Conflict in Ukraine's Donbas Region: The Geology Behind the Headlines
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On February 24th 2022, the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine attempting to seize the capital city, Kyiv, and the eastern half of the country. After sustaining heavy loses in those initial months, Russian leadership decided on a new objective: annexing the Donbas region. Paul Day, Professor of Geology, briefly examines the geologic context for the Donbas and explores to what extent the geology of the Donbas region is a motivator for the on-going conflict.
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Reports like this is why I spend so much time on RUclips. Thank you.
And appreciation like this is why I find time to make an occasional video. Thank you!
@@EarthandSpaceSciencesX Two years ago, I understood Neon Gas was a byproduct of the steel making in this area. It was being sold to the computer hardware industry, being used in the ASML silicon wafer manufacturing machines. Since the war, neon gas had to be sourced elsewhere at a greater cost. Rumor, or not?
Same here!!
True, someone tried to sell me on the idea that Ukraine was an impoverished region of the USSR, but it was and always has been resource-rich and an agricultural gem.
Me too. Sadly you do have to wade through a quagmire of dross to get to this sort of stuff.
Lindsey Graham said the quite part out loud about the natural resources in eastern Ukraine and how much money is involved.
On both sides. But locally, there are identitary motivations. The approach of Ianoukovitch was less interesting for the West.... So there are material motivations on both sides... of meddling foreign powers...
He let that one slip out
One day the Govt tells us coal is bad, the next they get all lathered up and want a war to obtain coal. The Clown Show can't keeps it's lies straight.
He really did say the quiet part out loud, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Nice to hear someone without a political filter, for a change, however.
A lot of western investors lost their shirts in this project, They are holding huge volumes of worthless shares that can only regain there value if .........
It is not always what you gain from conquest, but what you deprive your competition of.
What an interesting comment. Thanks for posting it.
True, Putin's ultimate goal now is to weaken the Ukrainian state by depriving it of economic assets and then going for conquest in the future. If he manages to get a peace deal that allows him to keep the occupied territories, this will put Ukraine in a very fragile situation, as no financial investments will be made in an area that can turn into a warzone in any minute, plus the lost resources. Ukraine needs to keep all of its territory to remain as an independent state.
True. Russia already has abundant natural resources. But I think the more pressing issue is the fact how many Russians ended up in Ukraine due to how the Soviet Union drew the borders. And the unwillingness of Ukraine to solve the bloody civil war that had been raging there for 8 years before Russia intervened.
@@dan-bz7dz The trolls are working here... Who stoked the conflict in the first place?
Back to topic. It is exactly that. Ukraine already has the infrastructure to transport natural gas. They "only" need to flip a switch to replace the Russian gas with Ukrainian one and would become one of the major players in Europe's natural gas market. That's why Shell was exploring in the East and it's one contributor for this conflict.
Agree. People still refuse to call this a genocide, when Putin has clearly said Ukraine doesn’t exist. He says that Ukrainians are just Russians that have lost their way: Putin would rather burn down all of Ukraine and kill everyone, than allow his own citizens to watch a successful post Soviet country
I dont think those resources play major role for Russia, i mean Russia has immense resources. Primarly it is strategic question.
More one of unbridled greed!
@@NexPutax I don't think so. The thing is to deny Ukraine its industrial output directly and reducing Ukraine's overall GDP, of which huge chunk comes from the Donbas itself...not less than 25%. If Russia stops at those 4 provinces, it will still unable Ukraine to develop its industry in a close vicinity, which will further diminish its independence. Plus, everything that those regions produce will contribute to Russian GDP.
Ruzz wanted to ensure it remained a monopoly supplier of energy and minerals to Germany. That enabled it to have a strategic hold over the EU and NATO.
With Ukraine threatening to horn on its European resource market ruzz was determined that shouldn't happen.
certainly , strategic security has always been Russia first motivation , but increasing economic resources are part of security too
all countries know that , including the USA
@@jimgraham6722Interesting you talk about 'ruzz'. 'Ruzz' (phonetically) was the name the Viking/'Swedish' founders of Kiev called themselves and it's considered to be the start of the Russian nation.
The resources in that area are secondary to the strategic long term military and commercial use of the warm water ports..
Granted. But geology/topography &.resources have always determined population levels and human economic adaptations.
RUZZIA ALREADY HAD A 50 YEAR LEASE ON SEVASTOPOL PLUS NEW PORTS IN SYRIA. SORRY....
@@davidgleinbach7316Amerikkka views some countries as enemies. Coincidentaly those countries do not have US military bases
To Russia they are secondary, to the western leaders, the minerals are the only reason they are in this. They aren't worried about whether they can put nukes on Russia's border. They already can, they could put them in Sweden.
It's all about the oil and other minerals, ie it's all about the money. It always is, and always has been.
Russia had free passage from the Azow sea to the Black sea before the war.
Paul,
I have watched all your videos and I must say, you are an outstanding educator 👏
Your enthusiasm, clarity and delivery make for a very engaging and informative experience
I wish my college professors have had half the game you do
Can’t wait for new content. 😀
Thank you very much for the encouraging comment!
Great presentation! Stripped of ideology, War is competition for resources; that's the bottom line.
Thank you to our host geologist for a concise explanation for laymen.
Thank you Paul. I`m from Donetsk. The reason of this conflict is realy complicated.
There is a very interesting story here, a few years before 2014, Western corporations carried out geo-exploration in Eastern Ukraine. One of the founders of Burisma Holdings was Joe Biden's son, Hunter. In the spring of 2014, military collision began in the region and the exploration was stopped and Western corporations left the region. It looks like Russia has solved two issues: it prevented the development of gas production in Ukraine and diverted the attention of the Ukrainian army from Crimea which was handed to Russia without any resistance.
In 2022, there was a new wave of war in Ukraine, the most fierce fighting again in Donbass. And again, Biden defends his interests, already as the leader of the Western coalition.
NATO, expanding for many years to the East, would sooner or later meet resistance, and this happened in my city, Donetsk.
Thank you for taking the time to share your story and perspective. It is much appreciated and I hope your family has avoided much of the tragedy that has already unfolded in this conflict.
@@EarthandSpaceSciencesX you really arnt going to push back on these comments implying russia had to invade ukraine?
@@ashtestes Truth at First, no Western Propaganda and Lie
@@naakatube SS are Coming they are always welcome in the Russian land.
Thank you for sharing your perspective . I’m afraid American politics is FUBAR 🫤.
Thank you for these in-depth explanations of the geological factors of the Ukrainian conflict with Russia. Also we can add, the exceptional riches of the Ukrainian topsoil, which contributes vastly to the country's wealth with the production of wheat and maize and other type of cultures. The name of this particular topsoil is, "Tchernozium". It is a large band of earth stretching from the northwest of the country and going well into Russia to the southeast, and measuring around 1500 km in length, with a width of around 200 km to 400 km.
It's interesting to me that you bring this up because when the conflict broke out I immediately thought of that magnificent soil...second most productive soil in the world behind America's Blackland Prairie. Historically, that soil is not only fantastic for agriculture, but during times of conflict, it serves as a natural hazard for invading forces during the springtime. It's not hard to find photos of German tanks stuck in the mud during WWII and predictably tanks and trucks were stuck in the mud during the opening weeks of this conflict for the exact same reason.
Yes, we would like to take those back from Black Rock.
Yet Russia is the world's number one producer of wheat and grain.
Have to correct you, its named чорноземи- chornozem. Check out on Wikipedia.
@@terike9738 30 times larger country?
Just found your channel today. Im impressed with your technical content (im not a geotech but have a lay interest) and your professional manner with not even a hint dramatics... you got a new sub...
Your geo take on the conflict adds a very important extra dimension to the discussion. And this conflict is anything but 1 dimensional. I personally think Donbass geo resources werent the primary driver for Russia however it would def be in their interest to restrict a neighbouring LNG competitor to the EU..... of course the US bombing of the Nordstream supply to Germany/EU after Russia rolled into Ukraine would make it a hell of a lot easier to be the LNG pipeline of choice to EU (and Blackrock et al etc).... taking out the competition for Ukraine LNG makes sense now
I am not of the opinion that Russia wants to take all of Ukraine and then roll all over the EU. Thats nothing but fear-mongering dramatics and plays into the hands of certain interest groups.... and well trained anti-commie haters enmass...
I'd be more interested in the rare earth metals and who wants that very sensitive resource more considering the China supply chain and their response to illegal sanctions.. personally i dont blame them for responding in kind....
What about the mineralogy of the volcanic shield band.. surely there's gold and copper etc etc that's normally associated with volcanic hydrology? I suspect that's got to be a significant player in the equation?
I will be binging on your content now thanks. Really like your work. Any interest in discussing New Zealand geology????
There is no such thing as "LNG pipeline" - contradiction of terms...
Ural
@@ehoworka Not quite clever enough, ehoworka, you forgot to explain why.
Pipelines carry gas as a gas. L = Liquid. LNG is liquid because it is either very cold or at great pressure.
Agree totally!!!!
I don't know whether I'm to blame for not paying attention at school or whether the content was so much drier in the 1960s. This stuff is really interesting and the teacher is so enthusiastic. Mind you, what would happen if your audience would have rather been out fishing?
Hello Professor Day, I love your videos so much! Thank you for covering the geology and science of Ukraine, which is a totally different way to understand the region than geo-politics! Professor, would you also please be able to cover the recent earthquake in Turkiye and Syria that took place Feb 2023, from the science and plate tectonics perspective, as we've learned from your video lectures? Thank you Professor Day, and stay safe!
I am deeply interested in that geological disaster and want to cover it when more scientific answers are known. It's one of the most heart-breaking tragedies of my lifetime.
In 2006 I served with a medical mission team in Donetsk, seeing a large number of residents as patients and interacting with our local support staff. This does not make me an expert on the region, but I did gain a sense of the people there. East of the Dnieper River everyone speak Russian. I have read of the mass starvation in that region during the 1930’s. Combining that with your excellent commentary on the oil workers moving there from Western Siberia, it seems that the former population had been replaced by people migrating from deeper inside Russia. We went through Deniepro-Petrovsk which is up on the shield east of the Donbas. The region between Donetsk and Deniepro held amazing agricultural land. Does not geology determine to some degree the quality of soil? I suspect Russia wants the Donbas and areas to its east for multiple reasons: to repatriate native Russians, to regain the agricultural zone for wheat and sunflower production, for the oil and gas, and as a strategic buffer from the West. I do not feel any of this justifies the resulting human tragedy. And all this is only my personal speculations.
Putin speaks exclusively about the invasion's purpose being to subjugate the Ukrainian people, and all the Ukrainian commentators I've observed have framed the conflict in terms of Russian colonial ambition and haven't mentioned natural resources in relation to Ukraine, although some have contended that most of what we call Russia is an expanse of colonies whose resources are plundered for the benefit of ethnic Russians. There is clear demographic evidence that the bulk of the "Russian" soldiers sent to Ukraine are drawn from "non-core" regions primarily populated by people who are not ethnically Russian.
That said, the Donbas being an economic powerhouse gives it strategic value in the struggle, as controlling its output can be used to weaken Ukraine (although I read somewhere that after 2014 Russia didn't displace the Ukrainian oligarch who basically controlled it; this changed in 2022).
From a purely military standpoint the numerous urban centres and terrain of the Donbas area will make it more difficult for Ukraine to liberate than any of the other occupied areas, so it was a good target for Russia in 2014 from that perspective too. A standard Russian tactic is to maintain at least one "breakaway region" in countries that aspire to join NATO and/or the EU (e.g. Moldova & Georgia) as territorial incompleteness is a barrier to entry.
So what are the reasons for West to fight across the globe? For freedom? 🤣🤣🤣
Good old western peacekeepers 🤣🤣🤣
@@radiozvrk6784For the first time in history, defending your country's sovereignty and preventing the desolation of your culture is considered a foreign interest. The Ukrainians in occupied territories who are kidnapped and tortured for not converting to the Russian language should just suck it up right.
@@radiozvrk6784 Firstly, "the West" isn't fighting, it's only providing material assistance to the Ukrainians so that they can fight for themselves. Nowhere near the level of engagement that occurred in the World Wars. It has sent observers under OSCE (prior to 2022) but never peacekeepers.
Some reasons for providing this assistance include:
- Having been parties to security agreements with Ukraine prior to the start of the war. Russia was in an agreement to guarantee Ukraine's security but decided to break it.
- The Ukrainians want to be an independent democratic country and not to be controlled by a foreign power, and they've asked pretty much everyone on the planet for help. For the US in particular this has been enough reason to get directly involved in other conflicts, and the fact that the US hasn't is a clue that this fight isn't about supposed US control of Ukraine's natural resources.
- Putin has made it clear that if succeeds in Ukraine he won't stop there, a direct threat to other European nations. He has made many statements about changing the current global order, from which the US is the largest single beneficiary. A good source for interpreting Russia in this regard is any leader from the Baltic states. They're all on the same page.
- Preventing nuclear proliferation. If Ukraine goes under then other small and medium sized nations will be more likely to conclude that they need to have nuclear weapons to protect themselves.
Are you an American? By your logic, LEAVE right away back to your ancestors' homeland and give the land back to the indigenous people.
First time viewer of your channel. Came here because of my interest in the war in Ukraine, but geology or any science for that always catches my eye. Very interesting angle to make a video of a warzone, but I loved it. Learned about the war, learned about geology. Ive subscribed to learn more about geology, you present it very well.
Thank you!
Great easy to follow presentation, very informative.
Glad you liked it!
Have been waiting for this explanation. Thank you.
You are welcome!
I have been as well.
what about rare minerals? (e.g. titanium, lithium etc)
There's quite a bit of those too. Glossed over that because I didn't want the video to be too long but those could also be relevant.
@@EarthandSpaceSciencesX do you think this could be one of the drivers (not the main one) for what is happening over there? ruclips.net/video/RQpN-LfErTI/видео.html
Probably when Elon sold large share in tesla!
and what about the uranium deposits?
@@SurfTopsail If Putin successfully control the city name Кривий Ріг, Russia uranium reserve will be increased by 50%.
I think you really hit the nail: Resources are one of the biggest reasons for motion in this conflict. Thanks for sharing !
Keywords being: 1) Mackinder, 2) Lebensraum, 3) Burisma.
Geology is a nice accompanying melody line.
Add Wolfovitz and Zbigniew Brzezinsky
Nuland-Kagan cabal.
@@AddieHilton PNAC
Russia was just mad that American oligarchs would benefit from Ukraine instead of Russian ones. How many trillions of RMB would that coal and iron sell for?
I find it interesting that coal gas and oil is found in an area that is so very old. It means that there was a huge amount of plant life in the history of early earth
Plants without the organisms to decompose it.
Excellent comment! Our species has only been here for 0.00009 percent of the time life has been evolving. Who can scarcely imagine the colossal legacy that we're burning through in an instant?
Thank you for this usful information. The geopolitical angle is much more important.
The best analysis is provided by Prof. Sachs and Prof. Mearsheimer.
Let there be peace in Ukraine.
Agreed. The end game is really a 2 part one..
1. Destabilise, divide and conquer Rxssia. Its exactly what the AIC modus operandi is.. then raxpe and pillage the Rxssian economy and natural resources.. theres plenty of history demonstrating exactly this scenario..
2. UXA cannot go to wxr with China until Rxssia is knee-capped and the threat of their massive nuk arsenal is under control . Theyve been steadily trying to drive a wedge between them for quite a while now. But theyre not stupid..
Interesting how EU is in full on war mongering mode nowadays. Could it be that Rxssia was not meant to be winning by now and they were expecting an unstable Rxssia to pick off bit by bit...
All i see is panic in the west after their cowboy plans failed ...AGAIN..
:))) sachs lol 😂😂😂
Mearcheimer...I believe I have more cred than Mearcheimer...He reads and listens to the same people as myself. I haven't heard an original thought come of dude ever.
@@DerDop Sacks is the man. He was at the table with Gorbechev!
@@jasonreed8553he’s a shill.
If you want to understand the military aspects, there is no better source than the Military Summary channel. Thank you for your video, I found it confirmational.
The huge population of Russian ethnic in the region can be explained by the geological resources in the area. However the conflict itself have its root in the sociopolitical situation in Ukraine. In fact, before 2014 Russia was among the largest trading partner of Ukraine along with the EU, both having roughly 30% each. This mean that its not in the interest of Ukraine to alienate one of their trading partner nor does it benefit Russia when they not only have cultural and historical ties to Ukraine (being the birth place of Russia in the Kievan Rus and part of the Eastern Slavic race) but also strong economic ties.
Sociopolitical aspect though, then its partly due to Soviet policy in the area and with the migration of ethnic Russian into Ukraine, during Soviet time racial/ethnic tension may have started then and with the dissolution of USSR, this start to grow due to nationalism. I'm not saying nationalism itself is bad but for a new country, the need to create a national narrative on the formation of their country take center stage.
Unfortunately, since the some of the national figures that can be said as freedom fighter are Nazi (Bandera etc), the ideology of those national heroes began to spread but instead of having the Jews as the national enemy like in Germany, the target is the Russian ethnic which make sense since like pre-war Germany, the Russian not only dominate Ukraine economically but also culturally as part of the legacy of USSR. This used to be a minority and if you asked any Ukrainian before 2010, they have no problem in condemning both Nazism and Communism just like any other post-Soviet country. The difference being that they also acknowledge that some of their national heroes come from both ideology.
Post-Maidan the crack become apparent with racial/ethnic motivated attack being commited in Odessa and the Donbass against the Russian and its all because an ethnic Russian president postponed the signing of EU-Ukraine friendship treaty, even though most of the Donbass (Russian majority area) didn't vote for that president. Its like if Texas didn't vote for Trump but the Democrats still blame them for Trump being President.
That is why untangling the conflict is hard. You have Ukrainian hardliner that is anti-Russia (and to some extend suspicious of Russian Ukrainian loyalty), Russian Ukrainian that's being targeted just because they are Russian and/or protested against the Maidan coup and the Neo-Nazi who place themselves as heroes of Ukraine against Russia and Russian belligerence. Being an important country in Russia's foreign and defense strategy (having a naval base in Crimea and lots of investment within Ukraine economy) Russia is basically forced to act to defend their interest. Its basically similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis for Russia.
Well, that's my opinion on what happen in Ukraine. No doubt its more complicated than that. I mean, before 2014, does anyone in the world know much about Ukraine, aside than Yulia Tymoshenko?
No Americans cultivating that hate and encouraging nazi's. You must be American then ? Tell me why there were so many US politicians in Ukraine at the time of the Maidan coup like McCain, Nuland, Sullivan etc oh and they had nothing to do with the coup either. So then they could tell the world how sovereign the country was, and the same still applies. Which is not hard to see with Ukraine unable to even negotiate for peace unless America says they can !!!
I like your analysis, but Cuban crisis in Russia, Putin is wrong so was Kennedy.
This will be the last human war because next generation people around the world know each orther by using social medias.
You make a valiant effort to untangle often conflicting narratives related to UA/RU relations. Impossible to do so, except we must be guided by law. Nations are to be judged & understood by that standard, above all else. Explains ruZZia's international pariah status today. Peace to you and all law-abiding members of the international community. Ruzzia ceded leadership, among most Slavic speaking states, to Ukraine🇺🇦💯
@@NexPutax Well for starters, there is no law that supports the Maidan Coup. As for Russia's "pariah" status, that is only in the West. In the rest of the world like in BRICs countries, they are pretty much welcomed.
I'm however interested in how you determine "leadership among most slavic speaking states" as at least within the Eastern Slavs, Russia and Belarus are pretty much of the same mind while the rest of "slavic countries" are within the EU (i.e have little power to determine their own foreign policy).
The fact is the ultra-nationalists in the far western parts have little in common in their background with the rest of what arbitrarily landed within the boarders of the country called Ukraine. But those nationalists wanted their own country and got greedy. They laid claim to what wasn't theirs. The people in most of what's Ukraine in many cases had lived on that land for generations AS RUSSIANS. So it's ludicrous and very frivolous when some tell them - well if you want to speak Russian go back to Russia. It's like if Ontario told the french speakers in Quebec - go back to France or speak English. Would be pretty stupid if the long-term goal is to keep Quebec as a stable part of Canada, wouldn't it. Well the Ukr. nationalists are very blinded by their hatred. They can't think straight enough to even know how to pursue their very own long-term interests. It all could have been so different. Russia gave them so many chances. They blew them all. Now best thing for all would be for Ukraine to cease to exist as a political entity. Will it happen or not is now up to Russia. And that is the only real intrigue here, not 'the reasons'
Good geologic synopsis but Ukraine has only been a country for 20 years - and always controlled by Oligarchs. I was a Geology major at Wisconsin from 1969 to 1971 and have worked and still live in Ukraine/Russia - now over 12 years- { construction management and now retired} I looked at the Geology back in 08 when I worked out of Kiev and Crimea. I thought the same as you, but Ukraine{ Kiev} never took advantage of much of it.Kiev was a mafia government - very corrupt. There always were coal mines and such in the Basin - many decades worth of work for the local Ukies/Russians.
I certainly enjoyed listening to your research and those that want the Natural Resources is Wall Street and the Globalist - same game as Iraq's oil, Syria's, Libya's, etc. Russia , they say is worth 80 Trillion in resources, but they will certainly open up the Donbas Basin and drill far out from Crimea. They are mostly interested in keeping 1/2 of Ukraine , the Russian part/ heritage and keep Nato out. From where I stand - Crimea- Russia will take NovoRossiya, including east of the Dnepr, Odecca, etc. and help start a New Neutral Ukraine because Russians/Putin , don't want people that don't want to be Russians. It'll take 5 to 10 years maybe but things will turn out better if Russia and Belarus keep the Russian parts normal and New Ukraine - Ukrainian, with normal ties to Russia and Europe { once Europa gets normal - that is. Brics will be using the ports in Odecca to do business and both Ukraine and Russia will be OK as long as the outside influence is eliminated. I feel positive about this. Спасибо
It's always amusing how Z-trolls expose themselves, isn't it 🎉😂
No one else is stupid enough to go all-in making post ergo propter hoc "political history"....on the Geology channel 🤣
Why didn't your forecast materialise?
@@golddigger8759was that the 3 day operation, as Mark Milley had forecast?
Gary, fascinating input from someone knowledgeable about the topic. I agree with you, particularly about keeping outsiders (our CIA and plundering investors) out.
wrong, Ukraine is now a colony of the American Empire. Ukraine is a parasitic nation and survives by sponging off another country, Before Ukraine sponged off Russia, now Ukraine sponges off the USA.
What you demonstrate is pure rus-speak. Use chatgpt or something to remove rus-speak, because it sounds funny when somebody is trying to pretend a westerner while using Russian propaganda buzzwords.
Many thanks. I'm a PhD Chemist who did Geology 1 rather than Physics 1A at Bristol in 1969.
I have a 2" thick hardback book entitled 'Ukraine' published by Cambridge University Press in 1940. Lots still to be read there by me.
The geology as well described here is an important factor. As is the Federal Reserve Bank system-generated USDollar: issue as Interest-bearing debt. That, I'm sure, is at the heart of all this.
Good thoughts thank you..
Glad someone has put a video together on this .. I have been presenting this information for about 6 years.
When Chevron (west Ukraine) and Shell (east Ukraine) made their discoveries in 2010 and then worked on proving them, the fracking potential in Kramatorsk area was estimated to provide Ukraine with $40B / year and make it the Saudi Arabia of Europe.
October / November 2014 was when Yanukovich signed the deals with Chevron and Shell. If you overlay the timeline of when Mikola Schlochevskiy (Burisma and the Minister of Interior in charge of leasing under Yanukovich) murdered his business partner Lissan and then hired Hunter and the capital investment of CEFC for Burisma to obtain and control the leasing rights to the prime plays in DonBas .. things start to make sense. Yanukovich and Firtash controlled the gas gathering and transportation through Dima Firtash’s NaftoGaz control (their silent partner was Semyon Migolyevich and Putin) .. and Yanukovich and Schlochevskiy controlled the leasing and land (their silent partner was Biden and EU). The EU wanted to control Ukraine’s development (like a corrupt trustee rapes a foster child of their wealth and future) through IMF loans ($15B) subsidizing gas cost to EU and Ukrainian oligarch steel works so both sides benefits - but Ukrainian people would see their gas prices go up to pay for the loan. Putin’s loan didn’t push subsidies on Ukrainian people AND didn’t have the land reform that allowed foreigners to buy up the land.. very very important.
The crime we committed (I was there at energy conference backstage when Nuland told Biden Yanukovich rejected the deal and he freaked out screaming).
This entire war is a coverup for a crime .. in which both sides were going to sell energy and food to China..
Insanity and Vanity.. all about geology
bogus report. Although the gas under Sloviansk is reported to be the largest in Ukraine (2 trillion m3 of gas) that is puny compared to Russia with 48 trillion M3 of gas. Of course, Russia will not allow the USA access to 2 trillion m3 of gas less than 100m from the Russian border.
Interesting. But Yanukovich was not in power anymore in 2014. The Revolution of Dignity took place in February 2014 and he was voted out by his own party. Also the EU never wanted to control Ukraine's development and it never ever tried to. The EU was even happy for the EU deal to go together with the Russian offer, but the Russians didn't want it that way.
Putin has been extorting the Ukrainians since he came to power in 1999. Frequently he shut off the fuel supplies, even under his own stooges in the Ukrainian government. That was what the Revolution of Dignity was all about. Putin's 'loan' would definitely have pushed the Ukrainians into higher costs and he would have kept them on Russian gas and oil to keep controlling them. Developing their own resources was a too large risk, as it would have made Ukraine independent on Russian fuel and give them a constant flow of energy and they would have earned from it by selling to the EU. Your reasoning is very flawed and reeks more like the Russian propaganda.
@@tomaskinoshta7589Lol. The EU is evidently about minimizing corruption. And it’s done in an open fashion where most information is open to the public. And you Russians.
You do under that the EU is an organization of 27 independent nations with governments that are critical to each other, some left wing some rightwing. They all have bureaucratic organization inspecting spendings and actions, and they all inform their public all numbers in different ways.
And some opposing politicians would dream of finding dirt on other parties/nations. And as you know there are anti-EU and pro-Russian politicians too having access to all information. Most of these nations rank way way lower than Russia (and even the US) when it comes to corruption. That type of ranking is done by international organizations that Russia also has insight into.
Like in Sweden when one of the worst cases of national political corruption was when a ranking member of the parliament by mistake payed with her parliamentarian debit card instead of her own when she bought a chocolate bar for her kid… and her own party was so upset she had to leave politics for a few year. You really then believe all… any… politicians in the Swedish parliament, including the more Russia-positive ones, and environmentalists who ejects anything fossil fuel, etc., who have access to the full information of the national and the EU budget and spendings, would not find out and would not reveal it?! I mean, in Sweden even details in military spendings are seldom secrets.
Nah… some secret plot where the EU is in on whatever you claim isn’t possible. You don’t understand what the EU is. Neither do you understand how the independent international institutions, where Russia also has insight, that defeat corruption globally works. All your conspiracies are just in the head of someone from a nation where similar things would be possible and also happens.
Ukraine wanted to join the EU for the obvious reason that every nation who join gets a boost in economic and social progress. And the whys to this are known. And it isn’t because corruption prosper and governments or the rich steal from the taxpayers. Obviously Ukraine would have been, and will now be even more, a net receiver for long. As many other member nations are. Whatever you claim the EU is about to scam Ukraine with, even if it were true, the other EU nations will evidently provide massive amounts more to Ukraine to eject Russia and rebuild Ukrainian infrastructure.
There were UN organizations and other international organizations, the EU (all 27 nations), a bunch of other nations, and the US (Joe, but obviously taking to much credit for his part) who demanded that Ukraine fired a pro-Russian prosecutor who had a track of doing nothing to end corruption. When he was fired the new one started to go after corrupt organizations, including Burisma and the pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch who owned it (through other corporations). Neither Ukraine, the DOJ under Trump’s administration, and the GOP lead House turning every stone to find dirt on Biden, have presented any evidence that Hunter himself was involved in corruption in Ukraine. Although Hunter’s actions can be criticized from a moral perspective (leaving it here).
Earlier the leases of natural resources was governed by bribes (and yes, western corporations were involved, but you’re forgetting that Russian oligarchs owns many western corporations directly and indirectly), so the pro-Russian or Russians who owned the leases (and Westerners too I suppose) didn’t get to lease any longer. And the leases are now governed by capitalist principles: The entity that gains the taxpayers the most, get to lease them. Although sure, you can always find details to criticize. As is there still more corruption in Ukraine than in most (possible all) EU nations and the US. But it has been decreasing since Russian corrupt entities were ejected.
you stated "October / November 2014 was when Yanukovich signed the deals with Chevron and Shell." I'm surprised because this is a full year after the Maidan uprising started in the Fall of 2013, and a half-year after Crimea voted to join Russia, and Yanukovych was pro-Russian.
During his mutiny, Prigozhin said the war was all about seizing Ukraine’s resources and dividing them up between the oligarchs. So the geology is probably quite important.
Prigożyn był durniem.
Prigoshin had visions of grandeur. look at the map. The Don bass is probably just 2% of Russia. Russia already has vast land and natural resources.
@@nx3696 It's true 👍
@@philiptilden2318 just like britain in its colonies
That's why resource-poor West is spending $trillions on a Eastern European failed sate.
Weird how this video shows up a year after being made.
But two things: Donetsk and Donbas get their name from the river Don that’s further east.
And second, while mineral resources play some role, the people of Donbas who have since roughly 890’s identified as Russian rose up against a coup government in 2014. Without understanding that the geological map won’t tell you much
This coup was created of Russia. In in this region came russian militery and with force made people to rise against Ukraina. About identity of people who lived in this region - year 890 belonged this area to nomadic turkish tribes, then to Cossacs. A Cossac ataman Chmielnicki made a agreement 1648 with russian tsar to get his support to be a independent Cossacs Hetmanat. Russia exploit the situation, proclaimed those territories as russiens and the Cossacs fought against the tsars many centuries to come. Now russian speaking people in Ukraina don't want to speak russian anymore and change to ukrainian.
Not exactly Don River but rather 'little Don' River, Donets, Don's main right confluent.
If you research the statements made by Igor Girkin he openly admits that he fired the first shot in the Donbas region because there was no interest in reunification with Russia by the locals.
you may be surpeised but actual russian soil is a former ukrainian land. And dosnt matter who and what is said about identification as russian. Wait for a decade and Steven Seagal wil say he is ruzzian
I suspect it is a major deposit of natural hydrogen that was discovered. It has all the hallmarks of hydrogen potential (a failed rift overlying cratonic basement similar to South Africa, Kansas-Nebrasca, Mali, northern Pyrenees and Lorraine Basin in France, coal etc). Russia has been keen on hydrogen longer than other nations and supported abiotic oil/gas origen more than in west. They are more pragmatic than others because they place more emphasis on geology and science. In the west we have political scientists making decisions which leads to bad decisions. Your explanation for why all the fighting makes more sense. Thank you.
PEOPLE THROUGH OUT HISTORY THOUGHT SCIENCE WAS MAGIC.
THAT MADE NO SENSE....*_°... 🔱⭐
Yeah, it. had nothing to do with the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government there and then telling Ukraine they could join NATO. And it also had nothing to do with Ukraine constantly violating the peace agreement they had signed with the Donbass militias that they refused to implement. Not at all.
Like riding putin eh?
Great angle to look at events from. The agriculture is a tremendous resource that falls into the geologic realm.
The access to a southern harbor is more important to Russia than the geology. The geology is more of a factor in 8-9 years of civil war supported by the US and EU fought against the oblasts in the east. Oil and gas, iron, lithium and rare earth minerals are very interesting to the western nations.
The EU and US have supported no 'civil war'. They have supported Ukraine’s sovereignty in accordance with the UN Charter. It is the Kremlin who instigated this 'civil war' (in which most of the people of Donbas had no interest) by sending in mercenaries and regular forces in 2014.
The 'Western nations' were quite happy to purchase the products you mention from whoever is selling them, as they normally do. They have no intention of annexing parts of Ukraine as Russia has, after attempting to take the whole country. It is pretty obvious who wants these resources for free, just as Prigozhin said.
You have reversed the true situation.
The EU and US have supported no 'civil war'. They have supported Ukraine’s sovereignty in accordance with the UN Charter. It is the Kremlin who instigated this 'civil war' (in which most of the people of Donbas had no interest) by sending in mercenaries and regular forces in 2014.
The 'Western nations' were quite happy to purchase the products you mention from whoever is selling them, as they normally do. They have no intention of annexing parts of Ukraine as Russia has, after attempting to take the whole country. It is pretty obvious who wants these resources for free, just as Prigozhin said.
You have reversed the true situation.
@ruthbech The EU and US have supported no 'civil war'. They have supported Ukraine’s sovereignty in accordance with the UN Charter. It is the Kremlin who instigated this 'civil war' (in which most of the people of Donbas had no interest) by sending in mercenaries and regular forces in 2014.
The 'Western nations' were quite happy to purchase the products you mention from whoever is selling them, as they normally do. They have no intention of annexing parts of Ukraine as Russia has, after attempting to take the whole country. It is pretty obvious who wants these resources for free, just as Prigozhin said.
You have reversed the true situation.
Nonsense. Watch some proper reportage of that time. It was a civil war and US and EU are the suppliers and instigators of it. Why is Lindsey Graham shamelessly talking about the resources there? Please use your brain, the head is not just for storage. @@joe_ninety_one5076
Student in geology from Germany, thank you for this very interesting video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dude, this explains a lot. Thanks!
Thank you for this. I've spent countless hours scouring the internet for some of this information, it's good to hear it from a professional.
Although this video was done a year ago, this is the first I’ve seen it - very interesting.
Bachmut was of interest to Russia because western Ukraine had spent 8 years militarizing it, there were about 30,000 troops stationed there, and it was a weapons storage area. It supplied the troops and weapons that attacked and shelled eastern Ukraine, mostly civilian centres, for 8 years, 2014 to 2022, prior to Russia entering Ukraine. 14,000 people died in those years, mostly civilian and mostly east Ukrainians. Removing Bachmut and Avdiivka from the fight was a strategic necessity for Russia. Of geological note, both areas had large underground tunnel systems related to coal mines, that connected the centres to areas deeper in Ukraine, that allowed for easy, undetected resupply of troops and weapons.
East Ukrainians are basically Russians.
I appreciate you posting your views and insights on this issue. Indeed, I made this video way back in 2022 and was just watching the movements of troops as they would appear on a geologic map and began asking myself these questions. I did not know that history of a military buildup in Bakhmut, that is very interesting.
I think you stretched the truth a little there! The troop were stationed there in RESPONSE to the revolt in the Donbas and an attempt to be part of Russia. In fact it was a 2014 invasion by Russia, remember the anonymous "green men" that Putin sent?
Best maps I have seen of eastren Ukraine. For that alone this information was priceless.
Thank you. Bill
Thank you for watching!
Excellent analysis. Thank you very much!!!
Thanks for this - I found the geological explanation very interesting and valuable.
Writing in Sept 2024 - nearly two years later - you come over as a very sane person.
Thank you!
Interesting stuff, thanks!
Thank you very much for your appreciation!
One advantage of shale oil and gas development is that it's easier to modulate production in response to the market.
As a Finnish (2nd year Geology student), I salute you for doing this episode 👏
I watched your videos when preparing for my entrance exam (without your content, along with your excellent pedagogical skills, I wouldn't be at the university right now).
But but but why didn't I spot this episode earlier 🤬🤛
Just thinking 🤔 would you consider giving us a mini lecture series on the geology of Scandinavia and Finland (as a geologist, you know that Finland isn't part of Scandinavia. We use term Fenno-Scandia to describe Norway, Sweden, and Finland)?
...and if so, what amount of greenback in super thanks 😊 would make this even remotely possible?
I'm currently all-in, in supporting Ukraine, and this other idea came to my mind:
Ukraine's Geology in depth with a fundraiser (for anything that is close to your heart that you wish to protect/preserve/help in Ukraine).
Anyway, I just wanted to acknowledge that without your channel, I wouldn't have passed the entrance exam.
Thank you so much for everything you have done 🙏👍💪🤝
Best from Finland (from somewhere near 67th parallel north, and yes, the 24/7 sun does mess up sleep cycle likewise 0/7 during winter does 😵💫 )
The lithium deposits: is this the result of the evaporating tethys/ parathethys seas? How far north and west was this located?
Phantastic content. The missing puzzle piece. Now I understand.
Thank you!
Absolutely fascinating and beautifully narrated by an engaged and caring person.
To mess with the figures, I can see how the geology is 80% responsible for the historical circumstances leading to conflict and 10% of the reasons for engaging in the conflict today.
The 90% factor right now is great power rivalry. Ukraine is piggy in the middle.
Very interesting geologically but. Naive geopolitically. This is a civil war in which Russia intervened not just a fight between Russia and Ukrainian Defense Forces. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are fighting on the Russian side.
For Russia this is hardly about geology at all except to ensure the region is viable after the war.
For the US and then EU it is 100% about geology and agriculture, and 0% about the welfare of the Ukrainian people.
Agree 100% - look at the Oakland Institute's research - Theft and War - this will show who bought all the farmland right after the 2014 coup. It's Wall Street and the Globalist. And they are going to lose their billions. lol
I agree 👍
Very well said!
For the US, EU and other civilised nations, they are drawn into the war to protect Ukraine's sovereignty.
Putin, on the other hand, is concerned with wealth and power. The natural and industrial resources are two reasons.
The agricultural production is another. The area is called Europe's breadbasket. Since the beginning of the war, the Russians were exporting stolen Ukrainian grain.
The Black Sea ports of Crimea provide Putin with some of Russia's only warm water ports. The southern oblasts provide Putin with a land-bridge to Moldova and beyond and would allow Putin to cut off Ukraine's access to the sea.
The civil conflict in the Donvas was engineered by Russia, which provided military equipment and manpower to the small minority of so called 'separatists'. Igor Girkin, a Russian officer, boasted that he started the war in Ukraine by leading his (disguised) troops to take over governmental headquarters in the area.
This war was started by Russia, no one else. He wanted to topple the Ukraine government and gain control of the whole country. Any concern he expressed for 'ethnic Russians' in Ukraine is a fiction invented to disguise the true reasons for his invasion.
So Russia wants a viable Ukraine after the war - but bombing every city to smithereens? En serio amigo?
Im also a geologist in Argentina. This is a super interesting topic. Thank you, very original and useful
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great presentation
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Excellent presentation. Thank you.
I totally agree that it is all about geology. Especially UK involvement and so strong support of Ukraine because of the Shell.
UK 's involvement is of political nature and is aimed at the keeping intact the teritorial integrity of the Kingdom.
From a greedy oil company's perspective it's the oil
The UKs foreign policy is not much influenced by Shell.
@@joe_ninety_one5076 yeah, keep saying that...
Geology is fascinating. We have to take the intro level classes as part of our preparation for physical anthropology. This is my admission that I have the highest level of fogg, fuzzy and imperfect understanding of wjat is being discussed here.
"Oh right I remember learning about that as I desperately crammed for that test.."
Thanks for the fine video production and great discussion. Salute!
Thank you for this very interesting video.
Thank you for your appreciation!
Thank you for sharing your valuable knowledge on this subject. I learned a lot. Thanks for the time and energy you put into making these videos.
My pleasure!
Americans: "Did somebody say OIL??!! Democracy on the way!" As always...
But this time it is Russia that is after the oil!
Please entertain putting the joint down. And after you finish gaming, please consider making your bed and locating your socks.
Ukraine does not have much oil, but Ukraine does have the biggest iron ore deposits in Europe (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
The US doesn't need oil, but Europe does, and Russia is continually trying to control Europe by controlling their foreign lines of energy. It's the Great Game, not a US hunger for oil.
Helpful hint: Get paid in vodka, Komrad, the ruble isn't worth the paper it is printed on.
Good work. Thank you.
Thx. I'd suggest that if you're using maps with small lettering, you use higher resolution
I wish I could. I recorded this on an old MacBook Air manufactured in 2014 and it’s limited in that way. However, it’s still my go-to computer and works like a champ.
Great thanks for your explanation on geology -natural resources background of Ukraina. It greatly helps me the meaning that this war has been continuing so long time.
Very interesting video. Thank you
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Great video, thank you
Rusia is going for the 4 Donbas regions. Period. The south part is almost done, but the top part is a wider area for the Russians to cover. Interesting geological description though.
Russia wants security for itself and for the Russian populations that dominate Crimea and the Donbas. NATO wants to steal Ukraine's mineral resources and arable land, followed by Russia's. Chalk and cheese my friend.
Because of the mineral, agricultural and industrial wealth of those four regions.
The access to Crimea's warm water ports, blocking Ukraine's access to the Black Sea, and a land bridge to Moldova and beyond are also major factors.
great lecture. thanks from germany
You are welcome!
Also, coal mining peaked around 1976. There's a lot of it, but fossil fuels are finite. Harder to say how much gas is there, but clearly enough for an imperialistic takeover. There were also population disruptions after the Holodomor (Stalin's forced starvation of Ukraine) so that's part of the reason why Donbas has a higher percentage of Russian speakers as opposed to the rest of Ukraine.
You make an interesting point about the Holodomor having a major effect on the demographics of that region which I had not previously considered.
Gladomor (holodomor as you call it) is forced not only by Stalin. It is also result of Polish and Romanian politics at that time. Think that there are mostly russian speaking people because those lands used to belong to Russia for a long time. Just before the USSR there used to be Russia
@@yordanlilov is not true
A lot of this is metallurgical coal which is much more expensive per tonne.
There is also many many other goodies here salt titanium gold rare earths etc
I do not think you are correct in thinking the famine to which you refer had any effect upon the demographics of the Donbass, which had always been a majority Russian speaking region since the time at least of Catherine the Great.
The people that settled in the Donbas Region are mostly ethnic Russians as you pointed out at the end of your video. They never wanted to be in a country that became hostile to their ethnicity so they formed a break-away country. As you said geology was the reason the Russians settled in this region as miners and industrialists.
Came to the RU/UKR dust up via the Sea of Azov (amazing wetlands) some seven years plus ago…
So: this war isn’t about democracy and freedom? Who would’ve thunk?
All wars are economic.
Been saying this for seven plus years.
Great explanation
This is a very one dimensional view of this war. Yes, economics are a factor, but only one factor.
Odessa, Herson, Mariupol - they have been Russian cities.
Yes, there is a point that geology might have in common with this invasion but as you said - the gas, oil, and coal there are drop in the ocean for russia.
In my opinion this war is mostly about military borders - Russia just don't want close relationship between her neighbors and her enemies. Especially Ukraine.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
@@EarthandSpaceSciencesX haha you are thanking them for their propaganda!
lol, Moscow was a French city for a short while.
People lived in these area long before Russia occupied them. They were thriving ports trading with other countries.
What's the problem with close relationships?
You have raised an interesting question.
I’ve learned a lot.
Thank you.
Thanks for all this amazing information.
Great presentation.... You are hinting at a connection and it's not too far-fetched. It's also not too far-fetched to say that both parties want the same thing.
It would be nice to add to this report that the largest lithium deposit in Europe is also in the conflict zone of military operations, and there are also large titanium deposits in Ukraine, which Putin also has his sights on.
Very interesting video, different perspective! Enjoyed
The geology is definitely on the minds of both the Russians 🇷🇺 and Blackrock Investors 🇺🇸. Great video and so good to get the insights. Because of my own interest in Geology as an amateur rockhound I have always considered that resources were a key topic.
Wow! perfect explanation, well done!
It's why the West is so interested in Ukraine. Russia are there because of the Ethnic Russian people needed protection from Ukrainian shelling for 8years
Original angle given in video ....
Perspective is new to me. Good job ! ! 🎉🎉🎉
There is nothing : Only a few reserves of gas and some lithium, which isn't a rare metal. There is only 1 Md m3 of gaz which isn't a big deal. But the US founds bought a lot of agriculture land. Half of Ukraine in fact.
Very excellent presentation. Coming from this field myself, I am highly impressed as I haven't though of the geology of that part of the world. Westerners quite often relate global conflicts to economics and natural resources. You didn't do that but left it open for discussion. That is great. The simple reason for this war is NATO's expansion. Period. Under radical left politicians and administrations who want to export weird culture to Russia and by extension to other parts of the world all appeals, notices and warnings by Russia were ignored. That is why we are where we are right now..
Thank you for this thorough explanation. It is fascinating to hear something else than the usual war reports or political based analysis. As a teacher of natural science for middle school, I usually tell my students that geology is the first science humans took into account. I mean that the knowledge of the geological resources helped humans, since the stone ages, to understand where to dig, where to settle and what to look for. Flint, quartzite and other types of rocks used to make tools were the first, but later came gold, copper, tin, iron, etc. And things haven't changed much in the last ten thousand years. We still go to war for oil, coal or uranium. I was aware about the coal and iron mining and the steel industries developed during the soviet era in the Donbas, but your video has brought more interesting information I did not know and explain a lot. Thank you sir.
Interesting video.
Glad you enjoyed it
He said the unspoken thing….rocks do produce oil. Specially bacteria within the rocks. Why else would we find oil thousands of feet below the regions that ever had plants and biomass. Oil is constantly being produced. It’s a lie that it would ever running out.
yep 400,000,000 rocks - were there forests of vegetation back then? so where is the oil from?
A truly fascinating perspective on the geological perspective to this war.
Awesome
Thank you!
Because of the large gas potential of the Donbas this was a direct threat to Russian gas supplies to Europe, competition lowers prices. In addition, a number of gas pipelines to Europe pass through Ukraine so exploiting the fields would be easy. This is why the original invasion plan was to also take Crimea and all coastline to Odessa to Isolate Ukraine from the Black Sea large gas fields within their sovereign territory.
Very informative, thank you. Always knew Ukraine was resource rich and their soil most fertile in the world but know i know what and how. Appreciate your explanations and graphics.
Great video of Ukraine aspect not talked about too much. Loved the overlay of geology with the fighting. My own thought is that Putin is more interested in protecting ethnic Russians, and for reasons you point out, they live in the Donbas region.
Protecting his little gren men you mean?
He cares nothing about ethnicity. That's just a propaganda ploy. He doesn't even care about Russians themselves and throws the happily into the meat grinder. So why on earth would give a toss for the Donbassians? Over 300.000 dead or severely wounded. They are reaching unprecedented levels with that.
Because whenever you think of Putin, you think of altruism? If this WAR has proven anything, it is that he doesn't give a damn about people, Ukrainian OR Russian.
That's an interesting take, as the invasion was by far the largest event of displacement and killing of ethnic Russians in recent history. Both in Ukraine and Russia. Not to mention the complete erasing of entire cities from the map.
Now serious question, do you really believe Putin took a decision to declare a full-scale war because he deeply cares about his ethnicity? Wouldn't that be laughably naive?
Fantastic video! Thanks!
Very welcome!
VERY informative. Thank you. For the reasons you mentioned, I think that it's not the geology that constitutes the main russian attraction for the region but the ethnic russian origin of the Donbas population and the democratic choice of it to be Russians.
It has absolutely nothing to do with ethnicity. In fact many of those Russian speaking people in the Donbass do not like that the Russians are there. There was never an unsolvable issue with that and there are myriads of videos to prove that. The issue was that the Donbassians wanted a bigger say about their resources, they never intended to become part of Russia, because they know that they mean nothing to them. They are worth much more for Ukraine and they are quite aware of that. Under Russia it will become a dilapidated region just like it is just over the border. Russia has no interest in the people themselves, only to make sure that no one else can get their hands on the resources. Might I remind you that this second invasion came only two days after the Nord Stream 2 deal fell through and ratification was denied, because of all the nuclear threats that Russia had been spouting in the previous months. They planned this all along.
Also Russia and democracy is an oxymoron. It doesn't exist there.
Helpful hint: Get paid in vodka, Komrad, the ruble isn't worth the paper it is printed on.
Thanks for this presentation. It was very educational for me. I read perhaps 2 years ago now that there was $1 trillion in mineral resources in eastern Ukraine including some rare earth items.
I was born in Donbass. My parents arrived there from their village in the central Ukraine after WWII to escape famine and unpaid slavery work in fields of state farms.
I grew up together with children of ukrainian peasants and russian criminals. The last arrived there escaping from justice in Russia. In Donbass it was easy to get a job without a reputation investigation.
That's how the Donbass 'culture' grew up.
Thank you for that insight. It is not often that we hear anything from the people of Donbas or anything much about its history. Only the story spun by Putin that it is an area of Russians that need "rescuing".
Ukraine did not exist until Lenin Stalin and Kruschev. Amazing your parents never taught you that. Originally a name for Galicia ..Borderlsnds in Ruthenian..then for a short period A secondary name for the Cossack Hetmanate..then a small patch in Kharkiv. If your family is from the West you are Polish Lithuanian, Romanian or Hungarian of origin as that region rebelled against The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th Century seeking the Russian Tsars protection creating The Hetmanate and becoming Tsar Nicholas 1's mass murderers of Peasants and Jews..The Pogroms..In WW2 the Western Oblast became Nazi..Called The Galicia SS and fought with Germany declaring their independence from the USSR..They were the guards for all the Polish and Hungarian Death Camps..much of my young life they were tracked down and arrested..
The starvation after USSR saved Europe from The Nazi killed 26 million Russians..it happened because The West that had been saved by The USSR led by Britain and The USA sanctioned all grain exports to the USSR..as the USSR and and all its people had been forced to use a scorched earth defense to stop Hitler they were short of Grain..so we in the West decided to STARVE The USSR into submission and break The USSR and grab their oil coal and metals.
It did not happen.
Ukrainianisation making Russians that had been there for 50 Thousand years have a Ukrainian identity and aly that to the 1917 uprising of The Western Regions who are ethnically as described above not Russian....This was instigated by Lenin who created The Ukraine Adminstrative Region of The USSR in all its form except Crimea which Kruschev attached much later in 59..Lenin was in fact attempting to hand this region to the Odessa Jews which had once after Catherine the Great of Russia built Odessa become up until Nicholas and his Cossacks the greatest Jewish City on Earth..The birth place of Zionism earlier than Herzl and from whence Zionism was exported to The USA.
Lenin like all Slavic Jews were not accepted by the burgeoning Zionist movement already moving back to and purchasing land in Then Palestine..Herzl and his German and British Zionist Cronies regarded them as " No better than animals" and "Sub Human" that is a direct quote..they in fact refused initially to issue them Israeli passports and sunk a refugee ship of these Slavic Jews straight after WW2 but were in the end shouted down as Ben Guerions troops were majority made up of Russian USSR army.
A rather nasty bit of history that we old enough well remember..
So contrary to the rather historically challenged person who has also commented.
UKRAINE as YOU know it IS A Bolshevik Invention..The Eastern and Southern Oblast fought with The USSR during WW2 not Hitler and suffered harshly during WW2 because of it. They are Ethnically Russian who settled the region and began in this region being called various names like Epigrigravettian and Muscovy..The Tartar which are like the Mongol and from the 11th Century from The Western Siberian Steppe and Mongolia ..Turkmenistani from the 14th Century Ottoman empire Invasion. There is Greek DNA from the Byzantine Era as well...
Putin gave an abridged but accurate description it is a pity that Racism dominates the mindset of many who would not know what The Cossack Hetmanate was if they heard the term..
Nor the history of NATO Expansionist Theory.
And I am Russian, Estonian, Lithuanian Ukrainian ( Galicia) Moldavian Romanian German Swedish and Irish..and l know the history of all my ancestors and clearly yours.
Now what are you really?
@@glassini And Putins tells the truth? So his version of anything is reliable? I think not. Remember Kyiv was thriving long before Moscovia ever existed.
@@AK-ze7ro Yes ..exactly..The Kievan Rus...The Rurik Dynasty..so you just proved to yourself ..Kiev is Russian..very well done you have reached the grade of an 18 year old Wikipedia writer..
Now next step is..The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth..And maybe we can get you to The Odessa Jews..well done.
@@AK-ze7ro Oh..and l forgot..Putin.
Knows the same history everyone else does ...it's real history..unless of course they think you are stupid..in which case you probably think that yellow and blue thing is the Ukrainian Flag..lol..
Thank you for a very informative and interesting video.
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Not Russian ‘occupation’, but ‘reclamation’.
James Gibson - more like "Defensible Space" from the Forest Fire NATO tried to Burn Moscow with
Think you got no idea on modern history.
One must be quite dumb to repeat kremlin narratives without using its own brain.
Yeah, reclaiming the Russian empire. Nothing more. There is a reason that Russians are feared and reviled throughout Eastern Europe. They are brutal, aggressive and imperialistic. Ukraine just wants a decent future.
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Less than 5 %... Thanks for your analyses! 👍
This is a very interesting perspective.
No comment, because as you said, only leave a comment about geology. This is not about geology for Russia. BUT for US and EU it is about geology. Russia simply has decided to defend the Russian population. Russia has enough oil and gas as you mentioned.
The population, oil and gas aren't the key goals for Russia.
The Russian population in Ukraine is the marketing excuse for the war.
Much of the male population in Donbass has already been sent to die in the trenches.
Conveniently, the marketing campaign omits how and why they got there.
Russia's strategic interest in the parts of Ukraine that Putin is not yet willing to concede:
* Sevastopol and its geographic defenses
* At least 10 trillion USD in coal and iron deposits in Donbas, in service range of hydroelectric and nuclear power
this video is informative. thank you
Interesting about the geology you presented. Though, the conflict is not for the fight of resources. This actually distorted the reason for the conflict.
If you ever listen to Putin's multiple times explaining his reason to protect Eastern Ukraine.
1) Nato is about to cross the red line trying to move into Ukraine. Thia is existential to Russia. No one listens. The West is only interested in weakening Russia.
2) The Minsk Accord was not implemented. The Accord was to give some autonomy to the Eastern Ukraine Russian speaking Ukrainian. This was never implemented due to the neo-Nazi ideology of Western Ukraine. Media totally bypassed the shelling of Eastern Ukraine by this neo-nazi military since 2014 to 2022. 2022 was the last straw that broke the camel's back. Russia fights and protects the Russian speaking Ukrainians.
If Minsk Accord were implemented and no NATO moving next door to Russia, this conflict would never have happened.
The heavy fighting in the eastern Ukraine is a Russian military strategy, a war of attrition. It's to deNazify Ukraine. Let neo-nazi keep bringing troops in the area. Also, Russia has no interest in taking Ukraine territory in the west.
So sad about all the lives lost for a simple reason of hating the Russian, hence not listening to their interests. The West tried to trample on (and weaken) Russia by a quick hot war and combined with an economic war, which both Russia is winning on. The West has totally underestimated Russia.
In 1921 when Lenin drew up the “Soviet Union,Ukraine consisted of a few impoverished agrarian provinces,hence he “added”Donbass
And are now returning to Mother Russia after severe UKR persecution
@ozzyolof9209 If we were to apply the principal of democracy from the West, let the people vote. Eastern Ukraine voted, and they want to go with Russia.
The resources are for the West. Barisma blackrock
"The West has totally underestimated Russia." Yup.
We listen to Putins hogwash many times.
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Russia has been trying to control Ukraine's resources for centuries. The yellow on the Ukrainian flag symbolizes wheat. They have excellent farmland. "Lebensraum," Russian style.
Ukraine's fertile soils are probably worth more than all of it's gas and coal combined, much of it atop the Ukrainian shield. Only the rich, black soils of the American midwest exceed Ukraine's soil fertility globally and even then not by much.
Wow really. Do you realize Ukraine was in Russian hands until after ww2. Where do you get centuries from, unless your trying to put some western SPIN on to it. And no doubt the nazi faction of Ukraine would rather have their fascist insignia on the flag, as they have on most of the flags the Ukrainian military brandish
Thank you Paul !
I like your style.
You need to overlay Russian oil & gas export pipelines. Also one of the largest natural gas fields in the world was discovered east of Deneipro river, in or near Donbas. In my opinion the war is over that gas field and securing control of Russian export pipelines.
NATO doesn't want to "control" Russia's pipelines it wants to destroy them. We already know that from NordStream II.
Intresting with the different basins and their layout!