What does Russia want from Ukraine? - VisualPolitik EN
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War drums are beating on the border between Russia and Ukraine. In fact, Ukraine has been at war with Russia since 2014, when Russian troops seized the Crimean peninsula and supported separatist rebels in the Donbas. Now, however, Putin has deployed more than 100,000 troops to the border, and that could trigger open warfare.
Right now, the United States and Russia are in negotiations to avoid a full-scale conflict, and it is impossible to imagine what will happen. But why is Russia so interested in Ukraine, what is its narrative, and what are the real reasons? In this video we tell you.
I am from Ukraine, and I say we will not give up, we will fight for our country!
Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹
Stand strong. Hope you guys can defend Ukraine and able to join Nato and EU soon
Become neutral and you'll be fine. Play both sides like so many countries already do.
Finland has already shown by example that not choosing a camp is an option too.
@@mnoorkhan nah neutral is not an option for Ukraine. As if Russia will leave Ukraine alone. Same reason why baltic states and most of Eastern Europe join NATO.
@@mnoorkhan stupit, we were neutral until 2014, when russian occupied Crimea and started war in donbass
Actually Ukraine had a brief stint of independence after the russian revolution, Stalin and Trotsky had to wage a war to retake it...
Don’t forget Russian aggression in 21st century started with them invading Georgia in 2008!
Dont forget USA bomb people iraq n libya just for oil... People libya n iraq happy now eat grass for freedom
Russia was finishing the second Chechen war. Another fight it wasn't on their plans
What about the USA invasions in the past?
@@davidserrano8463 The US didn't steal the lands of neighborhood countries in recent history
@@zinnsoldat6493 lol, they die that a lot
Cossacs didn't speak russian, come on - this is laughable.
This video is so inaccurate that I even don't know where to start. Shame
He warned that what he was going to say was a Russian narrative
@@gottfriedlenz8071 It still makes zero sense to mindlessly repeat it without analyzing and checking the basic facts.
@@gottfriedlenz8071 P.S. Not even russian narrative says "Cossacs spoke russian". You can google the text of Zaporizh cossacs letter to Turkish sultan (you see a painting in this video depicting Cossacs writing that letter) - and you'll find it's written in Ukrainian. Even russian wikipedia provides RUSSIAN TRANSLATION of that letter. So Cossacs didn't write (or speak) in russian even according to russian narratives.
They did speak russian
I honestly feel terrible for the people of Ukraine. They are ordinary people like you and I who have families and want to just simply live their lives but they can’t because of a few men in higher positions.
Very good point. All of this just because of a selfish man’s aspirations.
Ukrainians are Russians, most people have relatives in Russia. no Russian will ever do anything bad to Ukrainians, not counting the nationalist batalions which are very few, and they will be wiped out
@@ArmorKingEmir i think most Ukrainians would call the invasion and annexation of their country one part at a time a "bad thing"
its like a guy kidnaps his sister and says i wont hurt her we are family. that is neither an excuse nor justification for whats happening
thank u
@@ArmorKingEmir no we are not russians :)
The word “Ukraine” does NOT mean “borderland” or “edge”. Ukrainians did not define themselves in such an absurd manner.
“Край” “krai” means LAND. The most credible understanding is that it means “the land that belongs to Ukrainians”, or, their “native or home land.”
The Russian propaganda and some foreign interpretations of Ukraine meaning “borderland” simply do not pass the factual, common sense, and reason smell tests.
Let’s drop the Muscovite favourable version of the etymology of the name of the country already.
Not even Moscow challenges the fact that the name for the land was given to it by Ukrainians themselves. The name is not of foreign origin - unlike the name for Russia which is Greek. Ukrainians did not see themselves as on the “border” of any place, but HOME.
The root “край” “krai”, which means land, can also be found in other words that indicate the same basic idea concept: a piece of a larger whole.
Typical uses of "krai" in Ukrainian:
ridnyi krai: native land
dalekyi krai: far land
kraievyd: scenery, landscape
krayaty: to cut/slice
It only makes sense that Ukrainians understood and meant “krai” to mean what their language defined it as, and that they understood their land as distinct from the others around it - not on edge of other.
But there is more.
In Ukrainian, the prefix "У" ("U") typically denotes an action with direction in space or transformation.
It’s also a preposition that denotes a direction in space, like English "in", "to".
So “Україна” in Ukrainian would not have meant on the edge, but IN or TO the homeland.
Ancient Ukrainians would have meant "In our land", or a Ukrainian traveller would mean, “We are returning to our land”, NOT “on the edge of others”.
If there was anything true to a false explanation of the etymology of the name Ukraine meaning "edge” or “border", the name of the country would be "Okraina".
In Ukrainian (and in Russian) this is a prefix that denotes an action on the edge of a larger whole.
Typical examples: околиця - outskirt, облямівка - edging, обшивка - cladding
Stop seeing UKRAINE through a Russian lens. Ukrainians existed well before Russians. Ukrainians named themselves, and they would not have done so in contradiction of their language, or in reference to others who didn’t even exist.
Forget it, he's just a typical vatnik
How's your NATO membership coming along? Still waiting on the US and NATO to give you membership wait no more its NEVER going to happen..
@@LordEmperorHyperion Nato won't give a membership to a country where the war goes for 8 years with russia!
Anyway how Nato related to my comment about meaning of the word "Ukraine", you dump vatnik.
It does mean the border or the edge.Same as in my ethnic group when we call Negotinska Krajina(Negotin area/border area)Same as in Republika Srpska Krajina in the 90s.Serbian Border republic.
Well you’re actually correct about Ukraine Exist before Russia did But your nation was been smash decisively for more than 600 years by who? The Russia itself.
So Don’t wonder why the world see your homeland as a Small Russia (Belarus is Russia itself).
9:26 - Uh, so Crimean peninsula was invaded because of Trade pact with EU, and NOT the largest Russian Naval military bases in that region?
Yeah... I wondered why this was omitted.
NOR because Ukraine was rubbing up to NATO and directly planning membership since 2008. Sure. Trade. It's so threatening to trade with Russia's partners. The bias is seeping out.
Black Sea its just a big lake, turkey has control of it
@@andrerothweiler9191it's connected to the Mediterranean sea and in turn to the Atlantic, Red sea, Indian ocean. So it's technically a sea
As a Ukrainian, thank you guys for telling about us to the world.
But there are some mistakes:
Ukraine is not the poorest country in Europe since like 2016. In fact an average Ukrainian income is somewhere the same as an average Russian(640$ against 700$).
The name "Ukraine" doesn't mean "border", but simply "the country" or "the land". Think about it. Why would people of Kyiv Rus call the CENTER of their land a "border"? It doesn't have any sence.
Also, could you please make a video about the life of people in Donbass? Not a lot of people in the West realize how bad is the situation with human rights there. Russians have built an "Isolation"(Изоляция) concentration camp there. Ukrainians are being tortured and killed there almost every day, but noone is talking about it.
The USA and NATO is not your friends. They will lie, steal and cheat to get their way. They will make every single one of you people debt slaves.
Greetings from Poland
@@T-REX72 How is Russia any different. Every Russian citizen is a debt slave with no rights to vote or freedom of speech. You think Russia would make an exception for Ukraine? you're delusional.
@Mr Wonder
There is no “EU assistance”.
The EU has done nothing.
@@rosshilton every now and then I find a true thread of information , thank you , I'm Australian we have the natural gas that Europe needs they don't need Russia ,this is a capitalist war , I'm sorry for you guys , this is a greed war that only the rich will benefit , Russian and western both , no nukes just the blood of the average person , communism does not work but capitalism is evil , best of luck , you can't come to Australia as our present government thinks you're not good people , right wing bullshit , I'm so angry that this is happening to you ,
There is so much wrong in this video, I don't even know where to start.
There were no "russians" (русские) at the time of Rus', the people were called "rusyns" (русини) or latinized version - "ruthenians".
The term russian was popularized during Stalin period, before that in Russian Empire era and even the first years of USSR (could be seen even on official USSR maps in 1920s), they were called velikorosy (великоросы).
During the most part of the last millenium ukrainians were known as rusyns or ruthenians. The term Ukraine (Україна/Вкраїна) was used at least from the 12th century (first mentioned in Kyiv Chronicle in 1187) to describe the homelands ("країна" means country).
Grand Duchy of Lithuania before uniting with Kingdom of Poland in 1569 was a country with majority ruthenian population, and ruthenian was the main language of documentation and writings on the most part of the territory.
When in 1721 Muscovy decided to rename itself to Russian empire, they took the name Rossiya (Россия), not Russia, because at the time everyone knew that the real Rus' and real rusyns live in what's now called Ukraine.
Cossacks never spoke muscovite language, and often even took translators when traveling to Moscow. The ruthenian language at the time of cossacks is simply old ukrainian, there are thousands of literary evidences, that's not even a debate.
I know it's hard to grasp for english speakers, because rusyn, ruthenian and russian all sound similair, but that's the whole point why Muscovy tries to hijack ukrainian history and make it their own, because Muscovy began as an outskirt of Rus' (which eventually became Ukraine, because the people of ancient Rus' never left the territory they inhabited), and they need ukrainian history to justify their own existence. Becuse todays Russia consists of dozens of nations which have very little in common, and is held together only by force and repression and the dream of great ancient history, which isn't even their own to begin with.
When the USSR was created, the republics borders were not drawn on a blank map, they represented the ethnic composition of territories at the time (just see the map of Ukrainian National Republic in 1918-1920).
Not only nobody gave Ukraine extra land during the creation of USSR, a lot of ethincally ukrainian territories (where ukrainians were the majority) were transfered to other republics - like Kuban region, city of Taganrog, Eastern Sloboda Ukraine, Starodub - to Russia or Brest region to Belarus, because Ukraine was millitary defeated by the communists.
So this whole video sounds like muscovite propaganda even if you doing it unintentionally.
Please consult some real historians before trying to teach everybody history that you know very little about.
Why don't you do a video rebutting this? Don't forget to provide citations!
Man you are amazing. As Ukranian I couldnt explain It better, thanks for your comment. Все буде Україна!
You clarifications are very useful and should be read by everyone. To be fair, he did state that what he was giving was the Russian version of history
Doesn't matter. Russyn and Russian means exactly the same thing. And Okrayna means borderland/periphery of the Rus empire.
@@Locutus Because he's manipulating history and is a propagandist.
It's a horror scenario for putin if Ukraine would become a successful democracy somewhat like western European countries because then the Russian people will start the belief that the same is possible in their country
That's true, Putin is not directly afraid of western countries but he is afraid that Russians will see that if Democracy and a free life is possible in Ukraine, they might also want free election and not live under a dictatorship.
Putin is afraid of our free, democratic lifestlye, although not always perfect but far better than any dictatorship.
You say shit😂дебил, рецитује научено на си ен ену.
Russia is already a successful democracy.
@@alexsilent5603 sure Alex, just keep watching Russian propaganda and repeat it like a sheep
@@panaccoman sure that's why people like Nawalny are imprisoned and you are open to say that opinion 🤦♂️ it can't be so hard to open your eyes, come on
Sob! Sob!
"Can I have my little Ole USSR back please mummy?"
"NOH Vlady!
Now go and play hide and seek with your KGB teen friends.
Go on!"
There is a mistake in the fact yes india was never under a single government under the British, but this region has an ancient name Bharat.. our constitution also recognizes this name.
And brits never united india they left it in more than a hundred pieces to make it unstable. It was sardar patel who united india. The reason he united india because we had the same identity that is bharatiya.
Do Indians understand ancient Sanskrit texts? I always wandered the relation between Hindi and Sanskrit.
Imagine if your neighbor comes into your house and says he wants to live on your balcony, and despite your displeasure, additionally he will place his bed in your living room..
If Putin is so concerned about the former Warsaw Pact members joining NATO maybe he and the Russian people would be better served by marking sure he has more to offer than NATO and the EU.
@@panaccoman guess Putin should have thought of that before he started the whole billy badass routine.
Ukraine caused tremendous damage to its own economy by ruining its relationships with Russia. So it doesn't matter how much you offer.
@panaccoman
Putin - cut ties with Europe and become a slave!
Ukraine - no
**Putin invades and annexes Crimea**
panaccoman - this is the US' fault!
@@panaccoman
LOL. the US can't even control Iraq or Afghanistan but they can somehow magically gain control of Ukraine without any troops. LOL.
Ok Putin bot.
@@alexsilent5603 Russia ruined Ukraine’s relationship with Russia by attempting to install a proxy which was then ousted by the Ukrainian people. his efforts at stirring up unrest in the Donbas region didn’t help either.
If Ukraine were able to gain the same amount of freedom and prosperity the Baltic states have, it would be even more obvious to the Russian people how poorly Putin is managing Russia.
It is enough obvious to the Russian people how poorly Putin is managing Russia.
But there aren't so many we can do with. Our protests are being cruelly dispersed by the security forces.
I don't want to live in this country.
Most young people don't want.
The Russian people are aware of how corrupt Putin and his embezzling bunch of ministers are, there had been massive protests and discontent against his Govt, but Putin being a despot that he is, has crushed voices of dissent with ease and without mercy.
Yea... no... Ukraine was an Oligarchic mess even between russian interveintion.
@@ivanmilanov8386 True, but given the choice of being part of Europe or part of the Russian Federation, which do you think most Ukrainians would prefer? And why?
Smart ones are know it for sure
Ukraine is not "the poorest country in Europe". What about Belarus and Moldova?
Moldova has poorer living conditions than Ukraine but Ukraine's GDP is lower so...pick one.
They are fiercely competing.
Belarus is years ahead of Ukraine.
@@MWENDA-vv5im at least my Ukrain is a democrocy which Belarus is not
Especially given in 2021 UA GDP per capita rose by 40% or so nearing 6k and 12k by gdp ppe which is more relevant as life is cheaper. And minimal wage exceeded russian in 2022.
The name Ukrainian is not from periphery, that's just Russian narrative. No one exactly knows where it come from. In Ukrainian for an example the word may be rooted from land "край".
As if край is not a Russian word meaning land either... -_-
@@Arshahan homaland, not borderland. And "kray" doesn't mean just "edge". it is also "land with borders"
@@lemavr The word has the same meaning in Russian and Ukrainian. There are 9 kraïs in Russia. Kraï just means region or territory.
4:20 im sorry i got extremely triggered as a polish person, the commonwealth of lithuania was actually Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth and lithuania didnt have most of poland but we were in a very close alliance
Jesus said it. Amen!
what's the problem there? poland has been insignificant throughout most of history so normally it will be left out most of the time as well
@@ememmeme8722 it seems like a low blow to try and to trigger me lol
The Polish King was Lithuanian and the lineage is Lithuanian
@@ememmeme8722 Poland was not insignificant. At the time of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, at least until the first partitions, it was an absolute powerhouse controlling lands from Prussia to into Belarus and Ukraine and even the Baltics.
And as for @Jimmy Hoffa, Kazimierz Wielki was Lithuanian. The Jagiellons were Lithuanian. Later kings were elected and the court language was Polish. Not even the Grand Duchy of Lithuania spoke Lithuanian, they were using Ruthenian as most of their lands did, too. Poles and Polish were by far dominant in the PLC.
04:44 - Ruthenians did not Spoke Russian.
Even today after 250+ years of Russian occupation and Russification, Ruthenian languages are distinct from Russian, to a point of mutual unintelligibility, and presents itself closer to Polish then it is to Russian.
Nevertheless, It is exactly it. A language that is set somewhere on a continuum between Polish and Russian languages, and presents its own flavour. And cannot be characterised as Polonised Russian or Russified Polish.
It is not Russian Language.
Russia acting like the aggrieved party in this when it owes all of Eastern Europe an apology for how it treated them after 1945 is really beyond the pale.
*Central Europe too - really Eastern Europe is just Ukraine, the European part of Russia, Belarus, and Georgia, plus maybe the Baltic States and Moldova, but I think even that is a stretch.
Otherwise your comment is spot on.
@@wheeliebeast7679 from that perspective, the Baltic states aren’t Eastern Europe
@Mr Wonder No, we hate the dictative assistance. Simply not behaving aggressively, not allowing to deploy nuclear rockets on our soil, but rather enhance economic ties with them ensures peace. We do not like Russia because of the past, but actively keep up the hate leads nowhere - or rather it exactly leads us where the US wants us.
@Mr Wonder lol what are you talking about? Isn’t this a video about Ukrainian and Russia?
@@wheeliebeast7679 The centre of Europe has been disputed for some time depending on where the boundaries are drawn. According to the Austro-Hungarian survey the centre was 12km south of Rakhiv in Trans-Carpathia which is today in Ukraine. That survey considered Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to be in Asia and Iceland and Svalbard to be within Europe along with Madiera, Crete, and Malta but not the Canary Islands or Cyprus.
When I see what is happening in Eastern Europe, my heart breaks 💔 My mother and grandmother are Polish, I have been to Ukraine many times, Lviv used to be Polish ... I want to say that I support and stand for freedom and democracy in Ukraine! You have to fight and don't get divided! The Americans are with you!!! 🇺🇲🇵🇱♥️🇺🇦
Democracy doesn't exist.
I am an Indian and as an Indian and I usually support Russia...
But on this issue I think Russia is doing the wrong thing .....
Support to Ukraine 🇺🇦
I hope there will be no wars 🤞
Everything you said was ok until I saw "the Americans are with you". I wouldn't place my hopes there
We don’t care
@Mr Wonder again with the same comment! Clearly your a Russian bot!!!
While I agree a lot of Putin's demands are unrealistic but I think you really downplayed Nato's expansion quite a bit. Not to mention how much Biden has increasingly agitated the situation.
Poor guy doesn't even know he is president either.
NATO's expansion was not the issue, as we now know two months+ later. Besides, NATO has not expanded eastward since 2004, almost 20 years ago and Putin knew that Ukraine would not become a NATO member in the foreseeable future, during his lifetime anyway (but it might soon due to Putin's aggression). NATO expansion was an excuse proffered in some Russian propaganda and Biden knew this before the rest of us.
Ukraine is only about Putin's legacy and popularity, his delusions of rebuilding his beloved USSR. He was offered the chance to negotiate his NATO concerns, e.g. inspections in NATO’s eastern nations to show no missiles were present, but he refused because he figured he could just take what he wanted and show who is boss in Eastern Europe. It wouldn't have stopped with Ukraine either. Now he is being taught a lesson.
Russia become Russia only in 1721, it was renamed from Moskovien tsardom. Moscow is the center of this country and homeland of this nation, but it was formed and established as regional center of power at times of Golden horde. Moscow conquer former Rus principalities such as Novgorod, Pskov and so on. Their narrative that making them parts of Rus history, provides their ideology with reasons for expansions on the west, in BelaRUS and Ukraine. Ukraine's name has a warious theories of origin. Telling people that name for country was made from word that means border lands it's ridiculous, not to mention that the capital of oll east slavs was in Kiev. Olso there are many inaccurate moments if you traying to start Ukraine history from USSR, in 1918-21 there were numerous wars, conflicts and hostile actions between Ukraine and Russian communists. Important to know the facts about spreading of Ukrainian language on territories of former Russian empire, and if you try to find out this maps, you'll see that Ukrainian culture and language were spread far more beyond modern borders. After loose wars and genocide (1933 in east Ukraine), political and peasants exterminations of ukranians, and further immigration of russians, balance of different cultures shifts towards more numerous foreign language and culture, such as russian.
Todays world's wue on Ukraine-Russia conflict is oversimplified.
West don't want look deep in nuances of histori, not to mention that they don't understands reasons of Russian politics. Russia just has one ideafix, rebuild a USSR or Russian empire. It's provides them with the true meaning for their constant wars, explains their political actions. Their targets may look stupid, unlogical and mostly based on dogmatic faith of their rulers, but they will push towards them in any case. Russia know wery well that NATO never attacks, it's defensive alliance with slow politics and decisions made cycle. But, establishing Ukraine as member of NATO cuts them from possibilities for waging wars(not necessarily with weapons), and stops them from movement. Any stop, it's a stagnation and internal struggle, cause their people's believes in their narratives and ideology, which makes russian politics hostages of people that find only reasonable answers for embodiment their wet dreams by expansion.
Europe needs a strong Ukraine. Hope this conflict ends soon, so that our criminals can be friends again, to go all around the wold partying together and laughing about the good old times!
100% agree
Ukrainians just provides there national myths
You can't run the world based on the past. It's not realistic to use what was as any bases to build the future.
Russia created the Ukraine problem by not being a friendly neighbor when it gained independence.
Ukraine didn't care for either side. But, Russia pushed the point.
@@thomasridley8675 Yes, I agree with your argument that future can't be built on past, but it's still harder to crate a wue of future. Far more easier and more understandable, for crowd, future that crosses with past. I guess it's just more reliable way.
In the 1930s Stalin was so kind as to starve perhaps several million Ukrainians to death and to ship another million off to labor camps. Prior to that, Lenin launched pogroms against the Ukrainian peasant land owners, the kulaks. A kulak was anyone with more than 8 hectares of land. This little bit of history still burns in Ukrainian hearts.
The Ukraine is a vast country with large cities and is getting better armed by the minute. Recent history is not forgotten and they will fight. It would take fully half of the Russian Army to invade and control it. More dead soldiers than they ever saw in Afghanistan. Billions of dollars in equipment losses Russia hasn't got the money to replace. The international cost would be a reinvigorated NATO and greater weakness relative to China.
Putin understands this. If there is an invasion it will only be the Russian-speaking provinces in the far east of the country and maybe to establish a land corridor to Crimea. He can brag about how he faced down a nonexistent threat from NATO and brought more ethnic Russians into greater Russia. If he's lucky maybe he can distract the population from the mess he has made with his previous invasion.
And he really can't move until after the Olympics anyhow for fear of offending the Chinese.
Ukraine 🇺🇦 gave Russia 1,900 Nuclear Missiles with a written agreement they would NEVER subjugate Ukraine 🇺🇦 again 🙄
NEVER underestimate your enemies!
Until 2014 Ukraine not even considered Russia as enemy
Political sovereignty extends from the tips of bayonets. Disarming was a short sighted move.
Ukraine as a self name means "in the country". So by Ukraine we just mean our own land. It has nothing to do with "periphery". Shame upon you for spreading Russian propaganda!
kraina/krayna is a term that means border region in all slavic languages
Fun fact...Do you want to know what the *ukra-ine means in my language?
Umm... thanks for the clarity. It's just an error.
@@svevladovtriglav no. In Ukrainian it literally means "country". "Kordon" is a "border" in Ukrainian and "Granitsa" in Russian
@@svevladovtriglav not in Ukranian. Край land країна country so it has nothing to do with periphery
"Russia wants to tell a number of sovereign states what they can and cannot do with their own armies within their own national borders." Sounds a lot like the United States huh :/
The only difference is that the US withdraw from those countries. Russians once in, they never leave. Just look at the Transnistria strip.
The last time that Russia wanted another country was when they wanted Hungary for the perfect launch sites for their Nuclear Missiles...
But this time, I have no idea why...
I disagree that Russia's 2014 campaign against Ukraine was wake up call, at least here in Eastern Europe. We here understood, that Russia hasn't changed her ways, already during Russia's 2008 war against Georgia.
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Yes. I remember discussing with ukrainians 2 months before the EuroMaidan events and they were warning about Putin and were bitter about their past history with Moscow (I say especially Moscow because it's really the leaders in Moscow, not the Russian population). I couldn't believe them or other specialists warning of Putin for a few years, and thought he was necessary to maintain Russia's unity... But then really changed my mind when I saw the reaction of Moscow to EuroMaidan, all the propaganda not matching real stories of my friends there, etc.
@@cw7886 there are only 2 things i care about: 1) how to keep Russian troops away from my and other neighbouring countries 2) how to keep Russia's nukes and working nuclear reactors under strict control.
what ordinary russians think about Putin, who will be the next czar there, or will Russia disintegrate or become under Chinese occupation: none of my business.
Except that war in Georgia was started by Georgia.
@@vladimirkraus1438 your'e not Putin, and im not Hague's International Court of Justice. lets leave this claim there, where it belongs.
Funny how Russia wants NATO to leave EASTERN Europe by escalating tensions but it backfired and he gets more NATO troops instead..... Just leave Ukraine alone
If you'd listen to Ukraine's own president or Defense minister, you'd find out Russia is not threatening them, but the West is propagandizing this, which hurts the country right now.
The West wants war
Support from 🇧🇪to 🇺🇦
Greetings from Poland
Historians out here cringing at these guys
in fact there is plenty of natural resources in Ukraine
No oil for export maybe that's why the meh.
Hey, love your videos, but you have a lot of historical mistakes in this video, just saying. Especially around the Ukrainian identity and history. Please read Ukrainian and Polish histography, rather than only English and Russia. Keep up the good work tho.
A good place to start would be "The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine" by Serhiy Plokhiy, the Ukrainian professor at Harvard
Can you list some mistakes for us? I’d like more varied perspectives and facts please.
I think it is wrong to call ukraine the poorest country in europe, because its economic statistics are vastly wrong. 40% of ukraine's whole economy is in shadows, meaning that ukraine's wealth is probably higher than moldova's at least.
But Moldova's obviously also hidden
@@happyelephant5384 It is by far not as big as ukraine's shadow economy. Moldova has atleast done some reforms to reduce the amount of the grey economy, ukraine had done none till' 2014. There are plans to reduce it, but it will take years until it will actually be some real numbers.
@@fleekrushyt9410 Word reform is so meh when talking about over corrupt states.
Every country has a hidden economy, even France's 10% economy is shadow, it's hard to calculate this, and even if you do, it would still not be much richer, keep in mind that Bulgaria and Romania also have a big shadow économie
Also, it's very hard to estimate this shadow economy
And its usually not counted because it's absolutely not helpful, drug trade or pimping isn't helping anyone
Also, Ukraine is not the poorest,
Moldova is pretty close, around 5% more in GDP per capita, if you in life the shadow economy and you are assuming that Moldova's shadow economy is not bigger than Ukraine's on a per capita basis
Ukraine might be the 2nd poorest country in Europe
Also, being the second poorest in Ukraine means that your country is still a middle-income country
Poorest?
He said Purrest. And they do have a lot of cats.
It is like an abusive relation, the abusive partner never understand why the other left and joined someone else.
yeah and this abusive partner will fcuk off only when punched few times
No, it's not. It's like some frauds, like zelenskiy, are trying to rip off the cradle of our Russian civilisation and sell it to some dirty handed descendants of slave traders and planters.
@@ТОЛЯН-ц3ю No healthy relationship would resort to threats and violences.
@@zollen123 Healthy relationship with whom, with raving mad?
This guy's understanding of India's history is as bright as his teeth
🤣 lol. NAILED it
British didn't unify india, when they left india, india was divided by more 100 princely states.
Absolutely my heart goes out to the people of the Ukrine. I guess the world is never to old for War.
Yoh that's deep dog
Your heart Didn't go out for Palestinians though
@@LaowaiDaveJCP what about the uyghurs?
@@stevensseagull what about it? 🤔
@@LaowaiDaveJCP My heart goes out to all the people of the world who are oppressed by there fellow man.. My heart goes out to you to Palestinians as well as the Israelies. Maybe one day the world will enjoy universal peace. Nobody profits from war; nobody. Sorry I left you out.
OK, VisualPolitik, it’s clear that you have used “Russian narratives” in historical matters for whatever reasons... But your explanation of “what really matters” ( 7:25 ) is funny, because distance from Latvian border (Terehova) to Moscow is ~90 km longer, than from Ukrainian border (Bachivs'k) to Moscow. In other words, 90 km are ~45 seconds for a modern short-range ballistic missile to fly. Anyway, perhaps; it is "really" the matter, then why Kremlin is against Georgia to join NATO? Again the “short” distance to Moscow? The real reason seems obvious for those who follow recent Russian history - NATO limits Kremlin’s ability to mess with its neighbors. Kremlin should not blame NATO for growing, because for East European countries it made perfect sense to join the alliance as soon as possible looking on what Russia did since collapse of USSR.
Your Concerns is Idiotic, why? The Baltic States Joined 18 years ago which Russia is still in Economic Disaster while Georgia wanted to ally with nato back 14 years and also that year was a massive Margin for Russian Economic Boom then later on Smash Georgia.
@Eugen: What did Russia do since collapse of USSR ?
@Peter: Russian Federation was deeply involved or initiated the following conflicts: Transnistria War, Ossetian War, War in Abkhazia, 1st Chechen war, Dagestan war, 2nd Chechen war, war in Georgia, annexation of Crimea, war in Eastern Ukraine. In some of these conflicts usage of non-conventions weapons by Russia or Russian-backed combatants were documented. Thus, there are only 3 options for the neighbors of Russia in East Europe: 1) join Russian military block (CSTO), 2) join NATO, or 3) wait to join the list of Russian victims...
@@haeveen8255 Idiotic to think that Russia can beat only during an economical boom. This country is capable enough to beat or cool off any of its neighbors in one to one confrontation - historically proven. That’s why smart people invented military alliances. And, by they way, when Baltic states joined NATO in 2004, Russia was not in “economic disaster”, but was “busy” in Caucasian region.
Incoming Russian bots to tell us how this video is completely false and that Putin is actually 5ft10
@Beam Team don't be surprised this is how the westerners think throughout their history they dehumanise the other so they don't feel guilt for their inhumanity
@Beam Team Nobody cares about arguments. Simple people need simple explanations: Ukraine is good, Russia is bad. Mkay?...
The fact that people speak English doesn't mean they're English
Guys from VisualPolitik, you did not cover anything from Ukrainian side. And a lot of history you told is basically not true at all. And the last one - you didn't answer why Putin wants to invade completely. You said that history is not a reason, OK, but you didn't tell what is the real reason as well, why then you brought that question to the table?. You just covered some common demands from russia's side to the west and that's it. It's not enough at all. What is the west answer? What Ukrainians are thinking? What Ukrainians are capable to answer to Russia? Where and how russians may attack, what Nato is going to do then?
Hope you will get prepared better in the future, this poor quality is not your typical style.
From Kharkiv, Ukraine. With love and peace.
Well, the historical part of the video is highly inaccurate but the modern topics are much better explained, fortunately.
I understand that you wanted to explain Russian narrative and what they feel, but the video basically pushes Russian historical propaganda and states the narrative as facts which are highly arguable. By pushing the narrative without history of actual events, it gives Russian government more power and helps achieve their goals for free and basically can be viewed as helping Putin directly
Here's a few things got wrong:
- The naming - "Ukraine" as a satellite territory was pushed by Russians for a while, but it's more related to the concept of own land (and the "kraine" part means exactly "country") rather than somebody else's
- Ukraine was split between different countries (up to 5 at worst times) but it always had national identity even though sometimes deeply assimilated with others
- Ukraine is direct ancestor of Kievan Rus' while Russia (Moskovia) originated from an eastern Rus' state and migrated north after Golden Ord wrecked Rus'. Moskovia developed in some kind of isolation on north and then started growing centering from Moscow .
- Ukrainian identity was strong in 20th century and there was about 5 Ukrainian armies in 1917-1919 which all had their own vision on how Ukraine should develop (there were independents, monarchists, bolshevic Ukrainian armies). West of Ukraine always had strongest identity
- Crimea was part of Russian Republic indeed in USSR but Ukraine had a huge fertile landmass Kuban (contains Stavropol, Rostov, Krasnodar, Volgograd, Astrahan' states and famous Sochi city). It had population of 62% Ukrainians in 1926 census. In 1956, USSR exchanged Crimea and Kuban between Ukrainian and Russian states. Little known but important fact
- Cossacks are a strong Ukrainian militaristic entity with high value of Ukrainian identity (video had very obscure explanation of them). But after 300-400 years they become mercenaries and had little to do with what Ukraine was. Later own, Russia created their own cossack divisions that only had a name and training relation to actual cossacks (became misnomer)
Ukraine never had a distinctive national identity. You are simply parroting post-Soviet Ukrainian nationalist propaganda that is clearly contradicted by the historical evidence. "Ukraine" from Okrayna means "borderland" as in "borderland of a Great and vaste empire" (Russia). All rulers of Moscow and Kiev and other principalities were and claimed ancestry to Rus' (ie Russian, Russyn). Your comment is just cheap nationalist hogwash from "Ukraine".
Interesting that you admit that "national Ukrainian identity" was only strong in the 20th century. lol. Proving the historical-evidenced based Russian viewpoint that Ukraine is not a distinct, organic nation founded upon a distinct identity, culture and history. It's forced, manufactured, politicized propaganda pushed.
The most baffling of this whole situation is how vassal the entirety of the EU is to the US.
Apart from Macron's meeting with Putin last week, there has been a general lack of leadership coming from other EU major states (Germany, Spain, Italy), and also how nonchalant the EU appears to be considering that a brewing conflict is about to happen close to their borders.
Exactly. For two decades the EU has been waving flags and telling the world it is the new USA.
Now at the first fence it has fallen on its backside. Germany cannot afford to annoy Germany because of gas. Germany only has three days reserve supply. If Russia cuts it off today Germany stops working by Friday. France knows that, and knows that without a working Germany there is no EU.
So Germany sends tin hats and France sends Macron.
It marks a watershed for the EU, and will affect attitudes and decisions for decades into the future.
Yes I feel ashamed!
and i wonder what usa agenda in all of this is do theu wanna block in a contain russia ??? its seems like the eu has no problem with russia but usa does so they have to follow daddys lead lol
but our last president trump seemed like he wanted nothing to do with europe there is no value in europe anymore and it seems like usa wants to focus on south east asia agian and the middle east thats were the money is at
there is more leadership coming from EU than from US. Putin doesn't even take Biden's calls while he held meetings with both French President and German Chancellor and seems to be withdrawing troops from the Ukrainian border. America is like that wolf that's huffing and puffing to no effect. Putin didn't move one soldier after Biden's warning.
@@prodigiii712
There is no leadership from either
BUT - this is on the EUs back door, and for decades all I have heard is how powerful the EU is, how it is a leading actor on the world stage, about its strategic importance.
And the first time it has to stand on the world stage it falls flat on its backside.
Not good enough EU.
Hi. Looking forward to see more videos on this channel. But few moments on this video:
- the proper latin spelling is Kyiv not Kiev; - you are wrong about the national identity of Ukrainians, it was always there
- the name Ukraine has nothing to do with Okraina as a borderland. Kray means land/homeland, У (U) is “in” basically means in the in homeland.
#kyivnotkiev
No the correct English spelling is Kiev and the Ukrainian spelling is Kyiv. Just because Ukraine wants to differentiate itself from Russia doesn't mean it can dictate other peoples languages... This was a concerted propaganda campaign in western countries to differentiate them from Russians.
Край has two meanings: 1. Border like "border" (end) of the table, Russian speakers would understand analogy and 2. region of a country like Krasnodarskiy krai (Krasnodar region). So Ukraine is the name that describes border of Russian Empire (we are talking about times way back in history, don't get these words offensively).
@@IvanKuzmenyukPersonal Ukraine was first called Ukraine in 1169 in the primary chronicle written by Nestor in Kyiv when the Russian Empire did not exist. It was refering to the lands bordering Kyiv not Russia. It also doesn't make sense to call the most densely populated area of the Russian Empire as a border.
@@matviy7977 looks good to me. But the meaning was still "border regions".
@@IvanKuzmenyukPersonal Right, but nothing to do with Russia.
USA declared that Germany would not be using the North Stream gas pipeline, so it seems the Russians are correct, USA is calling the shots and European NATO countries have little sovereignty.
Also, I still don't understand why NATO would get involved. It is a defensive alliance, and Ukraine is not a member.
Lol then why is Russia getting involved by taking Ukrainian land and raising gas prices so much its profitable to ship gas via shipping?
@@chinesesparrows
The land was given to Ukraine for administrative purposes when the border did not matter at all, since they were all Socialist. It is inhabited mostly by Russians. Not to mention Russia is about as enthusiastic to have US military as their border as much as USA was enthusiastic about Russians in Cuba. USA are still punishing Cuba for hosting Russians 60 years ago.
As for the gas - Russia wants to use the North Stream pipeline they paid for, so they are pumping as little through Ukraine and Poland as they can. If Germany just started using the damned thing the whole situation would calm down significantly. In any case, why would the Russians sell gas cheaply, when they can sell expensive, it's their gas and it's their decision what to do with it.
I like paying expensive gas and electricity as little as everyone else, but Germany is more to blame here, they closed their nuclear power plants without having domestic power production. They use more coal than they would otherwise do, and yet they throw tantrums because others prefer nuclear to coal. It's not Russia's responsibility to keep European electricity affordable, it's EU's responsibility, and I say this as a EU citizen.
In your story, the thesis was that this is not a war over economic issues. And you are 100% right. This is an existential confrontation.
Russia cannot accept the very fact of our existence. If Ukraine becomes a member of NATO, the European Union and a successful state in general, it will mean the collapse of their entire ideology.
In fact, Russian statehood is trying to build its roots from Kievan Rus. And the problem for them is that Kyiv, by their logic, is their historical center, lies outside Russia.
But just a few facts:
1. Kievan Rus expanded and founded some modern Russian cities (such as Moscow)
2. Just compare the map of Kievan Rus and modern Russia. There's probably a 5% match. Or even less.
3. Once the Roman Empire now owned the territory of Britain. Just imagine if, on the basis of such considerations, Great Britain declares that it is the successor to the Roman Empire? This is Madness!
5. The word Ukraine was first mentioned in 1187 and is mentioned in the context: Kyiv Ukraine, Volodymyr Ukraine ... that is, not as a suburb, but as a land / state / principality.
After all, what could Kyiv be on the outskirts of in 1187? It's funny. At that time it was one of the largest and richest cities in Europe. And Moscow was occupied by Prince Dolgorukov of Kiev in 1147.
6. You will cite the example of the map of the USSR in 1921. And you look at the map of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1920 - which was formed after the collapse of the Russian Empire. Its area is 20% larger than the area of modern Ukraine and there are lands of modern Russia.
7. Many Ukrainians today speak Russian. It is not surprising. Over the past three hundred years, historians cite examples of more than a hundred decrees of the Russian Empire and the USSR banning the Ukrainian language. But in the Armed Forces of Ukraine up to 20-25% are Russian-speaking people who know what to do with the enemy.
8. Putin constantly frightens the Russians that if Ukraine joins NATO, the time of missile approach to Moscow will be reduced from 15 to 7 minutes. But there is one question: what is the difference for the average Russian, even if hypothetically this time is reduced. No one will have time to hide in the bomb shelter in 15 or 30 minutes. It's just insanity.
But BASIC. Any historical issues or injuries should not and cannot lead to an attack on someone in the 21st century. In absolutely all European countries, neighboring countries have a very complex and ambiguous history of relations.
If you open this Pandora's box and start redistributing borders, then World War III will definitely happen.
Russia leave Ukraine alone bro
According to Putin, NATO IS NOT a defensive alliance. Putin said recently: _"NATO bombed Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Belgrade, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afeghanistan, ... So, this proves it is not defensive."_ You can watch Putin on RT, Ruptly, Sputniknews, ... It is fundamental to hear all sides to form your opinion.
This channel is anti-Russian propaganda by their own admission at the start of this video.
@@Sidek0 That's right, correct. Did you see Tulsi Gabbard recent comments?
1) *Biden is rooting for Russia to invade Ukraine, Tulsi Gabbard says*
The former US congresswoman suggests US and NATO want Moscow to attack so they can impose “draconian” sanctions and enrich the military-industrial complex
2) *Does Biden want war?*
2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard lays out what President Biden can do in order to prevent war with Russia.
Russia wants Ukraine (and the entirety of Eastern Europe) under Moscow's firm control. A less ambitious option would be a weak buffer zone, which in the case of Ukraine would mean (in the Russian imagination) creation of a confederal state where the Eastern and the Southern regions have loose ties to Kiev...
India didn’t exist before Britain came? Don’t tell that to the Hindutva crowd!!
Not with current borders but a land beyond indus river was called india. Rarely any country still has same borders if they had existed in ancient times
If Putin was going to invade. He wouldn't have waited until Ukraine is better set up to resist.
Besides, as has become obvious over history. Taking a country and holding it indefinitely is two totally different games.
You never know. Putin definitely wanted something and more likely he will either take the existing separatists regions and annex them just like Crimea or he uses the situation to show off his power to score points at home / divert attention
@@trentl
I guess we will know soon enough. He can't keep on just pounding his chest at the west.
Besides, an invasion would be counter productive if his aim is to limit NATO expansion.
Ukraine can't stop an invasion. But, they will make it expensive.
It will be easy to hold. Ukranians will take refugee in the EU when the bombing starts leaving only the loyal ethnic russians. A few right-wing Ukranian nationalists will fight on
@@xtc2v
That's what Russia thought in 1945. That they would hold those countries forever. But, that just pushed them away from Russia's grasp.
@@thomasridley8675 Stalin's poor management and arbitrary purges pushed everyone away. Some eastern european nations are now getting sick of EU interference and realising the EU court has sovereignty. As the US declines into chaos and goes bankrupt we will see the rise of Russia and China at the very time we are busy making enemies of them on behalf of the US. The US won't back us in a war for fear of escalation to nuclear exchange. Its not in US citizens best interests. However a war ravaging europe is great for the US arms industry
What does Russia want from Ukraine? The answer is Ukraine.
After the 2014 war, Ukraine blockaded the Soviet-built canal that previously provided up to 85 per cent of Crimea’s water supplies. Perhaps Putin is simply planning a military incursion to secure water flows from the nearby Dnieper River to finish the job they started in 2014 when their advance was stopped just before Mariupol. This would also give them land access to Crimea. The rest is just noise to make it look like NATO’s fault.
good point.
At last, someone else makes this point.
India existed before the arrival of the British. If not then why were Vasco Da Gama and Christopher Columbus looking for a sea route to India? Why are native Americans called Red Indians by the settlers? Why only 1 ocean is named after a country? Indian Ocean. Liar Liar. India that is Bharat existed always.
Actually Putin just kicked himself in the foot. For years Nato have been drifting faraway from its main purpose but by escalating tensions in Eastern Europe and Ukraine he reunite Nato once again. If Russia attacks they will pay a heavy price through blood and economy wise but if he backs down he will lose face.....
The Minister of Defense of Ukraine has already stated several times that he does not see the threat of invasion, that intelligence did not detect anything indicating the creation of offensive forces of the Russian army, he also stated that their "partners" know about this too, so it's not difficult to guess for whom and for what the circus was started. You basically answered yourself, this is done to develop and promote the idea of NATO, as well as to create the necessary image for brainwashing ignorant puppets, and the fact that hysteria further harms the Russian economy makes these puppeteers even happier.
@@MrSkoresh come on even if he did see the threat of invasion as long as the Russians don't cross the border they will keep it under wraps to prevent further damage to the economy. Plus Ukraine already have plans to join NATO way back in 2008 so why would Nato need to promote themselves lmao. One don't gather an huge army at someone else's border without an intention to invade.
@@trentl The army is located at a distance of 200 and 300 km from Ukraine, closer to Belarus and Moscow than to Ukraine and Kiev. And how do you imagine the creation of a military camp for the "invasion" 3-4 months before the "invasion"? What was the whole point of it? So that the whole world knows that you are preparing an invasion and that the country you want to attack has time to prepare?
It was not Ukraine that first started screaming about the "invasion", it was precisely the NATO forces. If you also followed the events with migrants on the border of Belarus and Poland, then you can also remember the statements of the Poles who blamed Russia and Putin personally for all those problems, even then Polish politicians began to shout that Putin must have staged this provocation on the border , to divert attention from the invasion of Ukraine or the Baltics, a little later this idea was further developed by NATO warmongers.
If Putin wanted to seize more territories in Ukraine, or at least Donbass, this could be done right after Crimea. It wasn't planned then, and it isn't planned now.
When nothing happens, NATO will say that they single-handedly defended "the entire civilized world from Russian aggression", something like that, and will further push Sweden and Finland to join NATO (they have already sowed panic in Sweden with ideas about a possible Russian invasion troops in Gotland).
Why go to war when you can win some land(crimea) via proxy wars.
@@MrSkoresh : ..." NATO will say that they single-handedly defended "the entire civilized world from Russian aggression", something like that, and will further push Sweden and Finland to join NATO..."
You were almost correct, the only difference being that Ukraine is now single-handedly defending the entire civilised world from Russian aggression. Sweden and Finland have begun moving toward joining NATO.
You don't know a thing about INDIA if you think it didn't exist before the British rule. INDIA has existed for more than 5000 years. Please do actual research before making videos.
Ukraine - means: In Motherland💛💙💛 "Kraj"- Motherland 💛💙💛
RUSSIAN WORD
The name "Ukraine" was first used in reference to a part of the territory of Kyiv Rus' in the 12th century and has been used in a variety of ways since then. Btw, Kyiv not Kiev.
Kiev. The original spelling is Kiev not "Kyiv". Ukraine means "borderlands" of what ? *the Russian Empire*. The same way Austria's name was derived from "Eastern borderland" (of the Holy Roman Empire = Germany) in Latin. There is literally no "Ukrainian" nation or identity. It's Russian.
The correct spelling of Kiev in Old East Slavic and Old "Ukrainian" is Києвъ (Kiev). It seems like so called Ukrainians are literally avoiding actual reality/past history. Pathetic.
He wants to be a proper Russian leader - all powerful, to be feared, legendary, completely and utterly inhumane like a nursery rhyme monster made to life.
And for this delusion, he should be stopped.
Love this channel.
...The USSR actually had pretty normal people with some very good people as leaders you know? The only reason it ended up looking like hell was because of 1 leader who was never wanted as the leader by the rest of the country took power and began to completely destroy the reason the country was made in the first place; to make the common people happy.
difference between "looking dangerous" and "being dangerous".Russia describes military doctrine as defensive military doctrine. With regard to nuclear weapons specifically, Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons: in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies,in case of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened.
oops
google russia deadhand
The 'Perimeter' system, dubbed in the United States and Europe the 'Dead Hand', is an automatic control system for a retaliation nuclear strike. To put it simply, if Russia's territory is devastated after a nuclear attack, the Perimeter system automatically strikes the enemy's territory with its own nuclear missiles.
@@olsenfernandes3634 the only reason it failed... Is because it failed.
@@knowledge3563 I don't see your point... What's your point? We all got big sticks ' it's not the basis of an argumentative position Dumas.
@@olsenfernandes3634 no, it's leaders were idealistic to the point of got them all killed when the wolf took off its sheep skin (Stalin). Russia has never had a good leader because its demographic is so divided. Any time a voice of reason appeared it was quickly killed, defeated or assassinated.
Russia has been broken for more than a hundred years now. Europe is tired of carrying its broken arse.
I'm sure the people of Russia are wonderful in their hearts but they are shit at running a country.
Im from Ukraine, i hope the world is on our side
Not Ukraine but Belarus is the goal. Sending soldiers on a drill with Belarusian troops, never withdraw them and you have taken over a country, are closer to Kiev as Warsaw.
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth!
No, the first Russians appeared in Novgorod in Russia, were ruled by the Scandinavians, not in Kiev.
While Russia's economy has been in hopeless stagnation since 2012-2014, there was never a risk of hyperinflation (at least yet). You see comrade, hyperinflations don't happen if you have an independent Central Bank. Putin, taught the lesson by the hyperinflation of the 90s, has kept this institution independent even as he completely subjected the judicial and legislative branches to his administration's direct control. There have been two major drops in rouble exchange rate in 2014 and 2020, but those were executed in a controlled manner by the central bank, which has $600B in foreign currency reserves (an mind-numbingly huge amount), largely thanks to being able to let rouble fall at its own discretion.
The foreign assets reserve has dropped to $300B during 2014 attack and they were recovering it slowly over years
Putins government raised the retirement age to above the average life expectancy in the country - so many more old russians will die without getting their pensions. This was justified by the economic hardships the country was suffering through. Funny how Russia has half a trillion in foreign reserves, but can't afford to pay its pensioners their peanut money pensions. Great Nation my ass...
Well it's still OK, until decorbanisation will kick in a few years
Wrongly said 07:15, india existed even before birth of christ, europeans were looking for a country india thats why columbus named native americans as red indians, alexander went for india, refer to kingdom of ashoka and samudragupta, refer to kingdom of marathas, akbar and shahjahan, refer to the kingdom of cholas, factually in correct statement
Too add on ...british named their company operating in erstwhile india as "east india company" not as east asia company, not as delhi company, not as bombay company, not as calcutta company ......@visualpolitik plzz take note of it...
I am very happy to see fellow Indian stand for our history and culture, it these kind of small lies that eventually cropput the narrative regarding whole nations, just imagine the number of people they have pelled this lie to
6:50 -- Factually incorrect. Ancient Greeks used India to refer to that part of world. The endonym "Bharat" defining the geographic boundaries of the nation has existed for at least 3500 years. I think you mean the current "Republic of India" with present political boundaries did not exist before 1947. Nuance matters a lot here since you're talking about geopolitics.
These mf doesn't know about the history of India and talk shit here.
India as a country with distinct geography defined by both Indians and foreigners has existed for thousands of years.
People have shared a common civilization and culture.
Although politically it was most of the times divided into smaller kingdoms. But there were times when it was together behaving as a sovereign state.
All this if we look it from a lens of an outsider. For an Indian, it is a continuous civilization for 1000s of years.
@Mr Wonder fine Mayonnaise
I returned to video just for this point, I am happy to see my fellow bharatiyas are also taking stands
09:14
Russia did not take Crimea because Ukraine wanted to join the EU but rather because NATO wanted to take Ukraine and Georgia, as stated in an official letter dated back in 2008.
One only wishes your knowledge about pre-british India were apt...Suggestion- read Indian history from Indian historical texts, not Colonial books.
Ukraine's defense industry was a major part of the Soviet defense industry, responsible for 30% of Soviet defense production and 40% of its scientific research. I think that is one of the main motivators for the current situation.
Visual politic is the best politics channel.
Far, far, veeery far from it.
Sorry guys, you looks like amateurs who study history in Wikipedia and from Putin's speeches.
By the way the meaning of "Ukraine" is "in country", if translate it from Ukrainian language.
As per him India did not exist before british...wow
C'mon, you need to update your russian history book. It sounds like russian decided to create Ukraine and then its creation leaved its nest. But its totally opposite how the things where.
Anyway, russian imperialism is clearly the cause of this crisis
fighting with Imperial Russia chauvinism by creating national states was actually one of the main politic lines of early Soviet Russia
Excellent discussions.
But it doesn’t make sense economically or socially at all.
Very sad for the great people of Russia and Ukraine for being subjected to violence and despair.
You say that there wasn't a "Ukrainian nation" before the soviet union. If you could base a video on the Ukrainian nation and one man that defines their spirit then base one on Taras Shevchenko.
Born and died in the Russian Empire. Taras Shevchenko was a Russian who spoke, wrote in a peasant dialect. lol.
India was a country long before British, you can even listen to Sadhguru
Indian existed long before2500 years ago. Just read about Maurya Empire & it's maker Acharya Chanakya.
Its just British Propaganda, that they United India
Russia is prepared 85% self sufficient in food, 70% self sufficient in raw materials and with a huge foreign reserve(only 20%of foreign reserve is US dollar. If they are cut off the SWIFT financial system it would affect the European giants like Germany.
I see you are self sufficient in sex too.
Sorry buddy but india is represented by homogeneous culture and not by pity kingdoms
He is hungry for *more* ~
IM HUNGARY!
NATO: "Russia, can you maybe chill?"
Russia: "How About Maybe You Chill?"
As an Indian, I can correct you on a few key concepts, before the British, India was a major 3 empire system, and which had a few Rajputana kingdom’s in Rajasthan area. So yeah it was still india Because the Maratha Empire was the real power behind the fallen Muhgal empire. So only two large empires, while the Maratha empire covered most of India and the Sikh empire what is today Pakistan, Balochstasn, Kashmir, and Punjab.
4:11 Why country what have own language choose country name as edge or periphery in another language? Maybe they choose something like "In the country" on native one, which in Ukrainian looks like "У країні" isn't this looks to different to "Україна" , what is official country name... 🤦♂
4:43 At least you admit what this is russian narrative, bc somehow all languages from those countries is much closer between themselves, then to russian 🤷♂
5:25 Ukrainian nation doesn't exist, but some how they call themselves Ukrainians, and call their land after proclaiming independence (from Russian Empire), and call it Ukrainian People's Republic 🙃
....
I afraid what next videos about Ukraine will be in the future...
India was there in Gupta Empire , in maurya empire , but with the name of aryavrat . Correct ur facts . And stop giving stupid examples. English just looted india , they did no good here .
"our power comes from the perception of our power"
- Gorbachev
Perhaps it's time we burst this bubble and give the Russians a very public bloody nose... If we're going to start talking about "historical claims", NATO should start demanding the reunification of Kaliningrad with Germany... given it's the birthplace of Emanual Kant and all... has absolutely no connection to Russia, etc etc etc...
We can play these games too :)
_You make politicians look like extremely intelligent people..._
difference between "looking dangerous" and "being dangerous".Russia describes military doctrine as defensive military doctrine. With regard to nuclear weapons specifically, Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons: in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies,in case of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened.
oops
google russia deadhand
The 'Perimeter' system, dubbed in the United States and Europe the 'Dead Hand', is an automatic control system for a retaliation nuclear strike. To put it simply, if Russia's territory is devastated after a nuclear attack, the Perimeter system automatically strikes the enemy's territory with its own nuclear missiles.
So you want to start a war just to win a pissing contest .. wow some genius here
Shame is that after the Soviet collapse Russia actually offered Kaliningrad to Germany. Although I think it should have gone to Poland - if to anyone, given its shared border and that unlike Lithuania, its annexation wouldn't have turned Poland's population a 1/4 ethnic Russian overnight.
Why don’t you be on the front lines in your quest to give Russia a “bloody nose”?
This Pete Davidson looking dude almost had me convinced he did his homework.
Extra LOL at "ocarina". Ocarina is a musical instrument, mate. You mean't to say ocraina. ocRAina, not ocARina.
Sorry guys, but you need to consult a historian first and then re-do this episode. And don't repeat putin's nonsense if you are really not pro-putin.
When you say you're not spreading historical inaccuracies because you're just repeating the russian narrative - I fail to understand how the former is somehow preventing the latter.
Russian narrative IS A LIE. It's NOT TRUE.
Why are you repeating these lies I have no idea. You would probably thing that this is what russians/putin actually do think about Ukraine, and that's why they say it. But that would be WRONG. There is a huge difference between what they want and what they think - and what they actually say. Because - get this -THEY LIE. And you repeating their words is just A REPETITION OF LIES. Sorry, but that's all it is.
Not sure why you'd need to do this - there is already an RT channel for that. Or is it because RT got banned? LOL
Stop crying Ukrainians
@@vladimirthegreen6097 Ocarinians you meant to say. We're not crying - we're playing ocarinas :D
Listening to this half a year after the start of the war in our country, there are simply no words to comment
4:55 cossacks spoke ukrainian, not russian.
Man everything in this video about history is wrong 😐
Mate you know
Nothing about Ukrainian history,you took it from Russia book
Don’t speak about it and don’t make a propaganga
That al what I want to say
It would be nice to present Ukraine's standpoint on ancient history of Rus', not only tales of Muscovy
Two things.
1. Security
2. Food.
my dear friend, do your homework again please. Lithuania never had 'almost all of Poland', their territory at its peak didn't even encompassed 1/10th of today's Poland :D They had all of Belarus, yes, and majority of Ukraine, but never Poland
Lithuanian king ruling Poland, probably he meant this. Otherwise I would agree with you
@Justas S maybe you're right, however, Poland was never ruled by Lithuanian king. There was polish-lithuanian commonwealth. Also, talking about territories and looking at the maps, I tend to think that he got Poland mistaken with Belarus. In 15th century all the territory of today's Belarus belonged to Lithuania 🇱🇹 :)
@@patrykandrulewicz6748 yep, also could be the case. Best wishes from LT ;)
@J K you're right actually, Władysław II Jagiełło was born and bred Lithuanian. All kings after him were half-polish, 3/4th polish and so on
Greetings from Poland
Emperor Ashoka ruled over 44% of the world’s population and controlled almost half of global GDP. His actions and decisions had an impact on citizens living everywhere from Japan to Afghanistan.
Yeah... Can't believe this channel parrots the typical western "white man's" misunderstanding of India never existing before the British colonization!
I want my Ukraine to be part of Nato
I hope this day would come 🇺🇦
I am an Indian and as an Indian and I usually support Russia...
But on this issue I think Russia may be doing wrong thing if it is thinking about war and at the same time Russia's concerns also needs to be addressed!!
Support to Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Russia 🇷🇺
I hope there will be no wars 🤞
May peace prevail!!
@xxxPassiexxx NATO was established to counter Soviet Union!!
@xxxPassiexxx Time to do that was the 90s which the US actively spent humiliating Russia and trying to turn it into a failed state.
I mean, a nation that literally had a goal of exterminating everybody between itself and Urals got awarded billions after they got defeated, while Russia got decades of punishment for even trying to be a superpower.
@@arsic094 The sanctions imposed by West on Russia tilted Russia towards China and made Russia de-facto anti-USA....
USA needs to seriously think about!!
@xxxPassiexxx If both NATO and Russia develop mutual understanding and consider their concerns ,then the issue is not difficult to solve!!
What happened to Josh the other host?
Whats wrong with the bald guy?
@@ernie4125 dawg he doesn't brush his teeth before the videos start lol
@@FlamingBasketballClub Hes doing something. The effort counts !!!
@@ernie4125 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 stop the cap
Why not Russia and NATO join and call themselves NATORUS?
Russia was a Nato partner.
NATO refused to do so
This may be Putin's version of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It seems unlikely that Russia is worried about a non-nuclear attack by NATO forces. But NATO can field nuclear weapons and that represents a very close threat should conditions deteriorate to that point. Ukraine maybe a pawn in this game. Russia conquering Ukraine may keep NATO more distant but at a very high cost. A possible US/NATO strategy might actually favor a Russia mired in a hostile occupation. The question is not whether we can negotiate but what perceived advantages a war might offer either side.
It’s the opposite. They are afraid of non-nuclear attack. In case of nuclear retaliation to conventional warfare would unite most of the world against them. It would be the end of Russia. Russia knows it’s too weak for conventional warfare and playing a scum nuke card.
That's the true dark side of TH-cam allowing anyone who just googled a topic speak as a Political speaker with no background or knowledge whatsoever!