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call of war ok lol
who are we calling?
@@jingleberries9880 the war lol
The best NATO salesman of this year: putin đ€Ąđ€Ąđ€Ą
I was chat banned for saying noob so no
Small correction. NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization and not North Atlantic Trade Organization
North Atlantic Terrorist Organization :smirk:
@@manofarmageddon true, terrorism agaisnt the dictators, poor dictators :(
â@@manofarmageddon but youre not far off
â@@pedronabais1456 which dictators? I would rather dictators over ISIS
ALSO serbia wasnt a dictatorship.
North Atlantic Tooting Organization
Really love these more modern topic videos not to mention they are taking risks with stuff like demonetization I can respect that!
Helo Falcon!
@@Azuwu101 hello friend
Thank you sir! đđđ
Demonetized for what? He's not saying anything controversial, just regular western perspective on the conflict. If anything he might get support from official sources.
â@@dragoscostache4 nah you don't know about CZcams, they literally demonetized everything these days
Russia: Don't join NATO. I will protect you.
Former Warsaw pact: Protect me from what?
Russia: From what I'll do if you join NATO
Azerbaijan attacking Armenia: say what now?
Otherwise known as extortion.
Russia "protected" Belarus from free and fair elections
@@anonymousunknown4811 Russia invading Georgia, Ukraine, Chechnya, genociding people of Syria with biological weapons. Say what now?
It's always been interesting to me that Russia has never seemed to understand how repulsive they are to former Warsaw Pact countries.
Like as an American, I understand why Central and South Americans hate being on the receiving end of US foreign policy.
My highest respect on trying to display an unbiased, historical perspective on what happened after the USSR around 1989. (and for the use of the 'wilhelms scream')
In times like these that is sadly quite rare.
It's not unbiased
â@@bartosz8723 they said "trying"
@@bartosz8723 would you expand on your statement? what part of it did not unite with reality in your mind?
2 more targets for sarmat đ
@@bartosz8723 How is it unbiased. You can't just accuse someone of being biased and then not show any proof.
Funland joining NATO has changed the balance from "How could NATO defend the Baltics?" to "How would a NATO counter offensive into Russia take place?"
fun-land :D
Indeed, Funland is a very powerful country
Cope.
@McBoyLeo What Finland does is make such an invasion way easier. Like "defeating isolated Iraqi infantry with B-52s" kind of easy.
NATO has always had those plans on the books. As we're seeing, NATO always knew it would roll over the Russian military.
I was quite satisfied when I saw a Zastava M70 with three ventilation holes, just like in real life. Quite accurate! It was at 6:04
Lol. He gets the correct number of ventilation holes but doesnât know what NATO stands for.
@@ethank5059 probably a mistake on his part
@@ethank5059 I listen to him while gaming and didn't even notice the mistake...
âLessons from historyâ would be an awesome 2nd channel. I would love this format discussing current issues in the context of similar events that occurred in different periods from our history.
Your presentation continues to get better and better, great work team
Loving this new content. Absolutely brilliant. Even though this is a history channel, we are living in a time where history is being made. Keep it up Armchair Historian team đ
thanks
History is always being made
@@jamiecullum5567 Yeah, people only focus on the dramatic moments, but the seeds of tomorrow's conflicts are being sown now.
@@konstantinmedvedev-zj7qy There were casualties between the Americans and Canadians, but not remotely close to half. It wasn't even 1%.
That Russian math of yours.đ€Ł
@@recoil53 still 103 dead and about 230 injured mostly bu friendly fire - thats ridiculous. But still it was 80 years ago anyway
I love how there is no bias in this, just factual historical + modern events, keep up the great work đ
no bias? Lol he's pro west
I learned a lot from this one, thank you!
Also, your editor(s) were on point with the memes lol
đź Strat what are you doing here?!
@@Tate_THG lol I know I should be working, but I needed something to watch while eating :) I'm a huge of this channel for several years now
Cool to see you here, big fan.
@@Batstard556 Thanks! I've been watching Armchair for a couple years now and love his work :D
@@Strat-Guidesu watch this while you eat to?!
Russia: Don't join NATO or we'll be mad and do something bad.
Europe: We'll just join NATO even harder!
But can't afford it lol
"State-gopnik".
@@user-ww9vq3lu4p you're a state copenik
NATO is literally nothing without big brother america having to carry everyone else lol.
This is one of the most simplistic takes ive seen
Every time I hear the words towards former Soviet states, such as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and then their reactions, it reminds me that Russia was always an aggressor towards those states and has consistently played the victim.
I mean, do you really think that threats toward former states to join someone else is going to convince their already resolved mind of changing?
The only victem mentality is from those barking chiwawa states.
Do you know where the English word âslaveâ came from?
(Slav)
Slavs have been âvictimâ for far to long. Never again shall we be oppressed by anyone- from Ghengas Khan to NATO.
@@kattatonic8010 bot
@@MrStolboy ruskies are not oppressed by anyone except the government system they created for themselves
@@dwightd.eisenhower2031 "everyone who says something I don't like is a robot"
Goodness gracious this episode was amazing!! It had me on the edge of my seat the whole time, amazing work!!
Seeing this channel make videos on currently ongoing wars really makes you realize that today will be history tomorrow
One thing you missed is that the naval base of Sevastopol was legally being use by russia following the [Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet] (until 2014), and you could have also explained the situation on Transnistria and Moldova.
Still, great video as always.
You can't put every detail in a short video like this. Including every important point in this whole conflict would require a complete documentary of at least an hour or two long.
It was leased, not owned. That did not give them the rights to illegally annex Crimea.
Yet more evidence that Russia has never wanted a 'neutral buffer state' Ukraine. But a Belarus 2.0.
sevastopol naval port was founded in 1783 where was ukraine back then..??russia can never ever give crimea back to kraine ever again
@@Frixworks well our family is pretty happy about it. Prices did go up but so did their pensions. And best of all, No conflict.
I love your contemporary history content
A refreshingly unbiased and objective review. Good work as always!
*Less biased than most western media
@@bradsanders407 yep, it's still the most unbiased piece of content i saw about Ukraine. He forgot to mention how ukrainians were bombing civilians in Donbas since 2014 tho
@@ligmagaming6939 they were bombing separatists that were funded by russia
I love these modern history videos it gives a perspective that I didnât see before and helps understand whatâs going on in the world
Russia: Invades Ukraine to halt NATO expansion
Finland (and soon Sweden): Joins NATO
Russia: Pikachu face
Finland will take a front row seat to a nuke on there head.
â@SlavicUnionGaming just because someone doesn't want to be your friend doesn't mean you need to threaten them, as long as you don't understand that more countries will apply to join
You're grossly over-valuing the significance of Finland. They pose essentially no threat to Russia's interests, the same could never be said for Ukraine.
@@chico9805 No you just undervalue Finland.
âIf you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.â
- Sun Tzu
Clearly Putin needs to work on his knowledge of certain classic literature works, since he was totally unaware of how Europe views him and his Russia and seriously miscalculated the military capabilities of both Russia and Ukraine. Anyway, those extra study sessions shouldn't be too hard: he has a Chinese friend to help him out. He might lure him in with a bit of honey ;)
Leave it to the Armchair historian to give us a video that is both informative but also relatively balanced about a modern/current day topic.
i was surprised. i was expecting a much greater bias toward the western narrative, but while it was still there, it was fairly light. The madon coup needed more attention though. it was a major catalyst.
@@ericaugust1501 when your about to be puppet state gets couped đąđąđąđąđąđą
â@@ericaugust1501 hey look a vatnik
@@flerkan2802 nah. some of us just like REAL history instead of propaganda of the most powerful bullies on the planet.
â@@flerkan2802i don't think hers a Vatnik, he just said the phrase "western narrative". He could just mean "from a western point of view"
Very good explanation of why things are the way they are.
One of your best!
Thank you for a much needed background on this ongoing conflict
Minor correction and clarification over a common misconception of the 2014 Crimean referendum. There was no option in the ballot where crimea stayed in Ukraine as is. The two options on the ballot were actually. 1. Join Russia and 2. Restore the 1992 constitution where crimea is an autonomous region of Ukraine much like how hong Kong was to china, where Ukraine has no real sovereignty over crimea. This is a highly problematic scenario and would result in defacto Russian control of crimea anyways plus a host of other issues. There was no option for "remaining in Ukraine" as you stated in the video
Not the aâhost of other issuesâ counter-argument again.
Itâs a logical fallacy, Rylan.
It was overseen by a weird collection of neo nazis, nazbols, and diehard Bolsheviks specially bussed in from around the world by Putin to act as international 'observers'. So it has that going for it.
the fact of the matter was that the ballot itself was illegal and shouldn't/doesn't count
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"Join date: 29 April 2020" :skull:
@@upstairs1307 no its not.
The Cold War really never ended back in the 1990s, more like a ceasefire than anything
The wars slowed down after Vietnam. The next 2 wars in the 70âs were decisive US victories, in South Zaire and Afghanistan, the next time the US and the Soviets faced off was in Grenada, where the defenders lost in 4 days.
â@@titanlord9267 are you one of those who think US won in Afghanistan?
@SilentWolf 655. Facts be known, the Russians won the Cold War. CZcams: Yuri Bezmenov - now deceased KGB defector.
â@@stranger6797 he meams the mujahadeen the US backed precursor to taliban and to some degree alqueda and isis won against the soviets.
@@stranger6797 No Russia got its ass kicked in Afghanistan.
Very cool animations overall one of the best videos I've seen from you.
Nice video. And you hit 2 millions subscribers- good job!
"Great empires never ends calmly and fast." Soviet Union is still in minds of some people...
An embarrassingly high percentage of Americans polled believe Russia is still communist, so yes you're right that soviets are still living in Americans minds. The effects of the red scares are palpable here.
Ironically this applies to westerners who claim to be socialist and following the example of soviet russia.
It didn't end calmly and fast, it was dissolved against the will of the people, there were numerous massive demonstrations and protests and even after it was dissolved the last remnant of popular will was destroyed by Yeltsin in 1993 with military force, cheered on by the West
The USSR collapsed not because of the desire of the citizens of the union, but because of some incomprehensible few people whose desires to break up the union were not supported at the All-Union referendum on the existence of the Soviet Union. So why would people suddenly forget about what was taken away from them?
â@@polikys9335Nobody liked the union except the russians. Nobody wanted to be in this shitty club
Love that you also cover modern topics!
Great work congratz on 2 million subs the thumb nail was amazing
Excellent work, with the background information starting from the former Yugoslavia's breakup that sows the seeds of mistrust between Nato and Russia until today.
We live in a time were new generation of historian can picturized the story easily with computer, and also at the point were we can report the future significan historical event in real time.
It's North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, not "trade organisation". It's not about trade.
Of course itâs about trade. Think about it.
He is wrong north Atlantic terrorist organisation
@@user-rd8rv6nb7f ayo bro it's North Alantic Treaty Organization their's no terroists too far!
Can you make a video on Reconstruction? I feel like your style of presentation would work well with the time period
I think we can use a similar video about the new Cold War between the US and China. About how Mao established a new destiny for China, Nixonâs visit to the country, the aggression towards Taiwan, the South China Sea disputes with Chinaâs neighbors, the Belt and Road initiative, and the development of Chinese intelligence gathering in the West.
Need to learn more about belt and road
Would LOVE this.
Your comment is already biased so hopefully his video "if he makes it" also mentions the strategic island chains around China, us military personnel designed in the 1950s. Both sides are partly at fault.
@@akidnamedryan4758 I don't really know too much about it so yeah
@@akidnamedryan4758 True. Iâd like to understand both sides like this video did.
Great video on the history of NATO and Russia! Are you planning to make a video based on the history of Persia or Iran in the future?
A well done video. I enjoyed it!
Incredibly put đ
Loved this video, you inspired me to make animated history like these too.
My last video was about the Greatest Scandals of Ancient Rome!
Oooooh thatâs sounds good
I can feel the after dark edits comingđđ
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HERE THEY COME!
Coming inside me
â@@dwightd.eisenhower2031 omg
@@dwightd.eisenhower2031 If the great president himself said it, we gotta believe it
There was never a promise, neither formal nor informal, by any NATO official to any Russian official, that NATO would "not expand eastward". In fact it wasn't even talked about. There's absolutely no record of this happening.
Minutes of the talks were declassified in 2017 or so, you can find them with Google. There is a statement that at least can be mistaken for a promise when read in the context of today. But at the time the USSR and Warsaw Pact still existed, and the talks were about German reunification. Some say it only meant that NATO would have no bases in the territory of East Germany, and this promise has in fact been held until today.
So I tend to agree with you, and I certainly do not agree with the video on this point. But I have to say this is quite subtle.
But really, how much sense does it make that "no eastward expansion" of NATO into Eastern Europe was a condition for German reunification? Why should the USSR have been able to block German reunification? (If they had blocked it, then certainly reunification would anyway have happened after the collapse of the USSR.)
Moreover, later written agreements between Russia and NATO, such as the Budapest memorandum have a lot more of a clear record as to their existence, yet were not mentioned.
@@imperatormaximus8952 Very good point. If Ukraine staying out of NATO was so important for Russia, they should have included this in the Budapest Memorandum.
(I don't think NATO was a party to the Budapest memorandum, but that is beside the point. NATO was not a party to the 2+4 treaty either. Although it is an interesting question whether a treaty state, e.g. the US as NATO member, can legally bind itself towards a third state, e.g. Russia, to block certain NATO decisions, e.g. admission of Poland. I would think treaty partners should ensure they can deal with each other in good faith in the future. I don't know if there is such a concept in international law though. If the US (and France and the UK) could not have in good faith have agreed to vetoing any future proposal to admit former Warsaw pact countries into NATO, then that would be a very strong indication that they did in fact not agree to this.)
I was always thinking you'd make a videos on this after Finland joining NATO. Nice video nonetheless keep up he good work
Ik itâs late but congrats for 2M subs!
I've heard and read from multiple places that the referendum in Crimea only had two choices. Option A was to break away from Ukraine and be an autonomous region within Russia or option B was to break away from Ukraine and formally join Russia fully.
I'm curious on the sources that say there was an option on the ballot to stay part of Ukraine
Go look at patrick lancasters coverage. He was on the ground there, and he is on the ground in dontesk
@@GhostScout42 Lmao Lancaster is a Russian disinformation artist. Wouldn't go to him for an unbiased view.
@@GhostScout42 Lancaster is paid by the Kremlin. If you want unbiased reports, read the UN stuff, and from other neutral entities. Even then things are not so clear.
@@GhostScout42 Oh, why stop there, just go to Russija 1 already đ
It was a forced referendum. Russia stationed troops near voting places. Intimidation by Russia makes the referendum illegitimate.
Thank you for video sir
Truly amazing channel
Incredibly fair coverage. Good job.
NATO didnât expanded Eastwards, The former Warsaw pact and former Soviet countries flee to join NATO westwards.
You don't even know the correct sides of the world. Go back to school
NĂ€in on. Helvetin hyvĂ€, ettĂ€ me ollaan osa NATOa nyt! đ«đźđșđČđ”đ±đșđŠ
I think you mixed up the two. NATO didn't expand eastwards but the Warsaw pact wanted to go Westwards.
Wow, this really good!
Its good to have a clear understanding of the chain of events that led to current events, even if its just the broad strokes.
I love these modern videos, keep up the good work guys
Russia : Bohoo NATO stole my friend đą
Stolen from altering history hub
Great content as always
-Moma Odecca, never forget.
I really love your videos. You and your team work so hard. Wether it's old history or current. You bring all facts. Thank you for all your hard work. Every one involved.
Great video of historia :D
Another great video from Griffin! However, theyâre are some errors:
At 0:20, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, instead of North Atlantic Trade Organization. Also, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact didnât only fight over Europe, but for the whole world.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization was created to counter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as they were still enemies.
great video !
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Not trade organization
Trade Organization? We're 15 seconds in...
This is like a chess match and Russia has sacked their queen and a rook
And all it cost NATO was a fraction of a fraction of their yearly defence budget. Putin must be a CIA agent, considering how much damage he has done to Russia without losing a single NATO soldier.
It's more like Russia pulled a Fool's Mate and is now flipping the board insisting that the other guy is cheating.
Congrats on your 2,000,000th subscriber!
Great content thanks đ
Reverse this situation
Imagine USA's response if Mexico or Canada became a close Russian ally and Russia had military bases in these nations
Sto your stupid whataboutism. War in Ukraine was never about Nato. It was always about Putin's ego and his sick idea to annex Ukraine. Putin says Ukraine is not a real country ad Ukrainians are "little Russians". Russia does the same thing over and over again. Russia keeps invading and annexing its smaller neighbours to annex them just because it can and everytime it can. NATO IS BS EXCUSE for Putin. Nato is not annexing. Countries ask to join Nato and Nato never invaded Russia. If Russia was a good neighbour, many former Warsaw pact countries would have no need to join Nato. USA did not annex Mexico and Canada. They are partners while Russia treats other countries like its slaves. Russia thinks it is entitled to own Eastern Europe. Cold War era is over. Eastern Europens decide on their own and Russia is not their master. Russia has nothing to say. Putin hates Nato because he can invade and annex non Nato neighbours only. He blames his past and current victims for calling the police.
@@Blanka1100 Putin ego is are mirage of your widest imagination, sonny. Try to seek an common photo with Putin and former ukrainian president Kuchma at 2009 in Crimea. Just two people are standing in each other's arms and smiling. An theese time Putin's russia sold cheapest gas to Ukraine. And no one challenged Ukraine and Crimea. Also get to see an famous Putin's Munich speech '07. Putin had saying nothing new from that time and not doing any unexpected and insidious. Perhaps your thoughts about russian desires are wrong in common.
@@yurikropotov3135 Putin says Ukraine is not a country. What else do you need? Kuchma was Lukasenko 2.0. When was the last time Russia was invaded by its neighbour? When was the last tme Russia invaded its smaller neighbour? Oh wait...
What should the US do to make Mexico and Canada want Russian military bases on their territory? You are asking the wrong question.
@@user-wm5rt9pw5l ukraine has no nukes, ukraine is not NATO member. Putin wants Ukraine and nato is bs excuse only. Usa is a super power. Russia is not.
Minor thing, I believe that the Crimean Referendum was NOT able to vote to rejoin Ukraine. It was either be Independent or join Russia, if I recall correctly
Please Do a video(or more) about the ANZAC divisions, and their whole campaigns.
Imperialist russia is just having a hissy fit over its lost territories.
small correction Finland is part of north europe not eastern.
Russia: **Threatens former Soviet and Warsaw Pact States**
Former Soviet and Warsaw Pact States: **Joins NATO for protection from Russia**
Russia: How could NATO be so perfidious and betray us like that?!?
I think this was more about russia stepping in on behalf to the dpr and lpr to end the civil war that started in 2014. Yes, nato has been aggresivley expanding, but it was the shelling of east ukraine that brought russia into the ukraine
â@@GhostScout42 Bacause Russia starts arming them in 2014...
No one would let that happened. We knew how Russia react about this situation in Chenchen.
Seem odd that all those seperatist starts appearing as soon as Russia ready to intervene.
Which was triggered by more NATO expansion when not one more inch east was promised?
@@DOSFS yep thats how state interests work. Quit looking for a boogeyman
â@@charmyzardcountrys are joinning NATO because of Russia
I'm grateful for your almost unbiased take âïžđ€
Great video
There was NO official agreement between Baker and Gorbachev, let alone their conversation wasn't talking about Eastern Europe. Gorbachev literally admitted this.
There was also no ballot option to remain in Ukraine in the Crimean Referendum.
There was. It was the âremain as an autonomous part of Ukraineâ option.
@@tetraxis3011 And the 1992 constitution option is extremely vague and practically makes Crimea independent, not really part of Ukraine at all other than symbolically. My point still stands, there was no status quo option.
@@MarshalofFrance It literally says âremain as an autonomous PART OF Ukraineâ. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
@@tetraxis3011 Read again what I said.
14:49 "Bereft of its network of buffer states, the Russian Federation sought to manage the admission of former Soviet republics to NATO, lest top be surrounded by potentially hostile neighbors in service to its rival."
Simple, clean, and unbiased. So much it even fits both side's narratives! Bravo, Historian. Bravo.
I hope that people will understand that there is no good and evil, that everything that happens is the fault of both blocks. I hope that people will stay human and everything will be fine soon. Greetings from Russia.
â@@Cosmo-re9jyi agree with that, although you gotta remember that there are always lighter shades of grey than others. It's an important balancing act to keep in mind: no country is completely morally good, but some are clearly better than others.
â@@Cosmo-re9jy Well there is good and evil. Murdering, raping, and oblitarating cities is certainly evil - and thats what russian army does in Ukraine right now. If you want this war to be over soon just pull out your troops from Ukraine - just "be humans" and stop the war. There was peace and cooperation before Russia started her war in 2014 - Ukraine was one of the most pro-Russian countries in the world.
That's why the NATO was essential for survival of Eastern Europan countries - without NATO Estonia, Latvia, Poland - alone could not be able to defend themselves from Russian threat. NATO guaranteed peace in those lands - unfortunately Ukraine was not lucky enough to join NATO early enough - and now houndreds of thousands pay the horrible price of this mistake.
@@Cosmo-re9jy Nah, russia didn't learn anything, they are mad that their former slaves have freedom and have better living condition than their fascist hell hole. ;)
@@Cosmo-re9jy you are wrong you invaded our country, ruSSias facist regime is pure evil.
Russia, the biggest driver of NATO expansion
we shall celebrate his 2M subscriber
No one ever honestly tells this story and modern people are too lazy to really dig for the truth. Thank you for portraying these events accurately.
I think its more that no one wants to cover an ongoing topic which might be considered very controversial due to that fact, which if you look throught the replies on the comments here is sadly proven right
@@kostakatsoulis2922 Oh, you said something that doesn't clearly support My SideTM on the Internet? Then your clearly Pro-Their SideTM. Your BIASED!
@@randomka-52alligatorthatis34 This is what I get anytime I explain to people why Putin invaded. I get accused of being a "Putin apologist" for simply pointing out that the invasion didn't come out of nowhere. I don't believe it was justified but Putin warned he would if NATO kept doing what they were doing but NATO didn't listen.
@@slayermill8621 It didn't come out of nowhere, it came out of Putin's imperialist dreams to expand Ruzzian empire.
"I don't believe it was justified but Putin warned he would if NATO kept doing what they were doing but NATO didn't listen."
NATO literally did nothing and Okraine has nothing to do with NATO.
@@Tespri This proves my point that you, like many others, haven't taken the time to evaluate the events over the past 20 years to see this didn't happen randomly. Conversations alone about Ukraine joining NATO is something Putin warned against yet NATO continued. Most of the reason Ukraine wasn't admitted into NATO is because they couldn't satisfy even the minimum requirements about corruption within their government. Had it not been for that Ukraine may already be a member and we'd have WW3 on our hands. This doesn't end good for anybody.
Great follow up video man đ
An Armchair video on the day of my graduation? I o7, sir!
you really deserve 2 million subscribers
11:21 the referendum that was held by Russia regarding Crimea didn't have any options for Crimea to remain part of Ukraine. The only 2 options if I recall were either Crimea joining Russia or Crimean independence.
Join Russia or reinstate their 1992 Constitution.
Nope. There was a third option to remain as an autonomous part of Ukraine.
@@tetraxis3011 Thats the "reinstate their 1992 Constitution" part. There was no option to leave everything as is.
In any case, the referendum itself is only for the footnote in history. Nowhere does it say you need to conduct one to declare independence of join another country.
Would love to see this type of Video with USA vs China in the pacific, amazing job nonetheless!
Imagine if China had a military alliance with Cuba, with bases installed all over the island - and that's still only a potential to blockade US shipping from the eastern coast. They'd still have the western coast left.
This is the modern situation of China - US has bases across the whole Pacific island chain, giving them the potential to blockade Chinese shipping any time they wanted.
It's also why the US freaked out so much when Cuba allied itself with the USSR.
@@GTAVictor9128 Hope the U.S tightens the grip even further. Though strangling a snake is hard to do.
â@@GTAVictor9128 The US isn't claiming Cuba's territorial waters and threatening to invade. Stop with the false equivalencies.
The real new cold war with the actual threat. Not the declawed, naked bear that thinks it's still an empire.
@@badluck5647 Hey, how do you define territorial waters? Also, didn't USA threaten to invade Mexico like a month ago?
My older brother has always said that a second cold war is happening now
It's much warmer than the actual cold war, In my opinion
Chalk it up to global warming, I guess.
...I'll show myself out.
The idea of a new "cold war" is largely Russian propaganda meant to add legitimacy to the conflict they are causing. The cold war was based on ideology, whereas this is an imperialist invasion from a former empire that saw its influence over it's former territories slowly eroding and jumped at the last opportunity it had to remedy that
@@50shekels Your comment reads like propaganda to me.
@@upstairs1307 perhaps you dont possess the mental faculties to discern what is what
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âNorth Atlantic Trade Organizationâ
I mean I guess they were trading weapons.
Always man
NATO should award Putin a "NATO Recruitment" Medal for how many countries have joined since he became "Pres-itator For Life"
@@0xPloits A Nazistic NATO-Ukraine is 10x the threat Finland is.
â@@hyhhy no Finland is in a very strategic spot
@@drew3758 Bro, I am Finnish and live in Finland and know all about Finland's location.
@@hyhhy well then you know how good of a location it's in for a war against Russia
@@drew3758 I know that Finland can potentially threaten some areas of Russia, although about 10x less than Ukraine, as I said. Also, hopefully, the NATO warmongers will not manage to start a war between Finland and Russia.
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I think a video on the formation of the ussr and civil war would be really cool and also provide a backdrop to all of this
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Great Documentary still!
The same cold war, it never ended, it was just a extended period of detante while russia put it self back together
Thats my opinion at least
Actually China took the roll of the Soviet Union.
Ukraine is the tail end of the collapse of Russia's soviet empire
@@dr.vonslifeinvesting6485 thats true, but this idea that the hostility ever truely end between russia and the west is ridiculous in my opinion
@@LogieT2K There was much hope in the west that relations with Russia would improve post-cold-war era. START II, The Kremlin Accords, the joint Space Shuttle missions, International Space Station, G8, Winter Olympics, World Cup, Nordstream, etc, etc.
But alas, Putin happened.
@@AbdulGoodLooks Pretty sure it's probably more than just "Putin", It's probably messier than just because of one world leader. But either way we're in Cold War 2.0, History did not in fact ended as one infamous quote once said. It will continue on as long we all are around I guess.
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You messed up! NATO does not mean "North Atlantic trade organization". It stands for "North Atlantic TREATY organization"
who cares , he's infinitely smarter than you and it was a small mistake
Most of these "talking head" CZcams channels are just an actor reading a script written by a team, and the harder they're forced to work, the more basic errors like this show up.
With the way they do sanctions it might turn to trade
@@leoa1893 T for treaty donât spread misinformation vatnik
@@Ohmygodstfu2045 You have to admit it a pretty bad error though, same for not mentioning the right options at the Crimean referendum.
11:35 - To be fair, Russia almost certainly would've won the annexation referendum anyway even if it _had_ been completely free and fair.
Why did they rigg it then?
@@jacegmn3309 Because Putin was greedy and wanted the classic 99% landslide.
Love the Trabant at 6:35 mark.
Wow.... Were currently living through a history episode.
Lacking context for a lot of aspects. As example, "russian interest" (in fact right to colonise Ukraine) is stated as something acceptable. Ukrainian people and their desire not recognised as separate force, ignored as part of "bigger game". Which is weird as Ukraine is not much smaller state comparable to Russia when we compare as example population.
Also it's pretty funny that Putin once per month saying that he didn't recognise Ukrainians as nation and their right to have own state, Russian army making ethnical genocide on occupied territories, russian state services moving Ukrainian kids to Russian families to change their identity. But some folks still talking about "Nato provoked Russia".
Yeah.
And even if NATO provoked Russia the military aggression is not the justified response. That is a clear escalation beyond reason.
When you only hear Pro NATO news
Ukraine broke the Minsk agreements and bombed civilian in Donbas for 8 years, Azov battalion destroyed businesses belonging to Russian-Ukrainians Etc. No side is innocent.
@@tetraxis3011 8 years ago Donetsk was occupied by Russia. A lot of my friends who lived their happy life there have been moved from there: to not be killed by will of drunk jerks like "hero of Russia" "Motorola". Check video's with him :)
@@VictorSchepanovsky Yea no. Thatâs not what happened. Russian separatists occupied Donetsk. Then Russian military personnel moved in to train the Donetsk peopleâs army. Then Ukraine started bombing the crap out of the place.
@@tetraxis3011 nope. Russian army occupied Crimea, then Girkin with other Russian citizens (covered by Russian Security services, how otherwise you will pass border with equipment) occupied Slovyansk. Then Russian Army come to area and occupy it on eastern Ukraine. Without Russian aggression there would be no conflict.
I must say I'm surprised you didn't mention the Budapest Memorandum that Russia breached in 2014 and continued to do so to this day.
And what about the "Minsk agreements" that Ukraine violated. Even now, the ex-presidents and ministers of the European Union and Ukraine say that this agreement was concluded only for Ukraine to assemble an army.
Well Russia also breached the 1991 Belovezha Accords, the 1997 Treaty of Friendship, both Minsk agreements and who knows what else.
Russia did not breached Budapest Memorandum in 2014 - Russia did so only in 2022 with recognition of DPR and LPR, that happened 3 days after Ukrainian threats to reopen their nuclear program
Also, Russia was following "Minsk 2" agreement and Ukraine had been refusing to do so for almost a decade
@@PrstBs1 In 2014, Russia annexed part of Ukrainian territory, if you're not aware. On the second day after the signing of the Minsk agreements, Russia violated them by capturing Debaltseve. You are ignorant.
The Budapest Memorandum contains a notation "except for self-defence purposes". Given what happened in Ukraine in 2014, Russia had serious reasons to fear for the security of its military facilities and the Russian population - a repeat of the 2008 incident in Tskhinvali was not in the interests of all signatories of the Memorandum, especially Russia and Ukraine.
It is also worth noting that the memorandum as such has no legal force, this document only enshrines the intentions of the states, but does not oblige them to implement them.
And the fighting over Debaltseve began much earlier than the signing of the second Minsk agreements and did not reflect the fundamental contradictions that Ukraine faced after the signing of those agreements.
Damn these WW3 trailers hit hard, wonder when they're gonna release the full thing
A China vs. United States video would be an interesting topic, especially since the CHIP Wars have been going on.