specified (like how Algeria was specified specifically to be covered by NATO when it was a part of France), so France's other North African territories weren't covered, including Spain's African cities of Ceuta and Melilla
Indeed, nor were remote islands in the southern hemisphere.
I think this map just shows the territory of NATO members
NATO officially protected anything above the Tropic of Capricorn. So that’s what I went with.
@@EmperorTigerstar fair point, but not technically true
NATO officially states in Article 6 that the treaty only covers the territories above the tropic of cancer which are in Europe, North America, Turkey, and North Atlantic islands, not just anything above the tropic of cancer, Algeria was a special case which France argued for
Here are the countries that have joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the years they joined:
1949: The original 12 founding members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States
1952: Greece and Turkey joined
1955: West Germany joined, which became Germany in 1990
1982: Spain joined
1999: The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined
2004: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia joined
2009: Albania and Croatia joined
2017: Montenegro joined
2020: North Macedonia joined
2023: Finland joined
2024: Sweden joined
do you just base maps for every year that you add onto for each video? cause i can't imagine you're manually going through and adding all the lakes and the syrian borders every time??? surely not?
It'd be convenient to have a little timeline along the bottom with events marked on it (perhaps color-coded), especially on long vids where the map changes suddenly and drastically.
Congratulations to Sweden and Finland on joining NATO. Also congrats to Vladimir Putin on making this possible. Never thought it would ever happen.
yeah, he is fabulous dumba55
@@Moi_Gospodin1337 In some yes, in some not 💀
@@AGamer2 146%
Remember the original version of this video that you deleted as your wrongly assumed Sweden and Finland would join in 2021
Ukraine looks so off without the Kakhovka Resevoir
And yet the Vietnamese communist govt is always a puppet/lapdog of Russia.
Respect for taking the effort of doing the Syria/Iraq wars for no reason. Must've took a bunch of time, thanks mate.
Russia: I’m here to stop the expansion of nato
Russia 20 years ago: let’s former Soviet lands join nato and eu
Also Russia right now: the war they caused two more countries to join
So you're faulting them for spending years trying to avoid armed conflict? Would this war have been somehow better if it was fought decades ago for far fewer and less justifiable reasons? Shills have no thought process.
they didn't "let" anything happen. it wasn't their choice in the first place
Such a great hidden lie on the second point. Russia was against expansion from beginning and started war when NATO got too close. Isn't that obvious? What is the cause of expand after Soviet Union collapse? The answer is simple. Greed, control, power.
России плевать на Швецию и Финляндию,но России не плевать на Украину, вступление Украины в НАТО опасно для России, вступление Швеции и Финляндии в НАТО безразлично для России,это очень слабые в военном отношении страны с маленьким населением,и не сильно увеличивают опасностью для России,но если НАТО нападёт на Россию, Россия применит своё ядерное оружие, понимая что в этом случае не будет победителей,но если в мире не будет России,то не будет и мира вместе со всеми странами НАТО, Россия это не Югославия и не Ливия,по зубам НАТО от России получит очень сильно.
@@kamilmagomedov2278you're coping hard. russia can barely manage an invasion of an impoverished muddy field in the backwaters of europe
A decade later these videos are still coming, and with incredible attention to detail! I love watching those lakes appear in Russia, or the land reclamation in the Netherlands, or even seeing the frontlines shift in Syria. No one else would have included those things and it's great how you do.
Kind weird to paint accurate frontline movements in Syria, but for Ukraine to use russian annexation claims instead of actual current frontline. This video makes it look as if Russia currently controls Zaporizhia and Kherson cities, but it doesn't
That Baltic Sea is now a beautiful NATO-lake. Congratulations to Sweden for becoming a member of NATO. Greetings from your eastern frienemesis 🇫🇮❤️🇸🇪
And congrats to Putin for his successful anti-NATO -policies very well played!
Neutral Finland and Sweden are not interting to Russia. Slav country that is ex-ally with big russian population is more important to Russia.
Me: I couldn’t be that wild when I was drunk last night
What happened last night: _blocked by NATO on Twitter_
Russia truly played itself
More like the west betrayed the USSR in 1945
@@UHOH3300
How so?
@bodassassin6387
They sometimes claim the war in Ukraine was to halt NATO expansion but actually made Finland and Sweden join NATO and Ukraine to apply as well.
@@dagsommar3713lol, and so what?
@X9xredgkoa
Russia lied, and they played themselves. A fascist kleptocracy full of idiots.
I think it would've been good showing Bosnia and Georgia and aspiring members as well, especially when Bosnia has Membership Action Plan and Georgia suffered war due to it's aspiration.
Disagree. After the war in 2008. Georgia is treading more carefully and it effectively abandoned the goal of NATO membership. Bosnia and Herzegovina on the other hand doesn't actually want to join either because Republic of Srpska is strongly opposing that idea.
As an Italian i'm proud of my country being a NATO Member and same for Finland and Sweden 🇮🇹❤️🇫🇮🇸🇪
Siamo diventati schiavi dell'imperialismo statunitense e stiamo finanziando il genocidio a Gaza, contento te...
@@omeg451” “-🤡🤖
Италия породила на свет фашизм,итальянцы основатели фашизме.
@@omeg451 ok hippie
meanwhile the USSR casually using dams to build lakes:
Good video.
I’m so glad that Scandinavia finally reunited in economical (EU) and military (NATO)🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮🇮🇸🇬🇱
@soumyajitdas1729 Unfortunately yes, but you can enter Norway with European Schengen, so in a way Norway is united with other countries in Scandinavia
The new Kalmar Union
I’d rather that we could be an independent alliance than bends over backwards towards foreign superpowers that has zero interests towards our Nordic people.
Suomi ei ole skandinaavinen.
Thank you ! :-)
Soviet Union tried to join nato in 1954, if that happened the Cold War would be WAYY more stupid. Imagine having Italy be communist but Czechoslovakia be democratic due to the coups being “allowed” because everyone’s in the same alliance.
The only coups in Italy were attempted by neo-Fascists and former monarchists that NATO protected in its secret structures.
i don't think coups are allowed in between nato countries.
if the ussr did join, nato would basically just become like the un security force localised to europe. only ever used for conflicts that would've had both sides agree anyway (ig like the boxer rebellion or the somali pirates stuff but during cold war europe)
the west would just make a new nato without the ussr anyway
They never applied and never wanted to be Nato member like every other.
@@Blanka1100this is false. look it up
From 1984 to 1988 Peter Carrington, the 6th Baron Carrington (UK) was NATOs Secretary General.
NATO enlragement:
04/04/1949
- Belgium 🇧🇪
- Canada 🇨🇦
- Denmark 🇩🇰
- France 🇫🇷
- Iceland 🇮🇸
- Italy 🇮🇹
- Luxembourg 🇱🇺
- Netherlands 🇳🇱
- Norway 🇳🇴
- Portugal 🇵🇹
- United Kingdom 🇬🇧
- United States Of America 🇺🇸
18/02/1952
- Greece 🇬🇷
- Turkey 🇹🇷
09/05/1955
- West Germany 🇩🇪
30/05/1982
- Spain 🇪🇸
03/10/1990
- East Germany (unified with West Germany) 🇩🇪
12/03/1999
- Czech Republic 🇨🇿
- Hungary 🇭🇺
- Poland 🇵🇱
29/03/2004
- Bulgaria 🇧🇬
- Estonia 🇪🇪
- Latvia 🇱🇻
- Lithuania 🇱🇹
- Romania 🇷🇴
- Slovakia 🇸🇰
- Slovenia 🇸🇮
01/04/2009
- Albania 🇦🇱
- Croatia 🇭🇷
05/06/2017
- Montenegro 🇲🇪
27/03/2020
- North Macedonia 🇲🇰
04/04/2023
- Finland 🇫🇮
07/03/2024
- Sweden 🇸🇪
Is Georgia still applying for membership?
0:19 i like how a random lake appeared in ussr
Those are artificial lakes made by USSR using dams after WW2. Look closer, there are plenty of them being created with time passing.
I find it supremely funny how there's massive lakes just sorta popping into existance in the USSR
Today it is 25 yeras since Czech Republic joined NATO. I am proud for my country to be a part of west
Being fair it is physically more western than Vienna also it is less west alliance and more European and European decedent plus Turkey alliance
Going from a puppet of the east to a puppet of the west.
What’s with Czechs and their willingness to surrender their sovereignty? You’ve been doing it for over a thousand years.
@@megakillerxfirst thing, you dont know czech history And second thing, we choosed to be a part of nato, we werent forced to do it
@@jelen7217
>Kingdom of Bohemia loosing it’s political power within the HRE and became a puppet state for Hapsburgs.
>Actively Germanised until Czechs became a minority in Prag throughout HRE and 19th century imperial rule.
>Briefly became independent as interwar Czechoslovakia.
>lost it to the reich anyway.
>post WW2 became a puppet of the east and violently crushed when trying to become sovereign.
>post Cold War becomes a puppet to the west ruled by an elite that once again wishes to see Czechs become a minority in their homeland trough mass immigration.
You have been truly independent for approximately 20 years.
@@megakillerx Joining Nato was a choice while being Warsaw pact member was made by force and Warsaw pact was the only alliance to invade its own members. Calling the police in order not to be hurt anymore is not "lack of sovereignty"
Yet another w video
If you listen carefully, you can hear Putin crying in the background
You are probably just hearing voices in head
No brains bruh
@fabianvoigtlander1042 what is cringe is simping for your dictator in the comments section
@@AGamer2indeed, pu5in apologists have no brain
@@СемёнДавыдов-у9сahhhh did I hurt your feeling by insulting your little putin
Finnaly video I was waiting for :) To see how blue grows.
What do those red lines mean?
Ongoing conflict/dispute
Civil War/war
new liberated territories of Russia
What is the second theme used in this video? It's not the one that we have in discription.
Yes it is. It’s “Rynos Theme” as listed.
@@EmperorTigerstar Thank you for quick response. I am honoured :D Having this oportunity I would like to thank you for your great work and passion. Since I was very little I always liked to watch old maps and shifting borders throught history fascinated me. Keep up with good work :)
Welcome to NATO Finland and Sweden! In the hopes of a safer and a total independence seeking future!
nato is a defensive alliance not a safe one even if all nations will invade one country the enemy is probably with nukes so it could end up bad
I love how you also added russian artificial lakes acurately
Russia invading Ukraine actually caused NATO to expand. Props for Putin for recruiting!
bruh a new lake was created in 1967 in north finland i would like to know more about that
That Warsaw Pact thing didn't last very long. Wonder what happened. 😉
A good way to refute the official purpose of NATO - that it's a defensive alliance - is by simply pointing out where Portugal, one of it's founding members, is on a map. There are only two circumstances in which Portugal would be in need of collective security: Either it gets attacked by one of it's nearby neighbours, all of whom are in NATO, or it gets attacked by an enemy that has steamrolled through Europe and defeated most other NATO states first. Either way, any scenario in which Portugal needs NATO's help is one in which NATO doesn't work.
I'm surprised that NATOs flag use to be green and a emblem in the middle
What happened with Ireland, Austria and swizzerland?
Nothing happened to them, they still exist today
@@Mahakhala Those three countries are neutral well except austria. Austria didnt join NATO but the EU in 1995 alongside Sweden and Finland and austria could have joined nato too cause that treaty with the USSR is not valid anymore. Now austria has political problems thanks to Karl Nehammer which he is against EU, Ukraine and NATO and Pro Russia. Also he vetoed Romania and Bulgaria (two NATO Members that are also EU) To join schengen area. Now if Austria wants to join NATO they will get not only from romania and Bulgaria but also from Turkey,Greece,Germany,Italy,France and Slovenia a Veto cause their democracy and the schengen accesion of romania and Bulgaria wasnt even fair
In 2004 Nato secure a wall in East Europe, from Baltic Sea to Mediteranean Sea
from whom?)
@@cheltblchelnetbl3000 Putin slaves
Why did you include the Warsaw Pact but not the CSTO?
Do u see EU organisation uncluded? Bot
@@duduchannel6729 So why CSTO should be included?
@@Vanduo610 The EU is not a military alliance though? Mister human
@@Vanduo610 Because its in a proxy war with NATO? He even included the Ukraine war in the video.
Plus Russia and Belarus do consider NATO as unfriendly and viceversa and there have been expulsions of diplomats by both sides, they are basically enemies like NATO and WP
@@duduchannel6729 Do you understand that CSTO does not work like NATO? Even Armenia would have joined NATO if not ruzzia. CSTO is just puppets of ruzzia. That is all. Without ruzzia support all of their leaders would not be leaders at all. Also it even has Uzbekistan as a member. Dude it is second North Korea after Iran.
3:49 Let's be honest, we all came just to see that
2:16 🍻
What were those countries/divisions inside the Russian heartland at 2:19
These are separatist movements
These are countries which were annexed my Russia after some time
@@jsfkof but they never existed before, right? Like during the time of the Czars
@@niteshmurti Those were created on the times of USSR, the country you mentioned in heartland of Russia is tatarastan, which about 60% of people are muslim tatars and same with chechnya near georgia, hope that helps!😁
@@jsfkof Ok thanks for info
You know you’re on the wrong side of history when a 200 year old neutral country since the time of Napoleon joins against you.
Tbf. Sweden and Russia always disliked each other but yes Russia is on the wrong side here
Sweden wasn't neutral since a long time, they helped NATO in Afghanistan and Libya
Dumbest comment ever
Why was the USSR randomly creating lakes around the country?
Those are reservoirs for hydroelectric stations. Hydroelectric energy is among the most reliable and cheapest.
USSR: Asks to join NATO*
NATO: Refuses*
USSR: Creates Warsaw Pact*
NATO: :0
Now everyone understand blue is stronger color than red.
USSR never asked to join NATO bu t nice try spreading Commie Propaganda
That was a ploy like when Putin did it in the 2000s. The Cold War was already in full swing by the time NATO as an idea was even conceived
@@Moi_Gospodin1337 purple:
Russia: Asks NATO not to expand their borders east now that there is no cold war anymore*
NATO: Refuses*
Russia: Asks NATO to stop funding coups in neighboring countries*
NATO: Refuses*
Russia: Asks NATO to stop ethnically cleansing Russian parts of Ukraine*
NATO: Refuses*
Russia: Responds with hostility after decades*
NAFO: VATNIK VATNIK VATNIK GHOST OF KEEEEEV IS MAI WAIFU SLAVA UKRAIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIII
The day I am writing this comment marks the 75th Anniversary of NATO. Cheers to 75 years of cooperation!
Other than not showing the west coasts of America(Alaska,Hawaii) & Canada this was real good.
how you can make these videos if crimea russian from 2014
Какие страны его российским признали, можешь назвать?
@@maxlin200Russia, and it is controlled by Russia
@@buckmanley1233 This is a temporarily occupied territory.
@@buckmanley1233 think of it as people who come into one of the rooms of your house with a gun and you can't kick them out.
man lol im from crimea and everyone in 2014 vote for Russia cuz Ukraine ####@@maxlin200
Correction: Germany before 1956 did have the Saarland
Bosnia also is applying
half of Bosnia is ruled by Serbs. Bosnia will never be in NATO
So if NATO was a some sort of anti-soviet alliance then why it still expanded when there was no more soviet union?
Потому что наверное существовала опасность того, что в России будет реваншизм?
Потому что НАТО ни когда не было оборонной организацией, НАТО всегда была агрессором и всегда нападало на другие страны, Югославия, Ирак и Ливия это доказывают.
because Russia is governed by a dictator who wants to recreate the Soviet Union....
@@kamilmagomedov2278 Ничего это не доказывает? В Югославии сербы проводили этническую чистку, Ирак оккупировал Кувейт, поэтому там НАТО и проводили военные действия.
@@kamilmagomedov2278 Чушь полная!!! Разве НАТО в последствии оккупировало Ирак или Ливию? Нет, это независимые государства. Даже Сербия спокойно находится в окружении стран НАТО. Так что НАТО является агрессором - лишь ваши влажные мечты.
Fun Fact: All former Warsaw Pact Countries (except the USSR, of course) are all in NATO now.
It's weird to think that if the First Cold War had ended in the other direction, all NATO states outside the US/UK would probably be in the Warsaw Pact by now.
BRITTANICA??
It's really hard to blame Russia for feeling threatened when you look at NATO's expansion well into their traditional sphere of influence.
Russia have nuke what are they scared of?
@@hereticalbug6361 America had nukes during the Cuban Missile Crisis, so should they have not felt threatened?
@@chrisgaming9567 lol Ukraine isn't in NATO what are you talking about
@@hereticalbug6361 And Cuba wasn't in the Warsaw Pact
@@chrisgaming9567 lol Ukraine wants to join NATO because Russia invaded Crimea
Now NATO shouts “Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby! BAD DOBBY!”
Wonder why Austria isn't a part of NATO? Kinda weird IMO.
Post-war Austria was established as neutral state, kind of like Switzerland.
Austria agreed to not join any alliance as long as they could be reunited after ww2
Forced neutrality under its constitution. It is kinda weird though given that Germany didn't need to do that. USSR botch job.
@@XYZ_55 neutrality was the soviet demand so they give up their occupation zone. Soviets also tried to create a neutral united Germany, but the soviet leader who proposed it was deposed soon.
They didn't join because of an agreement between Nato and the USSR. It was occupied by the victorious powers just like Germany, but it was made a neutral republic in the 50s. But after the Warsaw pact collapsed, they were surrounded by Nato members. So they had no reason to join and they kept their neutrality.
I love how you can see the Netherlands slowly taking land from the sea
Königsberg in NATO (through Germany) next? Finland gets back its lands? Baltic Sea for NATO!!!!
And the local Russians?
@stefanodadamo6809 For the first thing, they get the option to either stay and become naturalised German citizens (like Russians already living in Germany are), or they go back to where they came from (Russia proper). Heck, if they cause trouble, they can be deported, just like how the Germans living in the area prior to 1945 were.
Same thing with Finland. Viipuri was Finland's second-largest city before it was annexed by the USSR and repopulated with Russians.
@@stefanodadamo6809 We could give them the same treatment they gave the German Local Population...
Yes. That's the real name. Kaliningrad is a false name
@@111222333daniel Königsberg too was. Twanste or such was the native (Old, Baltic) Prussian name.
ah yes. The great russian lake appearance of January 1955. Nice
Black sea
If Saar was a French protectorate until Jan 1 1957, shouldn't it also be blue in the same way Cyprus and Algeria were until their independence?
Nope. Legally it wasn't a NATO member but French Algeria and British Cyprus were.
the Saar protectorate was a seperate entity from France, whereas Algeria was considered a core part of France itself, and where Cyprus was considered a core extension of Britain as it was a crown colony which was in Europe and above the tropic of cancer which fits the definitions to a NATO member's territory covered by NATO
love the red areas concept
Putin: "I don't want NATO to border me!"
Putin: *attacks Ukraine*
Countries on Russia's border: *join NATO*
Well, that backfired, didn't it?
I have an idea for a video make a all moon landing video with a map of the moon and all landings over time even if it’s just a spacecraft or a human mission
Russia does have a point. There is a threat to them.
The eastern european states joined because they know how it is being under russian rule.
Russia literally has nukes. Why would NATO ever invade them??
Up to 2014 NATO communicated with Russia
no, the eastern european states have a point in joining nato because there is a threat to them, coming from russia. fixed that for you vatnik
Hah, then why all Russian military bases are empty near Finnish and Baltics borders? 😂 If Russia/Putin was truly worried about that, he would have NEVER thrown all his forces to Ukraine and actually done something about Finland and Sweden....
But no reaction to that at all, which just shows that Putin is using it as excuse, in reality he knows darn well that NATO doesn't pose any threat unless he would invade NATO country and thats EXACTLY why countries in Eastern Europe joined NATO because they have known all along that Russia could one day again be threat to their independence and Russia showed exactly that when it invaded Ukraine and Georgia before that in 2008.
RUSSIA/Putin have only themselves to blame that European nations see them as threat and they have proven to be exactly that
3:53 The Dnipro River was uninstalled
Buried
As someone told Putin: “You caused this.”
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇳🇴 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 💪
Literally nothing happened
Love how he even got the land reclamations of the Netherlands
Time to petition to rename the Baltic Sea into NATO lake
no
@@Randerkyes
What map animation thing do you use?
The NATO is only seems as defensive alliance, but it is not really it, because they also can intervente in other countries around the world, and their expansion makes more risks to WW3 to happen. And no matter which government country has, the risk always exists.
1. Sort of, it only intervenes when countries risk war
2. Their expansion makes less risks for WW3 to happen because NATO is trying to stop Russia from causing WW2
3. You literally disproved yourself, it’s a DEFENSIVE alliance so how is there risk???!
4. You probably are just a Russian bot or smth lol
@@AmericanGuy0 You're another American bot, the nickname explains itself
@@AmericanGuy0 And it is my position, I don't need American bots vatnik opinion, so shut up lol 😃
@@AmericanGuy0 1. NATO's expansion makes more risk because it is bordering Russia, and the situation is escalating.
2. Yes, it is a defensive alliance, but don't forget that they also have nukes and can do same as Russia.
3. They didn't trying to stop Russia, because before any modern conflicts, NATO also expanded to Eastern Europe, the post Warsaw Pact countries.
4. Their targets always was defeat Russia because of historical conflicts and the modern relations. And the Putin's government even better than be under pro-Western liberal, who will sell us to USA.
5. I don't need your and others opinion :)
@@AGamer2 I'm unsure of any agreement signed between that denied NATO expansion, as from what I can recall there isn't any agreement. NATO is a defense alliance that countries willingly joined. Legit none of these are opinions, just factual information. You've just made up the "NATO agreement", made up geopolitics as well in justifying modern relations.
Why didn’t you show the British and Turkish controlled parts of Cyprus? I know it’s disputed territory, but it’s still part of NATO militarily right?
Milatarily no north Cyprus Has a clear border with Cyprus it’s just un ecognized