Why Russia is Fighting Japan Over These Islands
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The most recent talks between Russia and Japan over the status of the islands were held in early 2019. Japan’s then prime minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to accelerate negotiations based on the 1956 document, which stated that the Habomai islets and Shikotan would be handed back to Japan, and the question of Kunashiri and Etorofu was to be settled during negotiations for a peace treaty.
Look at what has been said recently, Russia took back what they said
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@@dontreadprofilephoto1728 ok
@@dontreadprofilephoto1728 ratio
But the talk should be considered as null now since japan know clasiffied by russia as hostile state
Hearing about all the territorial disputes lately makes successful diplomacy seem more and more miraculous.
@Seek Him with all your heart and you will find Him who tf asked bruv? We're here to learn about diplomatic and territorial disputes, not about our lord and savior in the heavens.
@Seek Him with all your heart and you will find Him sheesh a jesus bot srsly?
@@pretentiousarrogance3614 lol
Because no country wants to surrender land.
it's just Russia lmao
One minor correction: Japan and the Soviet Union did actually end their formal state of war with the Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, though it was not an actual peace treaty.
it wasnt call a treaty by japanese tho, because japan is the only nation who sign it, but soviet approved japan into UN member after that
USSR refused to ratify that after Japan signed the military cooperation with USA which allowed to quarter US forces anywhere in Japan.
@Derone Cerrone no pls
@Derone Cerrone that literally means war with the US
@Derone Cerrone Lets see if russia will even win that
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Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
(2:136 / Translated by Community)
Salam (Peace) -----
Same i love the civ 6 icons
Suggestion, please do not use use light blue to represent a country that is surrounded by water, use another color specially color that easily visible, when surrounded by the Ocean color. It will also help people who have poor eyesight.
My thoughts exactly. Could have used green or navy instead but, yes, that blue was painful to contrast
I dont even have poor eyesight but for a second i thought russia was now an ocean
For real, at the beginning of the video I was watching the white land and the bright blue sea and was confused what tf was this map showing XD
I guess you are color blind
I too found the colors to be extremely difficult to decipher.
Territorial disputes are always fascinating
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@@dontreadprofilephoto1728 then why make this comment
@@curious5887 it's a stupid bot
uh what?!
Nature is far more fascinating...
I never knew anything about this honestly. I'd just like to say how impressively complicated the World is and how every little detail about every island and territory matters so much, to so many different countries and people. It's crazy how those little seemingly irrelevant islands are potentially so important to some of the World's biggest powers.
a single cm of land is vital to all countries in the world, the land is limited
@@hugomartinez2387 Except Bir Tawil😂
What gets me, is How Large Russia is, and How F-ing Greedy they are. Russia is As Big, as they are Hated. Do you want to Vacation in Russia??? 🥴 ya Right, me too. Their people Don't even know the truth about the facts & what is going down in Ukraine. Propaganda has Clouded their minds, and those who know, are Paranoid to speak out. Gulag is the alternative.
How did you not know ? Like 80% war are over land and almost every country has a land dispute .
They are irrelevant until they discover HUGE amounts of oil reserves beneath their soil!!!
Im happy you shine the light on this information. GOLD
I feel compelled to say every time I hear this false statement, Japan was not closed to the outside world. They had closed themselves off to trade with European and Western powers which is not the same as being closed off from the world. They still interaced commercially and politically with Eastern nations like China and Korea.It's not a small thing that's why it gets under my skin. Good video overall
Even then they still traded with the Dutch
True. There were even Japanese mercenaries that fought in the Burmese-Siamese wars on both sides.
Unfortunately, Westerners have a tendency to see themselves as the whole world, or at least the only part that matters.
@@boxtears Found the non-westerner
Tokugawa shogunate kept trade with Dutch East Indies Company from 1609 up till 1849, four years before the arrival of the American black ship.
here's the thing with territorial disputes and historical claims they don't mean anything unless the country has the military power to enforce them.
And Russia has lots of that , whether they want to half-ass it like Ukraine and only use some forces or halfs is up to them...
The absolute truth
Japan has far superior capability in this region than Russia does.
@@jensboettiger5286 shhhh they want to believe Russia is still in the 1700s with Catherine the great.......
Russia can't even fucking invade a poor country like Ukraine without taking a 1:5 casualty ratio
@@jensboettiger5286 Nukes. . .
Almost simultaneously we’ve both uploaded a video on Russia’s border disputes in Asia - yours with Japan and ours with China. It’s definitely important to take a closer look at Russia’s conflicts with their eastern neighbors, since they have major consequences to Asia’s geopolitics & environment.
It’s all bull. Western medias exaggerate everything.
shameless plug lol
^^ A little bit, yeah. But I want to hear more about territorial disputes in the East. So I think it's a good plug.
their threat to europe is still greater though
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I'm Japanese and I leaned 100times more about japan on those videos than the time I was studying at school. Big fun.
What did they teach you about about Russia?
yeeeee thats not so good
That’s wild to think about what would’ve happened had Japan expanded north instead of south.
The video purposely left out the 1939 Japan Russo war that Japan suffered a defeat, closing that option. Besides the US oil embargo was implemented after Japanese southward expansion into Indochina. The cause and effect were turned upside down.
@@zsarimaxim692 Russo-Japanese in 1939 is way different situation than Japanese expansion in 1941, as Soviet was focusing on western front and even nearly lost them.
@@amirulhakim9898 Stalin didn’t pull its Siberian forces to the west front until the end of 1941, by which point Japan has already pivoted south.
It would likely mean a Nazi victory in WW2
Alternate History Hub made a video on what if Pearl Harbor never happened. In this alternate timeline instead of using Japan’s southern strategy and going to war with America, Japan instead expands their empire north and attacks the Soviets. Had the USA sat out of the war, Japan likely would have fallen to communism. Same with most of Europe up until France. So Germany would be united under the East German Communist state. This would be the rise of Soviet global dominance. Interestingly the reason why Japan surrendered in 1945 wasn’t really the Atomic Bombs, Japan feared the USSR far more than the USA so I few cities being nuked was like it being fire bombed. Just with less bombs. The United States really nuked Japan for political reasons.
Things are evolving so quickly that the video includes the attempt to capture the capital despite the Russian retreat from that entire front.
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@@dontreadprofilephoto1728 ok
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I'd be really interested in a spin off here: wars we all thought ended, but haven't. WW2 is still not officially ended between Russia and JP, but the 80 year war between NL and Spain didn't officially end because Zeeland didn't rattify the treaty (disputed though). I bet there are more.
Isn't the US technically still at war with North Korea?
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Great job using blue as the color for the islands in question. No one will ever confuse them as lakes since all water is always blue in maps except in this one very specific case.
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Maybe I missed this part, but there something important here:
Japans constitution forbids them to deploy their SDF outside their territory. In fact, they recently made a amendment to allow them to send troops to allies territories.
But since those Islands are their territory - with the EU and US agreeing - they would not violate their constitution sending troops there.
JMSDF have a navy base in Djibouti Africa since 2009!
Not that simple, Russia ain't gonna go for that, it's like Russia is taking territories and claiming there gonna use nukes if anyone buts in
Yes after the US dropped the bomb on Japan the US stopped Japan having their own defence , US stated they would provide it, hows that for big bully control. So Japan cannot as such defend themselves. And now the US is grasping at straws telling Europe they must do this and that as the US is losing its place at the top while China rises higher and higher in economic terms. Even with all the wars the US is the only country that has nuked civilians twice and here they are demonising other countries. One wonders who is the real threat to the world
Well, yeah, but after that, there wouldn't be a Japan as country anymore, only a Japonskaya oblast'.
Any potential threat would be terminated. If they send troops on these islands it would be an act of war, from our perspective. I don't think, that they want this escalation (only if USA would back them up, but they would never do this, cuz it would be WW3, and, hovewer, nobody would win in this war and most likely Russia would be destroyed, be sure that before that, we will nuke all enemies. As Putin once said "Well and what? We'll go to heaven and they'll just die". We are kinda fatalists here. Why we need rest of the world if there wouldn't be a Russian state, right?:) )
With love from Vladivostok.
Japan and Russia are still technically at war, there was no peace signed between them both, if that's what you mean
love your video, always so informative. the use of blue as color for land really messed up with my head. I'm so used to seeing blue as water. not to nip pick, but can you use anyother color or a topological map with blue with be great 🙏
Thank you for pointing this out! That was definitely a mistake on my end, should've realized. Ah well, I'll do better to pay more attention to coloration going forward!
@@RealLifeLore Sir make a video What will happen if the Soviet Union wins the war in Afghanistan and Afghanistan becomes part of the Soviet Union?☺️There is not even a single video on RUclips with this topic😔😔😔
It’s blue for Russia did you miss the context for this?
@@jithumapper7059 ngl it probably won’t change the world to much
Ok so obviously the blue part here is land
Firstly, this video is incredible. Secondly, what this video neglects to mention is the decisive battle of Khalkin Gol in Mongolia in 1939, (before the invasion of Poland.) Japan and the USSR didn't just have border skirmishes on the Manchurian border, but on the Mongolian border as well. Mongolia at the time was a communist puppet state of the USSR. Japan had a border dispute with Mongolia in the Khalkin Gol region and sent troops to the land in the region they had claimed. But the Soviets came to Mongolia's aid and the was able to check them at the decisive battle of Khalkin Gol. Japan was able to push Russia around pretty well up until this point. Therefor, Japan had tried to keep the USSR on side from that point on. This battle is also the big reason why Japan didn't begin attacking the USSR.
FDR admired Stalin more than anyone else. Therefore the moment Germany attack the URSS he stop admiring Hitler and started to do everything to get involved in the war.
the man in the high castle might be true then,
I’m just glad that Japanese atrocities were eventually forced to a halt in (our) reality. I’m disappointed that Japan has not quite matched Germany in terms of recognizing their pasts, though.
@@DetectiveRackham Yeah because Germany handled it well. No Germans are being exterminated because „they killed millions of Europeans“, so you must apologize. But (1) the genocide was done at the behalf of the Weimar republic's Hitler Administration's population as a secret operaration. (2) Today population is no responsible for the genocide (3) neither that day German, because the NAZI party only sttod in power by the force of the Welfare State.
@@DetectiveRackham who cares
皆んな凄い、日本人よりも日本を知ろうとしてくれてる。その意気や良し！英語が使えないから内容は分からないけど、なんであれ、ありがとう
Wish there'd been some discussion of the historic indigenous presence in the region, since Hokkaido and Sakhalin weren't originally populated by the Japanese or Russians.
sadly i think they are completely wiped out and their history is mostly erased. i think both japan and russia are guilty of this
@@breadeweateh9562 There are still a good deal of Ainu living mostly in Japan, Oroks and Nivkhs have smaller populations but even then it's probably not good to assume they are dead cultures.
In an ideal world the Ainu and the Ryukyu islanders should have been given the opportunity of forming their own nations in south Sakhalin and the 4 islands, and Okinawa respectively.
Also China does not support Russia’s claim of the 4 islands. Look at any mainland Chinese map and they’ll be marked by their names in kanji with (occupied by Russia) next to their names.
@@ouroboros78 thank you for this info. you have just opened up a rabbit hole for me on native Japanese islanders. i really know nothing about this.
@@ouroboros78 Well, there are severely endangered though. I used to live in Hokkaidô for years and even though some people are trying to keep the language and culture alive, it is still pretty much in vain from what I’ve seen. People like the «folklore and image» but don’t care much more anything deeper.
My wife is from an Ainu background and nobody in the family could care less about the culture completely disappearing…
7:46 what he didn't mention was that ANOTHER giant oil field exists in Manchuria called Daqing. It is the largest oil field in the entire PRC and would've probably prevented Japan from attacking Pearl Harbour as well as the European colonies in Asia (they would possibly still occupy French Indochina) .
Considering Japans relatively good relations with the West at the time, the Emperor System would probably have survived and Japan would be to the US what Saudi Arabia is nowadays to them. Manchuria would've played a far larger role in the Cold War and the decolonisation of East Asia would have taken longer.
Japan still has the Emperor system. They just stopped worshipping him as a demi-god.
And then I would have never been born.. since I am half Japanese / half American. T_T
Why would Imperial Japan be like Saudi Arabia to the US? lol. They had aircraft carriers for god's sake. If anything, discovering those huge oil fields would have cemented Japan's super power status for decades to come. As it was Japan's need for oil that drove it to its deadly conflict with the allies.
@@prs_81Because they would probably have maintained a strict oligarchy and not have an innovative capitalist economy like the one they've had in the 80s. Resource-rich but huge income disparity and lack of innovation.
And the US might still control the Philippines.
You neglected to mention another highly valuable resource in the disputed quartet of the Kuril Islands: The largest known deposits of rheniite, a rhenium sulfide mineral first discovered in 1994 within active hot fumaroles of the Kudriavy Volcano, Iturup Island (the northeastern of the two larger islands), which led to Russia displacing Chile as the largest producer of rhenium. Rhenium is exceedingly rare and thus very expensive, and 70% of its production worldwide is dedicated to making jet engine parts, which makes it crucial not only to civilian aviation but military aviation as well. It may not have played a role in the Soviet decision to take the islands and refuse to hand them back due to them being unaware of its existence, but it does play a major role in modern Russia's decision on the matter.
thank you for this :)
very informative as i was unaware of this element's importance.
thank you :)
Please verifiy your information as to finding " the largest known deposits of rhenium ... (on)Iturup Island. I have not been able to verify this information.thx
@@lordemed1 Hey numb nuts! your fingers aren't broke you can search for it yourself!
Anything to do with Jet Engines Russia is going to fight you over that.
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Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
(2:136 / Translated by Community)
Salam (Peace) -----
One thing I learned from this is that Japan really likes suprise attacks on ports.
Who doesn't like surprises
💀
@@danko5866 I'm going to guess the people that have their ports attacked by surprise.
@@danko5866 that's why they have stuck in a hole cPorn
Hitler also didn’t like Japan’s surprise attack ultimately and officially dragging the US into the war.
This, like most of Russian history, stems from Russia wanting a warm water port
Kuril islands don't have a military port though.
Sinple: give a piece of Hokkaido, or (if this were still WWI) Constantinople, and the issue may have been resolved for decades already
@@LancesArmorStriking sinple inded
we just want a little warmth (((
@@yoloolo8184 you want a javelin missile's warmth?
I am happy you are telling many people about this territorial issue.
I hope for a peaceful resolution of this territorial issue.
from Japan🇯🇵
日本軍国主義打倒！
Никто не будет воевать из-за этих островов, если конечно Япония не захочет забрать их на свою сторону...
@@roma4ka872 Nie byłeś w stanie pomóc militarnie Armenii w konflikcie z Azerbejdżanem, będziesz się bił o wyspy kiedy przegrywasz na Ukraińskim froncie?
@@Venchi99 Armenia didn’t ask for help. Plus the have been flirting with the USA. So Russia basically let Azerbaijan playing with Armenia
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Good video, but one thing I want to point out is that China does not recognize the Russian ownership of the four disputed islands mentioned in the video. In fact, those four islands are still marked as Japanese territory currently under Russian control on all official Chinese world maps. You can check this on any of their online maps
Your mention of China is meaningless. China is simply not part of the dispute. The stance China took is one of pro-Russian neutrality. On all Chinese maps, the islands are marked as "disputed between Russia and Japan" - it's true China doesn't officially recognize Russian ownership; it also, however, doesn't recognize Japanese ownership. In fact, China has been taking up the same stance in regard to a number of territorial disputes among other countries. For example, in all Chinese maps, the Falkland Islands are marked as "disputed between Argentina and UK"; the whole Kashmir is painted in color distinct from both Pakistan and India and marked as "disputed between" the two.
In practice, however, China has been consistently implying it takes Russia's side. Its government's spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, had addressed the issue by stating that it's China's belief that the results of WWII must not be overturned. What it clearly implies is that since Russia took over the islands by the end of WWII, it's a "done deal" that Japan ought to just accept, whatever historical/legal arguments it may have that suggest otherwise.
This is hardly surprising, given China is both Russian's quasi-ally and Japan's arch-rival, with whom it has ongoing territorial dispute over Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. It makes no sense for China to take Japan's side.
@@loyalbeaver9402 is actually interesting for me tbh, since just like you said China is pro-russia but why would they mark the 4 islands as Japan's and not Russia's? Knowing the fact that China and Japan doesn't get along very well.
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"why would they mark the 4 islands as Japan's and not Russia's?"
LOL that's tantamount to asking "Why the US marks Donbass as Russia's and not Ukraine's" - the answer is *it didn't* .
You are either misinformed or intentionally making things up.
As said earlier, no official Chinese map from Mainland China marks the islands as Japanese territories. These islands are invariably painted white in color and marked as "disputed between Japan and Russia".
Seriously, I speak Chinese and have many versions of Chinese map on my hand. The fact is entirely unambiguous - China's map does NOT mark these islands as belonging to Japan. Period.
It's just the Chinese government acting ambiguous as hell by taking no sides or both sides. Like with Crimea 2014 and Ukraine 2022.
亲鹅不可能的中国民间可不喜欢俄罗斯
Super interesting how you bring up oil reserve alternate history. The Japanese were also in control of the lands that would become the Daqing and Liaohe oilfields in Manchuria and I've often wondered how it would have changed their foreign policy and military planning if they had known.
Probably just continue munching on china, really.
I've heard that those oil were too deep to suck up and quite hard to refine. So it still was way ahead of technology Japan had then.
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@@indiasuperclean6969 sarcasm?
@@indiasuperclean6969 ahaha
More history learned here than all of my history classes combined. And much more fascinating.
You sound like you were a dull kid. Maybe you should think of paying attention in class and putting in a little effort.
Russia is not associated with a bear for nothing.And the bear's paws are arranged so that if something gets into them, then the bear will not release it. The Japanese will not see these islands as their ears.
*Dude...why on earth should they see them, these islands have been in Russia's possession for several centuries, and Japan owned them from 1905 to 1945!;-)*
8:50 "The soviets suddenly renounced the pact" They were obliged to join the war according to the Yalta conference between England, USA, USSR. It was not a sudden decision by soviets.
England wasn't at Yalta.
@@crinolynneendymion8755 you're correct. It was a meeting between USA, USSR, and the British empire.
A more likely scenario is that Russia would mine the straits of the Kuril Islands so that Sea of Okhotsk would be a bastion where Russian missile submarines could shelter safely until needed in any war. Russia would be giving up a strategic advantage to return the islands.
PS1 - no need to build any air bases as many Japanese airbases exist within easy striking distance of the islands.
PS2 - it would be political suicide for any Japanese politician to settle for any treaty with Russia that wouldn’t return islands to Japan.
PS3 - having been up to Hokkaido in Summer and Winter, making a living in the Kuril Islands must be tough.
Russia has every right to stall a peace treaty !!! You can't trust Japan at all!!
Why would Russia negotiate with a nation that can't even come up with its own foreign policy?!
Russia would be smarter to negotiate with the USA rather than a vassal state in Asia!
But Japan is not allowed to go on the offensive and it’s unlikely USA will be assisting anytime soon. If Russia doesn’t give up the islands, nothing could be done.
With Russia performance with nearby poor Ukraine ,what can they do with far off rich Japan.
Putin release the paper tiger for the world to see ,there is no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.
@@Crashed131963 Lavrov has said it on numerous occasions; "Japan must realize it's never getting those islands, they signed them away to join the UN"
@@Crashed131963 Japan has no military that could face Russia Japan is ten times far worse off militarily to Ukraine. Russia holds a strategic advantage in holding the islands making this war Japan’s Vietnam. economic power doesn’t equal military power.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate that we can watch this for free.
No
Love your history channel.
Yeah, really.
It's very simple. Russia de facto controls the islands and is not gonna do anything with them. If Japan wants the islands, it would have to take them by force. Japan is not gonna do that, because they're just 4 tiny islands and starting a big war over them would be really stupid. End of story.
Interestingly, Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed while Soviet forces were completing Japanese defeat during the Battles of Khalkin Gol for Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact to follow two months before German invasion into Soviet Union.
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact had broken the relationships between Japan and Germany so they didn't fight together against the USSR. It had completely changed Japanese plans on everything. That was a great victory of the Soviet diplomacy.
That defeat ensured that Japan wouldn't dare invade the Soviet union
@@davidhuang2895 are you stupid? look up the casualties and combatants again.
the soviets literally had %5000 casualty rate of japanese,
the soviets literally ran at them in numbers while the japanese mowed them down, they only retreated cuz they ran out of bullets,
i love how people keep bringing down Khalkin gol, like americans got defeated at vietnam, in this case even the veitcong put up more of a fight,
japan left because of diplomacy issues
i never understood why japan didn't attack the soviets with germany after hitler broke the pack, did the generals not think that the pact was just a bait to let the soviet's guard down?
@@NeostormXLMAX The thing is *it wasn't*
Y'know, I love what your channel is doing and the fact that you use Civ VI graphic pictures to depict oil resources is just a nice little easter egg for anyone who enjoys those games too.
I never knew that WW2 technically still had one front of the war ongoing. The more you learn everyday. Great video about an area of the world I care deeply about
ussr disovled in 1991, if u consider russia as ussr, then idk italy could be in war with "barbarians -germany and others" since 476 AD or like greece being in war with turkey since 1300 bc
I believe that not even all Russians and Japanese know that.
@@jankajanka2 Neither of those countries exist anymore. USSR fell in the 1991, as you said. But the Empire of Japan was ended after WW2 when the allies partitioned it with the US taking control of the main islands and South Korea, USSR controlling North Korea, UN/US taking control of Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, and Palau, and Karafuto Prefecture and the Kuril Islands being taken by USSR. Modern Japan is a completely different country than Imperial Empire of Japan.
@@gcarsk Well it is like with e.g. Germany is the legal successor of Nazi Germany, with all claims, duties etc..
Which is why bank accounts (which were not emptied by the Allies), art treasures, statues, etc., are not subject to German law. Germany had to be returned (Russia has theoretically stolen some pieces according to international law and keeps them despite the verdict).
Russia is in many respects the successor, even if I do not know how it was regulated in such a confederation/construct.
@@gcarsk "completely different country"
Riddle me this Batman, why are there so many Japanese Ultranationalists out there?
It's the same mindset and mentality. You can take Japan out of empirehood, but you can't take Empirehood out of Japan.
Thank you for this video with a balanced perspective. I had no knowledge of this dispute until I saw a news headline. Thanks for helping me understand.
6:57 Actually the oil embargo was in response to their attack on French Indochina. They'd already been going south by then to reach it.
So glad a video is finally made about this dispute between Russia vs Japan
As someone who has studied the Northern Territories issue since the 1980s, even going to Hokkaido's Cape Nosappu (納沙布岬), the closest point to the Northern Territories, to gather information, I am very impressed with the accuracy of this video. I might add that since the distance between Cape Nosappu and the closest Habomai island, Kaigara-jima (貝殻島) is only a couple of miles, it presented all sorts of problems for Japanese boats trying to navigate around the cape during the Cold War era and maybe still does today.
And one slight correction-- the surname of the current Japanese prime minister is Kishida, not Soshida. But that was the only inaccuracy I found with this video..
It makes me happy someone has studied such in detail such a curious topic
@@Naxafa There used to be a sign facing the Yaesu Minami entrance to Tokyo Station that read "北方領土 かえる日 平和の日"-- The day that the Northern Territories are returned (will be a) Day of Peace"
Курилы тебе не северные территории. Если бы считаете, что это ваша территория, то почему не воюете за нее? Потому что это не ваша территория.
@@tomilindemann730 Oh, please-- Russia NEVER had a claim to the two southernmost Kurile Islands (Etorofu and Kunashiri) and to Shikotan and the Habomai Islets. Russia just took them after reneging on its non-aggression pact with Japan and declaring war on Japan 2 days after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was just typical Russian behavior-- steal other countries' lands when they are in a position of weakness.
@@mikenekosama4426 You chose the wrong ally yourself. Moreover, you have never been famous for your friendship with Russia. As a result, you have brought yourself into a weak state. And they lost. And the losing side always loses something. Germany has lost East Prussia, you are islands. Be glad that you have not been divided into sectors of influence like Germany or Korea.
Another great video but can you change the colours on the maps? The blue tricks my eyes into thinking it’s the sea.
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I love the usage of the Civ 6 Settler Unit portraits here. That was a "tip of my tongue" moment for me trying to figure out what game I remembered it from.
It’s insane just how many countries Russia borders, or has close maritime borders with. Blows my mind to think that Russia has close maritime borders with the United States AND Japan. Not to mention all of the countries it also borders
Land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia at least (probably more countries I don't recall now). Kaliningrad region borders Poland as well.
We are really great. If you have any problem with it - you need to see your doctor.
@@RUS_Cover If I had to choose between living in Uganda or living in Russia, I’d definitely pick Russia. Best country out of the two. Keep up the great work
@@max-fj7np Not only from these two. If we compare GDP per capita. That in Russia people live richer than in China, Turkey and all the former Soviet countries. And if we compare taxes and social benefits, then life in Russia is better than in other developed countries.
@@BATMAN-vz9xf But you'd prefer to live in bigger cities and better regions, there are sadly very poor ones and very rich ones. Living in Moscow, ST. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Vladivostok or any other large city is great. Rural life isn't though...
I can't stop smiling at fact Japan copes over these islands.
Yeah, and you guys have no life outside of seething about capitalism lmao.
The sad truth is that always civilians are suffering during territorial disputes. Thank you for that interesting video.
Exactly, the superpowers don't care for civilians, they have their own interests in geopolitical sense.
Let's take Crimea for example. A peninsula comprising of a huge majority of ethnic Russians, it has been Russia for over 230 years in total, but only 60ish years in Ukraine because Nikita Khruschtov, an Ukrainian-Russian president of Soviet Union, gave Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR. At that time it didn't matter as it was one county anyway. Following the coup d`etat in 2013-2014 and the open oppression against Russian-speaking Ukrainians that culminated in many violent clashes, including 2nd May 2014 in Odessa where 42 people were burned by Ukrainian nationalists, the Crimeans have understood they can't live together with Ukraine like that. So they acted fast and held a referendum that was approved by ukrainian president at that time. 96+% voted to join Russian Federation.
In geopolitical sense, annexation of Crimea meant that NATOstan has lost a big chunk of control in the Black Sea. They do not care what people have to say. What is democracy? It is a policy based on the will of people, we should respect people's choices.
@@neonlight1214 Thank you for sharing this piece of history. Yes, those borders are just in our heads. But there are a lot of conflicts on land near the borders and to which country it will belong and many people are dying of these conflicts. After years of manhood, we haven't learned to live in peace together.
The peasants are of no value to the real global masters who play all these puppet leaders against one another and their puppets are very rarely in the direct line of fire or harms way. Just a bunch of expendable sheep who can be set up for the slaughter for whatever reason the real global shot callers so desire. After all when you rule from under the radar and in the dark. You cannot be targeted or held accountable. Because you are invisible and don't exist in the minds of the dumbed down sheeple of the world.
@@garybrunecz7785 Unfortunately, it‘s really bad yes.
15:35 This is the most important point. Just for Russian vessels to enter the Pacific, Atlantic or Mediterranean, they have to run a gauntlet of NATO or US allies. These maritime choke points put the Russian Navy at a huge disadvantage
If they weren't POS, they could be allied with NATO.
@@clanpsi The Anglo/American alliance would never allow that to happen. A Moscow/Berlin/Paris alliance has been the great fear, since the 19th century, when Britain was the superpower. An alliance like that would stretch the entire Eurasian continent, which diminishes maritime power, which Britain dominated, now America does
11:36, I have read that it was president Roosevelt who asked Stalin if he could intervene in the pacific war at Yalta in Febuary 1945 and even back in Teheran 1943, Stalin agreed with Churchill and Roosvelt that once Germany was defeated the Soviet Union will join the war against Japan. Sure it was illegal due to former treaties and obligations but thats not how realpolitik works.
Secondly: Japan and Ussr/Russia HAS signed a peacetreaty, ending ww2 in pacific. Soviet-ukranian general Kuzma Derevyanko was onboard USS Missouri and singned the instrument of surrender. The argument that "ww2 never ended in Japan" dosn´t work. There is peace treaty signed by Russian and Japanese delagators.
(Edit: saw the yalta bit now that you mention it :))
An instrument of surrender is NOT a peace treaty.
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OBF made a video on this! Great to see an extended version from your side.
The problem with noting the Sakhalin oil reserves is that the oil is offshore and deep. It wasn't even discovered for more than 30 years after WWII. Even if the Japanese had known about it at that time, they couldn't have done anything with it, as that sort of offshore drilling involving those depths wasn't a thing for quite some time after the war.
Yeah that stuck out to me as well. It would be like discovering massive oil reserves on Mars. "OK great! Now what?"
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While European Colonizers such as Britain and Russia have already Colonized half of Asia, stretching from Australia/New Zealand, to Siberia/Far-East, all in the Asia-Pacific region; Native Asians themselves are fighting for a few tiny islands left out there in the South China Sea. Obviously something is not right here.
Moreover, all these invaders Colonizers do is dig and empty out all the bountiful abundant natural mineral resources from the looted giant resourceful Continent in Asia-Pacific region, and sell them back to Asia-Pacific nations. True, it has been their largest export, earning several hundred Billion Dollars, every year.
The fact that notorious Anglo Western clans are major participants & benefactors of Colonization worldwide, stretching from North America, the land rightfully belongs to indigenous Native American people to Australia/New Zealand in Asia-Pacific, the land rightfully belongs to Native people of Asia Pacific region.
As a matter of fact, here in Singapore, a tiny island with 6 million souls lives like sardines in a can, whereas in nearby vast bountiful Australia which is ten thousand times 10,000 bigger with a mere 27 million inhabitants.
Similar situation in tiny and packed Japan, which is running out of space and land. Do you know that their living room and bedroom are the same place, and that most Japanese people sleep in their living room? 😔
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The oil reserves in the north and the alternate history idea is really interesting. If Japan focused expanding in the north and Russia focused on keeping forces in the east because of it, then they may have never moved to the west to help defend against the Germans. Crazy to think of what may have happened different. History is so cool! Lol
Just imagine Germany and Japan focus on Russia,..
@@khietnguyen9505 this was reason why we kept so much forces in the east. After the battle near Khalkhin-Ghol Japan decided not to risk.
@@yr2235 After German took over Moscow, Russia most troops are on West side, If Japan did not suffer so hard from Oil and attack U.S I think Russia is much smaller today..
@@khietnguyen9505 Germany had never taken Moscow
@@khietnguyen9505 USSR kept large reserves on east all the war time. The war for us was not just the usual war for economic interests. If we lost, there would no be Russia at all. There is no family in Russia who don't have ancestors killed in this war.
I went to Shiretoko quite a few time when I used to live in Hokkaidô.
There are some signs on the road saying 「北方領土返せ！」«Give back the Hoppou ryoudo (islands)». It’s still quite a sensitive topic to some people in the area.
Thanks, for sharing d fcts. . .🗾
Well if you weren't such slaves of USA, you might get them back!!
@@ABC-ABC1234 Are you high on drugs?
First, I’m not Japanese.
Second, you‘d have a hard time explaining how not being a salveof the USA would actually help getting these islands back. It’s highly hypothetical that Russia would give them back anyways.
@@DoraEmon-xf8br "Second, you‘d have a hard time explaining how not being a slave of the USA would actually help getting these islands back."===> Clearly you miss the point of geopolitics in that case.
FYI; Russia will not give them back Lavrov said it over and over and over again :)
@@ABC-ABC1234 Yeah, so you completely invalidate your own point with that last part.
In the end, Russia won’t give them back anyways so what’s the point with you saying that Japan won’t get them back because it’s «such a slave of the USA»?
Where’s the logic behind that?
Becoming a pet of Russia instead of the USA to get the islands back?
It’s not like Japan have much better options at the moment given the tension in this region.
Why does this channel have the talent of uploading comprehensible 20-minute videos on topics I've just put hours and hours of research into... 😅
Also, although it was probably lost to time constraints, I would have liked to hear more consideration about the actual indigenous people living there, and their perspective on the conflict.
Me too!
Yeah, I was constantly waiting for him to mention the actual 3rd party directly affected by these territorial claims, the Ainu people. But regardless, good video nonetheless.
Because you choose obvious topics?
@@ems7623 The history of the Kuril Islands is an obvious topic? Well, maybe everything that remotely involves Russia currently is. 😅
Off shore oil in Sakalin would not have been extractable with the technology of 1930's so the hypothetical alternate history dosn't hold, Japan would not have been able to solve it's oil issue via the Armies northern conquest plan, atleast not with conventional oil. Coal liquification would have been technologically possible but even Germany struggled to do that and they had a far better chemical industry.
During WWII in that same theater, Japan occupied Attu and KIska Islands which belong to the USA. Today they are part of the USA in the eastern hemisphere.
Keep up the videos, great work
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@@slaxorzz yes
You missed one detail:
US warned Japan that a withdrawal of the Japanese claim on the other islands would mean the U.S. would keep Okinawa and asserted that the San Francisco Peace Treaty "did not determine the sovereignty of the territories renounced by Japan", but that "Japan does not have the right to transfer sovereignty over such territories",[30] although this attribution is problematic, since the decision to stand firm on demanding "four island return" (rather than following initial "minimal requirement" line of demanding only Shikotan and Habomai) was made by Japan way before the United Stations' decision to "morally support" these claims
Correct. I believe Japan and Russia would have had a peace treaty if there was no US intervention.
@@axhist2421 Then the Islands belong to Japan.
It's Japan land let them have it back if they want it.
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“War cancels all treaties. You have failed, and let's proceed from the current situation." (c) Yutaro Komura - head of the Japanese delegation at the Russian-Japanese negotiations on the conclusion of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty of 1905. So why should Russia now give Japan the islands it won back in the war. Japan signed a complete surrender. Under international law, that imperial Japan no longer exists.
Lessons in geopolitics: if you want to claim something, make sure you have the firepower to back it up.
I'm honestly impressed by the time and effort you put into these videos. Keep it up! 👍👍👍
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While European Colonizers such as Britain and Russia have already Colonized half of Asia, stretching from Australia/New Zealand, to Siberia/Far-East, all in the Asia-Pacific region; Native Asians themselves are fighting for a few tiny islands left out there in the South China Sea. Obviously something is not right here.
Moreover, all these invaders Colonizers do is dig and empty out all the bountiful abundant natural mineral resources from the looted giant resourceful Continent in Asia-Pacific region, and sell them back to Asia-Pacific nations. True, it has been their largest export, earning several hundred Billion Dollars, every year.
The fact that notorious Anglo Western clans are major participants & benefactors of Colonization worldwide, stretching from North America, the land rightfully belongs to indigenous Native American people to Australia/New Zealand in Asia-Pacific, the land rightfully belongs to Native people of Asia Pacific region.
As a matter of fact, here in Singapore, a tiny island with 6 million souls lives like sardines in a can, whereas in nearby vast bountiful Australia which is ten thousand times 10,000 bigger with a mere 27 million inhabitants.
Similar situation in tiny and packed Japan, which is running out of space and land. Do you know that their living room and bedroom are the same place, and that most Japanese people sleep in their living room? 😔
8:50 "Soviets suddenly renounsed the pact". Soviets actually had to attack because of agreement with allies to start war against Japan after Germany capitulation.
Wrong. Russia broke their treaty with Japan after Japan was nuked and stole the islands. Go back to listening to Putin’s lies and propaganda about Ukraine.
Russia joining the war against Japan just after the Hiroshima bombing seems kind of pointless from the Allied POV. Don't really see the benefit.
@@Raja1938 Russia gained more land, full of benefit for Russia.
@@VMVXMK2 I was referring to the benefit to the other allies. If Russia only joins in after Hiroshima, the U.S. & UK didn't gain any benefit as they'd won the war on their own.
@@Raja1938 " Don't really see the benefit."
firstly from what i know japanese government just ignored the nuclear bombing and shit
so they probably didnt care that much
secondly, they MADE AN AGREEMENT. WITH ALLIES. DESPITE soviets having a non-aggression pact. So the allies probably saw some benefit in that
6:46 The Battle of Khalkhin Gol is actually a fascinating subject. Between the defeat convincing the Japanese military to persue the southern strategy leading to pearl harbor, the Soviets modifying their tanks and stragegy afterwards before more important tank battles in WWII, plus Zhukov who was one of the only officers with field experience (from this battle) to survive Stalin's purges before the war and become indispensable for the Soviets, it's maybe one of the most important moments in modern history that you never hear about!
Actually Soviet forces got more casualties and they had more troops
@@Nevergiveup-z1g sure, but the Japanese were forced to retreat and the soviets got experienced commanders from the exchange, so it's considered a Soviet victory
@@andy62501 yeah
@@Nevergiveup-z1g No of course.
@@Nevergiveup-z1g The USSR only had significantly more tanks. But Japan had more planes.
The number of Japanese forces was one and a half times greater.
The defeat of the Japanese army was complete.
Japan lost 5-7 times more in killed
I love this channel so much… I literally just spent hours watching one video after another like this is such a good channel and it’s teaching me so much. Thank you for the amazing work you do.
You know it's a complicated situation when Russia gets to be blue and Japan is red.
This was always on my mind from 2018-2020. I found it so interesting and this dispute was the reason why I started having interest in Russian culture. Japan lost the islands, but they’re now Russian. Very interesting dynamic.
I see it similar to the Russian occupation over the Baltics.
They forcefully took the land, deported the ethnic people there and replaced them with ethnic Slavs.
The islands clearly belong to Japan, unless you're a Kremlin supporter.
Consider studying international relations and minoring in Russian :)
Russia established European cities that border racially and culturally Asian cities, basically a night and day difference. To me, that is weird to think about even as a Russian. I sometimes wonder how everything would play out if those territories were colonized by some other European (or not) country.
Sounds like Russia took advantage of a neighbour when they were weak. Wannabe imperial power in the 21 century. Bad actor on the international stage.
Excellent video! Fascinating!
This sounds like an interesting alternative history: japan attacking the soviet union instead of Indonesia.
- The soviet army wouldn't have been focused on the western front
- America might not have been involved in the war due to no attack on Pearl Harbor
Basically the axis powers would have more resources to fight with and the allies would have been more spread out.
Japan already lost to soviet in the land, conguering soviet island mean they need to fight soviet in the mainland china to, witch they probably know they would lost. And not is not importand compare to south
japan kinda did some border conflicts and got kinda destroyed so i can understand why they didnt do that
Да в 41 году на дальнем востоке у ссср не оставалось боеспособных войск, все было брошено на защиту москвы от диких европейсев. Но это ничего недало японии, был еще огромный китай. Через среднюю азию с китайцами Россия вполне могла ударить. Да и японцы как сухопутные вояки некакие.
If the islands go to Japan it would also extend the first island chain surrounding China. China definitely prefer to have them under friendly Russian control
so It's like japan-us vs russia-china.
@@yosre9691 Yeah, it's a classic West versus East scenario. That's why so many people are hesitantly labeling all of this as the start of a second Cold War. When you factor in the proxy war happening in Ukraine, that label is getting tossed around a lot more, but people have been talking about it for awhile.
@@lucasharvey8990 The first war of the cold war is already happening and its the russo-ukrainian war
These islands are not part of the first island chain, because China has no direct access to the Sea of Japan after the Russian Empire forced China (Qing dynasty) to cede the land (including modern Vladivostok) in 1858.
China is not under Russian control because it isn't part of Russia.
Amazing content ! We need more ! love for sst!
anyone else in awe of these videos?
8:38 that's not true, the Soviets and the Japanese fought in the battle of Khalkin Gol in Mongolia in 1939. Please correct this mistake.
Jepan Attack mongolia
It wasn't an official war, though
But it was never an official war, so hardly a "mistake"
@@Racko. sure not an official war but still a big enough deal to not be included is quite telling that's like ignoring all USA action around the world where they haven't formally decleared war.
This is very informative, however, your choice of colours on the maps are confusing.
If it's water: it's blue. If it's land: it's not.
Showing land in blue and water in another shade of blue and then having it divided into turquoise is hard to follow; and they don't keep an image stationary on screen long enough for real identification.
Russia and Japan seems like 2 kids fist fighting for 4 little toys that they’ll never stop fighting for
More like Japan trying to take Russia's toys, whose Japan to Russia.
客観的な視点で語られていてとても興味深かった。
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When I was a child, I always thought it was strange that Sakhalin wasn’t part of Japan. Geographically, they look like they’re part of the Japanese archipelago, very surprised when I found it was Russian.
Actually it was ceded by the Qing dynasty of China to Russia first before Japan took over its southern half. But that’s not a problem because China doesn’t claim it anymore
@@troy5094 that’s interesting too. I think the Chinese still refer it to by its Chinese name “Kuye”
@@Make_Australia_British_Again I’m surprised you know that. Japan refers to it by a different name which I can’t recall at the moment. We also like to refer to many Russian cities like Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, etc. in their much shorter Chinese name haha
@@troy5094 Tussia is the 21st centuries colonial power. The Asian countries should do something about them.
I think the clues to the ownership of the island is in the name which doesn't even sound Japanese.
It's so weird to think that there are Slavs living 5 meters away from Japan.
Like earlier I was watching a documentary on Kievan Rus... damn how did we get here!??
Russian strategy of claiming country and securig control by moving there people by force. Maybe brutal but it works.
It so weird to think that there's a 50 km distance between the capital of Golden Horde (btw they were asians) Saray-Berke and Stalingrad. And there's a buddhist nation in Europe (obviously ethnically closer to Japanese than to Slavs) - Kalmykia. So just accept it. Russians are as European as they are Asian.
@@Miboku. Idk since I know about the Mongol period, it doesn't seem that weird to me... But yeah that's Russia - a puzzle of different nations and ethnic groups.
Kalmyks are a distinct group btw, so no not Russians in the ethnic sense. Same goes for pretty much everything East of the Ural mountains. The Russian Russia (stereotype) is basically Moscow and St. Petersburg.
My question is, how the hell did this Slavic empire colonize all this XD
Like in my mind Kazakhstan makes sense, but Tatarstan doesn't.
@@MartinMizner True dat... Same with China now that I think of it.
Just wow! This channel really are one of the best on RUclips. The explanations is thorough and so much easy to understand, and most importantly it's objective to the 3rd POV. Thank you very much!
Big fan. Awesome content! Absolutely love it. And I love all the detail, which I feel like is a newer development in the channel.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
(2:136 / Translated by Community)
Salam (Peace) -----
7:45 Imagine if japan knew about this and chose to attack there and went for the northern expansion doctrine, Soviet Union could have been defeated in WW2 with japan attacking from the eastern side and germany attacking from the west
I mean Japan needed more than just oil, also they would've had to cross the entirety of Siberia
Japan would be incredibly battered by Siberia
You post would be now in German mein Freund.
@@Degfyy no i am saying if they followed just the northern expansion doctrine. U are here talking about the southern expansion doctrine where they planned to attack indonesia and other southern countries
With the obvious superiority of land power in favour of the Soviets, their best hope is to get the entire islands and coastlines of the Soviet Union and let the Soviet Union be distracted, by sending enough forces to the east, long enough for the Germans to beat them. This maybe the best cooperative operation between the Axis Powers if it does happen.
"Which he has taken by violence and greed"
*Looks at the french and brits*
War may be the only solution to such territorial issues left over from history. Still, there is no possibility of a war between Japan and Russia over the disputed Islands in the short term. The actual potential conflict would be an armed invasion of Taiwan by China. The US and Japan would most likely support Taiwan and are too busy to worry about a conflict with Russia.
This is why we need to up our military spending significantly. I hope we see a $1 trillion budget annually for our military and serious reforms to recruit a serious professional fighting army, not just be a frickin jobs program. We need to show our allies that we are here to support them and that we're still the world leader our founding fathers envisioned our country, America to be. The global leader of democracy and freedom. And to anyone arguing against American hegemony, hear this: America has never been more rich, prosperous, and more powerful than today thanks to our powerful military on the world stage, so the American people are happy and better off with it. Believe it or not, American dominant military power has kept the world at the most peaceful it's ever been in history.
@@f-86zoomer37 the most prosperous. Have you seen inflation and gas prices. I am fine with our current military budget as that is how we will keep our influence but do we really need more military spending? Any country would have to be suicidal to try and start a war with us already. We dont need more funding.
@@f-86zoomer37 Your founding fathers were isolationists, not American imperialists/ globalists lmfao.
Also I would argue its nukes that has kept the world peaceful. If it werent for nukes there probably would have been at least two more world wars by now.
@@f-86zoomer37 "Hi! I'm some little girl with 2 moms and I wanna blow in dwa milItWarY uwu"
@@f-86zoomer37 As a non American I'm absolutely terrified of what the US army could do with a 1 trillion per year budget. My country has been couped and had dictators installed several times by the US in the last few decades and they've generally been simply barbaric.
Do u remember, that Japan was the ally of Adolf Hitler? How many civilians were killed?
14:25
Let me add that Japan refused there because it was pressured by the USA to not accept these terms or there would be consequences. A previous Japanese prime minister admitted so
Source?
Which prime minister was this and is there a source for this?
Yeah gonna need a source
Yes, because the USA didn’t want japan getting any territory
@@gg-ke1gp wiki
People who have watched No Time to Die: *Hey! I've seen these islands!*
People who are only learning about the islands with this video: *What do you mean? It's brand new!*
Oil and natural gas is still the most dominant natural resource, but I’d love to see where are the rare metal reserves in the world, since we seem to be switching from fossils and I’d love to see how rare metal reserves could influence geopolitics. Maybe you should include them in your future videos!
Australia and China.
@@powerdriller4124 Thanks! Australia is new (to me)
As a Japanese, I think this video well explains Japanese northern island problem with Russia.
Damn sure NOT Muscovites, per usual...
@Zero but Japanese don't live in those small islands..
The Russians killing the Japanese
And Russia sent the Japanese out of the islands
@@kellihorton1142 If it wasn't maybe Japanese lol
There is no problem- what are you talking about?
Imagine if Sakhalin oil fields were known to the Japanese during WW2, the Japanese might not fight on so many fronts and instead focus their entire military machine on the Soviets, forcing the USSR to fight a two front war and thus alleviates the pressure on the Eastern Front of Nazi Germany.
Not how its work, Sakhalin oil fields cannot be exploit with WW2 era technology. Moreover, they got bloody nose by Zhukov before that and know how outgun they are, and if they open the front, Soviet might counter attack and threaten Manchuria (where the whole Japan industrial base is) - causing chineese front to collapse earlier.
except the only reason operation barbarosa was so effective was because USSR knew that Japan had no plans to invade them and they had a treaty with Germany without either one of those we would have a much much more stronger USSR in WW2 and a shorter war, also USSR would almost certainly join the fight against the Nazis from almost day one making the war a much different affair. That might somewhat have made the USSR a much more likeable ally for more of eastern Europe.
@lol qkloyv The 'Only' spark Japan will see, is nuclear missile coming their way.
@@targe4070 if that happens you can be sure Russia is gonna have to catch Nukes as well from all directions.
@@SkaffaS aww man, the japanese I reply too delete their own comment about how their NATO will come to help, when they invade kuril to take it back and Japan is the 'spark'.
Anyway, you can be sure it won't happen. The nukeless country won't try their luck, especially when they are on the leash of it master in Washington DC.
4:45 and Russia rushes in out of nowhere and says "stop, no, you can't take that, I was gonna build a railroad through here to try to get some warm water".
Thank you for your video, which was very instructive !! :) I am each time baffled by the obstination on both sides. Actually, some oil reserves where discovered even before the 1990's, but in small quantities in North Sakhalin. The Japanese army invaded the northern part during the Russian civil war, and managed to get a temporary concession over the oil fields found there. However, the most important fossil fuel at the time was coal, extracted from the central part of the island.
Interesting comment on coal! But baffled by obstinaton? I would be baffled by deobstination.
北方領土問題について、正しい理解が国内外に広まることを願っています。動画作成に感謝します。
Какие северные территории ? Это Российские территории.
@@СергейСамсонычев For real, it's legit Russian territory
@@Dorian102 да . Это наше
@@Dorian102 и писать надо по русски
@@СергейСамсонычев 歯舞、国後、色丹、択捉は日本固有の領土です。現在進行形で他国に侵略中のテロリスト国家ことロシアには対話能力がない。
Can we stop using blue to color land on maps? Makes it hard to read the maps quickly when I keep mistaking it for water.
Fr. Any color other than blue and white work well
My beef is with lower case L and the number One
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i have a shower curtain map
i've always wondered why, off in the corner, it shows the kuril islands as 'claimed by japan, occupied by russia'
you finally answered that. thank you.
p.s. shower curtain map is best shower curtain.
Kinda similar to the Falklands situation between the UK and Argentina but this time with more strategic importance.
Not really. Here both sides have a semi legit reason to be there. Meanwhile the falklands is 100% british. Has never been under argentinian rule only spanish.
@@RK-cj4oc No, Brits have no claim to Falklands and should back off. They've no business there.
Very interesting and well presented . Geopolitics are fascinating .
Your videos are phenomenal! Really appreciate all the effort and hard work you do.