The Russian Threat to the Baltics 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2022
- 🇷🇺 How large are the Russian minorities in the Baltic States?
💥 Why is this a potential flashpoint?
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Why are the Baltics weary of their Russian populations?
The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have large ethnic Russian minorities - each to varying degrees.
Estonia has a Russian minority of 24%, Latvia of 25%, and Lithuania of 5%. These minorities, particularly in Estonia and Latvia where they are larger, are a source of worry for their respective governments. This is because they fear Russia could influence or weaponise them against their respective governments, or because the state could use them as a justification to intervene militarily in those countries.
Both of these factors are particularly relevant given Vladimir Putin’s increased interest in the so-called “Russian-speaking world” and the war in Ukraine.
However, the three states are afforded the protection of the EU and NATO - keeping the risk of direct military intervention on the part of Russia relatively low.
Many ethnic Russian and Russian-speaking peoples in the Baltics claim that they are discriminated against, with issues such as citizenship after the fall of the Soviet Union being a point of contention.
in Lithuania Russians are like 95% prison population
Prob true
despite making 25%? sounds like it's the minority who's in the wrong.
Neįsivaizduoju iš kur tu gavai tokius duomenys. Nežinau kaip kituose miestuose (gal Klaipedoje iš tikrųju dauguma rusų kalėjme sėdi/ sėdejo) bet Vilniaus kalėjme sėdi tik apie trečdalį rūsų iš visų kalinių (žinau, kad daug).
Yeah, estonia too
In E.U most are Africa's our unelected leaders invited here.
Fun fact, Khrushchev also offered Kaliningrad to Lithuania, to which the Soviet Lithuanian Governor at the time, thinking about a huge Russian population becoming part of Lithuania, said, "No thanks".
He should have asked Czechia!
@@isaks7042 Nah Germany.
Also imagine refusing the Soviets and still living to tell the tale.
@@tylerbozinovski427 do you not get the meme?
Thank you, Michael, but thats incorrect. During that time, most of Kaliningrad was desolate and underdeveloped, and historically it was never been part of Lithuania. Also our leader prefered restoring borders with Poland, because it still had Suvalkai and Seinai under polish occupation
anything above 20% is not minority, that's a huge number.
But it's a planted number, these are not Russian speakers naturalny rootem in these territories. Russians were placed there and original inhabitants were sent to Russian Labour camps
@@minimax7716 damn that bloody soviet leaders sending everyone out of their country to labour camps and filling it with russians!!!
@@minimax7716 bullshit.
@@minimax7716 therefore, after independence, the population of these countries became one third less😂
@@user-is3lh7vx4e and yet they’re still richer than Russia per capita after only 30yrs of independence
as swedish, i will protect my little brothers across the baltic sea, they are part of our nordic family
we aint really nordic but thanks
@@Modelta ya, but check out Nordic-Baltic Eight, thats how close we are
@@Dennan interesting
Tysm thats so sweet
TY greetings From Lithuania 🇱🇹
They have every right to be concerned, If they never joined NATO or the EU, Russia would've likely done another "special military operation" there
Yeah, im Estonian and I definitely want to be under estonian rule than russian.
The e.u Is destroying Europe all on its own .
@@mosnackbar4121 no
@@Randomer2no? Do you live here? They are closing down food production in the Netherlands insane e.u 😳
That was part of the soviet union anyways why do you care
hi from Lithuania
Lithuania 🇱🇹 Power
I will endure a thousand kills before i fall. All because i love Lithuania so much. For a love of my Baltic homeland is eternal.
If they love Russia 🇷🇺 so much
they can move there at any time they would like to. Like right now.
No one is holding them back. This is not Russia 🇷🇺 . 😏
У нас недалекие тоже любят говорить - не нравится что то, едьте в Европу. И что, теперь будем при малейшей проблеме мигрировать?
africans to europe then
Сам понял, что высрал? Хахаха😂😂
That racism
Again? Why they have to move there for your pleasure? If I like something, that does not mean that I have the obligation to go there automatically.
As a latvian I can comfirm there are russians still in latvia
Waw they stole a huge chunk of Finland.
What
No, Finland tried to steal it
@Mees Metsast not to steal, but to capture, surprisingly, your beloved America completely stole the country from the indigenous population)
@@theotheagendashill818no. They were forced to give land as part of surrender
@@Rainaman- Так всё таки забрали на законных основаниях? Вы знаете как финские нацисты убивали мирное население Петрозаводска? Что там делали фины? Разве эта земля когда то принадлежала Финляндии ? Вообще, разве Финляндия имела когда-то свою государственность? Кто дал им независимость? Разве не Сталин? И как они отплатили Советскому Союзу за право быть свободными? Стали союзниками Гитлера?
Fun fact, Latvian hunters served as bodygurads for Lenin in 1917-1918.
correct term is "Latvian riflemen" but yes you are correct
Wait until they find out that the minorities were the core of the soviets.
Sarkanie Latvijas strēlnieki konkrētāk
@@HunterXStyle123 They were called jaegers in Russian language...which you should know what that means in German.
@@yurivii wtf. No they werent
me: an ethnic russian from lithuania 💀
@Maxim no they’re not, the Baltic and Slavic cultures are very different
@Maxim damn there were people living there since before Russia even touched it and it was an independant (and quite strong) nation, getting conquered doesn't really chance your ethnicity espiacally if you eventually (after houndreads of years of non stop fighting) gain independence
@@LeArctic no. Those people were neither strong nor advanced. They were first conquered by Sweedn then were sold by Sweeden to Peter the great.
@@Treasure_hunter_21 You're talking about something else. Lithuania had its sovereign state since 13th century, in fact, the largest in Europe at some point.
@@blueeyedbaer they are just trolls (maybe orcs), ignore them.
No invasion risk, those countries are in NATO.
*European States of the United States of America
@@countryhumansgermany1267 Russia always acuses others of what Russia does. Putin and the propagandists say Russia is an Empire and that's why they invaded Ukraine, Chechnya, Georgia, and why they treat Belarus as if it was part of Russia, and are aiming at Kazakhstan next. But look at what history teaches about how all Empires ended: split, shrunk and erased. Listen to Girkin, he just came back from the battlefield and informs that Russia lost in the first week of the invasion when they failed to take Kyiv, thus there's no hope, Russia will be split into small Federations, the government and oligarchs will be imprisoned and executed during the civil war that is coming, and Russia will then be under international occupation for decades. The nuclear arsenal will be gone and Russia will never expand ever again.
Tons of risk to nato
They have exposed all their weapons depots to Russia
They are not in the best of times economically or even politically
Russia will sign a treaty with Ukraine eventually and all sudden there will be rockets flying to other places
Within a few months nato will sign any treaty Russia throws at it
@@Radbot776 So Putin forgot to tell you he can't win in Ukraine against an army that has 10 times less budget, much less win against NATO that has a regular army size of 6 million soldiers and 20 times the military budget of Russia. Listen to Girkin, he's been alerting Russians that the country lost the war already in the first week, and that it was a terrible mistake to invade because it caused the destruction of Russia: RIP 1991-2022.
@@_John_P District of Columbia also has the same behaviour.
In lithuania, etnich Russian population is close to 3% how is that big? 😂 Many, many other country's have much more Russian population than we have in Lithuania.
Big enough for a "people's Republic" to conveniently pop up, coincidentally full of poor Russians living under Lithuanian genocide :(
Yeah, as a Lithuanian, even Lithuanians are way more afraid of other Lithuanians then Russians.
It's not the pop but what russia could usa as a justification with the pop that scares them
Vatos pilna tų galvose kai bybys dar stovėjo ir prie ruso buvo geriau
@@SIMKAD4 eik tik, pensininkai tik skustis moka. jaunimas daro perversmus, o ne seniai
On one hand, I wouldn't put it past Putin to try that. On the other hand, this is the sort of paranoid thinking that led to the Japanese internment camps in the US during WWII.
If US and EU chose right politics towards Russia in the late 90s and 00s, it would be different country. Without 080808 or Ukrainian war
Like really the situation like now in Ukraine is the last thing Putin wanted. And obviously now with Baltics being in NATO it's kinda suicidal to do any military operations there
@@kxkxsjk2 You're either Russian propaganda or "drinking the Kool-Aid". If he didn't want to invade Ukraine, he would not have done so. There are other avenues he could have pursued. At the time, Ukraine hadn't even considered joining NATO in the first place.
@@TheOriginalJphyper I didn't say he didn't want to invade, I meant he didn't want a full scale several year war. That's why it's called "Special Military Operation", because that was initially planned: to break through to the major cities and either make current government to sign the agreements, in which Ukraine would recognize Crimea as Russia, DPR and LPR as sovereign states, deform the majority of it's army (something like USA did in Japan) and become the neutral country, never joing NATO. Or just overthrow the government and place there Russia's own people that would do all that stuff.
And even the invasion itself was literally the last method to solve ukrainian problem, because 8 years prior to that Putin waited until Ukraine starts to observe Minsk agreements, but it never happened. And as we know from Angela Merkel's words, it's never planned to be observed, but served as additional time to militarize Ukraine
And idk what you talking about "Ukraine didn't want to join NATO", it's literally written in their last Constitution, that Ukraine must move toward West. And in Bucharest 2008 NATO literally said that one of its goals is Ukraine and Georgia to become NATO members
@@kxkxsjk2 you guys always blame NATO when having no idea how it works. You can't join if you have terrorial disputes neither can you join if one person in the alliance says no, so stop saying it's NATO's fault, nobody would have went against Russia pre 2022 invasion they're a nuclear power and why would Ukraine ever recognise three break away state when Russia was deliberately sending troops into the three area's to destabilise the area that's actively trying to destroy the Ukraining state. Stop victim blaming with the minisk agreement everyone knows its Russians fault this war came to being not NATO.
Boris lives in Estonia.
EEEEEZ BORIS!
And he likes NATO. So fuck Boris.
Next episode: why were Germans wary of their Jewish population?
Bro wtf
Eh, I don't think its exactly the same. Russia has often used the existence of Russian or at least Russian speaking people in a country to justify their actions, such as in Georgia and now Ukraine.
This is not unlike of course Germany, whose key justification for annexing territory was to 'Unite all German people under one banner".
The question of course, what do those who identify as Russian in these countries think? Do they sympathize more with Russia or are they loyal citizens to their home countries? I mean Georgia and Ukraine had to deal with Russian separatists so its not like their concerns are baseless, unlike the Jewish persecution under the Nazi regime which really just used them as scapegoats.
@@vinz4066 Eh, I think on the surface this might seem like a fair comparison.
Assuming of course you know nothing about Russian colonization efforts or the fact that Russia has for years fomented separatist movements across the world, but especially in areas with large Russian speaking populations like in Ukraine and Georgia.
Course this could just be trolling, but I'll always assume ignorance over being a dick until proven otherwise.
@@ExiledDragoon there were no Russian separatists until Ukraine started discrimination and exproriation of private property from Russians.
@@Crazmuss Eh, as far as I'm tracking most of the key leadership among the separatists were assets of Russia or otherwise affiliated with Russian Intelligence.
If this was a popular uprising by ethnic Russians due to discrimination, we would have seen far greater support for them in Donbass rather than the little rump republics Russia was able to carve out with proxies backed by Russian SOF.
Russia's military invasion has done an incredibly thorough job of derussifying the rest of the country. Probably not the outcome they were hoping for.
Latvia and Estonia have quarter of their population is Russian while Lithuania have a bit
it has a lot to do with population. Estonia having 1.3 million people ( cuz its expensive here and a lot of people died under russia and ww2) it doesnt take much to influence population numbers
Lithuania mostly has more Ukrainians and Belarusians than Russians
In Estonia the most dangerous places are Russian majority parts of city like Lasnamäe/Tallinn and Annelinn/Tartu
Thank god for NATO
🤡
agree
@@kzr_1613
The truth hurts, right?
I hate the antichrist
NATO is nothing is case of war between Russia and NATO, everyone will die
RUSSIA: hmm i see a lot of russians in the baltic states
EU and NATO: fuck around and find out
World: Yeah nukes gonna explode at anytime now.
You're about to have the surprise of your life, in case you didn't notice the US military hegemony (NATO puppets included) was cancelled by Russia in the Syrian war and it's gradually being contested by Iran, Korea, China and India. The US has lost all the advantages it had 30 years ago, if you take a close look at the status of their military branches the whole thing is crumbling and they waste all their money in useless weapons like the b2, the f35 (it just had it's tenth crash), the patriot, etc, etc.
Whatever CNN tells you about the Russian military it's usually true for American.
@@AaronBiswas Russia doesn't actually have a nuclear arsenal. Not one that works anyway, it's been left to rot. But can you really blame the generals for pocketing the maintenance funds for a few decades? Why waste money maintaining nukes that nobody is ever going to be crazy enough to use when those generals can put that money to better use enriching themselves, right? This isn't hypothetical, Putin has ordered several attempts to test nuclear weapons in recent months and they keep failing. It's the same thing with tanks and tires. And the 1/3 of conventional precision weapons have failed to function in one way or another - but a nuclear warhead is an order of magnitude more complex. As another example, leaked documents on the Moskva show that it was sunk because the air defense fire control and point defense guns weren't working, along with half the engines so it had been reduced to a glorified cruise missile barge. It's ironic that Putin turned Russia into a kleptocracy and thought he and his oligarch buddies thought they'd be the only ones abusing the system to enrich themselves lol.
вот только этим и можете аргументировать , кто вы по одиночки , псы блохастые
@J.F. Fisher who brainwashed you bro? Cnn? Bbc? 🤣🤣
Čau es esu fane un vai tu/jūs varat uztaisīt latvija vs. Mexico paldies❤🇱🇻
Here after we evacuated from our school in Lithuania.
Oppresing them will only cause prpblem they are trying to avoid
Not giving them preferred status like in the soviet times is not oppression
No one is oppressing them. Only thing they are asked to do is speak in native language and respect local culture, which most do, but some blatantly don't. And mainly who don't do what is asked of them are old soviet people.
@@hashbringer975 why should they speak the native language? They should be allowed to speak their language as well as the native one
@@para_magnus2200 when you move to different country with different culture you don't force those who live there to speak your language.
They can speak in Russian, but they can't force Russian language to others as main language of communication.
It's the same as if you go over to your friends house and you don't impose same rules you have in your house.
@@hashbringer975
But it's their home. What tf are you talking about!?
The good thing that Russians are not black. Cos all this could be awkward, you know.
What does that mean?
@@willek1335 That mean it's Ok to being racist towards russians. It's not a shame: they are legitimately "bad guys".
@@Ailasher I can't speak for every country that border Russia, but I don't think I've met people who think it's ok to hate individual Russians, as its frowned upon. The one's who emigrated here and I've met personally are nothing but great guys/gals, but you can't ignore offensive Russian culture, that see conquest of other's sovereign territory as legitimate. If you so much as stand on our border and give Russia the middle finger, you'll be fined 800€, even if it's in the middle of the woods. (No joke, that's happened several times, and our military have cameras. xD ) My point is that the border towards Russia is not like any other border for a good political reason. Their imperial history is all too real.
@@Ailasher u can answer the question yourself by asking "how did those russians get there?"
@@isleeponcounter9770 I haven't asked you not a single question, mate.
Why are they scared of their Russian population
Donetsk and Luhansk are great examples as to why
Baltic states are under NATO protection you dummy
@@bloodkelp the Russians supplied the Donetsk and Luhansk separatists indirectly in proxy
Dummy
Why, is Lithuania about to start shelling its ethnic Russian population if they start protesting about the politician they’ve locked up because he was about to rob for president and the current government and USA were afraid he might win
@@genericorochimain7027 so? Luganda and donbabwe were not nato members
Maybe because they are Russophobic???
“Protection of the EU”😂😂😂😂😂
@Алексей Ванисов да ужасные европейцы такие ужасные. Не то что русские, мы об этом в Украине уже убедились. Спасибо, что спасли нас от мирной жизни и уничтожаете нас, наши, дома, энергетику, экономику. Ведь если бы не вы, то у нас бы уже давно был бы родитель 1 и родитель 2, чем там еще русская пропаганда пугает вас?
Yes they have eu protection so Russia will not invade them
@@ventreal4292 what can eu do, they can't even help Ukraine
@@Nectpost ukraine isnt eu dingus
@@ventreal4292 he didnt said if it is in it, he said they cant even help them notmally.
The same is in Kazakhstan with 15% of russian minorities. However we dont have organisation like Nato that will help us out with confrontation with Russia.
But Kazakhstan has some ties with Russia and helped it with it's protests, Russia invading Kazakhstan would be a very silly decision that would only cause instability and more sanctions
Kazakhstan are not nazis and don't want to get in NATO and to have nuclear weapon, that's the difference
@Atheos B. Sapien haven't heard and seen it 🤨
@Atheos B. Sapien Only about that the president of Kazakhstan want to seat on both chairs, asking for help of Putin with protests and receiving it. And now he impose sanctions on Russia
USA invaded much more countries with much less compelling reasons, but met zero disagreement on the world stage. Double standards....
NATO: nah fam
Why the Baltic states fear Russia? Well this is gonna take some time. Starting back at the time of Czar, the Baltic states were under Imperial Russuas rule. Then USSR came and Stalin did atrocities that are comparable to Hitlers genocide but most contries don't mention that in history lessons. We have a saying about Stalins time here: " No person, no problem" meaning if Stalin or the regime hag a problem they could just kill the person responsible. Not to mention what Stalin did to poor Poland and Ukrain in his time. I think this can give a dit of insight as to why we are terfied of a Russian invasion. Wouldn't be the first time we have been stamped all over...
Ничего себе ты сравнил - сталинские репрессии в сравнении с гитлеровскими детские шалости.
И эта поговорка вышла не из сталинских времён, а из позднего СССР одним творческим человеком. Так что не неси ерунды
А что с Беларусью сделал Сталин, Гитлер и поляки не знаешь?
Заметь. Вторжения случается не в тот момент когда страны дружат с Россией, а как раз наоборот - когда они активно поддерживают врага России. Мазохизм неизлечим.
NATO is a criminal organization created by Americans so that can spread their politics and terror against anybody who oppose them.
European countries should look after the interest of its own people and children, not the geopolitical ambition of the USA. Politicians that had betrayed their own countries should be removed, forcefully if needed.
@@evgenievgeni2016 С Империей Зла (Россией) могут дружить только воры и террористы. А Империя Зла (Россия) способна напасть на тех, кто слабее, но опасается равного противника.
I'm Lithuanian and I love Russians
Sure you are, little Ivan.
Lat pu55y Ivans Raped Your Mama For sure
Imagine staying slaves Under 500 year under our legs....@@SloveLDK
@@SloveLDK LMAOOOOOOOOOO
@@AinuRussiailliterate churkaloid is trying so hard to spell his first sentence, I’m sure one day you’ll say something remotely coherent, Muhammad🥹
you are not a real brother...
Jesus Christ how many boarders does Russia have with other countries?
14
Well and the fact that over 300 years ruzzia has repeatedly invaded and occupied them, overall killing near half of population, forbidden their national languages for over 100 years, exiling hundreds of thousands of people to death cams in Siberia (technically "resettlement" or work camps, but it isn't much "resettlements" when one is dropped out of the train in barren Siberian forest bare footed). And that is before even considering any potential offspring's they may have had.
Just note this - Balts (Latvians and Lithunians) are different culture from slavs (like Poles and Russians... and others), different language, they are not alike, hence ruzzians were always suspicious about Balts and punished them whenever any rebellion was suspected. As such in 17th century before ruzzian occupation there were ~2.1 Million Lithuanians and ~2.4 Million Poles... today there are 40 Million Poles and ~2.8 Million Lithuanians. There are approximately 5-7 Million Lithuanians in international diaspora (so more people than live in the country).
So I would say it is less to do with ruzzians in Baltics (although that is relevant as well), but more to do with deep knowledge how horrible and brutal ruzzians are throughout long family history. I am sure people in Baltic states cares much less who govern them as long as it isn't ruzzians. Because ruzzians are there not to govern, they are there to exterminate.
"Muh evil russians" -🐐
@@bloodkelp just historical facts...
You know these countries have invaded Russia before as well too , right?
@@blackmantis3130 Technically speaking no. Russian boyars had infighting (known times of troubles) - Lithuanian-Poland Commonwealth sided with Russian Boyars led by Mikhail Saltykov and occupied Moscow between 1610 and 1612. So... no... in principle the Russians themselves sided with Lithuanian-Poland Commonwealth which helped them to take control of Moscow. Interestingly it was Cossacks (in principle Ukrainians) who have defeated the main formations of United Lithuanian-Poland-Russian Boyars controlling Moscow, when then led to withdrawal from Moscow and defeat of the army by Russian peasants.
I mean sure Lithuania was one of the biggest countries in Medieval Europe and had arguably the strongest army (pretty much the only one to defeat Golden Horde in battle, although they lost as many as they won, but it is fair to say - the only one which could trade blows with Mongols). So it is not surprising that they have been battling against Muscovites and Cossacks, although Cossacks at times were fighting on the Lithuanian side and vice versa.
The difference is that Lithuanians never planned to eradicate Slavs and never attempted that. Whereas basically Muscovites later united into ruzzian empire no only attempted to eradicate Balts but mostly succeeded. Statistically speaking they eradicated 90%... that was genocide. So do not compare 2 years occupation 400 years ago with 300 years occupation, 30 years ago and continuous eradication, russification and genocide.
@@lp9280 lolx I wasn't even talking about the Lithuanian -polish even though that was an invasion technically or not. Am talking about Livonia which is currently Latvia and Estonia .
im so happy to be lithuanian 🗣️🔥🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹
Help me come to your country
@@Michealtravel Me too, and other 16 people too
@@lighto9772 🤣🤣🤣
@@lighto9772 getting a visa to EU nations is very hard
Sometimes I feel glad to live in Latin America.
We may not have much here, but at least we don't discriminate others for their ethnicity.
Polish, Italian, German, Japanese, Angolan, Congolese, Amerindian.... We don't care where we came from. We all treat each other with the same respect.
It's not like yall can't kill each other like that with the united state looking over South America
@@dtekiddo8400 The Americas are huge. South America might be further from the USA than Europe itself. It's not easy for them to "protect" this whole landmass, and history proves it.
Besides, there is no reason for them to even bother. Military expeditions are expensive and get a lot of criticizing from both internal and external polítics/media. So most of the time, they can't really act directly. Besides, they never got anything good from interfering in Latin America. So there is no reason for them to even care.
In fact, the Latin American countries are the ones who always call the USA for help to decide something important, like peace talks between nations or military coups. They don't invade anything, they are asked to intervene (most of the time).
Wrong, Latin America is ruled by minority whites of Spanish descent, who discriminate heavily against Indigenous Peoples and Blacks.
@@thenotoriousgryyn342 Where you from
@@dtekiddo8400 I'm Indigenous Native American, Mexica Nation.
If the Baltics had not joined NATO when they did they would have been invaded by Russia before Ukraine was.
If the Baltics had not joined NATO, the Ukraine probably wouldn't have been invaded at all.
@@Alknix Maybe, if Russia could have kept puppet governments in all those countries.
Just answer yourself. Russia has colossal resources, not painted numbers of GDP, which you can’t get enough of, you can’t fill the tank, you won’t warm up .... Europe, compared to Russia, is homeless, why capture the homeless? What would contain them?
You can easily see this from the video from the same RUclips, where "civilized" people who arrived in Russia today have eyes the size of a plate, and questions to which they have no answer - "shops full of food with low prices is this a torn economy? Were sanctions imposed against Russia exactly?"
@@enzuwot9753colossal resources?
77 percent of its economy is oil and gas and they don't even have their own they get it from Siberia which they conquered
The EU is russias biggest trade partner whereas russia is the EU's fifth biggest
Russia imports 37 percent of its total imports across the board from Europe and Europe imports 11 percent of its total imports across the board from Russia
Europe has a far more diverse economy than russia
The ruble isn't even in the top 20 strongest currencies in the world
There best car is a fckun lada. 😂😂
Russia compared to the rest of Europe is nothing
Do russia have Ferrari Porsche Lamborghini Bentley rolls Royce Bugatti alpha Romeo mercedes jaguar BMW Audi McLaren?
No a fckun lada 😂
Russias designer brands and watches are? Ye none
No Gucci Versace Luis Vuitton Armani Hugo boss Chanel Prada
Rolex Hublot BREITLING
They get all their farming equipment electronics chemicals pharmaceuticals vehicles from Europe
Their sport teams play in our completions no the other way round
Well they did. They're banned now
London is the second trade capital of the world
70 percent of all gold traded per hour goes through London LBMA which is the biggest over the counter market in the world
Without Siberian gas and oil russia would be nothing
They are frauds.
Prove me wrong. Tell me what famous brands are from Russia. Tell me.what sporting organisations do they run.
What's their formula 1 team or car? Haven't got one. They are nothing and their economic lifeline is Siberia and Kazakhstan
Pathetic
@@IrishCinnsealach fool, from what is everything that you described above made ??? right from the resources .... cars won’t drive without gasoline / solarium, electricity doesn’t miraculously appear from the outlet, you don’t get enough brands, and yes, much of what you listed is done in Russia, including, the difference with today is "Western partners" left, but the factories and workers remained, and they continue to work, only under other brands ..... resources are the foundation of absolutely any economy, you can build everything if you have something to build from, and if not? what happens to the prices of resources if they become scarce? And what happens to the prices of goods from these resources? and the logistics are not getting better...... do you really think that sanctions make Russia weaker? sanctions do what the Russian peoples could not achieve from the authorities for several decades - to develop their production, to throw out "Western partners" from Russia. "Siberia was conquered")))))) countries, dates, wars for these territories, can you tell me ???
And at the same time WE need to talk with russians in russsian because they dont learn our language and russian is not the official language
Russians are not very smart.
Yes. Even knowing the language, many do not apply for citizenship because the state considers and legally assigns them second-class status.
"Yes, you were born here, grew up side by side with our people, live all your life, have a family, and are no different from the rest of our citizens, BUT YOU, UNLIKE THEM, NEED TO PROVE THAT YOU DESERVE TO BE A CITIZEN AND HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS!".
Charming. This problem is solved at the click of a finger, simply equalizing everyone by birthright, as was done in most countries of the world, but it's easier for you to hold on to the idea of an ethno-state. You know, fascism.
Ok I’m not on Russia’s side here but isn’t this basically how the United States saw Japanese Americans during WW2?
These people wont learn our language thats the problem. No opression here only requirement is LEARN THE LANGUAGE. For example when a German comes to the USA and starts speaking ONLY German wouldnt you be pissed? Cant understand him and he is all over himself and refuses to speak your language on your land. Now imagine millions of them at the same time. Irritating isnt it. Thats why we want them out or to learn the language its not that hard. Ukrainian refugees did it in 6months whats the problem.
“Russian-speaking world” says Putin. So basically all of the former Soviet territories🧐
They dont all speak russian negario
We can also add Alaska,Finland,part of Poland and Balkans,Part of Turkey, Iran, Mongolia and China(part) 'cause Russian empire and Russian speaking peoples there
Well its not really suprising, theres literal towns and cities in the Baltic, that only speak Russian, and everyone there is russian. And no one really learns the native languages since they arent really needed
@@exomite1865 The younger generations don't because it is not taught in the schools. After 1945 whole swathes of Europe has Russian taught in their schools so Russian was pretty much widespread.
@@scaleyback217 I believe people can speak and understand Russian to some extent in every Soviet republic except for Finland and Alaska.
Most of Russian minority in Estonia are in Narva and Lasnamäe district in Tallinn
I doubt that Russians are a minority in Europe. our people are already building hotels in Europe, ski resorts and health resorts ... the population of Europe is Russian refugees from Syria, Turkey and Kurds, and Europeans live somewhere in the neighborhoods. caught in the 2nd world that they themselves are gone
"Divide and conquer" - ever heard of this? USA certainly did.
Ever heard of USA annexing territories ?
@@cristiangaban960 Texas, New Mexico, Hawaii etc
@@Laenthal Right, nothing in our century.
@@cristiangaban960 "centuries" are arbitrary.
@@Laenthal You just have to count back 100 years .I mean just look at WW2 when Russia was invading Poland shaking hands with Hitler.
Russia over here trying and failing to restore the Soviet union
It's important to note that the Soviet Union invaded Eastern Europe including the Baltic states as allies of Nazi Germany in 1939. The Soviet Union occupied and annexed the Baltic states at the end of World War II. The Baltic states were liberated when the Soviet Union fell
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@@Iosif_Stalin.yes
@@jekabsojarsulskis9740 no
@@Iosif_Stalin. yes
@@jekabsojarsulskis9740 not prufs, no
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No worries at all!
We are 100% loyal to OUR country!
To Russia you mean?
Crimea is Ukraine
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2014: fax bro ☠️🧢
it is de facto russian (its occupied)
only in urkranian's wet dreams
no shit sherlock
Эксперты из сша не разбирающиеся в вопросе даже на 1% пишут чушь в коментах о стратегии России)))
Don't forget that Belarus is used like military base by Russia, so threat is even bigger
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@@jenavinogradov9161 lol a russian indulging his own country. It's good to know that soon you will be mobilized and then you will rot in the fields of Ukraine.
@@YuraK25 Ukraine has no chance of winning, this country is wasting its resources
@@jenavinogradov9161Russian casualties make me lol
@@ajrk95 These are fictitious figures of Ukrainian propagandists without any evidence
I'm from Latvia and I'm Ukrainian, Latvian government hates with passion all their non Latvian minorities which amount to third of the country. I was born in Latvia but was person without citizenship and was discriminated against since the day I was born just because I wasn't Latvian.
Latvia is a nazi state where government officials openly discuss banning ability to even speak in Russian or other "post soviet Union" languages, where minority schools were forcefully made to study 50% in Latvian language, not to just learn the language but to study math, physics etc in Latvian as well as native language.
I don't hate Latvia now that I left it for good but i do truly despise it because they gave too many reasons for it.
As a Belarusian, the only city that i've felt comfortable is Daugavpils.
Go fight for your country Khokhol.
I do understand how this could be distressing. However, I do not understand why learning in an official language of a country you were born in would be a problem? Attending schools only together with other minorities would only create further segregation, whereas joining everyone together would probably lead to an organic integration of those minorities into the population. Would love to hear your thoughts.
Because Latvia now exists to serve the Latvian people, not little outliers like you 👍
@@microboibruhoh please, Russians and Belarusians can start businesses in latvia and don't even need to speak the damn language. If it's so horrible move to belarus
Lithuania looks like smal afrika
Those small Baltic countries with low gdp, have inferiority complex
it is
It's a good distraction for my geography teacher honestly
So true
The worry has a historical context as well - it already happened once in the last 100 years.
Nice i never knew that also Labas, aš iš Lietuvos :) Ačiū
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A valid concern, especially given what’s happening in Ukraine.
But even Putin’s not crazy or dumb enough to instigate a direct military confrontation with NATO.
At least I hope to God he isn’t…
No Putin won’t ! But of course it depends on nato’s activities! Don’t think Russia will do nothing when facing threat! Ukraine is one of them! NATO used Ukraine to force Russia to enter the conflict because Ukraine isn’t in nato … what I hope is that nato won’t use baltic states or soon Finland’a territory to threaten Russia because then Russia will have to enter in Finland or wtv countries nato’s threats come from ! Regardless if it’s nato or not !
I like the expression “don’t poke the bear 🐻 “
@@meso8848how exactly NATO used Ukraine to force Russia to war? Russia was the one who attacked Ukraine
@@77Zenin77 duh ! Have you discovered Ukraine on February 24th? 🤔 they were shelling Donbas for 8 years wake up dude
Type in RUclips “Nuland f*** EU” and enjoy the conversation!
Russia didn’t attack Ukraine.. Russia came to save people of independent republics DPR and DNR victims of kyiv shelling during the past 8 years
It’s been already 9 months and you’re still clueless about what’s going on in Ukraine! That’s crazy!
@@meso8848what u saying makes literally 0 sense. Russia is literally torturing and killing civilians on the territory they taken from Ukraine.
That's one way to "save" Someone. Sure.
@@77Zenin77 lol you’re dumb to believe these west propaganda lol … what a joke .. these territories voted 8 years ago in 2014 to be independent of kyiv regime and asked to join Russia which Putin refused because he wanted these republics to find a diplomatic solution with their regime .. only on February 2022 that finally Russia recognized these republics as independent! And now you say Russia came in these territories to kill these civilians? 🤦♂️
Dude get a brain !
Why do Baltics fear Russia?
USSR and Russian Empire: 👁👄👁
Trying to weaponize the Russians in the Baltics is a lost cause. NATO will never stand for an armed insurgency and the majority of Russians there would rather defend their respective countries against Russia, then launch an insurrection to join it
Its somewhat working in the very east cities of Latvia with higher Russian minorities. In places like Daugavpils there are many people just openly saying that Russia righfully invaded Ukraine. It has changed alot since the begining of the war after things like Bucha and just overall brutality of Russian forces but there still are some who gobble up Russian propoganda for food.
@@Julio_Tortillia have you been in that town to speak with such authority?
@@valkyrie9553 Yes... i live in Latvia
@@Julio_Tortillia In Daugavpils? Good for you! But still don’t speak for all those people there. They’re tired of being used in western propaganda pieces. Ironically, Russians in Daugavpils area have lived for multiple generations - long before 1918
@@valkyrie9553 What exactly is your point? Noone in the west is using Daugavpils for propoganda and the fact that Russian nationals have been living there since before 1918 really makes zero difference at all.
And yes i can speak for the other people in my country since yknow, i live there?
I am Russian and I speak Lithuanian
Very rare. I read that most Russians don't bother, but expect to be served in Russian. Like when you were the overlords.
@@markus717да тяжело просто жить в стране где правительство принимает законы против русского населения
You are Welcome to the Baltics in this case. You learned the language you can stay here and go about your business
Crimea: *Turns Pink*
Should rename video Baltic threat to Russia because with the power of friendship combined Russia too will capitulate
a poisoned heritage from USSR times
Not true that Latvians worry about russians in Latvia, we worry about Putin's actions and maybe russians in Russia (who are more influenced by Russia's state media). Also not sure about the statistics data in the video, source please..
Well russians are fifth column
All of Daugavpils is basically entirely Russian. And it’s the second biggest city in Latvia by population.
If russians in nato territory dont like it they can go to russia for the autocracy leadership with electronic mobilization stanby.
You have to include Belarus in the equation. While not a military superpower, it is used by Russia to deploy troops and can put pressure on Lithuania.
you gotta remember that in war its typically not the people forcing it, its just one big proxy battle between governments
and the “russians” in the baltics are still latvian and estonian citizens, even if their family comes from somewhere else
While you are partly correct, in Latvia there are many latvian-russians who insist on speaking russian everywhere, not knowing and using latvian or even english language as a principle. And now since we've finally stood up to these aholes they are shouting, yet not moving to russia because they KNOW that in russia things for them will be 100x worse. There are latvian russians that are well functioning, capable, competent and open to our culture and we are happy to have and cooperate with them. But the others are generally viewed as a cancer at this point.
Russians are still russians and they aren't our countries citizens
@@egertroos1691 if you have estonian or latvian citizenship you are estonian or latvian
It is not that simple. We have some people with a grey passport as they didn't take up the Estonian citizenship after the collapse of the soviet union. Some of these people and some people who do have an Estonian citizenship still consume media from the Russian sphere, don't speak Estonian although they have lived here for more than 20 years, celebrate Russian holidays (letting of NYE fireworks at Moscow time instead of local time as an example) and worship soviet statues and monuments. They are citizens, yes. Do they pose a security threat to Estonian sovereignty, also yes. Crimea and Donbass both had Ukranian citizens but look at how that turned out.
@@Glatidoz Terve Eesti on mingeid tulnukaid täis. Eestlasi ainult 69%
For us Latvians what is strange is that the Russians don't want to leave. They just won't leave. It's like there's something that they're afraid of back in Russia. If you are Russian don't worry i don't hate you, unless you believe what Putin says. But to any Russian in other countries besides Russia. Why are you scared of going back?
don't worry they are not scared, the only reason they are not leaving is because they are enjoying the luxury of having an actual working passport and having good wages and living a good life. Yet some of them are still against the european union and NATO and still are pro-russia.
The worst part in my opinion is that they don't care. Half of the people in some parts of the country don't speak ANY Latvian at all. For example, before the soviet times, Daugavpils had a Russian minority of 15%. Now, it's 50%
It's a reason for Russia to use for an evasion.. it will say to help its Russian people
Yea,its good we joined nato and eu union, otherwise we would have been dead in some weeks
You guys were under Russian control for DECADES, if what you are saying is true, you would have already been dead before independence. Stop fear mongering and get a life.
@@dimitrigama5205 no,when we got free from russia then we only joined nato and eu,also i have a life buddy
ес и нато вам не поможет
To hell with EU. It has destroyed west Europe. Its starting here also. Immigrants and gay people
Are you sure EU(not NATO) was a good idea? Cause right now you they are literally telling your country what to with its border(i mean migration control). Also thanks to open borders in other side lithuania had pretty big emigration wave
I disagree with the ‘threat of Russian intervention relatively low’, there was severe anxiety in 2014 that after the invasion of Ukraine the Russians would invade the Baltics, European militaries were still in their dreams of everlasting peace with Russia so it would’ve been a walkover
i mean there was anxiety but chances of them doing it were pretty low
@@lazarus2742 that’s great to say in hindsight, that’s not what people were thinking in 2014, Russians want their soviet territory and prestige back, and to curtail NATO, that’s why they invaded Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine 2014, and Ukraine now
Did you know latvija was in control in Russia but they just didn't want that so the would break out of the control and I'm from latvija
So, you not gonna mention that ethnic Russians in Baltic states are given different color passports?
They shouldn't even be given citizenship. Let the colonists go back to Moscow
Learn the local language and they don't discriminate
No? All citizen passports are the same colour. The only exception are the "non-citzen" passports of ex-USSR citizens who were not elegible for citizenship upon restoration of pre-1940 independence and the end of the illegal occupation.
Населению нужно всего лишь спокойствие, большинству даже не интересно что происходит в мире, им бы решить личные проблемы.
и к чему вы это?
@@happydays6204 чё не в окопе?
What does the narrator suggest, an ethnic cleansing?
Why do people always jump to the worst case scenario a cleansing of the Russian minority would most definitely be provocation for Russia and justification for war best case scenario is that the Russians get to stay and the baltics keep their faith in NATO if not that than expelling them is the next thing to do
Exactly, change word russian with jewish or black.
Like the intervention Otan did in Kosovo to protect minorities?
Russia took half of latvias land that’s why im nof a fan of russians im 🇱🇻🏴🇬🇧
They are citizens of the country they live if they didn't like the country they would move back to Russia
And as citizens they are dinied their rights based on ethnicity, do you think its ok?
@@heyone6701 Estonia the Baltic Tiger -it is good doc. movie in YuuTuube in English.
@@heyone6701 where they are denied their rights?
People who don't have citizenship, they get alien passport that's valid for traveling, they get free healthcare, they can speak in Russian freely. Only thing they are asked to is to respect the law and local culture, know local language and that's it.
@@hashbringer975Why are ethnic Russians being denied citizenship?
And there's, of course, the issue of, say, banning the Russian language in public educational forums, which some politicians have suggested.
But where are you from?
@@zusty9589 no one is banning them from acquiring citizenship trough legal ways.
After collapse of USSR, newborns where given citizenship (if parents wanted that), but their parents given alien passport.
Or they could do the Kosova thing
Kosovo is Serbia!
in latvia i think russians are more than 25% because they are every where and some of the on buches do not want to learn latvian even thou they have lived here for more then 50 years
Putin's bargaining chips.
Real Game Starts at 30%
thankfully its decreasing. In a few centuries hopefully is as low as Lithuanias 5%
I,m from Lithuania 🇱🇹
This scared me bc im from lithuania
Ты правильно боишься
Once jewish were 1/3 of the population of the Baltic states. By the end of summer 1941 they were all declared 'juden-frei' states even before Germans actually took over. That 's all we need to know about their ethnic policy.
Wow so relevant. Much actual data. Ofc the russian gonna hate Baltics states, just like u always do. Ofc bringing moldy ancient arguments. but dont u dare to use the same approach aginst them "ooo tHaTs wAs usSr,uSsR is nOt rusSia, we are so pure and good"
@@alexyuu952 u r litterelly an apartite state lol
@@heyone6701 at least not some mongrel trash.
Well atleast when they still had theyre own goverment in power they didin't round them up and gave to germans as Stalin did. (as a sign of good will towards germans)
Information can be very easily shifted to sway more people for your own idea. Baltic countries had no interest in getting rid of jewish people. They were forced to do it when Germans came in 1941 out of fear of being occuppied by USSR like they were in 1940. When you are afraid you will oblige to another strong power to try and save yourself.
rusian speaking world
dam it where is the Holy Arab speaking home land ? we arabs have to be one
You tried to unite, but you did yourselves in. Egypt and Syria used to be the United Arab Republic...it lasted for like a year before both countries split of from eachother.
Why Crimea is shown Russia??
Там намного больше процента русских, ведь очень много русских после развала СССР живут в странах Прибалтики без гражданства
Очень много благодаря совку. Россиюшка могла бы забрать своих, но не стала
😭 Lietuva aš myliu tave lietuva
Fashist
A valid concern but I highly doubt they should be worried
Given how Russia and it's armies have shown how Incompetent they are at even fighting in Ukraine
I highly doubt they'll take the risk of losing everything
Ukr just once bombed bridge - minus almost 60% of energetic system in just several weeks. So Russia d it so slow because it want to save as many civilians as possible
@@user-wq8qh1rg2b they are bombing and shelling random apartment buildings, using incendiary rounds and vacuum bombs.
The russians don't care about civilian lives, they are losing ground because they stupid, technologically behind and incompetent.
All in all, they are weak.
@@user-wq8qh1rg2b And very quick strategic retreats😂. Saving civilians by attacking civilian infrastructure😂. And how competence in the battlefield is related to bombing civilians? Only logical to Putler fans.
The video is outdated
@@kdnguyen1444 indirectly Russia doesn't want to destroy Ukraine
It just want to use it and save Ukraine and make them Russian
But after 7or8 months of Russia not able to annex Ukraine
It is starting to weaken Ukraine
But if Ukraine didn't give up
Russia will actually start an actual invasion and remove Ukraine from existence
Wtf is Russia so big tho?
I hear more russian and tourists in Riga than Latvian
Can't they just go back?
Russia is huge enough
Because they were born there why should they go away? Funny though because Russia gave then all independence. As in Ukraine Russia also gave them valuable land.
Because they're citizens of those countries, not Russia?
You can apply this logic to all minorities.
The population left there is from the soviet Union
The baltics are trying to erase history they took down the t-34 statue they took down the soviet soldier with a grenade statue and it could have been a Latvian a Russian or an uxbek fighting for the USSR
History should not be erased regardless of what political situation is going on.
The baltic States had lost about half a million people
Atleast they should honour the dead who died for there country
Like pretty much all of the world that isn't the Americas, you aren't granted citizenship in the Baltics by merely being born there.
зачем они нам нужны!? Кормить их??? Всю промышленность построенную за время СССР развалили, вся экономика этих республик существует на кредита МВФ и дотациях Евросоюза. Самое неликвидное имущество....
Иди нах 3,14дор со своими байками про дотации. Ты соси дальше х..ло!
Да
Да, на кредиты, и пособия по безработице там выше, чем зп в рф
Не пизди люди там есть нормальные! А эканомика да развалина и промышленность!
Откуда такие данные? Сам лично анализировал всю их экономику?
Совок ничего там, кроме хрущевок нерентабельных предприятий не строил. Сейчас там уровень жизни порядком выше российского.
Unrelated, but can we get Detektivay: 209 more seasons? 😂
Жалко что только выход к морю надо, а с популяцией они сами без нас справляется, смотрите сами как уменьшается популяция...
What the fuck are you talking about?? We are just respective not loving rusian speaking minorities.
Most major countries population is decreasing, slowly.
This isn't a Baltic thing, it's a product of development
Почитайте что такое вторая фаза демографического перехода
Уменьшаются ,но это происходит почти во всех странах Европы . В России тоже уже столько лет убыль населения, как и в Украине, Беларуси и прочих
вот почему нам нужны украинские беженцы вместо москалей
Crimea is Ukraine, not russia
De-facto Russian, claimed by Ukraine.
Crimea is Tatar.
🇺🇦💪🇱🇹💪
I live in estonia
Russia should worry about their territory not Baltics. for example Karelia wants independence.
Не мели чушь. Я из Карелии и мы не хотим отсоединения от России. Это только твоя гнилая бошка так думает. За всех не говори.
They don't
Ага))) сша всегда так говорит и устраивает бойню. "Они хотели независимости и мы им помогли". Хорошо что с Россией такое не пройдет и благодаря Сталину мы можем уебать по сша ядерной кувалдой.
@kotomineberndrewd8325по телеку ему это сказали. Но с карелии я очень орнул. Пусть верят ,им так легче жить
аххаххахаахаххаха, Карелия хочет независимости, ты рофлишь? Аххахаха
Might want to give their Russians a free one way ticket 🎟️ to Moscow
polish 7% in lithuania
more but they are trying have to luthunize them
@@Har1ByWorld They are occupants, they must return polish territory to Poland.
@@VovaSidorOff i dont care if you are russian troll or something. I believe that lithuania and Poland became one when the commonwealth was formed so the two nations should unite
@@Har1ByWorld I quite agree. They will give back what they stole and live well