The Ukraine/ Russia conflict in 10 minutes
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For the #Ukraine episode I needed a address this topic, but I soon found out there was no possible way I could fit even a fraction of the complicated topic in the episode without taking a super long time. Therefore I had to make this separate video as a reference guide that will be referred to in the episode. Thanks to the subscribers that helped me with information. Of course not everything ws mentioned so if you'd like to add anything feel free to put it in the comments.
Glory to Ukraine from Ireland 🇮🇪🤝🇺🇦
thoughts on a discord mod taking a shower
It’s 10:02 not 10:00 long
Love Ukraine from Greece 🇬🇷🤝🇺🇦
Slava Slavia from Croatia!
As a Crimean Tatar I thank you for addressing this separately and in more detail. You did a great job. I've been waiting 5 years for Ukraine episode and can't believe it's finally right around the corner!
I believe your people and culture will have more coverage in the episode
Nice to know the Russians have not killed all of you.
My heart goes out to the Tartars, the Soviet oppression and deportation is often an overlooked part of history. To me Crimea deserves to not be under any foreign rule, though obviously independence means a lot of responsibility so perhaps the next best option is not being under the successor regime to the one who stole your country.
And you even got mentioned!
I just recently learned about the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people, and i like that this was mentioned here.
I couldn’t believe my eyes when he actually managed to condense centuries of cultural disputes into just 10 minutes. Absolute madman, this is why I’ve been subscribed since he did Afghanistan!
I hope he remakes his older videos, and branches into the geography of localities too!
Centuries of russian imperialism and colonialism over ukraine. And barbs did a pretty bad job here tbh with kind of justifing russian atrocities
Edit: to give you an example: this is not a 'conflict' (this somehow implies that both sides are to be blamed) - it is an unjustified invasion of Ukraine by Russia
Also Barbs if you read this I love you and your videos, don't get me wrong, no hate❤
@@malcolmy3413 Couldn't agree more, this feeling had never been leaving me throughout this video especially as he never mentioned the russian crimes against humanity at least once
Barbs is a good person, thats why tries to be objective. he thinks with such a terrible war, both sides must have done bad things. he doesnt understand that evil exists in this world, sometimes there really is a clear victim and a clear aggressor
100% about some remakes. I'll continue watching as long as he keeps doing this.
Might be tricky, new stuff is always happening and changing, it could be a neverending job
I'm glad you did this as a separate video
Very good point 👍
Me too. If we hope that things normalize in ten or twenty years, if a school or anyone for that matter wants to watch a Geography video on Ukraine they won’t feel it’s dated.
It's not a "conflict". It's a WAR.
Its legit the same thing
@@zombiexdgamer2777 Conflict you have with your wife on kitchen. When russian Nazis invade the neighboring country, kill there innocent people by hundred thousands, and do all that because, having the biggest territory, it's never enough for them - it is called a WAR! Unprovoked, unjust, unjustifiable WAR.
@@ruslankadylak2999 Funny i didnt see this much support Ukraine is getting now for Serbia back in 1999 when they were bombed by NATO, the bombing campaign was never properly approved by UN security council.
@@Wolverine-ky9gk do you forget ethnic cleansings done by serbs in bosnia kosovo and croatia?
I think he meant the conflict we had with Russia for the past couple of hundreds of years
As a Ukrainian i thank you for addressing this instead of ignoring it and making a normal video
And as a Russian, I assure you: there are so many of us who do not support all this nonsense that is going on between our countries, unfortunately your ppl suffer, unfortunately there are too many dumb head zombies who obey and go to do scary things for money, not for their motherland, nobody invaded us, this crazy operation shows ppl s true intelligence level, those who don't pass this test become the evil and we should treat them accordingly, at the same time those who can't distinguish good ones and the bad ones won't pass this test as well, God bless us all, we r living in 21 century and experiencing another scary event, this is gotta stop.
@@tonylaoshi-8990 As a romanian, I support Ukraine, but I don't hate the Russian people, only the government.
@@tonylaoshi-8990 you have a good heart my friend❤ I hope people like you will rebuild Russia when this is over
@@tonylaoshi-8990 West has so much power and influence they don't actually need to invade a country to hurt them, u dumb head zombie that what happens when allow single nations so much power, Russia could do the same if they were leading power and everyone would instead believe the other side is "evil", peace you get when powers is somewhat equal also century doesn't matter, I sure they said the same in 1940, you bullies and exes should learned you that we are not that different
@@malcolmy3413 we all stopped blaming German gvmt for what they did, we don't blame normal ppl, we all normal ppl want the same: happiness at home and good society around us(good neighbors)
As an Ukrainian, good job. Probably the best 10 mins that sums up Ukraine Russian relations. But there is way more to unpack to truly understand this.
There needs to be at least videos about energy politics & power, and defense politics & paranoia
I'm Curious what you could add to this
@Richard Schiffman Wars are actually the least complex of human actions. We like any other living creature from bacteria to blue whales fight for only one thing, and that is resources. And so it is in this conflict.
@@ivvan497your brain is simple go and wear your lipstick and live your simple life your not smart enough for a complex conversation about Slavic relations
@@Mr0Anonymous0 Euromaidan is one example. The Democratically elected President was overthrown even though most Ukrainians didn’t support the Maidan Revolution. Most of the violence came from Ukrainian nationalists like Svoboda and Right Sector. Ethnic Russians were persecuted and Crimeans did vote to join Russia. This has been confirmed by third parties like Pew Research Center. Because of this the Ukrainians cut off the water supply to Crimeans, even though they claim that Crimeans are their own people. The Wests views on national integrity for Ukraine have completed changed from their prior position on Kosovo, for example.
The current invasion against Ukraine, is just an attempt at territorial expansion. Though partially it was also to return Crimea’s water supply. With Ukraine as their territory, Russia would hold the majority of Europe’s grain supply which they could use as a bargaining chip. At the same time, the West has also been highly provocative and they aren’t paranoid to think that Western interference in Ukraine is an attempt to destroy Russia.
I'm Polish and just learnt that Ukrainians also call painted eggs "pisanki". So informative!
@@piotrek1175tak, bo zaraz pratzuu v inshomu miszi z polyakamy , u Litvy, i mi odin odnogo rozumiyemo. Ne znauy chi zrozumiete moje povidomlennya tut
Just for you to know , the Ukrainian language before 1933 had even more words similar to Polish language. But USSR started changing the language in 1933 for it to become more similar to russian( as a part of Russification).A lot of words were changed. But russians still cannot understand Ukrainian language 😉
@@anastasiiahodebska2492 И не поймут потому что русские никакого отношения к славянам, не имеют !!!
Actually, we call those"pysanky". Sounds like the Polish letter "y".
@@anastasiiahodebska2492 Some "repressed" words and rules are starting to come back. For example, "kramnycja", "svitlyna", "Ateny", "Mit", etc. And new words continue to appear (vpodobajka, mal'opys, igrolad, etc). I want to return the words "lanity" and "kramar"
As a Ukrainian, I'm surprised at how accurate this dialogue is...
Not accurate at all. This dialog sounds the way russia really want to be a friend of Ukraine. But in reality this dialog is always happening as extrimely entitled and ignorant russian spitting their fake history facts and denies Ukraine, its culture, language, history and everything else.
Same
I am Russian and I will say that many Russians (I will clarify that they are Russian by nationality, because Russia is a multinational country) have very close relatives who live in Ukraine, for example, grandparents, aunts and the majority of the population is actually not physically can deny Ukrainian culture, it’s just that those who deny do it louder@@oleksandrbespalov9713
@@oleksandrbespalov9713 Yeah. It sounds like Russia wants to be friend, but very paranoid egocentric friend, and everybody knows that these are kinds of friends better be avoided.
@@oleksandrbespalov9713
at least we don't call you asiatic mongrels threatening our aryan heritage that a failed artist with a funny moustache told us we had.
There's a famous quote from a Czech poet/politician in the 1850s: “Russian gentlemen first assure us that we are all Slavs so that they could later say that everything Slavic is Russian and must be subordinated to them.”
Yep.
I wish that every slavic nation will live in peace with each other like Czechs and Slovaks live.
Who said this? I have heard it before but for the life of me I can't remember now.
@@hebijirik Karel Havlíček Borovský. There's a sort of 'modernized' version of this quote going around on the internet with much higher frequency, but this is the original one.
@@janmoucek7926 Thank you! I was thinking it was probably him but was not sure.
As a Ukrainian who was in contact with Russians quite frequently, this is almost EXACTLY how the conversations go. Incredible job, Barbs! And the last frames - that is just beautifully captured.
I’m so excited to see Ukraine episode right now)
As a Russian- American I feel that.
so essentially we heard Russian built up propaganda the whole time? Those commenters claiming being Ukrainians are pathetic trolls
As a Ukrainian I would be concerned if you didn't speak to Russians, lmfao you literally speak Russian
@@johnsuckher3037 Bro, I'm a Ukrainian. We just appear everywhere where Ukraine is mentioned. We call it "inferiority syndrome", because we are tired of people not knowing anything about our contry and confusing us with russia
I am from the Baltics and I fully support Ukraine in this matter... it just seems like Russia just cant keep out of its neighbours territories , very annoying neighbour to have
As a Ukranian, I wanted to tell you actually did a great job! And a loved how you mentioned all those important events and referenses with texst, so that everyone can search them deeply if they feel up to it
Plus, it's just me, or our Slavic disscusions are simmilar, no matter which nations talks with each other? I mean: Poles with Russians (or just face it: Western Slavs with Russians); Serbs with any former-Yugoslavian nations (Croats, Slovenians, Bosniaks).... I wonder those kind of discussions came to life...
@@ukaszheil6672 all of the Eastern Europe was one way or another imacted, so yess. I believe the message remains wery similar for many of us🥲 And it's great thet we're starting to talk about in on international level!
@akade4374 it is good, true. However 1 problem remains (for me): what if World decides to help, completely ignoring who we are, and what our history is? They tried it at least 3 times, from which at least 2 times affected directly Slavic lands, so.... I just don't want a repeat from the past...
Ез ей юкрейніан, ти мав би засудити цю мавпу за спробу відстояти позицію рф та натяк на примирення в кінці. Так от, пішов нахуй, недоукраїнець!
As a Ukrainian, I can say that this is very well presented information. It's hard to imagine how long it took to make this video.
Looking at our Slavic characters and common history: he did it rather quickly ;-)
Cлава Украине друже
наратив "давайтэ мірітса" успішно ковтнув
@@egoist4672 Там нема таких наративів, не вигадуй. Єдине завершення це кордони 91 року
@@egoist4672 можливо я занадто глибоко копаю, але мені здається, що автор мав на увазі те, що у цій війні страждають також і африканські країни через те, що кацапія саботувала експорт нашого зерна до них цього року. Бо у кінці показан стяг Буркіна-Фасо, а не просто якоїсь рандомної країни світу.
For more context, you should have also mentioned Russia's actions in neighboring countries after the USSR ended (such as Moldova or Georgia), to show that Russia was willing to invade even countries that were not Slavic and that didn't threaten them in any way, nor wanted to join NATO (Moldova), nor had significant Russian ethnics on their soil (Georgia).
Yep they still control over 1/5 of the country , and are still hugely ethnic cleansing Georgian people
Poor Georgia, homeboys didn’t earn civil strife
because America tried to place its bases there as elsewhere. Russia will defend itself. Georgia is also close to Moscow, as is Ukraine. Better study the history and who then was in power in Georgia, also the American puppet who organized the revolution in the country. Now an American puppet is in power in Ukraine. Force America leave the whole world alone and not put their military bases everywhere, then there will be peace.
Man, could you explorethe Russian-Georgian conflict from the point of view of Abkhazia? I'd like to suggest you to start your explanation from Abkhazian-Georgian relationship since first half of 20th century
@@olzhaskenzhegulov2039 don’t confuse with what has been happening to the post-Soviet countries for 15 years due to Western coups and the consolidation of Western puppets in power in the post-Soviet countries. This is all proven and recognized by the West itself and everything is in open sources. Better spend time studying the American strategy for world domination and its military expansion and stop them, who are they to decide the fate of other countries and manage them?
Thank you for acknowledging the Crimean Tatars!
I feel like no one actually asks them what they think regarding all of this.
geography now is so based he even included the tatars of crimea
It is extremely hard to ask them now, they historically voted for Ukrainian independence and move towards Europe as integration with russia was reminding them of crimean tatars deportation, that was never denounced by russia. Now many of them fled (again) to Ukraine and Turkey without clear perspectives of returning home and the ones that stayed in Crimea are prosecuted for all kinds of fabricated actions have they even blinked favourably to Ukrainian part of story or to Crimean Tatars story
thankfully it doesn't matter because there's so little of them
@99telepath99 as a Ukrainian, i will say on behalf of most Ukrainians that it does matter. Moreover, we feel sorry for leaving Qırımtatars a little bit out, and we truly want to fully integrate them in Ukrainian society.
As a Crimean tatar, absolute majority of us has always supported Ukraine. We don't want to have anything in common with Russia. Russia has been suppressing us centuries ago and still doing it now with all of the political prisoners of Crimean tatar origin. A lot of our people are fighting in the frontlines along with Ukrainians. We just want to be back home. Back home in Ukrainian Crimea.
>Can you guys ever be friends again?
Ever - maybe. In this century - unlikely. In the next 3-5 decades - impossible. Too much lives lost and destroyed, too much hatred. A couple of generations should change before it could be even talked about.
You did a great job, Barbs. I can tell you put your soul into this, and it wasn't easy.
But the MAIN reason why Civil War has started is illegal overthrow of president, why don't include the MAIN reason here? 🤔
Indeed. Well made 👌
sir turkey isnt in europe
@@pitakotopoulos7740 It is lol 😆
@@mrcocoloco7200 3% of its lands touches europe. Their culture, language and demographics have nothing to do with europe
You are mindbogglingly awesome in condensing and delivering such highly interconnected, intricate, nit-picky nuanced subjects with hair-trigger sensitivities in layman terms. Like dude....hats off.
for those who don't understand the last bit, Burkina Faso, the country with the red and green flag with the yellow star in the middle, needs western help, but this war is taking up all the west's attention.
Man, this video hits different. It captures exactly what's relevant and necessary to understand both nation's motivations, contextualizes the cultural and geopolitical issues, and dialogues the dispute in accessible terms. All of that, and also done in a video that hits the EXACT tone it needs to: Tragic melancholy.
Barbs, you've always been on another level, but this is a master stroke. Well done, man.
Tragic melancholy is a very good way of putting it. As someone who followed most of what was going on during the conflict and who has read up on most of the history (as good as possible) this video made me incredebly sad. However I have to state one thing clearly:
There are no two sides to this. Ukraine is fighting for its right to exist, and Russia is trying to deny that. No more, no less.
@@tiltiege7842 It's another level of sadistic when you think one killing is in any way more moral than the other killing.
@@tamastasi428 War and violence is rooted in human psyche. In some way part of us strive to get dosage of it even in peaceful times. Just observe what makes most of the games/movies. We are sadistic in so many other ways - via economic exploitation to other people, to our planet via endless and mindless exploitation and pollution, to our food, to our love ones, in basic everyday relationship. It's one constant cycle of suffering and ignorance on our small piece of rock floating in the endless cosmic void.
@Tamás Tasi because it absolutely is. The moment you decide to take my life just because you want to, or because you want to take my stuff for yourself - you forfeit your life and absolve me of any moral ambiguity regarding killing another being.
@@tamastasi428 - But it is. If someone comes into my house to kill me, and I kill them in self-defense, I am infinitely more in the moral right. If they didn't want to be killed, they shouldn't have entered by home.
I am both delighted and depressed while watching this video. I am delighted that you were able to provide so much information in such a short amount of time. Not a single spoken sentence goes to waste, truly a dense and comprehensive overview.
I am also depressed by the fact that the best summary of the war that I have been able to find is this video. It should not be the responsibility of a TH-camr to inform everyone about the most significant war of our generation.
Unfortunately, that's what a lot of "journalism" has become: mouthpieces for the ones in power. Propaganda to the highest degree.
This man is not being a mouthpiece for them. He's doing what a real journalist should do: finding the truth.
"the most significant war of our generation"
That's one of the most Eurocentric comment I saw in a while. There are wars happening in Africa and Asia right now, many people are dying, but I guess the average European and North American couldn't care less for these people. In fact, they are the reason these wars are happening in these areas. But when there is a war in Europe it seems like it's the end of the world.
LMAO
Except that Russia is not fighting Ukraine. It’s fighting the entire collective West, mostly the United States. I guess the video is trying to avoid being “cancelled” by neglecting the obvious.
Our “generation” has had many more wars, the ignorant people don’t mention The war in Syria or Yemen which is much worse on a humanitarian level
@@KilamSabba What?
I mean, sure, Ukraine recieved a lot of NATO support, but Ukraine is fighting by itself nevertheless against Russia.
Israel: It is gonna be the hardest episode
Ukraine: Hold my Korovai
USA, UK & Yemen: 😈
@@bababababababa6124 Nah it's not the like UK is out here trying to delegitimize the USA because George Washington was Bri'ish
I think Israel is still the hardest 😬
Israel 🇮🇱 🐕🖕
@@atlaskinzel6560 okay fair enough but the US and Yemen will still be difficult episodes to make
Very very well done. That was the MOST unbiased analysis of this conflict I have ever seen. Showing both sides of the argument with no agenda or taking a side whilst covering all the relevant topics. Bravo!!
Thank you for actually talking about this. As a Ukrainian, my life was horribly affected, hope this ends soon, and hopefully as peaceful as possible
Tell NATO to Fk off and peace will be upon us all and we can love live laugh.
@@mehe1158 what propaganda dows to a mf
Russia is in the wrong but fighting for revenge instead of a peacful solution will only cause more destruction, I hope your goverment comes to it's sense.
Да, желаем что эта война закончится быстрее
As a Ukrainian, I hope this war ends with russians experiencing at least 1/10 of what they did to us
I've learned more in 10 minutes about this conflict than hours of rolling news. Well done Barbs, I know this wasn't easy.
for sure. it made me realize how shallow the main media narratives are. on both sides.
it is not a conflict. It is simply war. Ukraine defends her territory and russia is an invader. Russia is an invader from country beginning and it is just a sense of this country existing
@@juliadizhak8397 word conflict had chance to peace, don't you like peace? brothers sometime fighting , I hope its end this year
@@juliadizhak8397you are as shallow as a rock get back to your basement UkraNazi
I've actually known and heard all of this is the western news...
As a Slav (Croatian tho), this was surprisingly accurate. I know quite a bit about my Slavic people, but you know even more. I honestly wouldn't expect this from an American (no offense), but great job man! Cool that someone gets it.
He takes his research seriously that's why it's great and why I love to learn from barbs
the average european is smarter than the average american, but the smartest american is smarter than the smartest european. same with stupidity
He is different. He has Korean and Italian and American descendence.
How many North American people you know has a geography knowledge as him. He could be the savior of Geography in the USA. 😂
I’m an American with no Slavic heritage but the whole Ukraine/Russia feud seems pretty similar to the Croatian/Serbian feud (and since it’s the Balkans we’re talking about I might as well through Bosnians and Albanian into the mix too)
@@ElTigre12024 Croat here and I can confirm that it is really similar, with the difference that Russia is actually a global superpower, but Ukraine is showing the same heart as Croatia did.
I'm Ukrainian, and I can say that you did such an amazing job in this video! Like even I couldn't explain better 😅 thank you so much for bringing such accurate and charismatic explanation for what is happening to English-speaking people. We appreciate it so much!
Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos
That's why he's got over 3.1 million subs.
I don’t know, Burkina Faso. I really don’t know.
Okay, all joking aside, this was probably the best video you’ve made that wasn’t a normal episode. You somehow condensed so much information in a way that was easy to understand about a conflict that has so many layers. As someone who isn’t Ukrainian or Russian, this was really eye opening. Thank you, Paul. Keep up the good work.
Is there a tie in for Burkina Faso here?
thanks for saying its Burkina Faso ... hahaha i was searching for it .. haha
yeah i had to google it up too, why though ?
It was kinda random though putting Burkina Faso in there but still funny haha.
@@damirimamagic5064 I assume it has something to do with grain and other agricultural products not being shipped in high enough quantities due to the war - risking all established food security in developing nations, especially in Africa (Burkina Faso for example.)
It is very rare to feel completely relieved after watching youtube video. You`ve collected true information and I feel that you understand Ukrainians, greetings from Kyiv!
Its Kiev
@@bloodkelp Why do you think so?
@@katerynaivzhenko6716 because "kyiv" is being forced too much by everyone
@@bloodkelp It is for reasons, the main being that in Ukrainian "Kyiv" is how it is actually pronounced.
I'm terribly sorry that correcting an enforced russian version of the name, as they tried their hardest to pull Ukraine from the world map, is somewhat an inconvenience to you.
@@katerynaivzhenko6716 we dont need your newspeak. I am used to "Kiev". Period
"I know what it's like to be under you for 400 years and at this point everything is better". This is so accurate especially for us here in Armenia.
So sorry about what’s going on with Azerbaijan
ну вот про Армению не надо здесь. Россия никогда не вторгалась в Армению. Армения добровольно вступила в Российскую империю для защиты от геноцида турков.
@@DoK113 Армению присоединили к РИ в 1820-х, а политика антиармянская в Османской империи стартовала в 1890-х, пик пришелся на 1915.
А так - да, все сами добровольно)
The Turks called then...
They want your people back.
That's right.
Turns out, Russia isn't the worst thing that happened to you
L armenia, peasant country
Im from moldova, but I had the possibility to hear both sides of the conflict, and i can tell that your impersonation looks really accurate.
Great job!
Note that the Constitution of the Soviet Union expressly stated that any of the republics, of which there were 15 by the end of the union, had the right to leave the Soviet Union. People normally forgot about that rule, given, you know, the Soviet Union, but once relative free speech and democracy became a thing in the late 1980s, people looked at that rule again. It was not just Ukraine but also Russia for the record actually cited that clause to leave (which eventually made Kazakhstan the last of the Soviet Republics) as well as all the other republics, except basically for the three Baltic republics which said they were never legally part of the Soviet Union in the first place.
Your forgetting one small tiny thing.. Noone asked countries occupied by russia/solviet union if they wanted to join. They were forced at gunpoint.
@@janisber111 I don't really think that is an especially interesting point given that the Russian empire existed in 1917 and the Russian Republic existed until 1918, and it would have a lot of traits aligned with a civil war and I guess you could argue that whoever was going to form the government in the capital would be claiming to reimpose the lawful authority that existed prior to the First World War.
The main norm against invasions and ethnic autonomy would really be with the League of Nations getting going, and bolstered by the Second World War and the United Nations. I chose to cite the Soviet Constitution as a document expressly stating what even was the standard for the Soviet Union to abide by (also that the Soviet Union signed the UN Charter too).
It is most straightforward to discuss the morality of a conflict after that point given that we can easily establish some ground rules binding even on political leaders.
@Ž Š That is true, but later that year, the Ukrainian SSR did hold a referendum after the August coup and had a huge majority including in every oblast that they wanted to leave.
@@robertjarman3703 There were some interesting phrasing in that second referendum. If you think that Crimea would want to go with independent Ukraine it's like serbs in Croatia wanting to stay in Croatia.
@@saratov99 "Do you support the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine?"
Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine
In view of the mortal danger surrounding Ukraine in connection with the state coup in the USSR on August 19, 1991,
Continuing the thousand-year tradition of state development in Ukraine,
Proceeding from the right of a nation to self-determination in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and other international legal documents, and
Implementing the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine,
the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic solemnly declares
the Independence of Ukraine and the creation of an independent Ukrainian state - UKRAINE.
The territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable.
From this day forward, only the Constitution and laws of Ukraine are valid on the territory of Ukraine.
This act becomes effective at the moment of its approval.
- Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, August 24, 1991
That is the referendum question and the act itself that was being voted upon. 54% of Crimeans voted in favour in December 1991. Not sure how to make it more clear that if the vote was successful it would be an independent country, and in the immediate aftermath of the referendum passing it was recognized by the rest of the world.
Also, the Soviet constitution never prescribed that a referendum was necessary, the Supreme Soviet or other highest legislative body of a republic could have invoked it on their own. The Yugoslav constitution did prescribe referendum though.
Well done Geography now , well done... You addressed what alot of main stream media is either too lazy to address because it doesn't feed their bottom line or simply don't want to address; "The historical basis of every conflict " this is so very important , people don't just start fighting , there were unresolved issues in their past which only precipitate years later ...
This does not change anything tho, if every single country started a war because unresolved issues in their past the whole world would be engulfed in flames. Russias invasion of Ukraine is unconscionable no matter the context it is Put in... pun intended.
Also, Russia should tread carefully, China has claims on territory taken by Russia from the chinese empire where ethnic chinese live to this day, and the same exact rethoric they are using against Ukraine today could be used against them should the chance present itself, it is a double edge sword.
Just a quick reminder that the whole "Everything happens because of past disputes" is actually very wrong as it revolves around the idea that world is never changing and the people don't change. This derives from middle ages where for about a thousand years nothing indeed did change and old wounds were constantly brought up, but in the modern times world changes so rapidly that the ´case of everything happening happening because of past simply cannot keep up. The world simply is not the same place anymore
You actually did a great job. As an Ukrainian, I really appreciate it.
As a Russian I can only applaud! Great job! Good clear and reasoned points for both sides! Hands down.
The thing about Zelensky and using the "Jewishness" as the *excuse* of justifying the Neo-Nazi's (e.g. Azov, Right Sector, Svoboda etc.) in the country was spot on.
@@victorsamsung2921 there are Neo naz1s in Ukraine. There are pics posted everyday lol with the Naz1 flag
@@taehyungshands and there are some SS simbolics in Russian telegram chenells or even in shaman (russian singer) videos: there is bandage on his arm with Russian flag, like SS did. And there are some telegram chenells that advertising Ukrainian d.aths. and simbol they using for it is pig with Ukrainian flag on it.
@@PoiarkovNikita
point being that the anti-russian camp should switch focus from saying that ukraine doesn't have a neo-nazi problem (which it does) to making it clear that russia was the one that made the neo-nazi problem worse, that its actions don't make the situation any better, and that the stated goal of denazification is a lie because the russian government has no problems with neo-nazis of their own and in western europe
@@vaylard9474 I agree with you on this one: because war with Ukraine made chauvinistic and neo-na.i movements in this country much more stronger then it was ever before.
Wow! That was a really good interpretation and presentation style. Very informative. Also a good idea to separate it from the Ukraine episode so that it doesn’t detract or distract from the formula you use for each episode. Thank you for this!
Once again, words from Czech 19th century author K. H. Borovský about Russia are true as ever: "Russia likes to call everything russian Slavic, so that they could later call everything Slavic russian."
Hasn´t changed in 200 years at all...
You deserve your own television show. The amount of time and care you put into your work is amazing.
Nobody will be denied NATO membership just because Russia has an attitude. All former Eastern Bloc countries that joined NATO only did so because Russia in the past did horrible things to them. Ukraine is probably the country that has the most reasons to join NATO in this planet, and we should absolutely let them in! It is their own sovereignty and free will.
The total decline in the population of Ukraine over 32 years of independence amounted to about 22.5 million people.
@@Chaldon-hl6ykand your point is.. ?
Ukraine was once the largest industrial base of the Soviet Union. After its independence, it should have retained its nuclear weapons, military factories, and strong military forces. Unfortunately, Ukraine was demilitarized by NATO, and Ukrainian companies were acquired by Western businessmen. Now, NATO invites Ukraine but does not intend to let it truly join; they only want Ukrainians to shed their last drop of blood. Even if Ukraine wins this war, what then?
Russia and NATO are both deceivers!
@@user-dm2me4ll9tokay so what? Let them be on their own just to get bullied by Russia again?
Appreciate you making this!
Excellent TLDR version of the conflict.
Imagine what happens in my mind as my mom is Russian and my dad is Ukrainian? Thank you for the video. It is quite good high level summary.
Same here. Ukrainian dad, Russian mom- to constantly hear Americans who know nothing about the conflict say things like “all Russians need to die” and me sitting here like… K… I’m both sooo
@@geodrewbilee personally support Ukraine and I think people like that are insane. Sure, the war is terrible. That doesn't mean you should wish death on an entire race of people.
I'm Russian. And I hope Russia loses that war asap. There's no hope for Russia. But there's hope for Ukraine. If your mother has any decency she'll agree wuth your dad
How are you both doing? This must be hard on your families.
@@geodrewbilee I'm an American with a son who is 1/4 Russian and 1/4 Ukrainian (my ex-wife was 50/50 as well) so I definitely understand your situation. If it makes you feel better, the only Russians who deserve negative outcomes are the ones currently planning and/o r attacking Ukraine. Any Russian who just goes home or stays in Russia should be free to do so in peace. This war is terrible but blaming an entire ethnicity for the crimes of a few is just as bad as what Russia is doing (and in this case "few" means the politicians and the soldiers/supporters, which leaves out 100's of millions of innocent Russians.)
I remember the days where you would comically freak out over the Greece/North Macedonia stuff, which was basically just silliness over a name and symbols. This is the kinda stuff that is genuinely stressful and concerning (though the Greece/North Macedonia stuff was pretty funny).
It's funny until you dig up some more. Then you'll be terrified over what happened here in the 20th century, despite from which side you're reading the history from.
Greetings from Macedonia.
@@DacLMK nah, they are right. It's funny
@@frfras7 It's not healthy to tie names and symbols in the the heritage and history they represent too much, it diminishes them. For instance, the American flag represents the original 13 colonies and 50 states, but also our values such as liberty and freedom... values which are preserved by allowing it to be burned in acts of protest. We don't always live up to our values anymore than Greece always lives up to its heritage, but they're what people died for.
This is why I have problems relating to Western people. You literally summed up a big issue of identity with a syntagma "silliness over a name and symbols". It's so shallow to look at like this (I am not saying you are shallow). Also this video about Ukraine is pretty much TikTok quality for kids. This war is not a football game as you see it everyday in Media, and that's how exactly this TH-camr tries to act on a video.
As a Ukrainian I want to thank you for educating people on this topic. Squeezing all these controversial moments in a 10 minutes video and making it all look cohesive is a great job indeed 👏🏻
Remember back in 2017 when we were all laughing about how the Israel episode would be the most difficult and controversial episode he would have to make?
Yeah, those were simpler times
I dont find this topic controversial nor difficult. Russians are agressors and Ukrainians defend their freedom against them. Simple as that.
@@R3stor It is that simple. Unfortunately a lot of people fail to realize that, making this topic controversial. Controversy based on ignorance, yes, but controversy nontheless.
i'm a ukrainian and this is a great video! it describes it all really well, and is very accurate! very well done 11/10
Thank you Barbs for making this video. I am from Odessa, Ukraine. I was also supposed to be "freed" by Russia. There are two things which are also important to note: Russia tries to justify the invasion by saying a lot of things. In one act of justification the Russians said that Ukraine wanted to invade Russia first. This claim is very funny, when you know that Russia is an official nuclear state.
Another thing is that the goal of the war, from the perspective of Russia is still unknown: Russia calls the war a " Special military operation to defend the people of the Donbass". Then, a question arises: if the Donbass is all you want, why occupy Kharkiv, Zaporizhie, Kherson and other regions? Thank you for tackling this hard topic. I hope that you will visit Ukraine again, this time, after the war and visit Odessa. We have a lot of sights to see.
Russia annexed Zaporozhe, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson tho... Honestly, it's probably just better if Ukraine surrenders. You can't win against a country that can nuke you at any time, especially considering that Zelensky even wants Crimea. I also feed bad for Ukrainian bros who are forced to stay and fight, while so many Ukrainian girls "work" as prostitutes and cam girls around Europe. Russia is hurting Ukraine, but not as much as Ukraine is hurting Ukraine. Ukraine is hurting Russia, but not as much as Russia hurts itself. It is what it is...
Barbs amplifying russias made up reasons for its neo imperialism in Ukraine in this video is so sad to watch. I expected more from him
@@temporelucemtenebris5313 If Russia nukes Ukraine. They would have already lost. And incredibly coward thing to do.
@@malcolmy3413 Well, he did what he could. He did suggest adding stuff in the comments, if he forgot something.
@@malcolmy3413 I don’t think he’s necessarily defending Russia, but Russia’s hypocrisy on Ukraine is enough to drop your IQ below freezing.
As a Ukrainian I appreciate that you made this very accurate video, and that's impressive that managed to squeeze the whole thing in 10 mins. Greetings from Lviv!
As a Ukrainian, thank you for acknowledging the Holodomor. It genuinely means a lot, as it is the reason I have literally no living European relatives.
I’m so sorry
😂😂😂. ГРУЗИН кровавый Сталин стал русским националистом и поэтому своей комично большой ложкой съел все Украинское зерно, так ? И голод в соседней Польше тоже он устроил))))
@@ruotuzKrasnodar is an ethnic Ukrainian land. Holodomor was created by Russia in Kremlin. Ukraine was occupied by Russia in 1920.
@@ruotuz Actually Kuban wanted to be independent from Russia during 1917-1918. Read your history in normal books.
@@ruotuz Doesn’t matter Kuban was ethnically Ukrainian land in 1930s.
some things I'd like to add:
the language situation is more complicated than most maps show. even in the predominantly Russian speaking East and South most people can speak Ukrainian fluently and in many rural communities more people actually speak Ukrainian dialects. What is also rarely mentioned is that many Ukrainian can switch between these languages or even mix them (Surzhyk) according to the situation.
In addition, language does not equal ethnicity. speaking Russian doesn't mean you're an ethnic Russian and it also doesn't mean you want to live under Putin's Russia. The Donbas is also predominantly ethnically Ukrainian (as opposed to Crimea) and both sides of the front suffered from the war since 2014. It wasn't just Ukraine killing Russians, both sides were shelling and killing each other.
Kenyans speak English all the time but I don´t see a plethora of people trying to rejoin the British Empire as much as King Charlie might wish they did.
which proves there had to been done something.
... since 2014... gosh... should the situation have been continued? Killing every seperatist isn't really an option, no? So referendum to seperate and stop the nonsense.
Everyone could have been going there own way.
But since this didn't happened, we got what we have now.
And sincerely, this time in history,.... i blame the Ukraine and the western leaders who poke Ukraine to do this.
These regions already voted to be a part of ukraine. Russia instigating a civil war there doesnt change anything
@@danielclesse6272 sh** up fascist
And also Russia introduced their troops there in disguise, gave weapons to the separatists, etc. How come Ukrainian army won't reply back if they are shelling or doing barricades with guns.
wow - as an archeologist that is a fan of the polish-lithuanian empire, you did a pretty good job on this summery. bet your head hurt at some point learning this history
If you're a fan you should know Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was never an empire but a republic.
It bugs me so much I had to point it out, sorry x)
@@kaczuszkapaczuszka7979 i do know, but it's always referred to as an empire. i also call Ukraine as 'the ukraine' - as in once referring to the area under the control of the principality of kiex
@@alexanderhay7358 Is it always? I almost never hear it refered to this way.
@@kaczuszkapaczuszka7979
tbf empire and republic are not mutually exclusive terms. The term empire is vague enough that there have been lots of empires that haven't been headed by a monarch, like the French empire
The holodomor was a thing not because the soviet gov-t wanted ukranians dead, that would mean less workers and farmers, but because of the massive failure that was collectivisation.
Why did famine affect only minorities in USSR then
@@user-ib8qd9rn1m it didn't. Southern russia had a very bad time as well.
I listened all the russian arguments carefully and did not hear anything to justify military invasion to another country, launching missiles on civilians or commiting other war crimes. It is normal to disagree with something and be unhappy about something, however, it by no means gives you permission to murder your neighbours.
Well you clearly didn’t see the Ukrainian soldiers wearing nazi badges and the Ukrainian diplomats posting pictures with Stephan Bandera that had to be deleted on Twitter cool 🤣
I think the way Russia justify it is if they don't do this now in the future Ukraine will be used to launch a direct attack on the Russian heartlands Russia is paranoid because its geography is so painfully flat and thus very hard to defend that's why they colonized Siberia so that no one has the guts to attack them from the east again because they were under the boots of The Golden Horde for two hundred years. This paranoia has been justified as recently as WW2
@@realhami There is literally no evidence to believe in that statement in this case
@@realhami "as the truth is always something in the middle, generally." No. There are cases were one side is clearly the aggressor and in the wrong, like Germany in WW2 or the USA in Vietnam.
@@realhami I agree, the same is with the Russian attack on Ukraine.
I know dipping into politics like this is legitimately terrifying but I really think you did an excellent job with this. And that last part where Burkina Faso asks "Can you guys like ever be friends again?" really hit in the feels. 10 out of 10.
It surely hit some Ukrainians in the feels, me for sure. Because how dare you even ask that.
As a Ukrainian, the answer to that question is no. Not in my time, not in my children's time, not in their children's time. My great-grandfather fought the russians in WW1 in the Ukrainian unit of the Austrian army. My friends are fighting them now. My great-grandchildren may not have to fight them but the resentment will be in their Ukrainian blood.
@@GalicianGranddaughter666 Did u just mention that ur great-grandfather fight on side of Austrian army as something good? So all anti-Russian = good? And if is it so whats the difference between people like u, and the people you're fighting against?
@@Foxters yes I did mention my great grandfather fighting in the Austrian army as good. If he had won, Holodomor would not have happened, millions of Ukrainian families would not have starved because of the commies, thousands would not be shot, robbed, and sent to Siberia to die. And yes, from my experience everything anti-Russian is indeed good. With the exception of Nazism. Not because russians are somehow naturally evil. But because authoritarianism is in their blood.
@Music Sauna Mixing Board 2 💨 you are illiterate
What amazes me the most about this video is the sheer amount of precision and nuance describing the situation. In 10 minutes, you managed not only to summarized the entire nature of the feud, but also to precisely illustrate the attitude that both countries display right now. Examples include:
1. Russia is the one ostensibly reaching out, insisting that Ukraine is family, just looking for reasons to, appearently, warm up the realtions, but in actuality, just doing everything it can to outright control Ukraine and dictate its will upon it.
2. Ukraine actually denying familial raltionship and/or kinship twice is very much in line with what actually happening, as a lot of Ukrainians now renounce Russians as brothers, saying they never were that.
3. Ukraine mainly disproving and refuting Russian claims and excuses as illigitimate and cruel as opposed to trying to get something from Russia ("When did I ever attack you?!")
4. Russia pretty much attacking Ukraine out of fear for its own safety, truly thinking that the worlds largest economy (the U.S.) and world's second largest economy (the EU) have nothing better to do than plot take over the world's 11th largest economy (Russia)
5. Russia insisting to go back to the roots, wishing to go back to when it had much more land, influence, and geopolitical power then now
6. Ukraine insisting that "it was never broken", keeping things in the present and wanting to build a better future with the EU, contrasting with Russia wanting to go back to the glorious past
7. Ukraine only wanting to be left alone with all its internationally recognized lands, to chart its own path in the world regardless of what others say, and Russia focusing more on dominating what they consider "an extension of Greater Russia", to quote Brabs, than on their own actual problems.
Barbs, I can't express enough respect for you for a way you did this video. Extremely well done.
Касаемо 4-пункта с моей точки зрения, РФ боялись не военного наступления, а экономического краха. Уточню. РФ как и многие страны СНГ являются сырьевыми государствами, которые жизненно обязаны поддерживать добычу и сбыт полезных ископаемых. Около 40% экономики РФ к держится на продаже природного газа, которую они продают/продавали западу двумя путями(планировали третью). А именно Турецкий поток, который контролировался военной базой в Севастополе в Крыму взятый в аренду с 90х, и труба через Донецкую область. Понимая риск конфликта с Украиной и сомнительный контроль Средиземноморья, РФ хотели открыть Северный поток (напрямую в Германию). До тех пор, пока трубы работают, а дешёвых альтернатив не рассматривается, всех всё устраивало. Но к сожелению в 2012 году на востоке Украины были найдены месторождения природного газа и вот с этого момента началось перетягивание Украины.
Если Украина выберет запад, запад получит самый дешёвый в истории источник газа в истории, а РФ ждало бы упадок экономики. Но у Украины не было ресурсов и кадров для возведения предприятий для добычи и транспортировок газа в новых месторождениях.
У правительства Украины был выбор:
1) влезть в огромные долги ЕС, вовлечь свой народ на бедность на несколько десятилетий, но в итоге ко второй половине 21-века начать получать хороший прибыль за экспорт газа;
2) взять круглую сумму инвестиции со стороны РФ за то, чтобы Украина отказалась от постройки газодобывающего предприятия.
Сейчас мы знаем, что Янукович в то время выбрал сторону РФ, что привело к майдану и в итоге к тому, что мы сейчас имеем.
Риски были, но не риск прямого залпа ракетами по РФ, а риск контроля над сырьевым экспортом РФ.
Хочу подметить, что северный поток всё-таки взорвали
@@olzhaskenzhegulov2039 молодец я так же считаю
Но я хоть и люблю Россию но так же её и боюсь так как я Казах и я понимаю что после Украины под прицелом окажется моя страна.
РФ уже некуда будет расширяться на западе и единственный путь это Центральная Азия , как бы то не было но Казахстан довольно сильно перетягивает влияние в Центральной Азии а так же Нефть и газ
Да Европа 100% захочет возвести путь через Каспий чтобы получать наши ресурсы
Турция 2 армия НАТО очень сильно в этом заинтересована да и Сам Казахстан не против новых экономический возможностей
Поэтому через 10-20 лет тут возможно будет новая спец операция
@@buhoysten3847 Не согласен. Казахстан все-таки старается вести довольно осторожную политику. Если Казахстан не будет упираться как Украина в борьбу с Россией любой ценой, то никаких проблем с Россией у вас не будет. Да и вроде у вас как таковой возможности нет стать страной НАТО, потому что у вас нет границы со странами НАТО, но есть границы с Китаем и Россией. Поэтому вряд ли будет военный конфликт между Казахстаном и Россией. Тут можно порадоваться, что Казахстан не находится между Россией и НАТО. :) Беспокойства по поводу нефти и газа не разделяю. Россия вроде как никогда не ограничивала торговлю соседних стран. Мы же все-таки не США, которые пытаются всем указывать, кто и с кем должен торговать. Скорее вы должны беспокоиться о том, что Европа будет вам указывать, можно ли с Россией торговать, нежели Россия будет указывать можно ли вас с Европой торговать.
Особенно такие случаи видны с Украиной. Китайцы выкупили Мотор Сич у Украины за 5 млрд долларов, потом пришли американцы, сказали, что так нельзя делать и попросили украинские власти национализовать предпреятие, просто украв деньги у китайцев (Кстати если бы украинцы не шли слепо на поводу США и не национализировали предпреятие, то Китай мог бы быть не так категоричен в отношении СВО. Это еще раз показывает как плохо терять суверенитет у страны и полностью подчиняться чужим странам. ) :) Скорее США пытаются ограничивать своих союзников нежели Россия. Российские власти не собираются восстанавливать империю. Они просто действуют, когда видят стратегическую угрозу безопасности, как было с Украиной и НАТО.
@@buhoysten3847 я больше опасаюсь последствий поражения РФ. Учитывая то, что в последствии предыдущих 2 поражений в геополитическом поле Российское государство теряло контроль многих территории (1917 и 1991), и думаю при поражении РФ в данном конфликте, РФ снова потеряет много земель.
А теперь об опасности данного исхода для нас (центральной и северной Азии).
1.Ряд замороженных геополитических претензии/конфликтов снова активизируются: Армения и Азербайджан (Карабах); Киргизия и Таджикистан; претензии Финляндии к территории Республики Карелии; претензии Японии к Курильским островам; закрытый конфликт с Чеченцами; претензии Грузии к территории Абхазии; намерения Талибов продвинуться на север (в Центральную Азию). Это из того, что я знаю.
2. Появление единственного гигемона по соседству Китая.
in many ways, the US and EU economies are built on parasitism in wars, as well as on the imperialist seizure of power in other countries (remember Great Britain and India or Spain and South America, as well as the first and second world wars, as well as all those conflicts in Korea , vietnam, iraq, iran, afghanistan, etc.) so it would be very logical to assume that russia, with its large supply of resources, would become an ideal colonial base, because if money appears in one place in another place, it decreases and this is a fact
As a Ukrainian living nearby russian border I can approve, that your points of view shown in the video actually correctly tell the thing. And as I see, you made a great work by investigating details. Good job!
It's funny that most autors of comments here start them from "As a Ukrainian.." :)
@@Nightmareinfosда, и вправду забавно
@@Nightmareinfos Ukraine losing lolll
Valery Markus? no more
"... because you spent centuries Russifying everything you came in contact with" - THIS.
A surprisingly good representation of views though. But we cannot be friends "again" - we never were friends. Kinda hard to be friends with someone who has been trying to erase you and your identity for their entire existence.
When I heard this argument, I actually felt like it resonated weirdly with what came right before: Ukrainians claiming that Russian borrowed so much of their culture.
From that perspective, it doesnt' sound so much as "something-fying everything", but rather like the wheel of history just spinning and spinning. It's something that happens with all neighboring cultures... nationalists tend to argue that their culture are being replaced by other ones, and there's some truth to it. But firstly, it mostly happens through demography and economy, regardless of whether there's a political project to replace a culture or not. And secondly, it's not so much replacing as assimilating cultures.
Don't want to be "replaced" ? Make babies. Make them rich. And soon, you'll be the one ukrainifying the world.
@@Harold046 It's not like that. In the soviet union there was a policy to BAN ukrainian language as well as many others in favour of russian. Also the Kyiv was found like 1000 years before Moskow was, so... It's not like any cultural war where one is opposed to another, It's more like russian culture trying to erase all other slavic cultures
"We were never friends" is exactly the point of view, because of which we had to start this operation. Your anti-Russian propaganda has been brainwashing you for decades. I heard Zelensky's speech last May 9th. When he said: "Soon we will have two Victory Days, and someone will not have one." An absolutely outrageous statement. I supported Ukraine at the beginning of the invasion, but people like you convinced me that what we are doing is necessary. We'll never be friends, it's true. But our children will be when your fake country disappears. Сестричка.
Yes we were friends. And if you're dumb enough to fall for tha "erasing identity" propaganda, that's your fault.
As someone who's from Kupyansk, I was feeling more safe when there were Russians here
@@HeavySandvichGuy1 ну, надеюсь что в твою хату залетит шальная ракета раз уж так
This is why I subscribed to this channel. The work that goes into making these videos shows how much the entire team respects the culture, history and geography of the many peoples around the world. There is always something fascinating to learn.
That was a lot better then I expected. And about that ending bit? Yeah, no. Not in this generation, not in the next one, but maybe in the third one we will start the talks about reconciliation. That's the Ukrainian pow, thanks for the vid.
For Finland, it took alot of decades to heal after the Winter war. Say 50 years, for when most had who remembered it had retired or died. However, that happened 1) after finlandization in the entire winter war and economic benefits from cooperating with the soviets, 2) The winter war happened in a time with alot of wars, and the continuation war and colaboration with Hitler was condemned especially by the left after the war, and the winter war is ultimately connected with the continuation war. Although Finland was the one being attacked first in both wars.
So anyways, I feel like it would alot more time than 50 years for Ukraine to heal, even adding things like mass media, targeting cicilians on purpose after the world had agreed not to do that, borth rates being lower etc. I am 22 years now and I'm sure the relationship will improve some time after the war, especially if Ukraine wins, but I don't see the two countries ever becoming brotherly nations again in my lifetime. Bosnia has still not healed after it's war 30 years ago for example.
@@sofiaormbustad7467 Both sides need to change their thinking for healing to occur; Ukraine may forgive Russia soon but Russia needs to learn to see Ukraine as an equal and make up for the damage caused for kinship to come back.
As a Brit I'm starting to understand this when a whole bunch of India still hates us; I think we are starting to publicly share what happened during our colonial years and the damage we caused to India as a whole. The scars and wounds we inflicted, or reopened and left to fester are still there and while I believe we've started to make some movement towards reparations I'm sure it won't be enough or its been too long a wait for many.
Really hope Russia can look at the UK and learn from our mistakes as far as facing up to, accepting and then reversing the damage we caused.
@@GCOSBenbow It's up to russia to start tbh. Ukraine owes them nothing. NOTHING AT ALL. They have been the perpetrators since the beginning.
Imagine if someone sexually assaults a woman. Do you think it's up to her to start talks with him? wtf
@@bungalowjuice7225 Absolutely agree; the ball is most certainly in Russias court. Withdrawing all their troops from occupied land would be a good start. I would think you can tell that from the content in the second half of my comment.
Bit of a weird choice comparing one country invading another to a sexual assault of an individual though.
People usually need a common threat
Barbs, amazing episode that clarifies many things from this conflict.
However, I live in The Netherlands. Here, locals "comment" that one episode is usually forgotten: the shot of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) that was shot down by Russian controlled forces on 17 July 2014 , while flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed (total 298 people). The Boeing 777 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Thank you.
I wish you were in that plane
say hi to Ukrnaians and ask why did they use bombers on Donets one week before. And after that did not close their airspace. Ah yah. Bombing was ok, not closing arispace was also ok.
One more thing , that usually forgotten is 2 may in Odesa...and many many more things . I would say it is rather invisible in countries such yours)))
@@sguploads9601 dabble in "whataboutism" much, eh? There was no foreign military in our space, like it is now, and the Russian operatives there did not have the capability for shooting down a civilian jet plane. The MANPADs those people had cannot reach jet aircraft altitude. Thus there was little reason to close airspace over an infantry fight in urban areas.
And what/who we bomb in our lands is our business. If, say, US were dealing with a group of such operatives like we did, on their land, who organized a "rebellion" of sorts - they'd steamrolled them with all the gear they had. And everybody would say "oh yeah, good call".
@@oddie84 do I need to remind you of the "martyrs" shooting at Euromaidan protesters from their firearms from behind the police lines? I must say that you intentionally don't see some things, and then go and blab about it.
As an Israeli person who tried to follow the conflict between Ukraine and Russia (at the beginning of it at least), I understood more from this video than all the news channels or other forms of media here in Israel.
Thank you very much for this video. It's very important to address these issues even if it's something difficult to do so.
There isn't much to address. Russians want us dead, we want to live
I hope that Ukraine can become a real modern and powerful country, so no one would think about invading it
@@serge6038 *Polestine, maybe?)
As a person who was born and lived in Ukraine for 18 years and speaks both Russian and Ukrainian, which gives me the ability to follow the media of both parties, I can assure you that this explanation of Russian-Ukrainian "relationship" is quite accurate. 👍
I actually already read into quite a lot of this once the war began...basically when I saw that Russia launched its "special military operation" in Ukraine I couldn't understand why...but once I started reading up it was like going down an ever spiralling rabbit hole because each event made me question why and then i went further into the past and actually found myself going all the way back to times of Kievan Rus , at which point I just had to stop reading as it became too overwhelming
I don't even have words to express how well condensed, clear and well explained this video is. I can see all the effort and passion that you put into what you do. Thank you so much for this video
As a French russian guy, this is an accurate description of the current situation. What's really sad it's there are lots of people in Russia who thinks all of this domination over Ukraine is right and there are people who thinks the exact opposite but sadly, cannot speak out. I had lots of disagreements with my mom because we were not grown up at same time in history and we both have an other point of view. Yes, even in Russian families this conflict is dividing.
So you are saying the western view is right and other views are wrong? You essentially just said yourself that your mother is "wrong" in her view. There is never a right or wrong in history, only winners and losers. America loves to condemn invasions that go against their interests like this one whilst they were happy to invade many other countries themselves. That is why Russia hates the west. Russians have always been a little more observant and resilient than most people, survivors if you will. They see that America is buying people out with money and to make sure their power doesn't diminish, they are trying to make friends with insurgent groups like those in Georgia and Ukraine by promising to give them independence or to annex them as one of their autonomous republics.
Russia even asked to join NATO after the collapse and got rejected, the west have always hated Russia because they fear Russian power. If Russia was in NATO, they would essentially have the same amount of sway as the US does because they are massive and have nukes. The US don't like that which is why Russia has always been isolated in foreign diplomacy unless they need their help like with the N@zis. Then they are quick to ask for Russia's help.
Посмотрите видео еще раз и внимательно. Не только своими либералистическими глазками типо "о-о, боже! россия напала на украину" А то почему это произошло. Причинно-следственные связи, знаете? Вы же не кричите на полицейского что мол "он убил человека!". Вы сначала узнаете почему он в него выстрелил, были ли предупреждения, как долго он его предупреждал, что за человек в принципе был убит. В данной ситуации мы наблюдаем, что убитый (украина) ебаный маньяк, который убивает собственных людей, не соблюдает соглашения, двигает нато к границам ядерной державы (то есть россии). Для вас это может быть и шутки, но вы понимаете, что значит УГРОЖАТЬ ядерной державе? Это блять ни ха-ха ни разу. Это как если у вас под дверью встанет какой-то хуй с большим ржавым тисаком и будет говорить, мол "я тут просто так стою. Абсолютно просто! Я не угрожаю твоей семье и точу этот топор вообще не для тебя." Еще раз для себя поймите, что даже просто находясь под нашими границами с пво это УЖЕ угроза. УЖЕ. Понимаете?
your mom is from Russia
Да, но рос. общество само виновато в том, что оно страдает.
@@user-tn1pf5fp2b хрюкни
If i knew how and had the ability to make this go viral on reddit for you i would. More people should see this. Fantastic man.
Post it in like a bajillion subs which are even remotely related to the topic. It will go viral through at least 1
I hope someone can find a way. This deserves to be seen more widely.
It's incredibly hard not to draw parallel between what this video depicts and what's going on in some other parts of the world. It's almost like the human history is basically a collection of predestined archetypes of stories.
I think of the Chinese as I read you comment. And then I see your name. 😉
Bunch of monkeys doing monkey things
@@huaiwei yhea but this topic that evrey one talk is an other stories is literally two china
FYI, when its talked about how "NATO agreed to never expand east", it was for NATO to not place their nuclear missiles east of west germany(when east germany united with west germany), which NATO still doesnt :)
No it was for NATO not to accept new east European members
Technically NATO has US nukes in Turkey.
Also to not put troops (actually US troops, CEE countries have their own armies, which is part of NATO) beyond NATO's Cold War border. Of course, Russia threw that out of the window by annexing Crimea and freaking half the continent up, thus they kick the door open for US troops.
@@torchervoid3807 didn’t they take them after the Cuban Crisis
@@George_Wong why does Russia annexing a predominantly Russian region freaks the US so much people act like Russia is somehow a threat to NATO for simply securing its borders
Most russians do not acknowledge that stalin years were "messed up". In fact, polls of public opinion in russia show that stalin is regarded as one of the the greatest russian leaders of all time.
They know he just had his pros and cons I mean think of George Washington he was good and bad
@@nalanhazzard I wouldn't guess Washington had gulags that he sent political dissidents off to. But that's just a guess really
Stalin killed millions of Russians
@@Huminahumina465 "MacCarthyism"
@@nalanhazzard it would be better to compare with Adolf Hitler. Stalin has killed also so many people
Russia: you are one of the most corrupt nation ukraine
Ukraine: yeah ,but you are the number one
Russia: 😐😐😐😡
True dat
Not exactly number one though, but yeah Russia is still higher than Ukraine.
@@radjadawamindra697 source: Nato
Ukraine can be as corrupt as they f***ing want, no reason to invade them. Stupid russian trolls - also russia is more corrupt than ukraine so they should start with their own country maybe
@@malcolmy3413 they can be corrupt but not kill ethnic Russians in Donbass smartass
Super impressed with how faithfully and respectfully you've handled this one Barby
As a Ukrainian I really thank you for this video. Incredible and very accurate work. I will send this to people every time I need to explain our relationship with russia.
As a russian speaking ukrainian being living in Crimea russian arguments in the video look like a joke.
@@lpi3 без вариантов. Автор видео словно рассматривает нарративы и пропаганду только запада. Даже якобы русские тезисы, так же с позиции западника и его точки зрения на события. Вообще это похоже на попытку разобраться в последнем сезоне какого-то сериала, опираясь только на подсказки знакомых, которые начали его смотреть вместе с тобой с предпоследней серии.
@@mcloud1704 Просто нарративы кремля на фоне здравого смысла кажутся смешными, вот и тебе в глаз попало )
@@vitaliishevchenko2161 мне смешными реальные факты не кажутся. мне не кажется смешным то что до сих пор ненайдены снайпера с майдана, а деревья пригодные для пулеэкспертизы были спилены еще в 2014м. Мне не кажется смешным то что бомбили людей в Луганске 2 июня. ТАк же мне не кажется смешным что еще в 2013 со сцены майдана звучали антироссийские лозунги и антирусские "москаляку на гилляку".
Мне не кажется смешным то что до сих пор исполнители (я не говорю о организаторах), а исполнители того что случилось в Доме Профсоюзов в Одессе не сидят. Как не сидят и те кто расстреливал милицеский участок и людей на улице 9 мая в Мариуполе 2014го.
@@mcloud1704 тебя как русского «ебать» не должно что у нас происходит и кого за что сажают и как что расследывают.
As a Russian, I can say you told the conflict really well. And also I love that you included Burkina Faso inside this 🤣🤣🤣
"I know what it's like under you for 400 years, and this point is anything better!" That meant so much.
Thank you, Barbs! That was actually pretty spot on!
I'm watching your video right now sitting in the corridor on the floor, because russia decided to launch ~100 missiles today.
Russians shooting missiles into apartment buildings and so many people here trying to justify this with 'fighting nazism' in ukraine
They can't see that they themselves became the very thing they (wanted?) to fight against
How is there wifi to that do with
@@dandrecollier800 last i checked wifi doesn’t just turn off when a country is being attacked
@@dandrecollier800 Starlink probably
@@karmo1629 yeah but I thought a missile or 2 would hit a tower that would give out wifi. I mean it's 100 missiles
As a Ukrainian, I can say that this is quite accurate. Regarding our "friendly-fraternal" relations... It will not happen soon, not at all. I am sure that it will take at least half a century to soothe our pain regarding russian aggression. Ukrainians will fight to the end for their existence, and we will come to the true democratic values that we so desired. Victory will be ours. Thank you for this video. Glory to Ukraine. Слава Україні 🇺🇦
Exactly, we don't have some kind of obsession with katsaps. Unlike West seems to think. I want nothing to do with them.
Why are yall not ok with a buffer zone with a region the is already hostile? If it garuntees NATO protection if Russia invades? In my opinion it seems your leadership cares more about Ukraine and his personal status as great fighters than to end the war and save lives. Unless NATO opens up their entire aresenal they aren't serious about Ukraine winning and Russia now sees this as a war vs NATO that it can't lose.
slava russia
@@johnnytsunami3695 "Why aren't you guys okay with losing a fifth or more of your land if it will stop the fighting? Why??"
If a mugger punches some guy, grabs his wallet and starts to run off, but the victim tackles the mugger and tries to get his wallet back, do you want a cop to run up and yell at the victim to just letter the mugger have the wallet so the fighting will stop?
Johnny Tsunami to Czechoslovakia before WWII "Why are yall not ok losing the Sudetenland? Neville Chamberlain says it will stop the conflict and bring peace in our time!"
Seriously, just sod off.
@@barreloffun10 Ukraine can't defend themselves they have to constantly beg the entire globe for help which is only getting their men killed being half assisted. What more important, graunteed protection and keeping your citizens alive or trying to prove a point?
As a Russian, I am very surprised that you were able to get right in the middle and try to reproduce both points of view so neatly. I have never encountered anything like this. In an ideal world, this is roughly how countries around conflict should reason in order to try to reconcile the two countries, but they only add oil to the fire....
russia is an crazy chauvinist and neo-nazi empire, that cannot exist in modern world as other empires did, already fell apart. Countries around conflict will try to reconcile smaller states that are easier to control. Actually, russia is always slow and can't progress with the other world. Only such events like this will push them to become "better", of course it takes seconds to turn back to monster as we see with putin and stalin. The fact that when serfdom was cancelled in former russian empire, and russian peasants were protesting against it in the same time when ukrainian and belorussian were happy to be free, only shows the face of this country and the reason why it is so easy to turn your country into something like modern russia.
@@sanbox_serenity you described USA, who want to dominate in the world? A lot of military bazes around the world, a lot of "fake" wars in Afganistan, Iraq...
Fun fact - tsar actually originates from Bulgaria, when Simeon the Great took the title tsar as an alternative to Emperor.
Bulgarian spotted.
*Macedonian, when our tsar Samoil was crowned as the first tsar in history.
JK, just shitposting.
As a ukrainian, this is very correct. Yes, there is much more to adress and to talk about, but it would take literally hours
I'll give you ukr-rus war in 10 seconds:
Rus: I want to rebuild the former empire and you must be a part of it
Ukr: no thanks, I'd rather stay independent
Rus: I wasn't asking
Well, that's not true in the least. Nice try though
@@nycboogie Except, it's very true.
@@yyyy12344 Russia's actions backfired when nato just added 2 new members in response. Maybe stop invading your neighbors.
@@yyyy12344 "Outside it's rightful borders". Says who? It was the countries' decision to join, not NATO's forceful actions.
@@yyyy12344 That is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read in terms of geopolitics and utterly clueless. There are countries who have literally DENIED NATO membership. NATO did NOTHING in response. These countries overwhelmingly wanted to join based on the democratic polling data.
It's been proven time and time again that "NATO's eXpAnSiOn" is a response to Russia's imperialist ambitions on its borders, not the other way around.
Thank you so much for this video! Can't believe that someone from the opposite side of the globe can have a really accurate understanding and ability to explain quite a lot about our situation in 10 mins. It's really fantastic❤
You can't become friends "again" with someone you've never been friends with, and by whom you have been constantly bullied and gaslighted instead.
earnt my like
As a Ukrainian we used to be friends, we had lot of inter-marriage between Ukrainian and Russian families, and good relations for a time, we stood together several times in history against Poland, Turks and Germans, but when there is no foreign threat Russians usually treated Ukrainians like crap which led to our current relations also yeah Russians more than anything fear west destroying their country, so they got all paranoid once Baltic countries joined NATO and became much more aggressive towards their neighbors.
@@Mixer2904 They are paranoid always.
Maybe I'm a little biased towards Ukraine, but maybe would have added, that all the Neon*zi-parties in Ukraine got voted out in the last election, whereas Putin literally uses favist narrative to justify the invasion. He has often cited Ivan Ilyin as one of his personal heroes, who was a Russian facist in the 20th century who even got mad, when Italy became the first facist country, instead of his "glorious Russia". So I think its pretty obvious, the russian leadership is much closer to what you would consider a N*zi, than the ukrainian.
But this is more on the ideology side of the topic, while your video took more of a historical approach, and I think you did a really good job at that
Thank you for mentioning that Ukraine 🇺🇦 suffered for 400 years from Russia
Since when? Since when Ukraine exists for 400 years? XD
Kyivan Rus was Ukraine in that time , from like the years 800 , and the russians are from the Mongol/Tatar Empire , that then started newly as Moscovian Tsarstvo in the 1200 , and then became the russian empire so Ukraine is older than russia just look , when Kyiv was built and only in the next 400-500 years the Moscovites/russians will start to form
@@arturrei8085 what a lie they put in your head XD
but you should be smart enough that Kievan Rus and modern Ukraine are connected in the same way as Russia is with Kievan Rus
Ok May i ask you something , Rome was conquered by Barbarians but it was still Italy and Italian history , Kiyvan Rus/Ukraine was conquered by barbarians/mongols and now it is their same history dont know what ur talkin bout . But if you are some ruzzian bot , dont talk to me there is no point in discussing with zombies
@@jacquefresco6648 I mean, it existed, but it wasn't a country. It was part of Russia.
This is not a conflict!!!!, this is a war!!!
every single russia ukraine video has at least some bias in it and im really glad that you made a video addressing the conflict without any bias and somehow completely explaining it in 10 minutes
Thank you for that video, you really did great job especially by mentioning history of ukrainian-russian relations at the end.
One note: in 3:20 when you talk about separatist in Donbas its worth to mantion that even though there were separatist movements there, they were not so big to fight and they wouldn’t succeded if not Russian intervention. Most of leaders of separatists were from Russia. Same time 2 million proukrainian citizents of Donbas had to leave their homes thanks to „liberation of Donbas”.
Yes, people need to understand more about what has happened in Donbas these last several years. I have many friends from that region who had to flee from their homes there and go further west into Ukraine after violent separatist activities. And now Russia has been desperately trying to drive more and more Russians into Crimea and Donbas to make the "local" populations seem more pro-Russian. Quite literally using methods straight from the Stalin handbook
Most leaders were literally regular workers... from the FSB.
I would argue there were no separatist movement at all. People who fight for the invading army should be called collaborationists, not separatist. Before 2014 the "dpr" ideology was cared by handfull of people, half of them were russian citizens, and the other half were probably just agents. After the late spring of 2014 it was obvious that russia is behind all "protestors", so anyone joined later are collaborationists of foreign invasion army. One might argue that there were a little mick of time for Donbas separatists to exist in 28.02-12.04 of the same year, but during this time all the so-called protesters were quite openly carrying russians flags and symbols. Some part of them were later confirmed to be russian citizens and Yanukovic's tituski, others might be actual Ukrainian citizens (non-agents), but they were standing under russian flags, and fighting for russian interests, so they were clearly collaborationists as well. Not separatists.
I think that Putin threw his support behind those small separatists because he really wanted to keep the area in play and out of the new pro-EU government's hands, for various geopolitical reasons (like a potential land-route to Crimea). He definitely deliberately destabilized the region -- my question is how much anti-Russian sentiment was present in the new Ukraine government? If the new Government wanted to turn away from the Russian orbit and start, say, phasing out the Russian language/culture from the general populace, then I could see a separatist movement really gaining steam in the Russian populace. But then again, how much anti-Russian sentiment can be pinned on Putin nabbing Crimea while he still could?
I guess my question is if these violent separatist movements were inevitable, or if Putin created them through his actions alone. I'm all ears on any points!
@@acoral1035 I think there was actually a good amount of separatists at the start. But once they started losing to the army of Ukraine then Russia propped them up.
Missed a chance to be 🇲🇩 when they got invaded, or 🇬🇪 when they got invaded, or 🇦🇫 when they got invaded, or 🇨🇿 when they got invaded, or the Chechens (twice).
And?
@@mariancosmingavrila4206 And, when needed they should've delt with Russia as nececery, but nooo, oposit, or maximum nothing at all, bearly a reaction. What we've got from there? Yup, russian-ukrainian war.
We need to collectively understand that Russia is still a colonial empire and is behaving acordingly
Me waiting for people to say “Buuuutt what about americaaaaa!!,”
@@lol-iv1ft why is that funny? Starting from ww2, over the top of my head, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, Lybia, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Afghanistan...
One can only justify Somalia out of these
🇺🇦 Ukraine: I hate you, Russia
🇷🇺 Russia: oh, yeah, let’s fight
Two hours later
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🤬🤬
🇫🇷 French : Hé toi, laisse-moi ( hey you I can help you)
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🇫🇷🤬🤬
To be continue
Great job, Barb. It needed a lot of courage to explain the situation from both perspectives, and you've just nailed it.
Love when Russians pull the anti-imperialism card when they literally colonized and genocided nearly all of Central Asia 😒
Пропоганда. Вы не замечаете хорошего, почему существует и живет средняя азия в принципе. Когда в нее пришли советы, они стали строить там заводы и дали многим людям еду, работу, жилье. До этого там были скалы и пустыни, а люди жили в аулах, даже сейчас в средней азии много аулов и трущоб
Really great video,you explained this conflict in the most fun and easy way possible,and i loved how Burkina Faso is the like psychologist.
Awesome video
Love from Spain 🇪🇦
I didn't get why burkina faso, though, could you explain?
@@Aurelien_ It could reference how African nations are having food issues since most of their food imports come from the Russian/Ukraine fields that are currently not doing much because of war.
Я не так хорошо помню мирное время. Я житель Донецка и летом 2014 был вынужден уехать из города со своей семьёй. Скажем так, нам были не рады. Совсем не рады. Я прожил год в небольшом пгт и рад что свалил оттуда. Украина всегда была слишком разной. Была ли возможность сосуществования востока и запада? Да. Но случилось то, что случилось. Мои бывшие сограждане согласились с новым правительством что я сепар и меня нужно убить. Моя бабушка учитель украинского языка тоже стала "неправильной". Почему? Потому что наш край это половина, если не больше экономики старой Украины. Отпустить нас с миром никто не собирался. Мне жаль украинцев ровно на столько, сколько им было жалко нас, жителей Донбасса. Пять минут и можно забыть. Я жесток, не реагирую на звуки взрывов и реактивных самолетов рядом со мной. Мой город продолжает гореть от украинских снарядов. Скажем так, я хочу мира и единства, но на уступки, договоры, мирные соглашения это бред. Думаю мои земляки и новые сограждане согласны со мной. Пока Россия договаривается ей втыкают нож в спину. Такого больше не должно повторится.
половина, ахахахаа. Как оно в россии, малорос?
@@mizeraklidхахахаха как он в хохляндии теперь?Границы открыли,укротсос?
8:45 I actually think that even majority of Russians wouldn't have said that. Many still love him out there.
Yeah exactly Russians love him. That is the problem with Russia, the people are just messed up
Lol same thoughts literally very very few and marginalized groups are agreed on that in Russian And yet they love this period very much . The country has the anthem of the Soviet Union What are we talking about?! 😀. 😀
It's a little more complicated than either. Many say he was indeed a brutal tyrant but was necessary at that time.
@@LewdConnoisseur "Tyranny is always necessary for life" water, oxygen and tyranny, that part is not complicated at all 👀.
Well Russians dispute that Holodomor ever occurred I think
Wow. The best explanation about the conflict I have ever seen. A complex dispute which goes back for centuries, condensed to a 10 min video. Thanks a lot for addressing both sides. I know this wasn't easy. Really appreciate it!
The real problem is pretty recent imo, and it's pretty much the same as what happened with the decolonization of Africa. New countries emerging based on random borders. Just as the colonial african borders didn't represent any ethnic or cultural borders, so it was with the Soviet-Union. The new Ukraine that emerged, was more than twice the size of the historical Ukraine that became a part of Russia in 1654. Crimea and southeastern Ukraine, had nothing to do with historical Ukraine. Russia colonized these parts of the wild fields and conquered the rest from The Crimean Khanate. These areas were established as Russian hundreds of years ago. Then the revolution broke out, and the Ukrainian SSR was quite a lot bigger than historical Ukraine. Then the Crimea transfer of 1954, which meant nothing more than a symbolic gesture. They were all one big Soviet family, and the internal borders of individual republics didn't matter that much. But then the SU collapsed based on these internal borders, and suddenly not just in Ukraine, but in central asia as well, you had all these ahistorical borders and ethnically, culturally mixed countries.
As a Ukranian, I wanted to tell you actually did a great job!
As a Qazaq from Qazaqstan, who is very well aware of the topic - YOU DID A GREAT JOB!
Breaking all these arguments in this way, so majority would understand!
Qazaqstan
We in Lithuania and the Baltic in general are with Ukraine for as long as it takes! 💛💙
Your politicians also spread the hatred towards Russians that is beyond all reason. I lost much of my respect for Poland and Lithuania after realizing that.
Wow! Absolute madman. This taught us more in 10 minutes than a hundred videos one can watch on YT or the mainstream media. And the sighs there, just personifies the two countries and people's emotions perfectly! Well done, Barbs. Massive respect!!
Also, loved Burkina Faso there. 😅
What was Burkina Faso all about?
@@dyawr Totally uninvolved country posing the ultimate question.
@@ktrimbach5771 Ah lol.
As an American (a real American) who used to live in Eastern Ukraine, I have to say this was very accurately presented.
You know every country in North and South America can claim the title American, right?
@@samsmith2635 also native Americans in USA and other indigenous people in North and South America can call themselves as ''real Americans''
It honestly shows why we should not be involved, this seems more like AMerica butting in to take down a enemy not caring about the cause and the solution.
There are no "real" Americans.
People from the US are as much American (as in from the American continent) as are Canadians, Latin Americans and everybody else born and raised on the continent or possessing citizenship status from wherein.
The thing is, the term "American" just happens to overwhelmingly refer to people from the USA in the English language. Whether that's not the case in other languages (which really isn't) is not exactly a problem for native English speakers.
That said, unless Mr. Steven Mitchell clarifies his nationality, I am obliged to assume he's from the United States.
@@johnnytsunami3695 We may be, but we are also helping the Ukrainians. If we're going to butt in, it may as well be on the right side.
As a Russian I must say that this is a piece of art
иди покайся
@@igorlubintsov7464 іди поплачь)
@@igorlubintsov7464В чём?
@@foy_play коллективная ответственность, сам понимаешь
@@igorlubintsov7464 А за что ответственность?
As a ukrainian this is very accurate! Well done barbs😊
i wish your country good luck in this situation, love from america 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦
@@sans1331 thanks brother across the ocean❤️🇺🇸
Stay strong over there. Kick the occupiers out. Greetings from the United States
@@reanimationeas342 haha, im a descendant of ukrainian warriors, it would be a shame if i didnt!
I greet you too fellow american🇺🇸
@@LupusOrdo I am personally Spanish, Irish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian. But either way. No mercy to the enemy.
One reason I don't like Russia is them screwing with my country's elections