Story correction: At 0:21 we say “the highlighted section from Moscow to Poland's border is just over 230km”. The correct number is closer to 1,089 km. An additional editorial mistake on this graphic is the visuals on screen also showing a conversion from the wrongly stated 230km to 43 miles which was a typo mistake in editing which was meant to say 143 miles. We’re working hard each week to bring you interesting and factually accurate stories about how humanity is understood through geography. We’ll be working even harder to triple check out stats and figures before publication. Thanks for all your support in the launch of this channel, we’re excited to continue producing these videos for you, see you in the next one - Andy
Using Google Maps for measuring the distance between the centre of Moscow and the part of Poland closest to it, the latter's northeast corner, gives about 917 km = 570 miles.
Crimea is part of Ukraine not Russia. Please change map. Otherwise show other occupated by Russia territories of Ukraine as part of Russia (if you agree with that).
Yeah, I was confused by that. The British Empire was definitely a global superpower. Which at it's height contained a quarter of the world's land and people.
I’m glad you guys explained this in a more thorough geographical perspective. I feel like our story on Russia lacked this context because we focused too much on history; do you mind if we link this video in our coverage on Russia?
Welp, I guess you know you went wrong when you focused on history. You should study the history of when Russia was called "Mongolia" because it was owned by Mongolia.
They keep on saying Russia is an authoritarian regime whilsts they rarely say the same about Saudi Arabia, as a matter of fact America isn't even a democratic state that it claims to be...
I don't know who you claim is "they", but from you to me, there ain't a lot of people you'll find claiming that Saudi Arabia is a democracy. You'll also not find a lot of countries really scared nor threatened by Saoudi Arabia (at least on your media threads). As for the US, yeah, no, sorry, the US are a democracy. With all the consequences in can have. Like politicians following racist mob behaviors when the population is out for muslim blood in the early 2000.
In this video's geographic determinism, it is strange how it forgot to mention that the one time Russi was conquered the invasion came from Mongolia and China. Putin is at war with democracy, Putin is vulnerable to democratic ideals.
Brilliant production and storytelling. Just one point of criticism, where are your references? This video is amazing but it seems to be clearly referencing an entire chapter of Tim Marshall's ''Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics''. I think that doing this, providing source information, would encourage people to dig deeper into these interesting stories and demonstrate acknowledgement of those who intitally brought these ideas into the public sphere so others could be able to make fantastic youtube mini documentaries. Keep up the good work, you definitely have a new subscriber.
Hey Raoul, Thanks for pointing this out, you are absolutely right. Sources are an extremely important part of our research and scripting process and in our recent videos we have started to include sources and additional reading in the TH-cam description. This is something we will continue to do and we will also through our back catalogue and included the relevant sources. I've just done it for this video and you can expect to see them pop up for all the others soon. P.S stoked you enjoyed the video enough to subscribe were glad you could be here, see you in a future video! - Andy
Some good points in this video and you’re quite right that the invasion and everything Putin has done since will see him go down in history as the leader that hastened the disintegration of the Russian Federation. But I would push back on the the notion Russia is at risk of invasion on the logic that it has a geographical weakness that countries to its west could exploit. Yes, it SOUNDS reasonable when you look at history, but only until you remember that all those prior invasions occurred before the invention of nuclear weapons. Rather, his hostility and militarism has been driven by the political-cultural risk of the potential a state like Ukraine - with ethnic Russians in it - could become democratic, more economically integrated with the West and thus more prosperous, could lead to a growth in threats from WITHIN Russia. Putin knows he can nuke outsiders, but he can’t nuke his own cities and people
One thing I'd like to ask here is the red map of Russia shown throughout the video. Why does it cut of the farthest reaches of Russia's territory that borders Alaska from the rest of its territory? Was it an editing mistake or something else?
Correction: Sevastopol has been Russian port since 18 (!!!) century... Alexander Suvorov (famous Russian general) ordered that earthworks be erected along the harbor and Russian troops be placed there. In February 1784, Russian empress Catherine the Great ordered to build a fortress there and call it Sevastopol. It became an important naval base and later a commercial seaport.
It doesn't, that's why it's 4th largest Russian port, and HQ of Northern fleet. IIRC it's winter water temperature on average is warmer then Stockholm because of Gulfstream
Yeah man, your map of post-1991 Russia includes Crimea, which is an internationally recognized Ukrainian land annexed by Russia in 2014. Also, Ukraine proclaimed independence in 1991 and has been a democracy since then. It has not been "trying to break away from the Soviet regime since 1992". This is just very poor wording. The thing is, Russia still is and has always been an empire. It grabbed land and colonized ethnicities for centuries. This geography-based take fails to acknowledge this key detail.
Great Video as usual! But I think you missed a few things. If a country isn't rich in natural ressources, it doesn't mean it has to be poor. Just have a look at countries like Denmark, Belgium, Singapore, South Korea and so on. These countries don't have that much to offer in terms of ressources but they're quite wealthy. The opposite is much more common. It's called the ressource curse. Venezuela has one of the largest reserves of oil but it's a failed state. Why is that? Venezuela discovered oil before it created stable and accountable institutions. This lead to massive corruption and mismanagement in the government and the economy, becoming fully dependent on the price of oil. Doesn't sound so healthy, doesn't it? Not having access to the sea isn't necessarily the end of the world either. There are a lot of landlocked countries that are wealthy, Europe is another great example of it. But yes, your point about good political relationships is the core of Russia's problem when it comes to its access to the sea. But once again, this may prevent Russia from becoming as powerful as the US but it could still accumulate wealth thus have its own sphere of influence. What all of this comes down to is the power structure of Russia. It is a heavily centralized and authoritarian country with little to no political accountability. Its institutions are insanely corrupt which basically kills any notable innovation. The state is absolute and all powerful which creates little insentives to diversify and grow their economy. Their dependence on natural ressources worsens this problem since vast parts of Russia's economy are either directly state controlled or in the hands of Putin's inner circle. This may keep Putin in power but it greatly limits his ability to create a powerful economy thus a global superpower. Modern day Russia is an example of a country that could have been wealthy and stable. But a legacy of authoritarianism and lack of any accountability stunted its potential which leads to its demographic crisis. Unlike the Europeans, Russia isn't nearly wealthy enough to deal with that so Putin may deem a war against Ukraine as a ligit means to soften the fall. Unfortanately for Russia and Ukraine, Ukraine's demographics aren't that great either. It was a struggling nation with a massive brain drain and political instability well before the war, which is won't help Russia in the long term. From Putin's perspective the security concerns are real and he views the current geopolitical enviroment as an existential crisis. NATO expanded because the newly independent post Sowiet republics quickly understood that their independence wasn't granted. Russia was in a weak position and it wouldn't be the first time for Russia to reconquer these states. NATO is eastern Europe's life insurance. Finally the Russian state has only one to blame which is herself.
at 3:44 you said no one suceeded in succesfuly invading russia however the polish lithuanian common wealth invaded and controlled moscow from 1610-1612
Love your new channel, I've become a subscriber. Just asking though, why do you apparently accept the legitimacy of the Russian conquest of Crimea in your maps?
Thanks for subscribing Stephen. You touch on a really great point here which we see as a concern with digital mapping, that we are activity writing a video on. In short we use a software plug in's to generate our maps and it automatically highlights Crimea as part of Russia. The piece we want to dive into is highlighting disputed areas and territories and why they don't appear on certain maps. This is one example, Palestine is another. That's not an excuse we are trying to hide behind. Quite frankly when we were editing this video the highlighted section passed us by when we were doing final checks along with a few other issues we addressed in the description. But the point you raise is something I would love to address in ourself in the upcoming video.
@@Faultlinevideos I get the idea that Russia's practical control of Crimea is a fact and that fact needs to be acknowledged in some way. A couple points in favor or some kind of special shading or other marking to show the disputed status of Crimea, though, is partly the way that everyone who falls to do so rewards conquest as a behaviour, which is enormously dangerous for global stability and incrementally weakens Ukraine's bargaining position should they decide to trade acknowledgement of Russian control of Crimea as part of a peace deal. It also fails to acknowledge a significant factual difference between Crimea and settled Russian land. Ukrainian attacks on unambiguously Russian land is highly taboo because of the political problem it creates for Ukraine's benefactors. But it's becoming established that Ukraine can attack Russian assets in Crimea and the political implications are qualitatively different, it doesn't create the same kind of political problem of Western assets being used to attack Russian soil. This is practical evidence that Crimea deserves to be represented in a visually distinct way for reasons other than pure principle.
@@PavelAVasilevich it's not legally Russia now. Now, legally, Crimea is Ukraine and Russia's annexation by force and sham referendum is flatly illegal and does not change the internationally recognised status of the territory. If we allow ourselves to go back to the days where flat-out conquest was the norm, the whole world will spiral into violence and chaos - no matter what the supposed basis for the claim, particularly with a territory like Crimes which has changed hands many times.
... You literally never explained how Russia's size itself was a weakness, only that the terrain is bad. Which is true, but... You can have bad terrain with a small territory as well. Moscow too close to the border? Poor little doe, it's "only" 1000 kilometers away, I wonder how Poland and Ukraine feel about the position of their own capital. Also, you didn't mention that their size is the *reason* why they have so much oil and gas reserves. Larger territory = More opportunities to find natural resources.
@@Faultlinevideos yeah but i mean is this a second channel? Do you have a website? What i meant was, no one starts out a YT channel with this many poeple from the get go with this level of quality from nothing.
Andy our executive producer has been making youtube docs for a long time now. This channel was a long time in the making. Thank you again for your support. Share the video with friend if you want to help us grow.
Don't worry the future maps of Russia will be a l little bigger with Eastern Ukraine going to Russia after putin liberates it from the zelesnky scum regine
1:40 I don't think that's a very good analogy. In the human body, the heart is what pumps out blood to the rest of the body. In Russia, Moscow is more like a leech that sucks away the blood from everywhere else. Also, nobody is interested in invading Russia. But all of Putin's actions are the sort of thing that would provoke exactly what he's supposedly trying to prevent. 4:48 Ukraine's been wanting to break free from Russian rule for a lot longer than than 1992. 11:22 Putting pressure on Russia's economy is only part of what sanctions are meant to do. The other thing it's meant to do is hinder Russia's ability to produce weapons. 14:06 That presumes there still *is* a Russia in the future. It's very likely that Russia will disintegrate as a nation.
Weird for a person talking about geography to show Crimea as russian territory on the map over and over again, no question ask. Crimea wasn’t « take over » it is occupied.
Additionally, most of its post-soviet neighbours (Moldova, Khazakstan and Ukraine in particular) had most of the USSR´s agricultural land. Ukraine was the bread basket of the Soviet Union. Russia itself has very little arable land in comparison to its total land area. That is why Russia is so dependant on mining, drilling and logging; because its geography isnt useful for any other economic activities. Its also why Russia has so many minorities btw... most of the "Autonomous Republics" like Dagestan, Sakha and Tuva are based on mountanous, forested or very cold terrain where European-style settlements were very difficult to set up and mantain...
>Russia itself has very little arable Yes, poor innocent Russia only has 40-97 million hectares of unused(!!!!) arable land ;_; (depending on how you count). Sad. With total arable land estimated at ~220 million hectares, there is no way Russia can feed itself without invading other countries. Wait... But Russia IS a food exporter. Huh.
Very interesting video. However Russia was successfully invaded by The German Empire during The First World War, which took considerable territory from The Russian Empire. This territory was only regained after The German Empire lost The First World War to The British Empire, United States and The French Empire to name but a few. Also you said Russia was landlocked, which it clearly is not.
Russia lacks land to grow crops and is landlocked, *for now*. If the climate keeps warming Russia stands to gain vast tracts of arable land, and a northern sea route might appear.
> lacks land to grow crops It doesn't. If you are a net food exporter that means that you have more then enough land >and is landlocked It's not. Things as "icebreaker" exist. Not to mention an ice free Northern port that existed for a century.
Russia should just move its capital like most other countries around the world are doing. In fact a law was passed to do so in the duma but Putin has been against it.. Russian Czar move the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Most of Russia resources are located in the Asian side. So moving its capital to Novosibirsk the largest city in Asian side of Russia would provide it the space needed from Europe.
As always "Russia is landlocked" narative completely ignores existance of Murmansk. An unfreezing 17m deep (Hamburg also seems to be 17m) port directly to Atlantic ocean? Nah it doesn't exist. And as we all know the depth of port is set and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it >lets say you invade Russia And get your country glassed? Unless we assume NATO has this magitech that renders ICBMs moot. But if that's the case Desert Storm would seem like a joke. P.S. Finland doesn't have unfreezing ports. It does have access to science fiction technology of "ice-breakers" Because the state is competent, and looks inwards to improve intead of creating ever more excuses to wage war like it's 19 century. If Russia had Istambul, it would cry that it has to wage war until it gets Suez. But wait, that sea is blocked from the other side Russia has to have that as well. Let's not forget about Gibraltar straight. It can block poor innocent Russia, so Russia has to wage war with everyone until it's spread as a cancerous tumor from Lisboa to Copenhagen to Djibouti (why stop here?) to satisfy impossible needs of Moscow. Russia either turns into a proper, inward looking state(s) or it will find excuses to wage war as Moscow (city/region) needs to drain ever more resources to sustain its existence. So the best advice anyone can give, is the same advice that every former empire got (except Hungary, they still didn't get the memo 100 years later) "You lost your empire. Get over it".
Russians know that global warming will change their vast expanse into a less hostile environment that climate change refugees will be desirous of and that their sale of gas and oil fuels this inevitability. Pray for the Ukranians!
Yes, Russia needs to be friendly with it’s neighbours to improve the economy and to avoid unnecessary hostilities Russia has failed at this So has China
I absolutely loved this video - I’m amazed at how Russia can be considered “landlocked”. In my opinion, Russian politics are rancid and old fashioned… today the world is moved by money, and here is where “the west” will end up taking the advantage, cause they’re all about money, while Russians are not too friendly right now.
Hey. We are you showing in this video Crimea as Russian territory? Russia invaded Ukraine and occupied Crimea in 2014, and no democratic country recognizes this.
Borderline propaganda! I'm a big fan. watched all your videos from newest to this one. If I had started in reverse I would have probably stopped here and unsubscribed. I'll keep watching because I've seen enough to respect your work, you do a great job. I wanted to know if you have changed your understanding of the war? Maybe include the 8 years after 2014. Research best performing currencies of 2022. Could you analyze the data regarding the direct link between the money we send to fund the war and the number of casualties? Stop the $$ stop the dying.
Size always matters, yes, bigger or smaller, they all have their strength and weaknesses, better is how you use it and what you can make with, the case of large Empires, if you fuck up at logistics, your dead, ROME lasted as long as it did because it was good at that and got with the times, building roads and aqueducts, while Russia is just another barbarian nation thinking its a great and powerful empire, its not,
Great video and highlight the massive issues Russia has with the West and especially (NATO). I studied Russian revolution in School and realised years laters that in the GB and West we haven't truly ended the Cold War and still see Russia as a foe! Putin unfortunately is a by product of the Cold War and wants to re-strengthen Russia and secure its Western borders, which I can understand has been invaded by Napoleon and Hitler in the past. I do feel that NATO is a outdated idea and needs to be de-comminised and a new united European Force created without US involvment as it isn't a European nation! Yes it won't be popular idea but in the long term cruical to avoid further wars! Remember Putin will set-down eventually and a new Russian leader will step up to re-build its country and International standing. Hence both sides need to re-assess this stupid esculation in Ukraine that could lead to WW3! Lets be honest nobody needs another massive conflict in the world to break out! P.S What was ignored was Russias massive resources of minerals and fresh water, which in the future will be a massive assesst in a World that is drying up in Europe, Africa and Western America!
Your conclusion to arguments is breath takenly shocking. For example, you said "Russia is poor and it's evident in its declining population...". I say that's a crappy conclusion. Nigeria is poor but her population is exploding. The UK, USA and other Western countries are so called rich but also suffer population decline but are only saved cos of unferthered immigration. Your analysis is really terrible and has elements of baiase.
Story correction: At 0:21 we say “the highlighted section from Moscow to Poland's border is just over 230km”. The correct number is closer to 1,089 km.
An additional editorial mistake on this graphic is the visuals on screen also showing a conversion from the wrongly stated 230km to 43 miles which was a typo mistake in editing which was meant to say 143 miles.
We’re working hard each week to bring you interesting and factually accurate stories about how humanity is understood through geography. We’ll be working even harder to triple check out stats and figures before publication.
Thanks for all your support in the launch of this channel, we’re excited to continue producing these videos for you, see you in the next one - Andy
Using Google Maps for measuring the distance between the centre of Moscow and the part of Poland closest to it, the latter's northeast corner, gives about 917 km = 570 miles.
Crimea is part of Ukraine not Russia. Please change map. Otherwise show other occupated by Russia territories of Ukraine as part of Russia (if you agree with that).
Also part of Russia near USA shown as not a part of Russia.
Crimea is part of Ukraine.
3:46 a huge error , who did the research for you ? we Grand Litwins (Belarusian) did it 2 times , the Mongols did MANY TIMES....
"The US became the world's first superpower?" What about the British Empire? (Which included the East coast of North America.)
Yeah, I was confused by that.
The British Empire was definitely a global superpower. Which at it's height contained a quarter of the world's land and people.
And before that the Chinese empire before it shut it self off and fell behind
The first superpower that is still here in the modern day
@@sofiaakhter4958 I guess that make sense
Dude, ever heard of roman and iranian empires, those two were also considered superpower
I’m glad you guys explained this in a more thorough geographical perspective. I feel like our story on Russia lacked this context because we focused too much on history; do you mind if we link this video in our coverage on Russia?
Hello, thank you for watching! We don't mind you linking the video.
Welp, I guess you know you went wrong when you focused on history. You should study the history of when Russia was called "Mongolia" because it was owned by Mongolia.
They keep on saying Russia is an authoritarian regime whilsts they rarely say the same about Saudi Arabia, as a matter of fact America isn't even a democratic state that it claims to be...
They conveniently forget about saudi arabia
I don't know who you claim is "they", but from you to me, there ain't a lot of people you'll find claiming that Saudi Arabia is a democracy. You'll also not find a lot of countries really scared nor threatened by Saoudi Arabia (at least on your media threads).
As for the US, yeah, no, sorry, the US are a democracy. With all the consequences in can have. Like politicians following racist mob behaviors when the population is out for muslim blood in the early 2000.
This is the channel I am most excited about, you're doing great work! Really looking forward to seeing what you have in store.
Thank you very much! We won't disappoint!
In this video's geographic determinism, it is strange how it forgot to mention that the one time Russi was conquered the invasion came from Mongolia and China. Putin is at war with democracy, Putin is vulnerable to democratic ideals.
Lol okay 😂
Brilliant production and storytelling. Just one point of criticism, where are your references? This video is amazing but it seems to be clearly referencing an entire chapter of Tim Marshall's ''Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics''. I think that doing this, providing source information, would encourage people to dig deeper into these interesting stories and demonstrate acknowledgement of those who intitally brought these ideas into the public sphere so others could be able to make fantastic youtube mini documentaries. Keep up the good work, you definitely have a new subscriber.
Hey Raoul, Thanks for pointing this out, you are absolutely right. Sources are an extremely important part of our research and scripting process and in our recent videos we have started to include sources and additional reading in the TH-cam description. This is something we will continue to do and we will also through our back catalogue and included the relevant sources. I've just done it for this video and you can expect to see them pop up for all the others soon.
P.S stoked you enjoyed the video enough to subscribe were glad you could be here, see you in a future video!
- Andy
3:46 a huge error , who did the research for you ? we Grand Litwins (Belarusian) did it 2 times , the Mongols did
Fantastic video and like last week’s episode, I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. 🤓
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
230 kilometers is not 43 miles, dude, it is 143 miles.
The fact this is your third video is just insane. Your doing such a good job, keep it up :)
Thank you so much 😊
Well done! Such a great explainer!
Thank you!
Don't let the Muscovite trolls get to you, the fact they are going for you means your spot on.... good work.
Some good points in this video and you’re quite right that the invasion and everything Putin has done since will see him go down in history as the leader that hastened the disintegration of the Russian Federation. But I would push back on the the notion Russia is at risk of invasion on the logic that it has a geographical weakness that countries to its west could exploit. Yes, it SOUNDS reasonable when you look at history, but only until you remember that all those prior invasions occurred before the invention of nuclear weapons. Rather, his hostility and militarism has been driven by the political-cultural risk of the potential a state like Ukraine - with ethnic Russians in it - could become democratic, more economically integrated with the West and thus more prosperous, could lead to a growth in threats from WITHIN Russia. Putin knows he can nuke outsiders, but he can’t nuke his own cities and people
Excellent content. Excited to watch your channel grow. Keep this up and you will be Johnny Harris big.
I appreciate that! Thank you for watching
One thing I'd like to ask here is the red map of Russia shown throughout the video. Why does it cut of the farthest reaches of Russia's territory that borders Alaska from the rest of its territory? Was it an editing mistake or something else?
Correction: Sevastopol has been Russian port since 18 (!!!) century...
Alexander Suvorov (famous Russian general) ordered that earthworks be erected along the harbor and Russian troops be placed there. In February 1784, Russian empress Catherine the Great ordered to build a fortress there and call it Sevastopol. It became an important naval base and later a commercial seaport.
Yes. Seems to me there should be more explicit emphasis that US support for Ukraine is a national security issue, not a “foreign aid” issue.
The Ruble is one of the strongest performing currencies of the year.
What about Murmansk? Does it freeze
It doesn't, that's why it's 4th largest Russian port, and HQ of Northern fleet. IIRC it's winter water temperature on average is warmer then Stockholm because of Gulfstream
1:35 you shouldn't forget the past if you don't want to repeat it. Russia isn't scared of it's enemies. My motherland has a nuclear weapon.
Why do you put Crimea on the map as belonging to Russia?
Editing mistake, we do not support Russia's invasion of Ukraine or the annexation of Crimea
@@Faultlinevideos In that case, why is Crimea still marked as part of Russia in your latest video on Ukraine?
Yeah man, your map of post-1991 Russia includes Crimea, which is an internationally recognized Ukrainian land annexed by Russia in 2014. Also, Ukraine proclaimed independence in 1991 and has been a democracy since then. It has not been "trying to break away from the Soviet regime since 1992". This is just very poor wording.
The thing is, Russia still is and has always been an empire. It grabbed land and colonized ethnicities for centuries. This geography-based take fails to acknowledge this key detail.
I can see your influences in your production (JH). Your content looks great, and is insightful. Easy follow.
Thank you!
maybe napoleon and hitler failed, but poles managed to conquer moscow 3:40
1:16 am i wrong or the two maps arent from the same map style? or is it the distortion the mercator causes? i feel like the dimensions are wrong
Great Video as usual!
But I think you missed a few things.
If a country isn't rich in natural ressources, it doesn't mean it has to be poor. Just have a look at countries like Denmark, Belgium, Singapore, South Korea and so on. These countries don't have that much to offer in terms of ressources but they're quite wealthy. The opposite is much more common. It's called the ressource curse. Venezuela has one of the largest reserves of oil but it's a failed state. Why is that? Venezuela discovered oil before it created stable and accountable institutions. This lead to massive corruption and mismanagement in the government and the economy, becoming fully dependent on the price of oil. Doesn't sound so healthy, doesn't it?
Not having access to the sea isn't necessarily the end of the world either. There are a lot of landlocked countries that are wealthy, Europe is another great example of it. But yes, your point about good political relationships is the core of Russia's problem when it comes to its access to the sea. But once again, this may prevent Russia from becoming as powerful as the US but it could still accumulate wealth thus have its own sphere of influence.
What all of this comes down to is the power structure of Russia. It is a heavily centralized and authoritarian country with little to no political accountability. Its institutions are insanely corrupt which basically kills any notable innovation. The state is absolute and all powerful which creates little insentives to diversify and grow their economy. Their dependence on natural ressources worsens this problem since vast parts of Russia's economy are either directly state controlled or in the hands of Putin's inner circle. This may keep Putin in power but it greatly limits his ability to create a powerful economy thus a global superpower.
Modern day Russia is an example of a country that could have been wealthy and stable. But a legacy of authoritarianism and lack of any accountability stunted its potential which leads to its demographic crisis. Unlike the Europeans, Russia isn't nearly wealthy enough to deal with that so Putin may deem a war against Ukraine as a ligit means to soften the fall. Unfortanately for Russia and Ukraine, Ukraine's demographics aren't that great either. It was a struggling nation with a massive brain drain and political instability well before the war, which is won't help Russia in the long term.
From Putin's perspective the security concerns are real and he views the current geopolitical enviroment as an existential crisis. NATO expanded because the newly independent post Sowiet republics quickly understood that their independence wasn't granted. Russia was in a weak position and it wouldn't be the first time for Russia to reconquer these states. NATO is eastern Europe's life insurance.
Finally the Russian state has only one to blame which is herself.
They have good ports
Fascinating stuff guys. Keep it up. Subbed!
Welcome aboard!
Video is cool, but you‘ve got a wrong map - Crimea is a part of Ukraine, not a part of russia
at 3:44 you said no one suceeded in succesfuly invading russia however the polish lithuanian common wealth invaded and controlled moscow from 1610-1612
Why did you make a map of the territory of russia with the occupied Crimea in it
So good to see how far Aparna has come!
We are really lucky to have her!
Love your new channel, I've become a subscriber. Just asking though, why do you apparently accept the legitimacy of the Russian conquest of Crimea in your maps?
Thanks for subscribing Stephen. You touch on a really great point here which we see as a concern with digital mapping, that we are activity writing a video on. In short we use a software plug in's to generate our maps and it automatically highlights Crimea as part of Russia. The piece we want to dive into is highlighting disputed areas and territories and why they don't appear on certain maps. This is one example, Palestine is another.
That's not an excuse we are trying to hide behind. Quite frankly when we were editing this video the highlighted section passed us by when we were doing final checks along with a few other issues we addressed in the description. But the point you raise is something I would love to address in ourself in the upcoming video.
@@Faultlinevideos I get the idea that Russia's practical control of Crimea is a fact and that fact needs to be acknowledged in some way. A couple points in favor or some kind of special shading or other marking to show the disputed status of Crimea, though, is partly the way that everyone who falls to do so rewards conquest as a behaviour, which is enormously dangerous for global stability and incrementally weakens Ukraine's bargaining position should they decide to trade acknowledgement of Russian control of Crimea as part of a peace deal. It also fails to acknowledge a significant factual difference between Crimea and settled Russian land. Ukrainian attacks on unambiguously Russian land is highly taboo because of the political problem it creates for Ukraine's benefactors. But it's becoming established that Ukraine can attack Russian assets in Crimea and the political implications are qualitatively different, it doesn't create the same kind of political problem of Western assets being used to attack Russian soil. This is practical evidence that Crimea deserves to be represented in a visually distinct way for reasons other than pure principle.
Because Crimea is Russia...since 17th century
@@PavelAVasilevich it's not legally Russia now. Now, legally, Crimea is Ukraine and Russia's annexation by force and sham referendum is flatly illegal and does not change the internationally recognised status of the territory. If we allow ourselves to go back to the days where flat-out conquest was the norm, the whole world will spiral into violence and chaos - no matter what the supposed basis for the claim, particularly with a territory like Crimes which has changed hands many times.
2:49
Technically it starts in Germany at the Fulda gap but I get what you are trying to say.
... You literally never explained how Russia's size itself was a weakness, only that the terrain is bad. Which is true, but... You can have bad terrain with a small territory as well.
Moscow too close to the border? Poor little doe, it's "only" 1000 kilometers away, I wonder how Poland and Ukraine feel about the position of their own capital.
Also, you didn't mention that their size is the *reason* why they have so much oil and gas reserves. Larger territory = More opportunities to find natural resources.
underrated channel
this is brilliant content! Also what is the music in the first chapter?
Thank you for your support!
And the track is called Back in Singapore by WEI
Your doing a very great job.
Russia: not enough mountains (in right places)
Japan: too many mountains
Facts
500 some subs and this big of a production value on your videos???
How??
Thank you for the support. We have a team of people working on these videos trying to make them as best as possible
@@Faultlinevideos yeah but i mean is this a second channel? Do you have a website?
What i meant was, no one starts out a YT channel with this many poeple from the get go with this level of quality from nothing.
Andy our executive producer has been making youtube docs for a long time now. This channel was a long time in the making. Thank you again for your support. Share the video with friend if you want to help us grow.
Dislike for showing Crimea as part of Russia at 0:57 and then throughout the video
Crimea is Russian since 17th century
@@PavelAVasilevich And your mom is a whore. So what?
Don't worry the future maps of Russia will be a l little bigger with Eastern Ukraine going to Russia after putin liberates it from the zelesnky scum regine
It seems that the poverty of most ordinary people in Russia does not seem to bother these people
They say nothing
1:40 I don't think that's a very good analogy. In the human body, the heart is what pumps out blood to the rest of the body. In Russia, Moscow is more like a leech that sucks away the blood from everywhere else.
Also, nobody is interested in invading Russia. But all of Putin's actions are the sort of thing that would provoke exactly what he's supposedly trying to prevent.
4:48 Ukraine's been wanting to break free from Russian rule for a lot longer than than 1992.
11:22 Putting pressure on Russia's economy is only part of what sanctions are meant to do. The other thing it's meant to do is hinder Russia's ability to produce weapons.
14:06 That presumes there still *is* a Russia in the future. It's very likely that Russia will disintegrate as a nation.
Weird for a person talking about geography to show Crimea as russian territory on the map over and over again, no question ask. Crimea wasn’t « take over » it is occupied.
If the soviet union had succeeded in conquering afghanistan and then pakistan, there could have been free ports in the indian sea.
Additionally, most of its post-soviet neighbours (Moldova, Khazakstan and Ukraine in particular) had most of the USSR´s agricultural land. Ukraine was the bread basket of the Soviet Union. Russia itself has very little arable land in comparison to its total land area. That is why Russia is so dependant on mining, drilling and logging; because its geography isnt useful for any other economic activities.
Its also why Russia has so many minorities btw... most of the "Autonomous Republics" like Dagestan, Sakha and Tuva are based on mountanous, forested or very cold terrain where European-style settlements were very difficult to set up and mantain...
>Russia itself has very little arable
Yes, poor innocent Russia only has 40-97 million hectares of unused(!!!!) arable land ;_; (depending on how you count). Sad. With total arable land estimated at ~220 million hectares, there is no way Russia can feed itself without invading other countries.
Wait... But Russia IS a food exporter. Huh.
US wasn't the first global superpower, Britain was.
Wrong again, the Dutch was one before britain
US is proud of u kid
GDP per capita is also wrong
What about Poland conquered moscow in 1610 and 1612???
But she said size matter 😢
0:30 It's 930 kilometers from Moscow to Poland. There is no point in looking further. If you can't verify such a simple fact.
Very interesting video. However Russia was successfully invaded by The German Empire during The First World War, which took considerable territory from The Russian Empire. This territory was only regained after The German Empire lost The First World War to The British Empire, United States and The French Empire to name but a few.
Also you said Russia was landlocked, which it clearly is not.
What a nonsense
From Moscow to a Polish border is not 230 km 👎
The distance From Moscow to Polish border is about 1000 km 🤦🤦🤦
Russia lacks land to grow crops and is landlocked, *for now*. If the climate keeps warming Russia stands to gain vast tracts of arable land, and a northern sea route might appear.
> lacks land to grow crops
It doesn't. If you are a net food exporter that means that you have more then enough land
>and is landlocked
It's not. Things as "icebreaker" exist. Not to mention an ice free Northern port that existed for a century.
Russia should just move its capital like most other countries around the world are doing. In fact a law was passed to do so in the duma but Putin has been against it.. Russian Czar move the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Most of Russia resources are located in the Asian side. So moving its capital to Novosibirsk the largest city in Asian side of Russia would provide it the space needed from Europe.
great but of believable research by a bright young man, I bet he studied geography
Dont let obf steal this
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As always "Russia is landlocked" narative completely ignores existance of Murmansk. An unfreezing 17m deep (Hamburg also seems to be 17m) port directly to Atlantic ocean? Nah it doesn't exist. And as we all know the depth of port is set and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it
>lets say you invade Russia
And get your country glassed? Unless we assume NATO has this magitech that renders ICBMs moot. But if that's the case Desert Storm would seem like a joke.
P.S. Finland doesn't have unfreezing ports. It does have access to science fiction technology of "ice-breakers" Because the state is competent, and looks inwards to improve intead of creating ever more excuses to wage war like it's 19 century. If Russia had Istambul, it would cry that it has to wage war until it gets Suez. But wait, that sea is blocked from the other side Russia has to have that as well. Let's not forget about Gibraltar straight. It can block poor innocent Russia, so Russia has to wage war with everyone until it's spread as a cancerous tumor from Lisboa to Copenhagen to Djibouti (why stop here?) to satisfy impossible needs of Moscow.
Russia either turns into a proper, inward looking state(s) or it will find excuses to wage war as Moscow (city/region) needs to drain ever more resources to sustain its existence. So the best advice anyone can give, is the same advice that every former empire got (except Hungary, they still didn't get the memo 100 years later) "You lost your empire. Get over it".
Yeah
Why are you legitimising Crimea being part of Russia? It’s internationally recognised as sovereign territory of Ukraine.
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Russia isnt exactly as big as that map shows. The further away from the equator you get, the more stretched a country becomes on a map. Jus sayin...
Well . No.
Russians know that global warming will change their vast expanse into a less hostile environment that climate change refugees will be desirous of and that their sale of gas and oil fuels this inevitability.
Pray for the Ukranians!
Yes, Russia needs to be friendly with it’s neighbours to improve the economy and to avoid unnecessary hostilities
Russia has failed at this
So has China
I absolutely loved this video - I’m amazed at how Russia can be considered “landlocked”. In my opinion, Russian politics are rancid and old fashioned… today the world is moved by money, and here is where “the west” will end up taking the advantage, cause they’re all about money, while Russians are not too friendly right now.
Crimea is Ukraine!😑
Hey. We are you showing in this video Crimea as Russian territory? Russia invaded Ukraine and occupied Crimea in 2014, and no democratic country recognizes this.
Borderline propaganda! I'm a big fan. watched all your videos from newest to this one. If I had started in reverse I would have probably stopped here and unsubscribed. I'll keep watching because I've seen enough to respect your work, you do a great job. I wanted to know if you have changed your understanding of the war? Maybe include the 8 years after 2014. Research best performing currencies of 2022. Could you analyze the data regarding the direct link between the money we send to fund the war and the number of casualties? Stop the $$ stop the dying.
Also russia is biggest exporter of wheat in the world so to say that they háve no arable land is laughtable
4:16 Crimea is part of Ukraine and not russia
It's been a part of russia since 2014? It's been annexed to russia
Size always matters, yes, bigger or smaller, they all have their strength and weaknesses, better is how you use it and what you can make with, the case of large Empires, if you fuck up at logistics, your dead, ROME lasted as long as it did because it was good at that and got with the times, building roads and aqueducts, while Russia is just another barbarian nation thinking its a great and powerful empire, its not,
Crimea is Ukraine! Change your map please.
Great video and highlight the massive issues Russia has with the West and especially (NATO). I studied Russian revolution in School and realised years laters that in the GB and West we haven't truly ended the Cold War and still see Russia as a foe! Putin unfortunately is a by product of the Cold War and wants to re-strengthen Russia and secure its Western borders, which I can understand has been invaded by Napoleon and Hitler in the past. I do feel that NATO is a outdated idea and needs to be de-comminised and a new united European Force created without US involvment as it isn't a European nation! Yes it won't be popular idea but in the long term cruical to avoid further wars! Remember Putin will set-down eventually and a new Russian leader will step up to re-build its country and International standing. Hence both sides need to re-assess this stupid esculation in Ukraine that could lead to WW3! Lets be honest nobody needs another massive conflict in the world to break out!
P.S What was ignored was Russias massive resources of minerals and fresh water, which in the future will be a massive assesst in a World that is drying up in Europe, Africa and Western America!
poo tin won’t be alive much longer so no worries
Are you inspired by Johnny Harris?
Atleast try to animate your propoganda properly.
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If the citizens of Russia keep voting for Putin, you can’t really feel bad for them when they’re suffering in an economic crisis
Beside dropping nonsense on Russia tell us about the US@
Your conclusion to arguments is breath takenly shocking.
For example, you said "Russia is poor and it's evident in its declining population...".
I say that's a crappy conclusion. Nigeria is poor but her population is exploding.
The UK, USA and other Western countries are so called rich but also suffer population decline but are only saved cos of unferthered immigration.
Your analysis is really terrible and has elements of baiase.
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