Why Russia Is Not Really a Superpower: Geography Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- For Russia, the world’s largest country by landmass, which bestride Europe and Asia and encompasses forests, lakes, rivers, frozen steppes, and mountains, the problems come by land as well as by sea. Here are the top reasons why Russia's geographical weaknesses and why Russia is actually landlocked. The Surprising Reason Why Russia Is Always at War: Geography
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Finland has similar problems but they didn't invade Sweden and Norway to make a "buffer zone"
Did you make the same choices as your dad's?
Sweden and norway did though, naive kid
To be fair, if they were more powerful they most likely would.
Finland has always been a buffer between the Nordic countries and Russia proper due to their proximity and low population in comparison.
Skill issue
1:05 Just fyi, "Steppes" is pronounced "steps" not "steppies" lol. Kind of a cute mistake. Don't mean to offend or anything, as I know English is not everyone's first language. Just wanted to be helpful for future reference.
Edit: Also, just noticed, at 4:48, Vladivostok is too far north. It actually sits just above the "S" in "Sea of Japan" on the screen.
Thanks, but you know, English is such a broad language, every region has its way of saying words. If you are in Belfast, English is their first language but you wouldn't understand a thing they are saying. Thanks for the tip, though, appreciated it, I recorded it after a long day, so please cut me some slack here :)
😂 I lol’d
Interesting but I still fail to see a direct link between geography problems and Russian’s aggression towards its neighbours. If the EU project has shown one thing it is that cooperation pays off big time, why does Russia refuse to learn that lesson?
thats because there was no direct link in the video ... its a geography channel
@@stelamo wasn’t it implied though? Anyways, geography story was good.
The video wasn't particularly about Russia's aggression to its neighbors. It was just geopolitics in general and geography around it.
@@abbofun9022 no not at all , watch his other videos
Geography is intertwined with a nation’s foreign policy.
I loved this video! Very informative, and the graphics are amazing
Glad you enjoyed it!
"We lost nothing."
"Also, I declare mobilisation."
-Vladolf Pootler
Always a treat when your videos come out, thank you.
Well Russia began stagnated during the Age of discovery and pretty much didnt participated in it, despite having a desirable geography during the spice trade , whcih could have been used to strengthen their Navy which is basically non-existent during the time.which couldve been used to colonize the Americas and Africa Continent like the super power at the time like England,Portugal,Spain,France and Netherlands.
only in the 17th century when they started to step up during Peter the Great , but then again stymed after the Napoleonic Wars , because in every direction theres a strong enemies or serious consequences if they started invading for warm waters or resources, they gambled and lost(the crimean war)
during the Industrial revolution Russia started to step up again and their economy improved , because it cant handle too much problem externally and internally, most likely due to corruption and lack of competent leaders it didnt survived revolutions which ended the Tsardom
I mean even in world war 2 the USSR is screwed without the americans provisions and The Harsh winter of USSR wouldve lost to Nazi Germany
after world war and discovery of more oil reserves in USSR territory. whcioh made them rich and why they can compete with USA in many many aspects
Finally, someone who can see that europe is a peninsula.. not a continent.
Russia is a snowing dust
“Steppies”
Europe isn't a real continent, it's a subcontinent like India. Actually, India and Europe are very similar peninsulas
It's pronounced like STEP not STEPPY
Frozen steppies lol
Very nice 👍😁
couldn't russia ust ice breakers in the far east?
no
@@hybridarmyoffreeworld Why not?
@@ChickenVeggi because this dude is anti russian
yes but it´s expensive
Costs too much
You could make a video "How land-locked surrounded-by-everyone geography doomed Switzerland to be poor, drunk and aggressive". Oh wait.
We all know that if swiss (or whoever civilized) got russian territory to govern, they would be a richest country in the world in 50 years.
Fun Fact: Women allowed to vote in Switzerland from 1971.
@@CuriousReason that's full 3 years before women in USA could have a credit card without husband's approval. Not great, slightly terrible.
Such a dumb comment.
@@miroslavhoudek7085 and 60 years before women could vote in switerland, naive kid
you have no idea, but countries have ambitions. even the US wants a lot of power and it has it
Your mind is trapped 🤣
Damn this is not enough
But Russia and China are connected each other why not using a train
And Russia has north south transport corridor which connects Mumbai from India to Saint Petersburg in Russia via all facilities and go all the way from iran ajerbaizan
Russia can use this but For more Russia can connect China and enter South China sea in case of war in case of trade
Russian fear China at the genetic and ancestral level.
If Russia was a superpower then those countries would be too scared to try blockading it though.
If it's during the war they have nothing to loose
Send Ukrainians everything they need to reclaim BEFORE -2014 borders. Slava Ukraine ! with Love From Sweden!
ебаное хохлячье умалишенное отродье, сосете вы по самые гланды, мрази брехливые, собаки опущенные. Только пиздеть и можете, а на деле нихуя
Ucryine 😂😂
@@ghgggx "Благодаря невероятно успешной внешней политике путина у нас всегда будут полные холодильники! " - заявил директор Ростовского морга ...
@@hybridarmyoffreeworld Были, будут и всегда будет в России
hey! I said it before that Europe is just a peninsula of Asia :) people laughed at me.
I'm also reclassify the Mediterranean as a fiord.
"Just" a peninsula? First of all, Europe in not a peninsula, second, Europe and Asia are both part of a mega continent, so no, Europe wouldn't be an asian peninsula, you could as well say Asia is just a continuation of Europe, and that would also be wrong. Second, the Mediterranean is not a fjord, do you even know what a fjord is and what the Mediterranean is? Why so many people that lack basic knowledge talk as if they know anything on the internet is astounding.
@@TheMountainBeyondTheWoods oh!, come on... you missed the smiley face - it's a joke... and I thought calling the Mediterranean a fjord would give it away...sorry for the misunderstanding...
@@TheMountainBeyondTheWoods dude relax
@@manifif damn, you're so smart
@@TheMountainBeyondTheWoods i bet ur funny at parties
It's ridiculous to say that Russia is "landlocked".
"geopolitically"
@@CuriousReason Still, Russia has a fleet of icebreakers, so our northern ports are as good as ports in the Black Sea.
@@alexsilent5603 Yes but northern ports are not as viable as the ports in the Black sea. I am going to release a video about Russian nuclear ice breakers, don't miss out! I don't have anything hateful towards the Russian people since we used to be one country with you guys 30 years ago. Although, I wholeheartedly hate the Imperial Russia, КПСС and Сталин/Берия.
@@CuriousReason As we say in Russia: "Антисоветчик - всегда русофоб" ("Antisoviet is always a russophobe"). So don't lie to me and to your racist self. Just accept that you hate all Russians, and your life will become much easier.
@alex silent П*здец, вы там совсем деградировали до такого уровня?! Ну и мания величия у вас и это мы расисты!? Just because you hate the commies and Soviets doesn't mean you hate Russians, even though we have more than enough reason to hate Imperial and Soviet Russia because Russians invaded our country and genocided its people, and massacred its intelligentsia. Even after that, we don't hate all Russians but we have to love you and kiss your ass? is that what you are asking? It's you, over in Russia have racist slurs to every nation: you call Ukrainians - khokhol, Caucasians - Khacha and us, Central Asians - Churka and we are the racist ones? We don't have any racial slurs towards Russians or anybody. It's in you. Just go to any big Russian city and there are "STRONGLY SLAVIC, ONLY FOR SLAVIC PEOPLE" on apartment rent ads. It's so ironic calling us racists but racism towards others is completely normal among Russians.
Let's all appreciate how he doesn't highlight Crimea when talking about Russia.
Crimea will always be russian now naive kid
Bro you show wrong Indian map
O it realy suks thats why Napoleon and Hitler ddin succed to qonqer Russia
Moscow horde´s war record :-
1856 defeated by Britain and France
1905 defeated by Japan
1917 defeated by Germany
1920 defeated by Poland, Finland, Estonia and all Baltic states
1939 defeated by Finland
1969 defeated by China
1989 defeated by Afghanistan
1989 defeated in the Cold War.
1996 defeated by Chechnya
2022 defeated by Ukraine
WW2 won USA/Britain , meanwhile Stalin's officers were shot or sent to the Gulags. Millions went to the Gulags, including Solzhenitsyn
Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :-
a) Hungary 1956
b) Czechoslovakia 1968
c) Moldova 1992
d) Georgia 2008 ...
1) Russia was defeated by Japan , but later got all of its lost territories+ Kuril islands in 1945. Now Japanese officials cry as kids about their lost islands.
2) Defeated by Germany not beacuse of weakness compared to german side, but because of civil war! And after WW2 Russia got all of its lost lands ,plus Kaliningrad and East Germany.
3) They defeated Russia 1920 when it was weak , but later all became part of it😁
4) Invasion of all of Finland didnt work. But Russia still annexed around 30 % of Finland
5) Totally fake and misinformation . China lost to USSR in 1969
6) Russia left Afganistan due to financial crisis inside the country.
7) Yes, but chechnya today is part of Russia
8) Who told you that? How Ukraine could defeat them , when 30 % of their is under russian invasion?
USA and British colonial empire( not UK alone) played important role in victory with economical factors, but you disrespect millions of soviet soldiers who sacrificed their lives in war! Germans were already going to destroy whole Europe and invade the whole world ( look what happened to "glorious " France) in 1941, they were de facto stopped by Soviet Union after battle of Stalingrad !
Russia would never become biggest country in world, if they'd defeat only weak ones.
Note. I'm not fan of Russia, but love facts.
USSR killed 80% Nazis bruh
@@ghgggx Mой сын кажа - мaскавіцкая мова ўвогуле не патрэбна будзе ў жыццi. Калi знiкне лукавы пра - маскоўскі тыран, у Беларусi (ВКЛ) будзе беларуская мова, а калi прыйдзецца жыць за мяжой, то будзе патрэбна мова той зaмежнай краiны. А для паразумення з iншаземнымi сябрамi, патрэбна ангельская, польская цi ўкраінская.
«…Браты мае, мужыкі родныя. З-пад шыбеніцы маскоўскай прыходзіць мне да вас пісаці, і, можа, раз астатні. Горка пакінуць зямельку родную і цябе, дарагі мой народзе. Грудзі застогнуць, забаліць сэрца, - но не жаль згінуць за тваю праўду… Няма ш, браткі, большага шчасця на гэтым свеце, як калі чалавек у галаве мае розум і науку… Но як дзень з ноччу не ходзіць разам, так не ідзе разам наука праўдзіва з няволяй маскоўскай. Дапокуль яна ў нас будзе, у нас нічога не будзе, не будзе праўды, багацтва і ніякай наукі, - адно намі, як скацінай, варочаць будуць не для дабра, но на пагібель нашу… Бо я табе з-пад шыбеніцы кажу, Народзе, што тагды толькі зажывеш шчасліва, калі над табою Маскаля ўжэ не будзе.
Твой слуга
Яська-гаспадар з-пад Вільні»
@@hybridarmyoffreeworld У моего друга из Донбасса умерла мама от укроінцев. Мой друг мстил за смерть матери и я в этом ему помогу и вы поплатитесь за 8 летней смерти детей, матерей и пожилых. Вы не представляете, за что вам придется расплатится. Богом клянусь, украинцы от этого станут адекватнее.
И СЛАВА РОССИИ!
@@ehtiramaliyev3483 Thanks for the true information not this western propaganda about Russia
Malaysia is super power by geography
Also usa to
The title world power isn't valuable to it partners, for us we benefit from it's favorite policies towards us, freedom help & cooperation not coasion
Hello
Hey
@@CuriousReason yo
Correct it
“St. Petersborg” “penunsula”.
no
Yes
"We lost nothing."
"Also, I declare mobilisation."
-Vladolf Pootler
@@hybridarmyoffreeworld You should join with them😂
PMSL!! NOT A SPERPOWER! OMG ... you are so wrong! Largest Nuclear Deterrent on the planet. it is the only thing that matters!!!
And now Sweden and finland Haven't learn from Ukraine
Rest in piece to them
A wise learn from others mistakes and fools wait to make mistakes before learning
What do they have to learn? Don't join NATO so that Russia could invade you without hesitation?? Reasoning that you might want to join NATO one day... That's some reasoning comrade.
Moscow horde´s war record :-
1856 defeated by Britain and France
1905 defeated by Japan
1917 defeated by Germany
1920 defeated by Poland, Finland, Estonia and all Baltic states
1939 defeated by Finland
1969 defeated by China
1989 defeated by Afghanistan
1989 defeated in the Cold War.
1996 defeated by Chechnya
2022 defeated by Ukraine
WW2 won USA/Britain , meanwhile Stalin's officers were shot or sent to the Gulags. Millions went to the Gulags, including Solzhenitsyn
Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :-
a) Hungary 1956
b) Czechoslovakia 1968
c) Moldova 1992
d) Georgia 2008 ...
You do understand that Sweden and Finland will be at least twice as hard to invade because of how INSANELY forested they are, as well as how well trained their armies are, how extremely advanced their tech is (ESPECIALLY Sweden, it has one of the stealthiest submarines in the world), and how good their infrastructure is?
Russia 🤮🤮🤮
Cringe
@@ghgggxyeah Russia is cringe