Russia's Geography Sucks, and Here's How
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Russia is a country that has historically shown huge amounts of both power and influence across the world. However, it has done all of this in spite of its horrible geography. Russia's geography has, for a long time, limited the country's global influence.
Disclaimer: Midway through creating this video, I came across a video from Wendover Productions, posted 6 years ago, that discussed an extremely similar topic. It appears that he also used the same source that I used for some of the points I made in this video, so if some parts of our videos seem similar, that is the reason. I have no intention of plagiarizing anyone else’s work. The source I had in common with Wendover Productions is linked below:
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Man, you probably have a full-time job, or perhaps you’re a student, but I seriously implore you to put more time into growing this channel. You have a talent for this. Your editing is smooth, your narration is clear, and above all else, the content is of top quality. You just need to upload more until you finally make the video that tickles the algorithm in just the right way to put you on the map. Remember, this is not a lottery. It’s a question of when, not if.
this comment is so nice, tysm! but yeah the reason i dont post too many longer videos is just cus they take too much time. i just turned 16 and dont have too much time to manage with school and everything, tryna maintain my 4.0 gpa. currently its just me making these videos, but if i ever hire some other ppl that would definitely speed up the process and make my posting more consistent
@@reedschultzgeo I figured you had something occupying the majority of your time, but I would have never guessed that you are 16. Wow. I don’t think you understand how natural you are at this, because your videos do not reflect how long you have been posting for, or your age, at all. To put it this way, I would say that the only two videos on your channel right now are miles better in terms of production quality and clarity than the oldest videos on channels like RealLifeLore and Wendover Productions. I’m not even exaggerating. Keep striving through your education by all means, but I hope the idea of one day making a career out of this channel is within your hopes. Not only is it possible, but actually inevitable if you get to a position where you can afford to post more consistently. I can already hear you telling me about your new series on Nebula in an outro.
@@reedschultzgeo no wonder you made a video titled Finland joining NATO checkmates Russia it's because Finland being able to join NATO would increase the amount of land on Russia's western most border that can be attacked by NATO if Russia went to war with non-NATO countrys also this would give NATO access to the Sea that Finland has control over to prevent Russia from escape into the Atlantic Ocean if another war then the Russian-Ukrainian war that's going on right now! On a side note because of the countries that you mentioned before you said Ukraine twice also means that the part of Russia that's a peace of old 1940's Germany is always going to be at risk of invasion because of being surrounded by countries that aren't neutral to Russia, and NATO if Russia went to war with a non-NATO country then that part of Russia would be the first part of Russia to get invaded by NATO to get Russia's attention to indirectly tell Russia that eather they have to pull them selfs out of the war, or be invaded by NATO, and become forced to surrender!
@@reedschultzgeo and Russia's economy might be super devastated, or possibly it might as well collapse once electric cars become more common, and/or cheaper than oil powered cars, and they become distributed to most of the world's poorest countries because then oil would become more expensive causing more people who are pretty responsive in terms of decreasing their carbon footprint to buy electric cars making oil powered cars, and oil prices to increase causing more people to prefer chapter electric cars over expensive oil powered cars creating a feedback loop that will cause oil powered cars to become near worthless, and putting the oil car making industry in jeopardy possibly causing the oil powered car industry collapse making Russia smaller if they don't change their resource selling markets to more environmentally friendly methods. 😅😅😅😅😅😅
i love videos like this that deep dive into the strategic value of geography and how it has impacted the world as a whole. it's like how western and eastern europe have very different historical and political backgrounds in large part due to their geographic location, with the baltics being a perfect place to fester wars and infighting and how the USSR collapsed and the aftermath of that. it's really fascinating to me how much geography plays a role in everything
Winter has left the chat
You know winter even destroyed Russia
@envectivity2517 but winter is only russia defence if a war happens
why did he not tell about winter that pushed napoleon and hitler back so easily…
@@parshrajan786you're forgetting the fact that both Napoleon and Germany didn't settle in for the winter. They kept pushing (or in Napoleon's case, retreated after not settling for the winter)
Simply waiting out the winter is an easy way to defeat Russia.
You're also forgetting the germans beat them in the first world war
In Winter is inposibble 😅😂
You have to more of these 10 minute videos! These are amazing 👏
I loved this video and animations so much that im coming back to this video multiple times, this time the editing has gone rlly crazy ❤
Glad you’re still posting! Great vid!
yes
The amount of effort in your videos is nuts, so awesome to see. How the heck did you edit that part at 7:10😂 it’s probably the cleanest edit I’ve ever see.
You should make more of these long vids
“Never attack Russia in the winter”
Awesome video! as always👍
Of course
So glad reed has finally posted a new video
Your actually really great animator and the way u talk is also pretty nice
god damn, th8s was very well put together. even though i have seen videos about same topic and basically knew most of the stuff i still watched all the way through. keep it up
More full length videos pls.
Very helpful information and excellent editing! Keep up the good work!
Very nice video. Very informative. Explained very well..
Great video for our geographical knowledge
Keep doing this kind of videos
Great video fam. I hope to see more long form videos from you. I know it can be time consuming tho, so best wishes going forward.
Thank you for the vid :) very nice video !
love the video and the edits
Thank you, the video is very informative and solidifes my early assumptions
Your good at this
The GOAT finally uploaded another long form video 😮🙏
after 6 months, there is finally another long-term vid!
Excelente vídeo 📷👏🎉❤
Bro your long form videos are insane keep it up
love your animation style, it's so clean
Wow! You really knocked this one out of the park, Reed! reeheehee
This is iterally the most underated channel, LLS who?, but fr good stuff, good editing, anddddd hope you have a good day
No cap this is one of the best pieces of content I’ve seen in a long time 🙌
I love your content. I learn so much
I know these videos have to take forever to do, but this is exactly what I was looking for. Got a new subscription in me. I will be looking forward to the future post!
U are going to go far
Love the vids following u since the korean border vid ur 3rd short i guess❤❤
Yay another video
Please don't get demotivated coz of the views. Just keep posting such long videos regularly and views will increase drastically. The TH-cam algorithm treats channel as inactive if you don't post videos for more than 3 momths. That's why it is not getting recommended to people. But once you get regular then views are gonna increase for sure. ❤
Months*
(Correcting for good)
@@yNaokiX1bro it was a typo
this is excellent! Very informative, nice editing and at the same time, unreasonably entertaining!
Bros a little kid 💀
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@@Astral_Projectionhis picture 💀
Please make more long form videos! I will wstch! If not, thanks for hearing me out!
I cannot emphasize how articulate the story line this video is. It covers everything we need to know about Russia's intention and it's geopolitical stance. It'd be great if you'd have elaborated on Urals Mountains acting as a natural barrier and how Russia is both European and Asian. Amazingly smooth animations, keep up the good work! This is hands down my favourite geography channel.
The Ural Mountains are too low to affect anything right now.
please release more long form videos
Bro can you keep Shorts more videos
Does anyone else have a Crash Course John Green flashback when hearing "the mongols"?
Please upload more videos and shorts 50 more shorts in 2026 and 14 videos in 2026 also
You forgot about winter!
Hi man love ur vids😊 Can u make a video about The Philippines🇵🇭 pls i already subbed and liked all your vids😊
I’ll second this, I’d like to know more about the Philippines’ geography
I'll Third This I want to know more about the Philippines Geography ALOT!
nucler war is comeing then
Hum.... I think you forgot a thing: Russia controls Crimea (with the port of Sebastopol). If Russia can control south-east of Ukraine on the long run (and it seems to be the case) and be friendly with Turkey, Russia will have access to the Mediterranean Sea, so it could trading via that way.
Yep, and I think many countries will want to trade with murderers.
@@vbchanell There's nothing personal about it, it's just business.
Make more videos like this
Hitler and Napoleon see this Video: Let’s goooooo
Bro, that video is fire !!!
Keep going!
Fun Fact: It was Russia who saved The Union during the American Civil War as they sent their Navy to San Francisco and New York when England and France were just about to enter the war on the side of the Confederates since London created the Confederates. France was already in Mexico making a spear head movement to resupply the Confederates and to open up a Pacific Theatre and to create a port in California. England already amassed 11,000 troops and growing stationed at their Northern Confederacies border now called Canada ready to open a Northern Theatre to divert Union troops away from their Southern Confederacy then to attack The Unions naval blockade. The Union would have been completely destroyed and annexed by those two great powers leaving the Confederates to exist as a puppet state of London.
London was already courting (threatening/bribing) other countries to get involved like Spain while Russia was in talks with Prussia to ally with incase London was to intervene.
Seeing all of this Tsar Alexander II wrote a letter to Queen Victoria saying “If you enter in this war it will be a casus belli for all out war with the Russian Empire”. The stage was set for the 1st World War and Russia stopped it.
There is also a memorial in San Francisco for the
hundreds of Russian sailors who came off their Asiatic fleet ships that died while helping the city put out a fire that threatened to lay waste to it during the War.
Интересно, нужно будет почитать про это.
@@Vkusniashka1234 The Russian fleet also threatened to Shell Australian ports along with other British Pacific Colonies if Britain aided the Confederates. A confederate war ship spent a lot of time in Australian waters and was supported by the Australian public, some even signing on as crew members. This Confederate war ship laid waist to the US Pacific whaling fleet and is reported to have fired the last shot in the war. The name of the ship was called the CSS Shenandoah.
Russia also helped Thailand (Kingdom of Siam) maintain its sovereignty from being completely Partitioned/Annexed from the British and French around the same time. The very word Thai (ไทย) means 'free man' in the Thai language which is partially to thank to the Russians as they might have ended up being a colony or part of another country/colony if not for their intervention.
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2:59 Norway has a small border with russia
Yeah and Norway is just one country away from north korea
Why did you only make 2 video's
Try to do tutorial on how to edit like you
You are my 2nd favourite TH-camr and my favourite is also a geography channel. Keep up the Good work man! ❤
Edit: Thank you for the heart!
@XploitZone nope he is third
The freezing climate that you mentioned as weakness point was in fact a major plus in wars, they knew how to handle a war in freezing temperature as they are used to it unlike their enemies.
And the Russians know the cold much better than any of these people who say Russia is “weak”
Winter did not defeat Napoleon. Scorched earth did
@thelegendaryarceus5618they did scorched earth and it was freezing with the nazis if they didn’t they would have lost
They had allies in all those major wars otherwise they would have kept getting penetrated.
Hmm. Don't worry about Russia 😏
I am getting headache even to watch anything. Still I will watch bcoz i realise that intention is make me not to watch. This fact is just enough to give me motivation to watch
Yup I get headache in this process but still I made sure to convey that it's a wrong way and you can't force anyone
6:55 Taiga. Not Tiaga.
If I'm not mistaken, their relationship with Türkiye is actually better than most NATO countries, so it's make it easier for them to actually export anything through the Bosporus actually
Because of Türkiye too Sweden still not able to join NATO
this is misleading.. Turkey is committing a genocide on Armenians & the Russians are forced to do nothing about it despite serious national security concerns (google Pan-Turkism, or if you want a real rabbit hole, Pan-Turanism). yes Russia is on better terms with Turkey than most countries in NATO, but that's a low bar. NATO tried to overthrow Erdogan in 2014.
@@constantstudiesBro forgot to update his game to 2023
That is normal tho!
The concept of European development was based on robbery. Because she could afford it. All coastal countries within the reach of European ships were controlled (to varying degrees, of course) by Europeans. As the capabilities of the Europeans grew, they moved deeper into the continents, and in a number of regions they retain influence to this day.
Russia's closedness from the seas and strong neighbors, which made it impossible to rob, led to the fact that the Russian mentality became friendly, ready to negotiate, tolerant, easily assimilating foreign culture without losing its own, and most importantly - inventive, because it is necessary to make the most of limited resources
That's why Napoleon and Adolf lost the war against Russia.😂😂😂
But the mongols occupied it for 200 years. Grand prince Yuri fallen in 1238 until Ivan III stop paying tribute in 1476.
Europeans are just... not strong enough.
Read some more. You're forgetting all the other countries fighting those wars.
0:58 Napoleon has left the chat
When Reed uploads a full 10 minute video, you know you're about to be enlightened.
If this video doesn't get more than 10M views, I'm gonna be mad.
thats what im saying, his videos deserve to get more views 😭
People normally don’t care about geography, but me🤓
The Entire Arctic Would Need to be Covered by Volanic Ash To Block Out The Sun to Make Fridged Temperatures even Colder and Wolly Mammoths Would Need to Wide Spread from Moscow to Alaska for Food
No hate but why does people always Criticize Russia
That’s just like saying “why do people criticize Hitler?”
Old red scare mentality.
Where is konigsburg?
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Resource curse. Every country rich in natural resources is a mess
00:08 Crimea is apart of Ukraine.
Although i did notice you added it to Ukraine at 00:21. Lets keep it that way lol.
No. Its part of Russia since 2014
@@oscaralegre3683 Just bc they illegally entered Ukraine and said "This is ours", Doesn't actually make it theirs.
It didn't in 2014 and it still doesn't in 2022/23.
@@DennisTheInternationalMenace yes u fool. Literally every country have their own land by invading and conquering. Deal with it
Oh yeah almost every country that border Russia is apart of NATO like: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland
For most of the countries you listed, there is Belarus.
@@Vkusniashka1234 I said “almost” every country
Estonia takes half of Sweden
Bro I am very sorry😢 that I copied your video but I have removed it. I am very sorry for that and I will not infringe any such copyright.
Can you tell me how the Russian empire became the soviet union
Germany
i know you're going to think this is a joke but, its not, Lenin has a lot of good writing on this if you're genuinely curious. i'd recommend his work Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution, but there are lots of others online free to read. this is a very complicated topic that i doubt myself or anyone else could summarize well in a TH-cam comment
on the off chance you're going to ignore this unless i give a shorter reply, the shortest description of this transformation is as follows
tsarism in Russia caused intense contradictions to mount which led to revolts against feudalism, similar to others throughout the world for centuries. what made the Russian revolution unique was the ideology behind it, derived from German revolutionaries Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels. it led Lenin to writing his Thesis on National & Colonial Questions, which transformed Marxism explicitly into a tool of liberation for colonized masses throughout the world. this was the cause behind the name, Soviet Union, as it was a Union of nations previously colonized under 'the Great Russian'. after Lenin died, unfortunately ethnic chauvinism came more & more prominent. namely under Stalin, all government documents were regulated as to be in Russian instead of local dialects, which unsurprisingly created bad karma which came around to lead to reactionary separatist forces in the worst parts of the USSR, in eastern Europe (such as Poland). of course the main reason for the USSR's collapse was all-out imperial assault, but excluding the obvious this is worth note
@archappreciatorofjasonbecker wow did you write all of that or copied and pasted it but still thanks
@@DaDanish708 np at all, & wrote it for you. most people are afraid to talk about, never mind research, Russian history. especially the Soviet part, so i was glad to see someone interested
What will be your next fully legnhed video 0:04
Norway is in Nato too don't forget we have a birder with Russia too
Every body says "dont atack russia in the winter" but I say DO atack russia in the winter, just think about it, Hitler wasn't able to destroy russia before winter and he atacked in summer, if you atack in late winter you have entire year to get moscow and win the war
*Interesting fact:* the tiny country of 🇧🇩Bangladesh has some 30 million MORE people than the World’s Largest Country - even though it is over 118 x times smaller in size than 🇷🇺 #Russia! 😂
How you edit video
Nah bro left out kaliningrad
That people from Eastetn Russia were not mongols but Great Tatrarians. Mongol come from Russian word Mogu, what mean Can, Mighty. In latin that mean Manga- great. So Mongols are not yellow race Chinese, but mix of Slavs, Turks snd hyperbArians. Also moguls- mogols lived in Northern India, were mostly Arians and Turks. But Turks are not yellow race, but white.
Turks are Asian lol. literally only fascistic Turkish people think otherwise. start holding your family and friends accountable for genocide on the Armenians.
hey bro please make a video tutorial
How many invasions had success?!?!
Bro i liked it and it go to 3k
Just as Venezuelans would say
“ oil always solves your problems”
(OK maybe not Venezuelans but you get the point)
It would suck to live there
did SOMEONE SAY OIL???!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
As global warming , those cold sea will get warmer and make russia n easier to travel from all sea ports
funny that they have enough farmland to grow potatoes for vodka...
potatoes infamously grow in extremely inhospitable environments
Trust me, if potatoes can't grow somewhere, you are f*cked if you want to make crops
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Poor set up isn't poor geography. It wasn't Russia but Russia was invaded? Can't watch.
Hi❤
my country is in europe but not in the great european plain
8:13 we know what everyone’s thinking.. PENI-
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서구와 중국의 제국주의를 무력화 시킴 효과
이로서 서구와 중국은 러시아없이 화해 못함
I feel like he’s gonna be a very successful TH-camr. Very underrated
I don't like Russia because it's cold here
Its defenetly better than hot weather. The cold is the best feeling in the world.
It is like -90°C to get frozen
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