"Russia is never as strong as she looks; Russia is never as weak as she looks." Winston Churchil

@just_dimi3

5 жыл бұрын

@Mega Manager russians is strongest physical fighters and bravelliest nation 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺💪💪💪

@user-ee1pj2dp7s

4 жыл бұрын

Mega Manager - 😁 Russia - a dwarf, I'll put it on my knees." Karl 12th, XVIII. Sweden forever lost superpower status. "I conquered backward Russia." Friedrich, mid XVIII. In 1759, Russian troops entered Berlin. "Russia - a colossus with feet of clay." Napoleon, XIX. In 1814, the Russian army took Paris. "I will win the Soviet Union by the end of the year." Hitler, XX. In 1945 he committed suicide, when the Soviet Army entered Berlin. "Russia - the only regional power." Barack Obama, 2014.

@darthvader5300

4 жыл бұрын

Hitler said Russia is a house of cards. In 1945 Russian troops planted the Russian flag in Russian occupied Berlin. Bolton wants to provoke with Russia. America ends up like ONE BIG HIROSHIMA.

@sydneythomason5950

4 жыл бұрын

darthvader5300 It’s nice to dream, is’nt it Darthy.

@arunray3417

4 жыл бұрын

How strong is strong. The president is a black belt. Which other president of the world is a black belt. They are the 2 largest power. And largest nuclear power. Still being the largest land mass even after ten countries parted from the Soviet Union.

"The Europe is a peninsula. It's surrounded on all sides sides by water..."

@leeferguson2002

6 жыл бұрын

lol

0:21 Estonia is drunk and Iraq is a lake

@stepanfedun9122

6 жыл бұрын

And Portugal is having a seizure

@plokijuh5830

6 жыл бұрын

And a new country emerged from the sea between Italy, Croatia and Slovenia

@treffs3929

6 жыл бұрын

Iceland is on the move

@dv6298

6 жыл бұрын

and Uzbekistan invaded Kazakhstan

@dv6298

6 жыл бұрын

Also, Mallorca docked itself onto Spain , Sardinia and Corsica got flooded, the Nokhchivan region of Azerbaijan disappeared... this is the WORST map ever created by mankind. It was clearly put here to provoke and trigger people with any understanding of geography.

This guy is on earth but his mind is on another planet!!!

@wasppaul3707

6 жыл бұрын

Your eyebrows are on earth but your hairline is on another planet!!!

@Tsnore

6 жыл бұрын

He co-wrote a book about The Coming War With Japan circa 1990 if that gives us any idea.

@willb8684

5 жыл бұрын

agrea

@vince6252

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tsnore Haha!

@mogh2603

2 жыл бұрын

are you still laughing now? Ukraine is invaded, exactly as he expected

I quit at "The Europe"

@varunkumardogra3004

6 жыл бұрын

Jay Gatsby same here.

@jorgeenchilada

6 жыл бұрын

you're right, I keep seeing the comment about the grammar, but the Russian trolls fail to acknowledge that all of his points are correct. they just comment on his word usage lol

@jorgeenchilada

6 жыл бұрын

to those of actual knowledge? what does that mean? is Russia a cult now? you sound pretty brainwashed lol

@chinggiskhan6678

3 жыл бұрын

@@jorgeenchilada It also seems that he botted his own comment with likes.

I lost him when he said Russia is a landlocked country! Russia's coastline is bigger than Australia's

@danemathews4037

6 жыл бұрын

Chinmay C they might as well be, they don’t have any iceless deep water ports

@user-dp4ui4yq9p

6 жыл бұрын

dane mathews Sevastopol?

@danemathews4037

6 жыл бұрын

Милан Пиперски my apologies, I meant deep water as in ocean ports, ones they have full access too. Turkey “controls” the entrance to the Black Sea, although if Russia wanted to turkey would just be remembered in the history books

@danemathews4037

6 жыл бұрын

ScarletDespair Well now that they have an alliance I don’t think that matters anymore. Just because Turkey is NATO doesn’t mean they are truly America’s friend. They kill Kurds and are killing rebels in Syria also

@resplandent

6 жыл бұрын

dane mathews Lol are you really that naive to believe that NATO would step in against Russia should they, assumingly, attack the Baltics or Turkey? that's all cheap talk, what NATO (mainly USA) wants is $$$ from Europe.

-The Europe -The Ukraine The fů¢|

@balazsbuza4661

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was really trying in that K :D

@nationalistcanuck7800

6 жыл бұрын

Balázs Buza The first is incorrect. The second is not. It has always been reffered to as 'the Ukraine', just like we say 'the Crimea'. 😎

@stepanfedun9122

6 жыл бұрын

Nationalist Canuck Yeah, it was called the Ukraine back when it was a SSR But now it's a nations, and it's name is the republic of Ukraine, it's name is just Ukraine You don't see people saying the Ireland, the China It has a name, use it

@erzatztrancer

6 жыл бұрын

It was The George The Friedman:)))

@mardasman428

6 жыл бұрын

Balázs Buza The Ukraine is valid, The Europe is not

You can't fuck with a country that has 8,000 nuclear bombs. Period.

@profriday

6 жыл бұрын

Can you fuck with countries with far less nuclear bombs, such as Israel and North Korea?

@SirNarax

6 жыл бұрын

What do you think will happen if they use just one of those bombs in anger?

@Brian-kr7bw

6 жыл бұрын

John Boeger so America?

@pushpakunwar7262

6 жыл бұрын

John Boeger nuclear weapons did not prevent soviet union from being broken.

@atlas42185

6 жыл бұрын

Nuclear weapons are only useful in certain situations. Such a situation would be where Russia was in a war with NATO and strategically inportant territory was being compromised. As we already see you can't bully your way to achieving your nation's political agenda. If the Russians really thought threatening other countries with nuclear devastation was a such great diplomatic tool they'd be using it. They are not using it because it's not a useful tool in normal circumstances, in fact it's counterproductive.

The Europe. I stopped watching there

@ibero-nativohistoria-antro4731

6 жыл бұрын

you don't know Friedman!

@jorgeenchilada

6 жыл бұрын

the fact that you comment on his verbiage means you acknowledge that he's correct, because you can't attack his points lol

@ryanpruner1853

6 жыл бұрын

"The Europe" colloquially referring to "The European peninsula." Get it genius?

@RK807

6 жыл бұрын

nusproizvodjach What's your the problem?

@-scrim

6 жыл бұрын

You're not very bright, huh?

ThE eUroPe iS a PeNInsUlA

@joshual.7082

4 жыл бұрын

That's not wrong, though. It's a peninsula with dozens of peninsulas on it. The Strait of Gibraltar seperates it from Africa. Istanbul technically is the base of the peninsula, too, so it doesn't count. It just has to be not connected to land on three sides.

@user-fi2fk2ei7o

4 жыл бұрын

it is dude

@vitoscalita

4 жыл бұрын

@@joshual.7082 I wonder if we can call an entire continent a peninsula

@joaovinicius3403

3 ай бұрын

Eurasia is a continent.. Europe is a peninsula. Shows how much you know geography. When we mean five continents, it means it. America, Africa, Eurasia, Oceania and Antartica.

I started liking this video until they totally messed up the Baltic States cartography...

@jyrolys6

8 жыл бұрын

+Prithvi Nathan Yep. Highlighting Kaliningrad(part of Russia) as part of the Baltics.

@prithvinathan1287

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but what mostly bothered me is the fact that they messed up the Estonian and Latvian borders.

@user-bn1zd3us5l

8 жыл бұрын

+Prithvi Nathan Also they mapped Crimea as part of Ukraine)

@paulsoroka621

6 жыл бұрын

As they should, cause its rightfully Ukraine's

@sowhat249

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Soroka | It's rightfully Russian. It was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. Not to mention the one who did it was literally drunk when he made that decision.

He lost me when he decided to claim that Russia is landlocked

@geoffgeofferson293

6 жыл бұрын

Orkaherra's Video Testing Shit Pile he ment in the practical sense, he didn't mean Russia was literally landlocked

@donttrytokillme1231

6 жыл бұрын

Orkaherra's Video Testing Shit Pile It may as well be landlocked

@simonthelen2141

6 жыл бұрын

Orkaherra's Video Testing Shit Pile All of the oceans russia is connected to are controlled by Nato or freez in during the winter.

@thehistoryguy5400

6 жыл бұрын

Orkaherra it is. That’s a fact. They literally have to lease land from turkey for naval bases.

@jokyyang6032

6 жыл бұрын

Sergio Puddu turkey can shut down the Bosporus strait

The europe.. nice grammer.

@888TopGear888

6 жыл бұрын

Jaxson Davis72 grammar*

@capkill2005

6 жыл бұрын

that was intentional....

@andrerothweiler9191

6 жыл бұрын

Lol Europe not europe

@raulpetrascu2696

6 жыл бұрын

Drew Marshall *your

@raulpetrascu2696

6 жыл бұрын

Drew Marshall *its

Then how did it became a great influence to the world during the Cold War, and where did it get their resources from then?

@downstream0114

7 жыл бұрын

They started with the riches of the Russian Empire and then occupied half of Europe. Also oil, in fact the US and Saudi-Arabia dropped oil prices to record lows before the Soviet Union collapsed.

@jamescaldwell6205

6 жыл бұрын

Roberto Jurado one word: NUKES

@paulsoroka621

6 жыл бұрын

Ukraine lol

@OmmerSyssel

6 жыл бұрын

Roberto Jurado Try the other way around.. Why did USSR collapse & absolutely no one with experience of Russian leadership wanted to be part of that structure? No reconstruction even partly..!? Why is none of these countries eager to partner with Putin? Do you personally build stable relationships with threats & oppression clinging to overdue values? What holds diverse countries in Europe & US together.? Trade, mutual trust, respect, democracy, law and order.. How much of these values is found in Russia? Who pays the price..? Asking clever questions sometimes deliver more information than simple statements

@chatreal7396

6 жыл бұрын

So why is America so afraid of the Russian?

1:53 where the hell did you get your map??

Thanks to videos like these, people still ask me if we ride huskies and bears and Siberia! So narrow minded and not objective view on what Russia really looks like

@theeyehead3437

6 жыл бұрын

Did this video mention huskies or bears? No. The video talked about geographical facts. It was about maps. Are you saying those maps are not what Russia looks like?

@boycotgugle3040

6 жыл бұрын

Well, certainly, I would love a video like this made by Russians. If you think this is inaccurate, go right ahead and tell us the truth in a response video...... Albeit in proper English, please. And before anybody starts raging, that's no chauvinism on my part. English is a foreign language to me as well; only less so than Russian... or Russian English ;D Just to get that out of the way...

@boycotgugle3040

6 жыл бұрын

+vann tedd While what you say is not entirely wrong, I would be worried, when every answer to any question that I have is always just the same one word. Be it "nuclear", or "money" or "oil", or "church" or "race", people have tried several things in the past, but that one trick pony thing just doesn't work so well in the long term. That doesn't mean you should start being ever more anxious, like the Americans are for whatever reason (media), but simply that you could start making friends as a preventive effort, instead of relying on military might alone. I can understand that given your history, this is a foreign concept, ever since steppe riders were approaching from the east. Your might solved that, as well as similar attempts from the west. ...Or did it? Was it more the sacrifice of Ukraine or more the friendship of Ukrainians that saved you from Napoleon and Hitler...? Once they have had enough of US "made-from-plastic" friendship, maybe you want to invite them back in a kind way?

@steeldriver5338

6 жыл бұрын

vann tedd isn't Russia weakening right now? I heard they had to cut defense spending.

@Junokaii

6 жыл бұрын

FTD Facts does a lot of great videos on Russia :)

"This is against what I want to my reality to be, so I stopped right there."

Thank you for the succinct explanation. It all makes sense now

Putin fanboys incoming

@geuse_chandesu4273

6 жыл бұрын

Trumptards spotted

@geuse_chandesu4273

6 жыл бұрын

I hope more shootings happens in the US

@1mol831

6 жыл бұрын

Korean People's Army I hope whole world become north korea

@rapator9270

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah because North Korea is best coutry and Peoples army is the stronkest army in the world :D

@antonioklaic4839

6 жыл бұрын

Mikk Nigol hail lord Kim Jong Un! He must suffer obesity for our sins!

His first words "The Europe is a peninsula" Ohhhh that face palm, next video please!

So informative! Instead of caring about people's reactions he just speak the truth. His video on China was also super par.

The only risk that Russia may have is the economical one or the loss of influence to other countries but because of the massive terrain and the nuclear power the risk of being invaded I think is long gone.

1:53 Hm, i didn't know that was how the baltics actually looked like. Great job BI.

Poor country. Actually it's size is a blessing. They have enormous energy resources.

russia is not a land locked country...from the north it has the arctic ocean, east the bering sea and the pacific...not that land locked..however, moscow is reallyyyyy far from any sea or ocean..

@paulchen9145

6 жыл бұрын

France Jr Sanchez it is land locked though because Russia has no ports at all that are ice-free the whole year...except in the black sea

@boborson5536

6 жыл бұрын

It kinda is, Vladivastovok is really prone to freezing in the Winter as is St.Petersburg, and in the Black Sea the Turks control the Bosphorus, you have Kalingrad but you cant really get that far since you can only enter the Atlantic through Danish waters or the Kiel Canal.

@galadhremmin

6 жыл бұрын

Murmansk and Arkhangelsk are ice free.. Also, Finland, Estonia and much of Sweden are ice-bound in winter, so are they landlock too?

@cristobalmarcobuceo

6 жыл бұрын

Ersin Avseren very good question. I'd be curious to hear that guy's answer.

@galadhremmin

6 жыл бұрын

Cristobal Marco Buceo Muuga, Primorsk and St. Petersburg the biggest 3 ports of Baltic Sea operates 365 days although the sea freezes. The largest icebreaker Shipyard is in Vyborg, Russia is also in the same gulf. They have the largest icebreaker fleet for a reason.

The Ukraine fundamentally important because a half of Russia population have a relatives in Ukraine!

@preussenuberalles1682

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Lyubanenko : Ukraine is an artificial country made out of parts of territories Russia conquered to Poles, Hungarians and Turks. Cossacks asked Russia for accestion to the Empire in order to get help against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that after centuries of being a ruthless conquerors weakened because of internal corruption. Russia conquered Galitzia, Rhutenia, Besarabia and the Wild Fields and many Russians moved there as part of the Russian Empire. Should Russia hadn't sheltered those territories, they would be today Poles, Hungarians and Turks. The only support for those dreams of Ukrainian 'identity' is utter ignorance. Hadn't Russia brought industrialization to present day Ukraine, it would still be an agricultural economy as is heading now thanks to those Nazi puppets that are throwing the country to the pit for Pindostan to take advantage and enslave them with E(x)ternal Debt and Monsanto.

@paulsoroka621

6 жыл бұрын

Yes the cossacks did ask for help, but the Russians annexed them. Most of Ukrainian culture comes from the cossacks, and you can see that in the dances and clothes. Ukraine is not an artificial country, you're just an ignorant person pumped full of propaganda. Also, the cost of industrialization for Ukraine was millions of starved lives, so was it really worth it?

@OmmerSyssel

6 жыл бұрын

Preussen über alles You make a lot of incorrect statement where minor details paints a complete false picture! There wasn't a lot of Russians "moving to Ukraine"! They were forced, as well as original population was forced away, either in coffins or train waggons.. Try focus on reality & facts instead of relying on propaganda fitting certain agenda

@BeastinlosersHD

6 жыл бұрын

They took farmland from rich, gave it to poor Ukrainians, won them over, then after cementing ussr relations (russian puppet leader, etc) they took the land back from the Ukrainians and gave it to Russian citizens. Not to mention they made Ukrainians do really really dangerous stuff during the war... That's why Ukrainians died, or fled

@randomallocation1279

6 жыл бұрын

Preussen über alles Ukraine comes from the Kievan Rus. Play some Europa Univerasalis 4, your narrative is Russian propaganda.

0:23 almost vomited. First, St Petersburg is more northeast, and second, wtf happened to Estonia?

The comment section shows how educated the average views is on foreign policy

they still rank higher than the US in education

@rapator9270

6 жыл бұрын

No they dont, Russia ranks better in Soft Power (propaganda). I think you meen that in Russia is more international students than US. not better education...and its because that Russia is cheap country.

@saif9586

6 жыл бұрын

Find me one Russian higher educational institution in the top 100. America leads the world in higher education, research, and development.

@neilroux1793

6 жыл бұрын

Although highly educated doesn't mean highly intelligent.

@bryanbridges2987

6 жыл бұрын

I justintime4u2bu I International rankings are deceptive. For one, they are based on averages. They do not reflect the areas of weakness and strength accurately.

@SirNarax

6 жыл бұрын

Education and intellect are not the same. An educated person just knows where to find the information.

And did I mention the S-400 and S-500 air defence systems|?

@KiingOfKombat

6 жыл бұрын

sadley that doesnt stop the economy from going go crap,

@robhansen6745

6 жыл бұрын

IF Putin hurts one hair on the head of any NATO nation or the USA then all of NATO will respond And her is a bombshell....that Putin must also know as Putin is crazy but he is NOT stupid .. When it comes to firepower USA is unto in some cases upto 19 times the size of Russia ... Just take f. exs. Aircraft carries USA has 20 Russia has 1 (that's 19 times of firepower) Fighter aircraft USA has 2207 Russia 769 (that's 2,8 times of firepower) Fix wing aircraft USA has 13892 Russia has 3842 (that's 3,6 times of firepower) Helicopters USA 6196 Russia 1120 (that's 5,5 times of firepower) I can go on and on but I think you get my point !!! And let's not forget that all the USA weapons are tip top and high tec,. Russia for the most part has old soviet leftovers not so much new stuff some new stuff but not something worth worrying about .. The truth is Russia is a analog watch in a digital age ...When it comes to the USA ... ooo YES AND manpower NATO has over 2,6 mill more soldiers under arms then Russia has USA alone has 145,212,012 backup manpower available for military service and they are all professional soldiers .. Russia only has 69,117,271 backup manpower available for military service For they most-part farm boys doing their national service USA has today active serving military personnel 1,400,000 The USA are battle hardened professional soldiers .. Russia has only active military personnel 766,055 Most of them are farm boys doing their national service AND IF WE PUT NATO INTO this mix we are talking fire power advantage up-too in some cases 26 times of Russia www.globalfirepower.com/countries-comparison-detail.asp?form=form&country1=united-states-of-america&country2=russia&Submit=COMPARE.

@sydneythomason5950

4 жыл бұрын

supafuckinmingster Yes, many times, still irrelevant.

Defiantly would not advise investing with or taking advice from Geopolitical Futures..

Excellent video and education!

This isn't well done. "no one in Europe lives more than 3-400 miles to the Sea" Technically true, but only because the European peninsula is only ~600 to 800 miles wide. Russia's map looks different from its population, therefore it is very poor" Both statements are true, but they aren't connected. US, Canada, Australia, France, Spain, China all have different Population distributions than the territory they control, but that isn't why they are rich/poor. you made Svalbard part of Russia at 1:38. Then the video actually makes it's point at 2:00. This is a poorly made video that doesn't really tell you anything.

@matthewhemmings2464

6 жыл бұрын

Spencer Gibson yes, but Canada has the St-Laurence and the Great Lakes, connecting the population and the resources. The US has the Mississippi. France has numerous rivers like the Seine and the Loire, and most importantly, they all have independent access to the worlds oceans.

@TheBoldImperator

6 жыл бұрын

Hi 'Bruce' (boris). Nice to know your head is still stuck in 1945 and not 1988 where it should be. Soviet power projection hasn't been shit for 35+ years, go dance on the Crimea 'cause it's all you got.

@youssefakl3620

6 жыл бұрын

Russia is not landlocked

@arystanbeck914

6 жыл бұрын

Bruce M, Russia won WWII losing 5 soldiers against 1 German soldier. They wouldn't have won the war if not for the help from the US and other allies. Every third loaf of bread and every second can or meat and every second truck in the Russian Army was supplied by the US, practically for free. And what happened after the war? Germany rebuilt its economy within 10 years, while Russia kept being a shithole it has always been. In 1980s and 1990s half of the Russian population wanted to move to Germany. Russians have little money, they wasted all of it on stupid projects like Olympic Games and World Cup, plus Putin and his cronies stole the rest. Their military equipment is shit. I know that, I served as a sergeant in Soviet Army. All they show during parades is just a facade, behind which everything breaks and gets stolen. Plus, their army is made of incompetent and poorly trained soldiers and officers.

@frankozrin5611

6 жыл бұрын

Arystan Beck If Russia is a shithole, what are then China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa or Egypt? Russia is not a rich country like Switzerland or Sweden, but poor? a shithole? Check GDP per capita PPP statistics or the HDI Index.

Less than a minute into the video I could already tell this guy has no clue what he is talking about. "Europe starts at the border of Russia." "Russia is not European." "Russia is landlocked." "All of the European peninsula besides Russia is wealthy, and Russia is poor and backwards." "Travel within and outside of Russia is hard." "Eastern Russia has almost nobody living there." (Eastern Russia contains half of Russia's population, making them not densely populated but certainly a ton of people live there.) "Belarus is a neutral country." "Ukraine is allied to the West." Honestly, nearly everything this guy said in the video was wrong. I am not saying that Russia is not definitely at a disadvantage in many areas, or that they are as developed as much of Europe, but 90% of every single proclamation he made in this video is just plain wrong.

@krastsjanis

6 жыл бұрын

shadedoom Well 80% what did this gentlman said actually is correct. East from Ural mountains in whole Siberia lives only 34 million people. They have almost no modern infrastructure there for example China is more avaible to these people by means of transport than western parts of Russia. After Russia invaded Ukraine they have a serious enemy that wants to integrate in western alliences. Russia is almost landlocked country it does not have any serious ports or airports in Siberia. To get to Atlantic ocean it needs to go trough inner seas controled by other countries.Russia is poor country in comparison with Europe also is true. For example Swizterland with population around 8 million exports more in terms of wealth than the whole Russia wich has 143 million population.

@krastsjanis

6 жыл бұрын

eddie money Switzerland does export more than Russia.Well my friend look at the statistics Germany exports 5 times more in terms of wealth than Russia. Netherlands a state which has a population less than 17 million exports more than Russia. Perhaps you don't know nothing about statistics. There is no such thing no economist would say such nonsense that Russia could surpass any G7 country in future. Did you even know that Russian economy in terms of GDP is getting smaller for the last 3 years? Half of Russian budget is made of oil and gas sales but because of low prices they have to make budget cuts and there are at least 20 million poor people living in Russia and that is Russian government own statistics. Don't argue you sound like troll.

@krastsjanis

6 жыл бұрын

eddie money As a putinist you have a obligation to lie. Russia is not even in the top 10 biggest economies. Right now Russia is in 12th position acorsing IMF, World Bank and UN, but soon Australia could take their place because of weak economic performence and lack of reforms. Oil and gas sales makes around 50% of federal budget revenues.Learn to read kid because I said nothing about what makes up Russia's GDP. Russia has collapsed already 2 times in 20th century the only way to save Russia is decentralisation of state and give back powers to Federal states.

@dotkoszanagi6177

6 жыл бұрын

eddie money id really like to know where you are getting that info from? In order for Russia to pass Deutschland as European #1 economy they would still need to pass France, The UK and Italy. Kinda hard to do when your population is in a decline and your not a major manufacturer of anything.

@dotkoszanagi6177

6 жыл бұрын

eddie money Russia does not have a top ten economy. They are 12th and currently trending downwards.

Right. And considering all the effort they make to keep a buffer zone, why have they never made such an effort to have a larger coastal area? I mean, they know how much their navy limits their projection of power, but yet, they seem to mitigate it's importance.

How did they get the baltics on the map so wrong?

Turkey could close the Bosphorous eh? I'm fairly sure Putin had the necessary hardware to open it again should he want to.

@nero1988

8 жыл бұрын

+supafuckinmingster Only if they use nuclerar arsenal. In Black Sea Turkey got upper hand in ships and other hardware. Beacouse Russia is so big she have to split her forcer in so many areas.

@RexTee438

7 жыл бұрын

the NATO 5mainy USA) won't allow it , Russia will loose

@peterczegledy7317

6 жыл бұрын

vann tedd you have forgot the one simple fact that the only thing that still keeps the NATO together is the absolute hatred against Russia.Everyone would prefer it split up into pieces so it can no longer be a threat to anybody.

@LK-fq8qq

6 жыл бұрын

+Peter Czegledy He is a Russian fanboy, how would Spain "side with Russia?

@GAZAMAN93X

6 жыл бұрын

Péter Czeglédy good luck with that. Even if the rest of the Urals along with Siberia were to break off Russia's Core is located in the European region and Russia still has allies .... And nukes..

Let's put Russia on a comedy central roast. "you have no buffer!!!", "you're a underpopulated landlocked poor country". (crowd)"OOOOooooooooo".

i love george friedmans creative mindfucks.....he makes so much effort to wrap things in a way to fit his wishes

look at Russian icebreaker fleet and north pole station to see whats being done to address some of these issues.

Hello fellow algorithm at the right time people

old man take a chill pill.tell me about Baltimore and detroit

@bitgamer509

7 жыл бұрын

thx for not making any sense :)

@JASHVEER22

7 жыл бұрын

Good. when you figure it out come back

@MrWizardjr9

6 жыл бұрын

you know that russia has cities that man baltimore and detroit look like heaven

@TheFanat23may

6 жыл бұрын

JASHVEER22 You just don’t wanna hear bad news else where, for you, everywhere in the world is a place with no problems except United States

@Rapture582

6 жыл бұрын

what the fuck are you talking about? idiot

Read the title and I was like "don't they have 4300+ nukes??" So either I got sucked in a parallel universe or this guy don't know what he's talking about

0:26 Why is Estonia like that?

"Belarus is a part of the western alliance structure one way or another" Are you out of your mind or something?

@colincahill785

4 жыл бұрын

he said Ukraine

@anyoneinterestinggg6896

4 жыл бұрын

@@colincahill785 he said that the Baltics, Belarus and Ukraine are a part of a "western alliance" of some kind

@colincahill785

4 жыл бұрын

@@anyoneinterestinggg6896 He said Ukraine, "is now part of the western alliance structure" he never mentioned Belarus in the same regard. Instead, he said Belarus is "now a neutral country" (definitely up for debate) and the baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) are part of NATO.

@anyoneinterestinggg6896

4 жыл бұрын

@@colincahill785 you're right I misinterpreted his words

"[E]tremely vulnerable if attacked through the Baltics." MAD-Mutually Assured Destruction.

@chinggiskhan6678

3 жыл бұрын

This only proves further that Russia is weak. The only way the country projects power is by hoarding nukes XD.

Given this level of analysis I can only imagine what he would say about Canada.

@chinggiskhan6678

3 жыл бұрын

Canada has multiple bilateral agreements and relationships with the USA, and they get most of their products/food from the USA.

Underestimating Russias' ability to look after itself has been the downfall of quite a number of its adversary's

That is a biased insight. 1. Russia is European starting by the fact that the European plains stretch from France to Russia up to the Urals. 2. Russians are a Slavic nation, that is, part of the stem that encompasses Poles, Czechs, Serbs and others that start spreading in all directions from the Carpathian basin in VI AD. It is an amazing feat that Eastern Slavs could resist and counterattack nomad tribes that came from beyond the Urals and conquer their territory and even pass to America (Alaska). 3. Russia is not landlocked in the West, it has own access to the Baltic and the the Mediterranean seas because Russians defeated the Swedes that invaded territories that belonged to the Kievan Rus and also defeated the Turks that had invaded the Balkans and territories that belonged to the Byzantine Empire (from which is the only legal successor) and got FREE sailing through the straits. Any attempt to block them would be an act of war. If Mr. Friedman is trying to encourage Westerners to invade Russia, then I would think he is paid by the Rothschilds that want another war to make more profits. If Mr. Friedman is just trying to have the spotlights on him, he can take a bench and await sitting.

Belarus and Ukraine were not buffers of Russia, they were PARTS of Russia that are now separated from the main state.

@drisse8782

6 жыл бұрын

Birth name of Russia : Kievan Russ , how can UKraine still say no? XD

@stepanfedun9122

6 жыл бұрын

"Main state" bich, Ukraine built Moscow Keiv is older than russia, Ukraine is the main state

@edgarratsep3631

6 жыл бұрын

Mr.Spoon bitch doesn't know that Kievan RUS and Ukraine are different things, period.

@stepanfedun9122

6 жыл бұрын

Edgar Rätsep Kevian rus had a large eastern Slavic population, same as Ukraine Kevian rus owned a large area of Ukraine Kevian rus was the starting point of Ukraine Saying that they are complete different is like saying that a rock and a pebble are different things

@edgarratsep3631

6 жыл бұрын

Mr.Spoon "Kievan Rus was starting point of Ukraine" that's where you're wrong dude. How do i know? I certainly know that nobody called themselves ukrainian before 19th century. A country without own nation, language, currency, traditions and so on is not a country, just a place. Dare to explain how Ukraine is connected to Kievan Rus if Ukraine appeared in 20th century, just 7 centuries after the first state collapsed? And if Kievan Rus is Ukraine then why doesn't Ukraine claim Novgorod, Pskov and many other cities that i don't remember as theirs? The answer is clear.

You got saint-petersburg's location wrong. 0:26

Thia is very true..

Кто к нам с мечём придет, от меча и погибнет!

bad analysis of Russia...

@balazsbuza4661

6 жыл бұрын

azura It was just really one sided

@truth9353

6 жыл бұрын

Russia is a poor agrarian country desperate for world attention

@theprisera1221

6 жыл бұрын

What makes russia strong?

@jokyyang6032

6 жыл бұрын

A LOT OF NUKES

@ios-helper9990

6 жыл бұрын

Can't accept the facts huh just keep hating on the US but deep down you know the US would beat Russia in a war.

0:28 what happened wiht estonia and latvia

Why is Kalingrad shown as part of the Baltics?

well...propaganda

@TheDreadXxXx

7 жыл бұрын

Your comment is propaganda.

@SlugSage

7 жыл бұрын

TheDreadXxXx you're propaganda!

@dafekyusey1999

6 жыл бұрын

Mad cuz bad.

@dafekyusey1999

6 жыл бұрын

eddie money Learn facts. russia is a shit hole.

@danielmills94

6 жыл бұрын

Russia isn't the strongest country in the world ''PROPAGANDA''

This guy has no idea of what landlocked mean.....it means you dont have a coastline,Russia does

how can you be landlocked if you own 3 major ports to international waters..?? St. Petersburg, Sevestopol and Vladivastok have major ports...

This is the same guy who said America’s biggest fear was an alliance between Germany and Russia, and that was the reason why two world wars were fought.

"Russia is a landlocked country" I stoped watching after that. Is it really that hard to look on a map before talking about something???

I would love it if Texas separated from the US. No problem with that whatsoever.

@jimmydnuttjr

7 жыл бұрын

:(

@danemathews4037

6 жыл бұрын

And then the rest of the United States would just invade again and make it a territory :)

Beautiful analysis....dead on

"The Europe" lol I like that

Love this video... Love the candid assessment... Excellent...

@theobystrom5279

6 жыл бұрын

Sharp White Exept the map is really inaccurate. Just try to find iraq...

This video is a little extreme. Russia does have a lot of useless land, the population is small and not well distributed, and the country is overall not as developed or rich as Europe or the US, but that huge size means huge amount of resources, and Putin has been slowly modernizing the military. Russia doesn't have a large economy considering its size (California alone has a larger GDP), but it has the second most powerful army in the world, and nuclear capacity

@neilroux1793

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly.Imagine with the resources it has how powerful it could be.Russia has a land mass 3 to 4 times the size of the USA.Imagine the potential.It already is the biggest producer of Wheat, corn in the world now.Its wheat exports will soon bring in more money than its weapons sales.the more impressive thing is they don't have a huge GDP yet they already have the second biggest army in the world.when their GDP grows more it will go past the USA.

@danemathews4037

6 жыл бұрын

Russia is actually 1st in nuclear arsenals

A true George-Friedman-style analysis: an authoritative sounding delivery but so many imprecisions. He's an American speaking to Americans, but the rest of us should move on to finer critiques.

Umm.... St. Petersburg is placed in the wrong place on the map in 0:28

Russia is not poor they are rich in resources and culture

@sydneythomason5950

6 жыл бұрын

samuel fitzpatrick .....and bullshit.

@samuelfitzpatrick9739

6 жыл бұрын

Sydney Thomason screw you

Looks like George Friedman's view on Russia is stuck in 19th century (or even in 17th century). Russia now is a more developed country than what's been showed in pictures. Most of the biggest Russian cities not differ much from European. But in video we see only ruins and wastelands, and several times repeated word "poor". Also, Russia have access to 3 oceans (Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific). Russia have intercontinental missiles, that can reach any place in Europe and America, so there no need of free access to sea anymore! This is very narrow, outdated and biased analisis which only purpose is propaganda.

@coreymicallef365

7 жыл бұрын

Russia's access to the Atlantic is limited due to the climate freezing the Russian ports there and the potential for NATO to block access (NATO is an anti-Russian alliance so this is not an inconceivable notion), most of the Arctic is frozen year round and the parts that aren't are still extremely difficult to traverse (look up the British efforts to supply the USSR with food and weapons via that route in the Second World War) with the possibility of this sea becoming feasibly navigable for the first time in history in the next few decades only due to climate change. Access to the Pacific is much less restricted, but Russia can't feasibly transport goods produced in its west all the way to the Pacific, to make fullest use of this coast Russia would need to start getting its people to migrate there and develop the territory and that will be next to impossible to do with their current demographic difficulties. It could be argued that the USSR should have done that developing but even at the best point economically they weren't very interested in foreign trade and that would have been the main reason for that development, a proper trans-Siberian highway wasn't completely built until 2004. As for Russian cities, I'll take your word for them being similar to European (using Friedman's definition) cities but the areas connecting the cities are just as important as the cities themselves because if the logistical links between the cities are poor then it is difficult or expensive to make something in one city and sell it in another, add to that the much larger distance between the major cities in Russia compared to Europe and economies of scale don't really take off easily in those conditions.

@ramzi4515

7 жыл бұрын

Arseniy Babin well geography doesn't change

@theeyehead3437

6 жыл бұрын

Defends Russia Complains about propaganda

@virtualends1

6 жыл бұрын

Aresnir just take look at google earth and you can see that 90% of Russia lives in poverty.

@eoghan-uk9yi

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah "most of the biggest Russian cities" most of them are landlocked and most of them aren't anything like european cities in terms of wealth

The territorial view of things becomes less relevant as technology gradually opens more options for overland communication. Also, if icecaps melt and sea levels rise as many predict, sea ports will open in the north.

@Jibe111111111

5 ай бұрын

Wrong and wrong

Informative video

What a bunch of incorrect facts and twisted reality...oh my god...

Russia had no Ukrainian, Baltic or Bellorussian territory, when Napoleon attacked, Hitler attacked USSR from all the front with 3 armey groups "North","Center" and "South", he didn't advanced only in Ukraine, nowadays this territory isn't important as much as it was, due to existance of nuclear tactical and intercontinental missles. Russia has acces to 3 oceans and 3 internal seas. Siberia is populated denser, then most of Australia, Canada and Brasil. Russia is first or among the first in natural resources, such as natural gas, uranium, has one of the biggest oil reserves and many other resources, including also the fact, that it controls half of the Arctic. Russia has strong economical ties with Asia. There could be many other arguments presented, but only main argument needed is the fact, that Russia survived and florished for 1154 years and even longer before, while there is almost no generation in it's history, that didn't witnessed an interventional war or conflict of some kind and most of this times it was "isolated" by the rest of the world.

@lyubanenko

8 жыл бұрын

+Андрей «TheProudCat» Герман Спасибо за хорошее английское объяснение

@user-bn1zd3us5l

8 жыл бұрын

Andrew Lyubanenko Не за что)

@user-bn1zd3us5l

8 жыл бұрын

Mateusz Wites It's not the modern day territories, they were smaller back in the day.

@user-bn1zd3us5l

8 жыл бұрын

Mateusz Wites By the way many post soviet countries took many of Russia's historical territories after the collapse. Crimea was a good example, it was captured by Russia in 1783, the same year, in which British Empire confirmed independence of USA.

@mateuszwites8534

8 жыл бұрын

+Андрей «TheProudCat» Герман Crimea was transferred to Ukraine by Soviets in 1954, it was not taken by anyone. Putin annexed crimea because its very important military base for Russia navy. BTW. I dont see much of a difference in size (upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Europe_1812_map_en.png). Look at this map of russia in 1812 and today maps. Its this same buffer zone.

Pls make one with "why NATO isn't as strong as people think"

Someone has to point out that the English subtitles are totally unnecessary, as this man speaks English in a way that is very easy to understand.

this should go on a cringe challenge compilation 😂😂😂

Worship america goi

Landlocked? They have the ports in the north and in the black sea.

I like how nobody has complained about the positioning of St. Petersburg

Lol it’s so funny to see salty Russians. Deny deny deny, just like the moon landing.

USA may not be as strong as you think.

@gorillaz112

6 жыл бұрын

well at least they don't commit genocide while claiming bringing peace and democracy

@markojovanovic1750

6 жыл бұрын

Cyphrum ᕙ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕗ US is a democratic country as well, wise ass. Don’t have the best memory have we ?

@gorillaz112

6 жыл бұрын

what democracy ??everything you say is sexist,racist,misogynistic and so on what democracy your freedom of speech is being killed more and more everyday and i was talking about middle east

@markojovanovic1750

6 жыл бұрын

Cyphrum ᕙ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕗ The US isn’t stronger than Russia, in fact, I’d say it’s exact opposite. Russia is superior in many things, like nuclear power, tank power, territory, strategic position, etc. While the US has a higher population (which doesn’t even matter in a nuclear war), the Americans aren’t even a single, unified nation, but a bunch of immigrants from all around the world, many of whom don’t really care for America, but are there just because of the better economical development, and that’s where the Russians, who are an actual unified patriotic nation are at an advantage. Also, the only reason the US can even afford its military budget is by printing ginormous amounts of money, which can lose its value any time due to the huge amount of printing. Russia’s ally China could completely economically devastate the US, as it owes huge amounts of money to China, which it will take decades to repay. Perhaps the US isn’t as powerful as you think ?

@markojovanovic1750

6 жыл бұрын

Cyphrum ᕙ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕗ Yeah, the US spends more on the military, but as I mentioned earlier, the only reason you guys can even afford you’re military budget is through ginormous amounts of printing and borrowing money from countries like China. If China would demand from you, to return all of you’re debts to them immediately, you would be completely economically devastated ! Population does matter, and the US has more of it, but half of the American population are blacks, Asians, Mexicans, immigrants etc., who as I mentioned earlier don’t give a shit about America ! They won’t fight for you ! Americans aren’t even a real nation, just a bunch of immigrants from all around the world. Also, did you forget that you are on the other continent ? We can just bomb all of you’re soldier carrying ships, before they even reach the shore. You didn’t even manage to defeat Vietnam, while it was in a total disarray, how in the hell do you hope to defeat Russia ? And yes, China is our ally, so is North Korea, because it is in their best interest to preserve communism, from which they benefit greatly. NATO is just an American tool, for turning European countries against Russia, but they won’t go to war with Russia for you. Just look at the people’s response, after the recommendation of an “EU army to face Russia”

Agreed. ..

I wonder how the speaker passed his grammar test.

The primary reason Russia is somewhat weak is simply because they don't have the money and funding to have a really strong military. A decent sum of Russia's military equipment is still soviet era equipment as well so that is also a reason Russia isn't too strong in modern times.

@ricardo53100

7 жыл бұрын

Russia does not have the money owing to their lack of diversification and their inability to get rid of the oligarch structure.

@daepicpigeon3274

7 жыл бұрын

Comrade They do have advanced military equipment, but not nearly as much as America or China. And some of it isn't as good. A prime example of this is their admiral Kuznetsov carrier. They have 1 and it doesn't even use a nuclear reactor for power. America has 10 and the ALL use nuclear reactors. Come on man, even Wikipedia could teach you that.

@daepicpigeon3274

7 жыл бұрын

Comrade HA YOU'RE MAD NOW. LOL, YOU LET A "KID" PISS YOU OFF. WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT. LOL

@daepicpigeon3274

7 жыл бұрын

Comrade And you still don't have an argument to what I said there do you dipshit?

@OmmerSyssel

6 жыл бұрын

TheRoughmen Does any part of your statement makes Russia stronger, wealthier or healthier? Does it change where wealth & stability is found? Does it change where highest living standards & longest life expectance is found? Which Russian technology is used, well known & respected world wide? Maybe Vodka? Pictures of a middle-aged wannabee macho waving guns, bears and whathavewe to impress who? Russia is nation out of touch with rest of the modern world & its huge population pay the price for Putins megalomaniac dreams

This guy is on crack, and he doesn't know what he's talking about, Этот человек не знает, что он говорит и почему говорить.

@danielmills94

6 жыл бұрын

Why?

@bigtime1356

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Mills because russia has more oil and gas than other countries in Europe so saying its poor is dumb

@focast1825

6 жыл бұрын

Also because Russia has like 50,000 anti-ship, air-to-surface, and surface-to-surface rockets to open up the Bosphorus in the case that any navy tries to blockade it. There are a lot of very important details he is leaving out. He says that the Ukraine is fundamentally important but leaves out many reasons and just puts it on access to the Mediterranean. Annexing Crimea was just the first step, they are going to make even more moves on Ukraine and the middle east. Also let's not forget Turkey tried invading Russia before and over 40 thousand of them died in one night due to the winter, so it isn't as vulnerable as he makes it out to be. The winter soldiers for Russia, as the old proverb says.

@rickyspanish5326

6 жыл бұрын

bitch lasagna just because you have more oil doesn't make you wealthy. Depends how much they sell.

@robhansen6745

6 жыл бұрын

OUCH ! That's gotta hurt ! We don't share the Russians delusions thats why we laugh at AT RUSSIANS !”. TAKE A LOOK AT THE FACTS Russia’s influence IS A JOKE !!! Russia at its best GDP ever was back in the day of 2013 Russia had even then a peanut economy about the same size as Italy’s at the time so really it's too small to throw its weight around (but Russia has always been trying to boxing out of its own class) See the stats.. under, Russia ranks the size based on 2013 nominal GDP: and now after the sanctions it is even smaller and get smaller then Italy is today .. GDP pr nation 2013 (when Russia was at its best ) United States -- GDP 17.8 trillion (2013) China -- GDP 9.2 trillion (2013) Japan --GDP 4.9 trillion (2013) Germany -- GDP 3.6 trillion (2013) France --GDP 2.7 trillion (2013) United Kingdom -GDP 2.5 trillion (2013) Brazil -- GDP 2.2 trillion (2013) (even a South American BS Bananacake Republic nation like Brazil is bigger than RuZZia ) India -- GDP 2.2 trillion (2013) (and even a INDIA a 3rd world nation is bigger than RuZZia) Italy -- GDP 2.1 trillion (2013) Russia --GDP 2.1 trillion (2013) -----------------NOTICE !!!! Russia today -GDP 1,1 trillion (2017) ---------- Also of note: the European Union’s 2013 nominal GDP was GDP 17.4 trillion We can see if we look at Russia’s economy to Italy’s how small it is -- and Italy’s economy compared to the rest of the world and western nations is small take United Kingdom -- GDP 2.5 ;, France -- GDP 2.7 .and Germany -GDP 3.6,.. AND WAHT IS RUSSIA TODAY IN 2017 ???? IT IS A WHOPPING hehehe GDP of 1,1 trillion ( lower then even SPAIN with GDP of 1,2 and that is the sick boy of the EU like Greece !!!!!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) Everyone wants sanctions on Russia that is why they are there !!! And when the stink hole that is RuZZia has fallen it will be broken up bit for bit and sold off for cents on the dollar.. Because that is what you pay monkeys you pay them with peanuts

wtf is this map you are using?

This is a spot on analysis. Warm water ports are the key factor. Yes Turkey can block anybody from using the straits at any time. Russia should be afraid of Turkey.

It's so fun to hear so stupid expert. In time when Napoleon comes to Russia there was no Ukraine no Belorus, it was a Russian Imperia. There was no even a nationality Ukrainian. There was no any buffer. Then, Russia exports a grain, oil to Turkey. Why turkey would close Bosphorus. Also Russia And Turkey signed an Act about Bosphorus. Closing it for Russian ships will start the war immediately. Sorry for my English.

@RieserDav

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Lyubanenko yes but the point he is making is about the east european plain it is indefensible given its lenght and no natural barriers blocking a fast entry if you control a territory like the soviet union did you can harrass endless supply lines all day long but if they can securely be established up to the current russian border there is no way to stop an army from invasion

@lyubanenko

8 жыл бұрын

+RieserDav which army is going to invade Russia? Poland, Baltic? For what?

@mateuszwites8534

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Lyubanenko NATO. Ofc NATO has no plans of doing so, but Putin as ex-FSB is paranoid and will no take any chances.

@lyubanenko

8 жыл бұрын

Mateusz Wites from what country you are?

@lyubanenko

8 жыл бұрын

Mateusz Wites so how much military bases we made near NATO countries?

Brilliant explanation

Fuckin hell I didn't even realize he said the Europe till I read the comments..

Who the fuck need buffer when you have bombs which can make opponents vanish from world map

Just realize that someone a whole team worked on these facts and someone actualy put it on yt

What for the artic to melt.

For a guy that started an online intelligent information service's (Stratfor) He might need to go back preshool and learn more about what a land lock country looks like

What have been some of the most recent good offers of annexation ? With all the regions of fairly distinct culture & heritage that seek independence ..e.g: Catalonia from Spain ...There are probably some regions/countries that would like to combine with a neighboring country of shared heritage & values.

@TOFKAS01

6 жыл бұрын

"probably some regions/countries that would like to combine with a neighboring country of shared heritage & values." You mean that the russian south could seceed? Yes, thats quite a possibility in this century.

One of the most frightening moments I ever had is accidentally cornering a bear; that could be Russia- be cautious and beware

I didn't get content and title?

There ocean on the northside and Asian sides and the west. It's not a landlocked country. A landlocked country is Afghanistan.

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