Why the Mediterranean Sea is so damn Important
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
- The Mediterranean is one of the world’s most strategic seas, as important as the South China Sea. This region is now seeing a Geopolitics resurgence in conflicts and tension over its waters. The shift of America’s foreign policy to the Indo-Pacific and China; the increasing tension between Greece and Turkey; the expansion of the Dubai and Ankara strategy over the Middle East and North Africa; and the increasing interests of Russia and China in the region are all determining factors in the degradation of the Mediterranean security environment.
The conflict in Libya is an example of the Mediterranean strategic relevance. In this video we will analyze the main actors and resons behing this major conflict.
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Table of content:
00:00 Mediterrenean Geopolitics Importance
01:03 Intro
01:36 1. Gas and Oil fields
02:39 2. Trade
03:47 Strategic Weaknesses
04:38 3. Chokepoints
06:59 US's presence in the Mediterranean
07:52 Russia's presence in the Mediterranean
08:16 China's presence in the Mediterranean
08:54 Libya's Importance
10:09 1. Energy
12:57 2. Libya's Strategic Geography
14:50 3. Immigration Flows
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Music: Premiumbeats
Warrios, Spacetime, The Usual Suspect and Full Elysion.
Inspiration: Drive (2011) and Stranger Things
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Really like your style overall - very distinct and memorable. Metaphors and real stats are extremely well balanced, visuals of maps and neon lines are absolutely stunning yet minimalist, and your narration is top notch! And I feel like this is something that should be common practice, but I really appreciate that you put your sources in the description. This channel is gonna go far :)
Thank you so much Jürgen! I reallly appreciate that🙇♂️
I think that’s the bare minimum to provide a source to what it’s being stated in the video. Without, these would be just cool looking visuals. I agree with you, this should be the normality for this kind of political analysis videos!
@@Kamome163 hope you keep at it love you takes
@@Kamome163 Great channel and videos. I would say the background music was too loud. I would say lower it or even better to get rid of it entirely. I firmly believe background music is unnecessary, distracting, and annoying and I strongly believe people want to hear you speak/get information and not hear generic background music.
Great video! Just wanna point out that you said Ghaddafi was killed in 2021, I think you meant 2011
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Saying that the UK controls the straight of Gibraltar is BS, I mean... most of it is in hands of Spain and Morocco, the fact that it is called "Strait of Gibraltar" well, doesnt make Gibraltar the most important location in the strait.
Probably it's more misleading than bullshit - the UK definitely controls the strait, nothing can through without the UK's permission, but Spain and Morocco also control it. Each nation has its own right of veto, essentially. Maybe it's not mentioned because people often forget that the UK has a stake in the Mediterranean, whereas they're pretty solid on Spain and Morocco being there?
The straights are jointly patrolled and managed by the UK, Spain and Morocco.
@@roman648 the waters belonging to gibraltar are super tiny. british boats are frequently expulsed by the spanish navy
Great video! I do have to point out you made some mistakes and ambiguous statements in the "Libya's Importance" chapter. Started with Gaddafis ousting in 2021, which was actually in 2011. Government of National Accord was renamed to Government of National Unity over a year ago. There are many groups currently active in the Libyan crisis (maybe you tried to point that out with "clusters focused around.."?), which brings me to the most ambiguous part. "Energy is perhaps the most.." which you continue with "Libya alone holds 3% of the worlds and 39% of the Africa's reserves.". You seem to refer to energy, but later refer the percentage to "these" natural resources. Perhaps you could have generalized with "energy rich resources" or pointed out which resources and in which areas. The latter would build foundation and disperse some of the ambiguity. It would also create a "foreshadow" for the "Toyota war". Overall I enjoyed the video, just found it kinda hard to follow in the above mentioned parts. Keep up the good work!
Another small inaccuracy, Israel doesn't host any US military bases, and to my recollection never has. The US Navy does occasionally dock at Israeli ports and there are often joint exercises but they don't actually have a base or presence like they do in many other places.
Great production! I was looking forward to this a lot since I’m Libyan. It would be interesting to see how things develop now given that the Libyan civil war has been effectively over for two years. Most of the issues now have to do with election delays and rules, so it’s pretty much legal squabbling and internal politics. I think the main international spoilers are now Russia (for obvious reasons) and Turkey (to prevent Russia from taking over).
Always great to hear, the international perspective especially from the native inhabitants of those who are going through it.
Truly heartbreaking what going on in your country, bring a proxy for all these global powers and their interest, restricting your progress as a nation, whilst confining the problems they've started.
Wishing you all the best from 🇺🇲 to 🇱🇾
Alan! Thank you so much for your comment! I’m sure we’ll be able to add more stuff in future videos 🙌 Hope you liked my take on the international dynamics that see Libya at their center.
BTW I saw you email and I’ll get back to you asap 👍
@@selleneus this is such a great message and i think it’s beautiful to see this kind of discourse developing on CZcams. Having the chance to talk with locals is worth more than any academic article or book.
BTW I saw your reply and I’ll get back to you ASAP! I’ve been super busy with the publishing and I can now focus on the next topics!🙌🙌🙌
@@selleneus Thanks for your kind comment. It’s made more heartbreaking when considering that outside powers made us victims as a consequence of our democratic choices. Some absolute monarchies in the Gulf (including Islamist Turkey) would rather set Libya on fire than have it become a liberal democracy, as it had overwhelmingly voted for in 2012. Many people blame the US for the turmoil in Libya; that’s reductive and dangerous thinking. The sole culprits are the mid-level powers shown in this video, I blame them. And I put a pin on the West for not giving us .1% of the support they gave for Ukraine, for essentially very similar conditions like preserving national sovereignty and shared values - that we proved we believed in at the ballot box.
@@A.Severan Alan, I agree with you, but it’s also important to highlight that the west has deep responsibilities in the current situation. Western countries (France and UK in primis) started the military operation again Gheddafi, destroying part of the country infrastructures and ruling class in the process. They left a huge power vacuum and that was understandable that they were leaving Libya open for grab to the mid-regional powers like the UAE and Turkey.
As you mentioned, something similar to what is going on in Ukraine could help address Libya’s instability. It’s crazy to me that the UN didn’t even tried to establish a real PKO in the country.
The map usage of showing us routes, zoom ins and outs of land areas, and highlights is really MDMAzing and informative, thanks Kamome!
ありがとう、ニッキ！
That thumbnail is a banger goddamn
Agreed 100%
Another excellent video! I loved the visuals used in this iteration. The blurring at the start, the line animations used to animate the major shipping routes, and the clean borders on individual countries (plus with different colors to represent different alignments) were all fantastic! Aside from the couple errors that Luka Ratej pointed out in their comment about the “Libya’s Importance” section, the video’s nearly perfect!
Another brilliant episode, thank you for continually releasing quality content 🙏🏻
Excellent work as usual. It's good to see some of the machinations in this part of the world since our focus has been so heavily on the Indo-Pacific.
Thanks bobby! Yeah I must say it was quite a refreshing topic to cover. Lots of interesting dynamics in this part of the world. I think we’ll cover more of Northern Africa and the Middle East in the future🙌 This is such an interesting region
Some high quality content, looking forward to binging your other videos!
I like how "anti-terrorism" essentially means "defending my billions of dirty dollars".
Please explain
No @@michaelboano7183
Love the quality of these videos, commenting to hopefully help boost your channel to more people
Loved it! great video! You hit so many good talking points taking place all over the Mediterranean!
What an amazing production, I really liked your vid and the topics you talk about are mostly accurate. One thing I would like to mention is in regards to the last point about using migrants. The 'massive cash inflows' are massively overstated. The given example of Turkey in 2015 is that of 6 Billion Dollars(Euros? can't recall which) of which 3 Billion was actually paid out iirc. Meanwhile the cost of that deal to Turkey has exceeded 50 Billion Dollars according to a pre-covid statement, I can't recall the exact year, might be 2018, but the number of migrants was also way lower at the time than it is now(Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia are still burning after all and we all still remember Afghanistan). Not to discount the leverage these migrants give to the host nations, but the compensation for these deals are peanuts compared to the associated costs. So I think that point is overstated and overblown in media.
Khan! Thank you for your feedback. I see, that's a good point! Apart from the exact number, my point there is that those migration flows have been used as a diplomatic bargaining chip in the past and are therefore important in the context of EU foreign relations. But I agree with you, that kind of money is not nearly enoguh to face a full-blown migrant crisis.
EU payed only 1,5 million Euro's instead of 6mil€. so Eu didn't kept his promise.
Another great video and interesting topic!
Excellent quality sir! Surprised this channel hasnt more subscribers.
The Mediterranean waters are among the most military-loaded in the World. Its position connecting the oil-rich Persian Gulf with big energy consumers, the fact that it is home to the three monotheistic religions, and the recent discovery of hydrocarbon reserves in the Oriental basin, make it so.
On point!
I have been here since your first two videos bro your video quality had come such a long way ❤️❤️
I really appreciate it man! But I still have a looot to learn and improve but we're heading there! Keep these comment coming, they pumped me up to improve even more!🙌
holy shit these videos are so good, the maps/animations are always S tier. Your visuals make you stand apart.
Beautiful video, The research done for this video is unbelievably on point.. cheers to u mate from Libya 🇱🇾
(and a new subscriber 😁)
Hey Kanome, my comment for some reason must've gotten removed.
I wanted to say, a fantastic video as always. This truly covered all the grappling topics regarding the middle east and North Africa.
Great video, as always you have my support.
- Kind Regards to you
Great video, nice presentation! Keep up the good work!
Very interesting and well presented!
Best animations Ive seen from all educational channels. Like I seriously think you should sell your skills to other channels because you artwork deserves to be seen by more people.
Fantastic production! I was pulled in the entire time. Definitely learned a thing or three!
Wow this is one of the best comment i could ever read! 🙇♂️
Very good work! Congrats! Also really informative and cool view of our earth and our movements around and about. Finally I wanna say, that turning the earth around and showing it upside down and from different angles helps a lot to release biased perceptions and understand the importance behind the fact that we have to find ways to be better together...
Fantastic work on multiple levels!
Great content as always Kamome! Are you doing all the animations in After Effects?
very nicely done. thanks!
Great clarity and quality
so glad we found your channel recently. we're now subscribed. 👍
Great video, focusing on events and interests rather than pointlessly arguing about who is right or wrong.
Glad you liked it!! I though it would've been way more useful for me and the viewers to understand the actors primary interest in the region rather than focusing on more political considerations
Man, I hadn't seen your videos for a while, they were always very informative, but I always thought the visuals were kind of boring. But boy oh boy how that changed. The animations, the rhythm, the voice tone, the globe movement, the dynamicity of it all, it really kept my eyes glued on the screen. Incredible work.
I wonder if there's a way to implement imagery better without disrupting this globe rotation magic? Maybe *streetview style zoom in* _relevant video_ *zoom out*
Eric glad to see you back here!! Thank you so much!!!
Ohhh that's interesting, you mean as showing down to the buildings level? That could be interesting!
@@Kamome163 no more like, if there's a particular video of an event you see as relevant, the transition to the video could be a zoom in into the location on the globe. but idk just a random idea, keep it up!
Thanks. Interesting presentation format. Very clear, perhaps a bit slow. But great quality
Really amazing love your explanation
This sea is literally the cradle of humanity. Almost every civilization started either bordering it or nearing it
Once again, great stuff.
Very visually splendid video as always Kamome! Side note, you misspelt "Bahrain" as Bahrein.
Amazingly well made video
Really good video 👍
So uh, how long did all this take to render and what program/plugIn are you using for the world-map/globe?
I mean the whole video is so well-made, it honestly looks better than what TV does.
Good stuff. Keep it up.
Informative and interesting.
Another great video!
Wow, Thank you so much Cameron!
This channel will explode in the coming months or weeks, I swear you'll be having a lot of subscribers soon. Awesome production
Thank you so much Turceno🙇♂️! I really appreciate that, I'm already super grateful of having amazing subscribers like you!
@@Kamome163 I learned a lot from your videos bro, really helpful. Keep it up we're here to always be supporting you.
Really good video! You sure need more subs.
Thank you so much Novobranec!🙇♂️🙌
Very good video. Thanks
Thank you so much Theodoro!
Incredible quality
Wow great video
Great graphics , I love it . You should partner with Caspian Report and Good Times Bad Times.
Only now they're realizing removing Gadaffi maybe wasn't such a great idea
I agree, that's the West fault. They are the ones (esp. UK and France) who started this all, whitout taking responsability for the after Ghadaffi😖
@@Kamome163 we're suffering the consequences of a generation of extremely incompetent heads of state and their short sighted, selfish moves.
5:15 for six days *
It was supposed yo be weeks, but we floated it and resumed operations within six days.
The video ended very abruptly but otherwise, amazing work. Thank you
Thanks a lot
This video is so nuts
Hope that’s a good thing🥹
@@Kamome163 a great thing
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The Mediterranean is so beautiful, so rich, so life-friendly, such a shame it’s filled with so many dead people and political matters. What a disgrace to our sea.
I watched two times...perfect
excellent video. I would like if you touched more on Club Med. if it's still even alive that is lol
I'm in the Philippines and familiar with the situation in the South China Sea, so it's interesting to see how important the Mediterranean and also Libya are to the current geopolitical situation.
Good video
Splendid Insights. The Caspian alternative becomes more interesting: From the Baltic to Iran & from there following the Monsoon to India NW, & Africa SE, by passing the Mediterranean “Choke Points”.
Exactly! The Mediterranean is perhaps the world's greatest crossroad!
Holy shit I had to comment and say just how good the visuals are
Thank you so much!!!🙇♂️
The visual of the video are beautiful for the didactic!
Thank you so much Luis!🥹🥹🥹
@@Kamome163 Thank you for the content!
@@LuisRomeroLopez Thank you too for the feedback😉
Great video from Libya, and I hope the world knows it’s enough for us all, and enough to feed everyone greediness is a big problem
Love your style of Explaining with the sources and giving the grand narrative. Anyway to donate via crypto?
Thank you so much Mani! I really appreciate your feedback! Hope that these videos can be useful in understanding what’s going on in our world! Sorry but I only have Patreon for now, and I wouldn’t even know where to start with crypto. I really appreciate the thought though! 🙌
Any recommended app/service/article to get the hang of receiving crypto donations?
@@Kamome163 There are some other services where you can accept crypto and it directly get deposited into Fiat in your Bank Account. I will get back and tell you those Options too. Not crossing anything in mind at this moment.
Update: the most if oil and natural gas, seems to be into greek eez, mostly west and south of crete island.
I’m not sure if this is something that you would be willing to do but “what if the Mississippi River was cargo ship navigable” how would this change the US, possible impacts of its implementation, and what it would take to do so.
The upside down view of the globe is so satisfying
it is much, much less clear to display a number as an animation counting up to the number, than to display simply the number itself.
Oh I see, so Tom do you think a simple number would work better?
I would also add that after the Turkish Libyan deal, Greece signed a similar deal with Egypt.
Can you do a video on a hypothetical defense of Taiwan? Could be interesting to discuss some of the strategy and the role of geography in it.
That sounds interesting! But aren't there other videos like that?
@@Kamome163 Really? Maybe I haven't come across them yet. Either way, thank you for the uploads.
@@monkeeseemonkeedoo3745 czcams.com/video/CRvRzzCmzX0/video.html I think Binkov covered mostly covered it. What do you think?
Nothing is ever simple
Man this is better than listening to Real Life Lore's insane prolonged inflection lmao.
Oh my god I followed the Libyan Civil War very intently and was a little confused by Turkey's support for the UN backed Tripoli Government, this puts things well into perspective very well.
No mention of Egypt apart from mentioning the Suez Canal. Now that Egypt is facing water shortages & being a go between with China & the rest of Africa.
Dope!
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That's crazy!😲
Great Civilization started from Mediterania area
Gaddafi was ousted in 2011, not 2021. Great video, by the way.
The Mediterranean has seen countless ships and men go down in it’s depths in centuries past, what’s a few more gonna do.
Israel has a defence budget of 21b$ making it the second largest in the region, the UAE is third (14:05)
Ah yes as an Italian I can say turkey aggressive policy has done something impossible: making Italy and France politically and military allies 😅🤣
I dare to say if the aggressiveness towards Russian was towards turkey Italy and France would be way more active now
True! Turkey pushed France and Italy even closer together, but not too close 😂
Mhhh the way I see it is that both in France and Italy, Russia is not seen as that big of a threat, compared to central EU countries. But that’s my perception.
@@Kamome163 France and Italy Never had the existential treath caused by Russia
Turkey historically threatened instead the Mediterranean power to both France and Italy,but also Greece
lol turkey has no issues with italy anyway its issues with usa and france just lackey just like greece@@rhythmicmusicswap4173
It's not going to be like the south china sea because it's not a place of immediate strategic dispute between the US and China, I think.
Yh, the US is far more firmly entrenched in the Med
Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece and Turkey are all US NATO Allies.
Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Half of Libya, Tunisia and Morocco are all pro US (government wise) which is why the US has unfettered, expedited fleet acces through the Suez for Example (I.e US Navy ships get to cut in line, as part of a treaty they have with Egypt)
So Yh all things considered, the western position in the Med is solid.
Russia could be a bit of a disruptor but it’s position is weak enough as to not really matter much.
Really the US need to refocus on the Americas, it’s position on the continents is slipping and it needs to find a better way to maintain its security and develop more solid relations with the governments of the region irregardless of ideology.
1900s “oh no the Europeans are colonizing us!”
2000s “oh no the Africans are colonizing us!”
Aliens deposited early humans in the Mediterranean basin 2 million years ago. It has dried and reflooded many times. 😅
Shouldn't we refer to Abu Dhabi instead of Dubai when talking about the international strategy of the United Arab Emirates? Loved this video.
Thanks Renzo! 🙇♂️ Oh yes, I used Abu Dhabi as the capital in the animations but since there are a lots of people who don't even know where the UAE are but know about Dubai, I thought it would've been easier for the viewer if I used Dubai.
The most fascinating area of Earth.
7:00 😃
Visuals here are next level, wtf
great stuff man but to much camera play
Thank you Justin, I'll take note!
Yeah dude it was great. You're very informative. I like that you list your sources. I would say that I'm extremely familiar with world geography, but when you turn that map 180 or like $270°, it takes me a second to be like wait a minute. Oh that's right! That's where that country is haha but great stuff dude keep doing it
Can we just say that there is enough oil and gas that we don't have to worry about running out of it?
9:05 Uhh… 2021?!
It is a content that makes viewers think. 😍
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Jeff!!! Thank you so much man! 🙇♂️ It would be awesome to arrive at 50k with other subscribers like you🥹
A hemisphere away and we still call the shots 🇺🇸 😭 💪
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keep dreaming loser
Don't really see the comparison between the Mediterranean and the SCS. The SCS is both highly divided between multiple superpowers and China is making some very bold claims.
The Mediterranean on the other hand only sits next to mostly Europe (Islands in the Mediterranean are in the EU, so a lot of legit claims there.) Thought countries like Greece and Turkey clash over Cyprus both are in NATO. Israel is also part of the "west". The other countries are in more or less a state of distress. Lybia is still a mess. Egypt is highly dependent on tourism and European food imports. Syria doesn't have a navy. Tunesia has a governmental crisis. Marokko and Algeria are going for close ties to the EU.
I mean, there certainly are conflicts but those are not on a SCS scale
Libya has been in civil conflict since the fall and demise of Gaddafi in the 21st century and still has yet to have a strong and stable government.
3:50 Those are part of of Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia not China
It makes no sense comparing oil reserves in the exclusive economic zone of the US to all estimated oil deposits in the mediterranean sea. 1st oil reserves and oil deposits, not the same thing. 2nd The Gulf of Mexico and its 42 billion barrels of oil deposits is split between Cuba, the US and Mexico.
Really dislike the background music, but vid is great!