Why is Vladimir Putin so obsessed with Ukraine?

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  • Опубликовано: 13 сен 2022
  • Guardian correspondent Luke Harding chronicles the key historical events that led to the invasion of Ukraine, from the Euromaidan protests to the annexation of Crimea, and explains why Putin's belief that Russians and Ukrainians are 'one people' is rooted in history from a thousand years ago.
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Комментарии • 5 тыс.

  • @Cam4Cameron
    @Cam4Cameron Год назад +3007

    “Put these seeds in your pocket so at least sunflowers will grow where you lie” just gave me chills

    • @SimDeck
      @SimDeck Год назад +98

      Yep, that was pretty rough. Brilliant and brutal.

    • @newyorkcity5851
      @newyorkcity5851 Год назад +26

      Granny probably turn into sunflower seeds.... Rest in peace old lady

    • @Zdraviski
      @Zdraviski Год назад

      I wonder if it's the same old woman who gave poisoned soup to ruSSians who thought they were welcome in Ukraine.

    • @aaronbaker2186
      @aaronbaker2186 Год назад

      It is great how she is saying "you will die here," in such a subtle way.
      Watching as what were claimed to be the most elite units of Russia are being absolutely destroyed is honestly kinda cool in a macabre way. The Russian military has been shown to be a paper tiger and the state of Russia is a joke.

    • @SUPERNOVA0360
      @SUPERNOVA0360 Год назад +3

      @@newyorkcity5851 Old lady?

  • @mostbestjia627
    @mostbestjia627 Год назад +2159

    Hey Vlad, you should make Russia a province of Mongolia if you want to repeat the history again.

    • @danutahanyga4834
      @danutahanyga4834 Год назад +26

      Moomin Papa of Tove Janson?
      It's best to ask President Putin what he wants rather than relying on the mindless Western media.

    • @republica843
      @republica843 Год назад +171

      @@danutahanyga4834 what he wants and what he gets are two different things. He will go down in history as, Sputin the Brainless.

    • @Truspio
      @Truspio Год назад

      Essentially Russia is now an heir to the Mongol empire, the civilization values (like no respect for human life, rejection of the concept of definite truth- and khan is accepted to be always lying), the military- looting, raping, bloodthirsty, covardly retreating when outnumbered; the system of power. Kremlin is today's Karakorum. Putin himself looks more like a Mongolian than European.

    • @32shumble
      @32shumble Год назад +107

      @@danutahanyga4834 Little putin has told us what he wants in his speeches Ivan.

    • @arthurdewith7608
      @arthurdewith7608 Год назад

      That’s were it’s going with land lost along the Black Sea Russia will become more isolated in trade Putin has painted himself into a corner

  • @gardenhit7654
    @gardenhit7654 Год назад +7

    Great bit of work I live the comparisons you draw which make it so much more simple to understand

  • @endahanley1679
    @endahanley1679 Год назад +5

    As long as his last scene does not include a Nuke, If so it will be everyone's last scene.

  • @ValWasTakenWasTaken
    @ValWasTakenWasTaken Год назад +4841

    in 1939, Stalin thought the Finns would welcome a Soviet invasion, especially the Red Finns who had lost the civil war a few years earlier. However, being Finnish was more important and so you had the reds and the whites coming together against a foreign foe as Finns. Very few collaborated and the Soviet losses were devastating. Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

    • @lindsman682
      @lindsman682 Год назад +189

      I don't see any evidence Stalin thought the Finns would welcome a Soviet invasion, he thought he could roll over a smaller nation, and he was wrong. Ukraine is more culturally similar to Russia, but has yearned for true independence for a millenia. It's also a lot harder to defend than the Finland, but the Ukrainians are clearly motivated to win.

    • @SerenityMae11
      @SerenityMae11 Год назад +328

      @@lindsman682 you're wrong. It's very well documented Stalin told the troops they would be welcomed with open arms by the Finn's

    • @sesimono555
      @sesimono555 Год назад +44

      @@SerenityMae11 very well documented, don’t say things when you don’t have a source clown

    • @MrSpritzmeister
      @MrSpritzmeister Год назад +93

      After the Finnish civil war it was government policy to distribute land ownership to the reds as well, this meant they had something to lose and therefore something to fight for. Similar thing has happened in Ukraine recently, there is something to fight for and something to lose.

    • @JoeVideoed
      @JoeVideoed Год назад +18

      @@MrSpritzmeister I only recently (as in the last decade of my 50+ yrs on this earth) learned about the Finnish civil war. It seemed pretty brutal just like the Russian & American 1s, but there were actual attempts at reconciliation by the winners so it seems.

  • @Lessons4Life
    @Lessons4Life Год назад +688

    You can't just occupy a country because your ancestors lived there 2000 years ago

    • @winstonsmith-ministryoftru1609
      @winstonsmith-ministryoftru1609 Год назад +190

      Are you referring to Israel?

    • @royalwolf7115
      @royalwolf7115 Год назад +63

      @@winstonsmith-ministryoftru1609 Blame that one on the Brits. How about we shift the focus a bit away from the oil fields and more towards the east?

    • @Ramtin-Blue_rose
      @Ramtin-Blue_rose Год назад +109

      Israel sweats nervously !

    • @carlosandleon
      @carlosandleon Год назад +26

      Bro, the soviet union broke apart 30 years ago.

    • @carlosandleon
      @carlosandleon Год назад +5

      You can occupy a country with power.

  • @stephenonline345
    @stephenonline345 Год назад +11

    Three words to summarize the motive: “Warsaw Pact, NATO”, the rest just read your history book, you would understand why he did it. Just read up

    • @feels6233
      @feels6233 Год назад

      You’re embarrassing

    • @MathyBoonen
      @MathyBoonen День назад

      Long befor that russia had a history with invading. Does the bolcovics means anything?

    • @MathyBoonen
      @MathyBoonen День назад

      And what treath was nato for russia?

  • @basreiziger6689
    @basreiziger6689 Год назад +4

    So, this actually wasnt about a perceived obssesion or, logically following, reasons for the invasion. There was however, much projection!

  • @who_is_dis
    @who_is_dis Год назад +2291

    I Left Ukraine as a 7 year old in 2002 - He is right in the sense that Russia and Ukraine are very intertwined, many of my relatives had moved there from Russia. However, Ukraine was always its own entity and constantly fought for its own freedoms throughout history. My mum had always hated Putin 🤣I didn't really ever fully understand why until 2014 and onwards.

    • @mariusmihai1292
      @mariusmihai1292 Год назад +107

      What is not to hate about Russia and Putin?

    • @RezzpektMVP
      @RezzpektMVP Год назад +66

      @@mariusmihai1292 if they actually kept their word, they wouldnt be a threat to ukraine or its people. But hes always looking for a fight....

    • @mariusmihai1292
      @mariusmihai1292 Год назад +4

      @@RezzpektMVP who?

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Год назад

      @@mariusmihai1292 Putin

    • @noelle3551
      @noelle3551 Год назад +12

      @@andreme7326 I am in disbelief at your comment!! Tell you what go read a few history books on Ukraine, maybe go visit also and form an opinion before coming out with such drivel!!

  • @bradjames6748
    @bradjames6748 Год назад +796

    I'm not a fan of the conservatives but I do applaud Stephen Harper for refusing Putin's handshake and telling him to "get out of Crimea" in 2014, long before it was "fashionable"

    • @DGE123
      @DGE123 Год назад +41

      Possibly the only positive thing that guy ever did. ironically Harper is himself very authoritarian and uber religious,,maybe he was jealous?

    • @nonnayerbusiness7704
      @nonnayerbusiness7704 Год назад +50

      @@DGE123 How was he uber religious? He was even publically in support of abortion rights. I think you don't know what Harper did or thought, but just slotted him into an "arch-conservative" archetype in your mind.

    • @Nikephorus
      @Nikephorus Год назад +18

      @@nonnayerbusiness7704 Being that Canada is center left even conservatives have to say they are in support of abortion rights if they want to win an election.

    • @TheRogueEmpire
      @TheRogueEmpire Год назад

      and now all the conservatives support putin.

    • @nair.127
      @nair.127 Год назад +13

      @@nonnayerbusiness7704
      Harper never openly supported
      Abortion.
      He expressed that it is a legally decided subject .
      One he would not reopen .
      No federal government (regardless of party idiology)
      In Canada, has tried to replace the law , struck down by the supreme Court of Canada .
      They have just left it in the provincial hands .
      legal ,but up to provinces health care jurisdiction to regulate it .

  • @alexkcchung
    @alexkcchung Год назад +16

    The logic of "we share the same ethnicity and language therefore we are one country" is not only an overly simplistic one but one that contradicts history in many ways... the Singaporean PM was the one who spoke out against that and you can't help but think that many Asian countries are worried

    • @NorthPoleSun
      @NorthPoleSun Месяц назад

      Ukraine was artificially invented. It's not a real country.

    • @firehazzard8497
      @firehazzard8497 Месяц назад

      @@NorthPoleSun The United States was artificially created, it seems pretty real to me.

    • @UAkovalchuk
      @UAkovalchuk 10 дней назад

      @@NorthPoleSunukraine is the kievan rus!!

  • @infoseekerdotmaduro6879
    @infoseekerdotmaduro6879 Год назад +2

    Well, that's one version of history. The truth is never buried deep.

  • @ravelingmadness5123
    @ravelingmadness5123 Год назад +285

    Seeing toddlers being carried in active war zones is some of the most terrible imagery I could ever imagine

    • @linobiavaschi9157
      @linobiavaschi9157 Год назад

      As per what meaning?

    • @williamyoung9401
      @williamyoung9401 Год назад +2

      Seeing rifles inside a religious citadel is also quite terrible imagery... (2:38)

    • @adetaiootuyemi8169
      @adetaiootuyemi8169 Год назад +7

      In a place like 21st century Europe. It's chilling and scary

    • @arthurdewith7608
      @arthurdewith7608 Год назад +8

      @@linobiavaschi9157 meaning the heartlessness of the Stalin Putin way of treating people like robots with no mind

    • @cheesypuffs1342
      @cheesypuffs1342 Год назад +5

      you never seen Palestine?

  • @doltsbane
    @doltsbane Год назад +401

    To follow Putin's "logic", Ukraine is the parent country. Putin should resign in favor of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russia should be handed over to Ukraine, and the capitol should be moved to Kyiv.

    • @foreigngrounds9776
      @foreigngrounds9776 Год назад +1

      Putin is a crazy maniac lol he doesn't have logic

    • @DarkRoomAmbience
      @DarkRoomAmbience Год назад +89

      Exactly. Sounds like Ukraine has more right to Russia than Russia to Ukraine

    • @frankswarbrick7562
      @frankswarbrick7562 Год назад +60

      I don't think Ukraine wants responsibility for 140 million Russians.

    • @rerror3577
      @rerror3577 Год назад +35

      Honestly I think that is the better explanation. They say Ukraine is a country without a history, but Russia is the one struggling with a lack of history.
      The true capital of Russia is in Ukraine, so Russia is incomplete. Ukrainian culture competes with Russian culture.
      And they don't see themselves as a province that grew out of Ukraine, they view themselves as one of the greatest empires in history.

    • @tokyo.peking
      @tokyo.peking Год назад

      @@DarkRoomAmbience
      EXACTLY !
      Now you have learn which truth britons teach.
      BTW
      You really think guardian do not lie.

  • @randomxaos
    @randomxaos Год назад +3

    Thank you for this great information

  • @juliacheetham6854
    @juliacheetham6854 Год назад

    Thank you for this great resumé of the situation.

  • @seanbinkley7363
    @seanbinkley7363 Год назад +395

    I guess by Putin’s logic then Italy has a right to take over all of France, Spain, North Africa and England because the Roman Empire owned all of it…

    • @MrBell-iq3sm
      @MrBell-iq3sm Год назад +38

      And Germany has right to take Italy, since it beat the Romans, conquered its lands in the follow centuries and Italy was part of the HRE lead by German Emperors.

    • @moritamikamikara3879
      @moritamikamikara3879 Год назад +42

      And Greece has the right to take Afghanistan

    • @denvertopoland3363
      @denvertopoland3363 Год назад +29

      Actually all of that was the polish Lithuanian common wealth. Sounds like it should all go to Poland.

    • @MrBreakingbad
      @MrBreakingbad Год назад +26

      @@moritamikamikara3879 Ottomans: Hold my beer.

    • @kittyss2371
      @kittyss2371 Год назад +31

      Exactly! Also, with Pootin's logic, then Rusia is also part of Monglia coz Mongols as Most 99% Russia may be descendents of the Khannate.. 😆😆

  • @SuperfieldCrUn
    @SuperfieldCrUn Год назад +64

    "At least put these seeds in your pockets so that sunflowers will grow where you lie."
    That's raw.

  • @jeremysanders5104
    @jeremysanders5104 Год назад +19

    Just saying when they do eventually make a movie/tv series about this, it's going to be absolute fire

  • @terrysaunders9124
    @terrysaunders9124 Год назад +2

    He's more obsessed with not finishing what he started, this is not going to end well for everyone

  • @del_j4106
    @del_j4106 Год назад +1444

    I am Ukrainian , seeing first days of war brought all this memories and made me cry . Thank you for coverage

    • @imaginemetoo
      @imaginemetoo Год назад +61

      GLORY TO YOUR COUNTRY 🇺🇦💙💛

    • @qzorn4440
      @qzorn4440 Год назад +42

      glory to Ukraine. 🌻

    • @Facebook-sb3eo
      @Facebook-sb3eo Год назад +33

      Prayers 🙏usa 🇺🇸 stay safe

    • @markkane8261
      @markkane8261 Год назад

      Говоришь по русски?
      Ты выжил обстрел?

    • @UAGoWSuplexer
      @UAGoWSuplexer Год назад +27

      @@markkane8261 speak ukrainian? Ukraine owns russia

  • @Vlad65WFPReviews
    @Vlad65WFPReviews Год назад +616

    Another key detail not covered is that Ukraine was acknowledged as a "separate" and "voluntary" country within the USSR - as on paper its constitution allowed for independence any time it wished. The problem was any Ukraine actually working for independence was either arrested or assassinated.

    • @tokyo.peking
      @tokyo.peking Год назад +3

      Olease DO NOT LIE HERE.
      You do not know!

    • @Vlad65WFPReviews
      @Vlad65WFPReviews Год назад

      @@tokyo.peking The only ones lying are those supporting the Kremlin.

    • @my-curiosity
      @my-curiosity Год назад +1

      as Ukrainian, I confirm it. After occupation (after WW1) USSR had to refer to Ukraine as a separate country, otherwise they would have faced a huge resistance from Ukrainians. So they act carefully, making a trap for Ukraine. Around 10 years later, they started repressions, prisoning and killing Ukrainian elite, again forbidding Ukrainian language, organized terror-famine Holodomor in 1932-1933 ...horrible and evil times you can't even imagine...over 5 millions people starved to death (nobody counted, if there are real numbers exist they are hidden by Moskowi KGB in secret archives).

    • @tokyo.peking
      @tokyo.peking Год назад +3

      @@my-curiosity
      Oh...cmmon...do not LIE.
      THEY PRACTICALLY MAKD UKRAINA FROM OTHER STATES PARTS.
      Where was that ukrain before comunists ?

    • @tokyo.peking
      @tokyo.peking Год назад +4

      @@my-curiosity
      Ah yes, holodomor....
      DID ANYWHERE IN CCCP ALSO PPL DIE BECAUSE OF HUNGER OR OOOONLY IN UKRAINA ?

  • @CortexNewsService
    @CortexNewsService Год назад +1

    The big worry that I don't think anyone wants to think about is when he does fall, how many people he takes with him.

  • @eugenio1203
    @eugenio1203 Год назад

    I loved that Shakespeare comparison! but to think that there's still three more scenes to come is frightening

  • @BrutishLearner4
    @BrutishLearner4 Год назад +1902

    Another interesting historical fact to consider to add to this all: The Cyrillic alphabet used by both Russia and Ukraine, originated in what is now Southern Bulgaria/Northern Greece, commissioned during the First Bulgarian Empire. Our histories are intertwined, sure, but we also have a right to shape our histories going forward.
    I guess by Putin’s logic, Bulgaria should be annexing all Slavic countries still using Cyrillic today as part of a New Bulgarian Empire, because hey, we gave y’all the gift of writing, which led to your literature, and hence helped shape your cultures. Seems logical to me! (Sarcasm, if it wasn’t evident)

    • @habarakadageperera1298
      @habarakadageperera1298 Год назад +77

      Thanks.
      Now I understand Putin's flawed logic.

    • @MarcGrafZahl
      @MarcGrafZahl Год назад +222

      Oh, and all countries using the Latín alphabet are actually Italian property? 😱

    • @maatwarrior340
      @maatwarrior340 Год назад +95

      In fact, Cyrillic alphabet was invented for Russia by Greek monks, Kirill and Mithody. Russia culture, language, history, mentality and religion was always connected to Greece, in particular ithose Greek who lived in Black Sea region and Constantinople.

    • @BrutishLearner4
      @BrutishLearner4 Год назад +60

      @@MarcGrafZahl Biggest plot twist ever. The fall of the Roman Empire was just a prelude to later take over large swaths of the world because of Latin roots of various languages 😂 Ancient Rome’s Revenge

    • @mikesamovarov4054
      @mikesamovarov4054 Год назад +11

      You're clearly mixing the language and the alphabet. Polish is similar to Russian, yet they chose latin letters to represent sound. Alphabet doesn't metter that much.

  • @back2sqr13
    @back2sqr13 Год назад +45

    Now he is thinking: "If I can't get Ukraine no one else will"

    • @twilightprince4833
      @twilightprince4833 Год назад +5

      I'm scared that he'll nuke the country...

    • @AlexEffractor
      @AlexEffractor Год назад +1

      Ukraine belongs only to Ukrainians. russia can bomb our country, but we'll rebuild everything. We are rebuilding broken streets, buildings, and power plants right now. Greetings from Kharkiv, Ukraine!

    • @rositasultana3958
      @rositasultana3958 Год назад +15

      Ex boyfriend syndrome...

    • @albinpaul3429
      @albinpaul3429 Год назад +3

      @@twilightprince4833 Russia is losing so there is high chance for nukes to fly.

    • @mindliss92
      @mindliss92 Год назад +2

      If those he orders will push the button that is...

  • @andyl8055
    @andyl8055 Год назад +21

    Excellent summary, thank you.
    Slava Ukraini!

    • @DamianMoody
      @DamianMoody 2 месяца назад

      It's complete lies btw go find out for yourself.

  • @anshumansingh9848
    @anshumansingh9848 Год назад +1

    when he says " this is a shakespeare's drama and we are already in Act V" just gave me chills

    • @farhanaditya2647
      @farhanaditya2647 Год назад

      I don't read Shakespeare. Can you explain what did he mean by that?

    • @almo382
      @almo382 4 месяца назад

      ​@@farhanaditya2647The end for Putin's regime.

  • @Kltpzyxm17
    @Kltpzyxm17 Год назад +314

    As a former 2 year old,
    I feel the man's pain.

  • @antons5302
    @antons5302 Год назад +322

    This claim to Ukraine and its heritage on the basis of a history-inspired fan fiction is pretty much like either Portugal or Romania proclaiming itself the sole successor to the Roman Empire and claiming Rome (and all of modern Italy, of course) based on that

    • @thestarseeker8196
      @thestarseeker8196 Год назад +56

      Israel did it based on a book of myths and the world decided that was all that was needed. Never underestimate the toxicity of this kind of nationalism.

    • @greatsarmatae
      @greatsarmatae Год назад +26

      That is what exactly Muscovy did with "Rus" identity.
      Because there is only one ethnic and cultural Rus - Ukraine.

    • @thestarseeker8196
      @thestarseeker8196 Год назад

      @@stefanfreestylez oh yeah, trust me I know how it is to dare to question one of the Big Three™ in any way 😂

    • @roysmith3767
      @roysmith3767 Год назад +3

      Search . ' Why is Ukraine the West's Fault . ''

    • @3strll
      @3strll Год назад +2

      Same goes to China.

  • @captjim007
    @captjim007 Год назад +2

    One man can cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions to suffer ever lasting pain and sorrow. We are a strange species.

    • @bigcat100and2
      @bigcat100and2 Год назад

      if there is aliens out there i can think of a couple reasons that they have avoided making contact

  • @renardomooij
    @renardomooij Год назад +1

    brotherly.....yes how brutal insane you treat your brother...

  • @danielleng7070
    @danielleng7070 Год назад +57

    Is not important what he wants, Important is what people wants!! It’s just a sick ambition if one man

    • @wellardme
      @wellardme Год назад

      Yeah, and i wonder if anyone has asked those 1 million dead Iraqis about the peaceful intent of Western countries. Of course not: it's ok when we do it.

    • @lockwoodpeckinpaugh9252
      @lockwoodpeckinpaugh9252 Год назад +6

      Ego maniacs roll that way.

    • @cris_the_coder
      @cris_the_coder Год назад +6

      Putin thinks he was born special when he's just a regular human, just like any of us 😐

    • @schutsheer_des_vaderlands
      @schutsheer_des_vaderlands Год назад +2

      So what do you think the people of the Donbass want? Oh wait, that doesn't matter. Hypocrite.

    • @cris_the_coder
      @cris_the_coder Год назад

      @@schutsheer_des_vaderlands just say it with me. the people of Ukraine do not want to be ruled by Putin. Not even young Russians want to be ruled by Putin. Nobody wants to be ruled by Putin.

  • @wakawakachuchu9353
    @wakawakachuchu9353 Год назад +81

    I recall a failed painter using the same phrase "historycal land" "restore our nations territory" . Things didnt go well for him.

    • @cris_the_coder
      @cris_the_coder Год назад

      I can't wait till Putin gets the 9 mm treatment. At that point Russia will have failed two times in my lifetime.

    • @jimbocho660
      @jimbocho660 Год назад +1

      *groan*

    • @goldenG978
      @goldenG978 Год назад

      Painter didn't had nukes , in today's world 7-8 countries are nuclear power , what do u what destruction of earth ?

  • @BlackWater_49
    @BlackWater_49 Год назад +11

    0:40 The funny part about that is that those guys were called the _Kievan Rus'_ or _Kyivan Rus'_ and when you look at their seals you can clearly see who has the heritage today.
    So one could argue that there's a stronger argument to be made for Russia to the part of Ukraine than vise versa...

    • @krevetka9744
      @krevetka9744 Год назад

      But hey! They got the church!

    • @igrok878
      @igrok878 Год назад

      No, these guys started to be called Kievan Rus by Russian historians in 19th century. So, everybody knows who has the heritage today.

  • @peterdemong2871
    @peterdemong2871 Год назад +1

    Can't wait for scene 5...

  • @peteraguon5065
    @peteraguon5065 Год назад +302

    Ukraine has just about everything.
    Major sea port terminals, flat & rich soil, grain & other stuff. Several nuclear powerplants. Untapped natural gas & oil.

    • @elitecoder955
      @elitecoder955 Год назад +11

      The total worth of natural gas , coal and other non renewable resources in Russia is valued at 75 trillion dollars

    • @tonyjay508
      @tonyjay508 Год назад +18

      @@elitecoder955now I can understand why the Europeans wanted control of Ukraine
      that's a lotta dough a lotta EU Politicians can get their hands into that $75 Trillion

    • @leonardgmiller8924
      @leonardgmiller8924 Год назад +35

      @@tonyjay508 it belongs to the Ukrainian people and no one else

    • @hellothere1656
      @hellothere1656 Год назад

      @@tonyjay508 The EU is not Russia. They allow their member states to make their own choice and control their resources whilst Russia just straights up invades and steals it for itself.

    • @elitecoder955
      @elitecoder955 Год назад +12

      @@leonardgmiller8924 we are talking about Russia

  • @DavidGetling
    @DavidGetling Год назад +433

    Putin isn't just obsessed about Ukraine. It just happened to be the first country on his shopping list, that he thought would be a pushover. Of course, now that it isn't he knows that losing there also means losing power, and possibly his life too. Hence the reason he will never stop of his own free will.

    • @Dethfeast
      @Dethfeast Год назад +33

      Exactly. He thought it would be like Hitler and Austria.

    • @patriark
      @patriark Год назад +110

      Not the first. That was Chechnya, a country whose he ordered a domestic terrorist attack within Moscow to legitimatize the invasion. Grozny was then leveled to rubble during the second invasion. After that, it was Georgia. So there have been a long history of Putinist aggression. Ukraine is the first to properly stand up to this bully. And the West must learn that our weak stance for the last few decades have been a failed policy towards a terrorist state

    • @Simpaulme
      @Simpaulme Год назад +3

      Why should he think it would be a pushover after the Maidan uprisings!

    • @EiziEizz
      @EiziEizz Год назад

      @@patriark Exactly, western politicians have immersed themselves in shameful cowardice and appeasement.
      Slava Ukraine, freedom or death.

    • @maatwarrior340
      @maatwarrior340 Год назад

      The UK is becoming the most racist country on the planet, supporting russophobia and economic unjust. Leading to global crisis and apocalypse. Colonial past......

  • @khushmatova
    @khushmatova Год назад

    perfectly well described!

  • @jeremy28135
    @jeremy28135 Год назад

    I think this is a reminder for us all to be more concise and clear when speaking in public 😂

  • @user-pt5vn5zk7m
    @user-pt5vn5zk7m Год назад +1317

    As a Ukrainian I’m very glad that west now see all those crazy history speculations and other reality that russia build inside it’s own country and society. There is much more things to know about why we are absolutely different people with Russians and why we newer been their allie or part of territory. We always was a forced victim and couldn’t resist without help but now we are not alone. As all other Ukrainians, I’m sure that with our will to fight and you help we will finally break that endless circle of forced « friendships » with them. And look like we are already wining.

    • @kickmcmelon18
      @kickmcmelon18 Год назад

      Ukrainians have been fuqed over and stepped on throughout history and that's where I think this spartan level thinking and fighting moral is coming from. Enough is enough isn't just a saying... #Slavaukraine!!! Love from the usa!!

    • @arselenebitara1356
      @arselenebitara1356 Год назад +78

      May victory yours very very soon. 💞💙💛💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦fr PH🇵🇭

    • @veramae4098
      @veramae4098 Год назад +1

      Just watched a vid about the elimination of smallpox. The whole idea was begun by a Russian doctor. Except later, they mention he was Ukrainian. Keep seeing that in Russian history, now that I'm sensitive to it. Ukraine has contributed so many great people to history ... no wonder Putin is dead set on claiming it's Russian.

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Год назад +66

      Slava Ukraini🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦

    • @user-pt5vn5zk7m
      @user-pt5vn5zk7m Год назад +67

      Thanks everyone for your support! Hope after victory you will visit our beautiful cities to enjoy architecture and our cuisine😉

  • @beeinthehive
    @beeinthehive Год назад +20

    Seriously...? "We are one people"... And if you don't like it, I will destroy you all?

  • @TheRose5357
    @TheRose5357 Год назад

    Thank you so much I have learnt so much from this ..

  • @H3LLS3NT4SS4SS1N
    @H3LLS3NT4SS4SS1N Год назад

    What art is shown at 0:46?

  • @sheckyfeinstein
    @sheckyfeinstein Год назад +58

    The poor guy hasn’t picked up a new time zone in such a long time…

    • @TheDavidlloydjones
      @TheDavidlloydjones Год назад

      There are about four time zones he's in danger of losing out there -- although China operates 62 degrees of longitude on a single time zone. This may be why he recently took time out of his hectic schedule to visit Kazakhstani and China.
      If he manages to stay in office, he may live to see Moscow's loss of any influence in Mongolia...

    • @matimus100
      @matimus100 Год назад

      Prince Andrew and Tony Blair loves this comment

  • @chaosXP3RT
    @chaosXP3RT Год назад +34

    7:50 This minister actually messes up a moment before this and says he supports the annexation of Luhansk and Donetsk. It's pretty incredible

  • @corvin87x
    @corvin87x Год назад

    I understand special operation is like our peacekeeping mission. They learn...

  • @Whiterun_Gaurd
    @Whiterun_Gaurd Год назад +1

    Why is everyone so obessed? is the real question

  • @athelenboy9414
    @athelenboy9414 Год назад +43

    That winter was on fire.. Glory to the Heros.. Rest in peace Serhiy 🇺🇦🇺🇦

  • @tommcallister7647
    @tommcallister7647 Год назад +49

    That elderly Ukrainian woman at 8:55 is a legend. The Russian soldiers should have listened to her.

  • @fownk
    @fownk Год назад

    Just to be fair - St. Sophia you are showing is a recent rebuild form 17/18 centuries. Old Kievan Rus churches looked noting like this baroque building. Original Sophia was badly damaged by Batu Khan. But thanks for the video.

  • @akalax4791
    @akalax4791 Год назад

    That's one way to see it.

  • @doglasbrowny7874
    @doglasbrowny7874 Год назад +40

    The real question is, why Russia is so obsessed to Putin?

    • @aiapihud4344
      @aiapihud4344 Год назад +1

      you've clearly not been paying attention to the state collapsing for the last week..

    • @KaloyanKasabov
      @KaloyanKasabov Год назад +5

      Chechen war and economic development up until 2014

    • @igrok878
      @igrok878 Год назад

      Russia respects order.

    • @oleksandrfomin326
      @oleksandrfomin326 Год назад

      Russian people has never lived under democratic regime. They don't know what taking responsibility means, they're afraid of it

    • @Boorad88
      @Boorad88 Год назад +2

      They prefer living in a run down jail with little economic opportunity. Ask the Tsarina: Russians love the whip!

  • @davidgellatly1975
    @davidgellatly1975 Год назад +163

    The real question in historical justification is determining when history should start. Usually it is when your people are on top. If one really looks at the History of the Ukraine, one learns that that the Ukraine was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which also included large chunks of Belorussia, while Russia was under the thumb of the Golden Horde. Ukraine later became part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which at one time occupied Moscow. During this period the borders moved bak and forth depending upon the fortunes of the various neighbors - Russians, swedes, Cossacks, Ottoman Turks, Magyars, etc. Over the course of the late 18th Century Poland/Lithuania and the Ukraine were partitioned between Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia. In the case of the Ukraine, it was split with Austria Hungary getting the western portion formerly known as Galacia/Ruthenia and Russia taking the Eastern portion. The Crimea was original a titular part of the Ottoman Empire and home to the Tartar remnants of the Golden Horde and routinely pillage by Cossacks from the Zaprorhizia region of the Ukraine. So, who truly owns the Ukraine? Poland? Lithuania? Turkey? The Tartars, The Cossacks? Or, in accordance with the Right to Self-Determination enshrined in the UN Charter, the Ukrainian people?

    • @MarioSanchez-ze2wq
      @MarioSanchez-ze2wq Год назад +15

      It makes me happy to know that there are people that read and remember history. Nice condensed version of Ukrainian history. Thank You Mr. Gellatly for sharing.

    • @vladimirthegreen6097
      @vladimirthegreen6097 Год назад +2

      Cossack didn't look at themselves as somethings different from the Russians in this time

    • @geofflepper3207
      @geofflepper3207 Год назад +3

      If Neanderthals were living in Ukraine 100 thousand years ago then
      I'm willing to go with the slogan
      "Ukraine (and all of Europe) for the Neanderthals, past, present and in the future forever".

    • @ionaskualexander1255
      @ionaskualexander1255 Год назад +13

      So Russia should become a province of Mongolia, right?

    • @buddyrojek9417
      @buddyrojek9417 Год назад

      Nice summary, the reality is the Ukrainian constitution is legal under the current UN Charter and international law, so Putin is totaly wrong under International law. Even Kosovo is still illegal under international law, yet he then uses it as justification. Ukrainians don't want a Russian "dream" so are fighting, and 75% want a EU NATO future. 25% prefer independence, but hey, that's democracy

  • @favthenewkid
    @favthenewkid Год назад

    Let's see how this winter turns out in Europe first. It's hard to transfer weapons without electricity.

  • @eliasmora715
    @eliasmora715 Год назад

    great analysis...the begining of the end, it is.

  • @oski1990
    @oski1990 Год назад +15

    Based on the fighting, Ukrainians and Russians are NOT the same.

  • @GwaiZai
    @GwaiZai Год назад +163

    Great storytelling! Very well put together and narrated.

    • @davidburke2697
      @davidburke2697 Год назад +9

      Yes indeed.

    • @steelgear3876
      @steelgear3876 Год назад +7

      I'm not usually a fan of the Guardian's content but I agree with this comment

    • @andrealuisecandido1154
      @andrealuisecandido1154 Год назад +1

      i donT
      like
      silly
      narrows

    • @goranstojanov1160
      @goranstojanov1160 Год назад

      WELL IT IS FOR PROPAAGNDA PURPOSES SO OFCORSE IT MUST BE BASED IN STORYTELLING AND OMIT ANY KIND OF CONTEXT THAT SHOWS TEH REAL MEANING BEHIND SOME OF THE STATEMENST MADE THAT WEST LOVE SO MUCH TO DISECT,CHERRY PICK AND THEN PRESENT IT IN TEHIR WAY.....

    • @danutahanyga4834
      @danutahanyga4834 Год назад +4

      As far as story telling goes, The facts ae not quite right. It's not meant to be a story

  • @heatherfeather3051
    @heatherfeather3051 Год назад +1

    now I want pockets, so I can Hold seeds.. :*)

  • @chaubui9122
    @chaubui9122 Год назад

    Excellent, informative and convincing video!

  • @Kostyantinovich
    @Kostyantinovich Год назад +112

    Putin is like an abusieve ex husband that cant take it that his partner left him because it wanted a better life.

    • @Blanka1100
      @Blanka1100 Год назад +20

      And he blames his ex wife for calling the police.

    • @goldbullet50
      @goldbullet50 Год назад +1

      No, Putin is a head of state of a great power that is concerned when the sphere of influence of their enemy expands closer and close to their borders.

    • @Max_Jacoby
      @Max_Jacoby Год назад +13

      @@goldbullet50 he don't give a shit about Finland joining NATO though...

    • @Blanka1100
      @Blanka1100 Год назад

      @@goldbullet50 Russia it's a poor state where milions of people have no toilet at home and anything but a super power. Cheap gas station, russian science sucks, russian medicine sucks, gdp sucks, cold war erea is over and Eastern Europe it's not Russia's backyard anymore. Russians seems to be the only one not to get this fact yet, patrzetic state and pathetic paranoid leader who can not stand his tme of glory is over.

    • @capohd28
      @capohd28 Год назад +8

      @@goldbullet50 Sorry, but Russia is no longer a great power. Great powers are based on financial resources, not colonialism or “sphere of influence”. The US is a great power, not because of it’s military or colonial ambitions or even nukes. It’s because of it’s financial power. That’s what it is wielding against Russia and will bring it’s demise. NATO and the US have no ambitions to take over Russia, which seems to be their biggest fears. US only wants peace, more now than ever. I can’t say the same for Russia who think that imperial ambitions are what makes it great. It does not. The sooner Russia realizes that, the sooner they can turn their focus to build their economic power which has never been realized after the Cold War, as Russia could not stop attacking neighbours.

  • @ebbeb9827
    @ebbeb9827 Год назад +33

    Guess Italy should invade most of Europe, North Africa, and east bank since its all Roman

    • @jonathangeorge787
      @jonathangeorge787 Год назад +1

      Time for pax romana! Lets go!!!

    • @ehombane
      @ehombane Год назад

      You are wrong, it is not their turn. As you said they already invaded it, next was the turks turn, next germans turn. True, it was kind of short. Or maybe not, if we consider that they exported their ambition over the pond and continued there. And now comes chinese turn, so russians hurried to grab a piece till it is not too late.

    • @teresamccartney1309
      @teresamccartney1309 Год назад

      No, Italy and all of the world should belong to africa

    • @metamind411
      @metamind411 Год назад

      Yeah that was like the whole point of fascism and Mussolini's dictatorship, didn't turn out too great so no thanks we are fine as it is

    • @jooseppib1082
      @jooseppib1082 Год назад +1

      But all of humanity originates from Africa so perhaps Tanzania owns us all?

  • @volodymyrberezhanskyy9111
    @volodymyrberezhanskyy9111 Год назад

    Quite precise it is...

  • @lukearound1830
    @lukearound1830 Год назад +1

    I believe you missed the 2016-2020 period.

  • @TheInfamousMrFox
    @TheInfamousMrFox Год назад +755

    Something important to know, for all who are interested in history and/or support Ukraine:
    Rus’ ought not to be confused with “Russia”, which derives its name from the Rus’ but historically is a completely different state, which almost all its existence was at war with the Rus’.
    Just like the Holy Roman Empire was actually Germany, Russia is actually Muscovy, despite their best attempts to convince everybody otherwise.
    Its name “Russia" received only in 1721, when Peter I passed a decree to change Tsardom of Muscovy’s name into the “Russian” Empire (“Russia” originates from Rosia, name used by the Greek Orthodox Clergy in regards to Kyivan Rus')
    Under the reign of Cathrine II Muscovites where even punished for continuing to identify as Muscovites, and were forced to call themselves “Russian”.
    Lands that “Russia” claims were part of the original Rus’, but actually weren't, are Novgorod, Suzdal, and Ryazan, since in historical texts of XI-XII centuries they are mentioned as separate entities from Rus’. They can be considered parts of extended Rus’, although their culture was distinct from main Rus’.
    In 1493 Moscow prince Ivan III appointed himself to be the Great Ruler of All Rus’. No other kings acknowledged that. From that point on Muscovy started to make false claims on Rus’ ownership.
    “Russia” is an offshoot of Ukraine and not the other way round, despite what Soviet and “Russian” historians have been trying to say for years. Kiev was a developed cultured capital when Moscow was just another swamp village.
    Germany used to call itself the Holy Roman Empire, that didn’t mean they became the Romans, and all of a sudden had a right to claim whole of Italy and its history, but yet, that’s exactly what “Russia” did in regards to Rus’-Ukraine, which is a horrible injustice!

    • @BenjaminVestergaard
      @BenjaminVestergaard Год назад +29

      That's a very detailed and extensive explanation. Thank you, I learnt something today.
      Then I have one question, but it's about the name of the Rus, you say the name originates from Greek, but I've heard that it originates from scandinavia, while vikings were the ones sailing the seas and settling in inlets (vig in modern danish is a corner of an inlet), the rus were the rowers that went up the rivers to make settlements (roer in modern danish means rower). Which one is more correct?

    • @orbitfold
      @orbitfold Год назад +59

      Yes, by Putins own theory Russia should be part of Ukraine and not the other way round.

    • @DennisBLee
      @DennisBLee Год назад +58

      Nice run down. Anyone familiar with medieval history knows that Kyiv was the center of the Slavic world for a long time while most of the region east of the Dnipro was overrun with steppe hordes and warring fiefdoms.

    • @Disorder2312
      @Disorder2312 Год назад +6

      How the name "Ukraine" originates then, if you're saying that it was Rus'?

    • @ChRW123
      @ChRW123 Год назад +33

      @@orbitfold From now on I'll call Russia Eastern Ukraine

  • @CaliGirl305
    @CaliGirl305 Год назад +228

    Vladimir Putin is a lunatic . I admire the Ukrainian citizens fighting for their country🙏 .

    • @Kodakcompactdisc
      @Kodakcompactdisc Год назад

      He’s also an idiot.

    • @perfectmazda3538
      @perfectmazda3538 Год назад +17

      Ukraine fought 13 wars (independence wars) against Tsars Russia and later on Red Army and now Russia again, even tho they never won for the first 12 times, this time with the support of the whole world they will finally achive their dream of complete freedom.

    • @crissdiamond1907
      @crissdiamond1907 Год назад +4

      …and he’s not alone in the russian nation to be a lunatic

    • @goldenaye3
      @goldenaye3 Год назад +4

      If Putin is a lunatic, I wonder what you are, takes one to know one.

    • @donkeynuts75
      @donkeynuts75 Год назад +3

      @@goldenaye3 they're guardian readers. Try not to take those with single digit iq's too seriously.

  • @paulproux7276
    @paulproux7276 Год назад +2

    All the informations in this clip are roundabout the truth but he is leaving out more then have of the story.

  • @boomshine7
    @boomshine7 Год назад

    6:06 Belgium: hold my croissant

  • @meganjperry9489
    @meganjperry9489 Год назад +23

    Shame so many people will die on both sides for the sake of one persons actions. When all authority is placed in the hands of one person, tyranny is what you get. It never ceases to amaze me how any country thinks it a good idea for that level of power to be invested in one person without any checks and balances. I guess that's what you get in totalitarian / dictatorship run societies. The one other country to watch is China who are administered in a similar way. I imagine China have been watching this very closely, particularly with there stated interest in Taiwan. Not so different from Putins view of Ukraine as belonging to Russia.

    • @christinemason8166
      @christinemason8166 Год назад +1

      P was chosen for this reason

    • @adamblack267
      @adamblack267 Год назад

      These countries are run as oligarchies look it up.

    • @roysmith3767
      @roysmith3767 Год назад

      Search . ' Ukraine Crisis - What You're Not Being Told . '

  • @DacianRider
    @DacianRider Год назад +152

    I still have hope that the Western world will put liberty over comfort and that Putler won't divide us. We need to constantly speak up against the Kremlin regime and support Ukraine. Slava Ukraini !

    • @Neo-Reloaded
      @Neo-Reloaded Год назад +5

      I hope Ukrainians solve their own problems instead of begging for help around the world. Sometimes you just need to leg go of pride. Give Putin some land and end this senseless war.

    • @sanderdeboer6034
      @sanderdeboer6034 Год назад +17

      I have reduced my gas usage by 90 percent. Now only taking cold showers and not heating my house. Also did away with my car and only use public transport, bikes and walking to get around. No more airplane trips for me as well. Only taking the train to go on holiday.
      And many others follow this example here in the EU. Overall gas consumption has been reduced the past 6 months by 25 percent. I meet Ukrainian refugees on a daily basis, who stay on a river cruise ship only 100 meters away from my house. Others stay near my step fathers house in a large hotel.
      I have been collecting toys for Ukrainian kids for months now, and do as much as I can do give aid. So we are doing as much as we can, plus giving up a lot of comfort to defeat this murderous fascist dictator Putin.

    • @sanderdeboer6034
      @sanderdeboer6034 Год назад

      @@Neo-Reloaded Insane argument! Just give fascist murderous dictator Putin some land and end the senseless war? First of all this has already been done with Crimea, which was taken by Russia in 2014. Ukraine obviously didn’t agree with that, but didn’t start a war over it. But now evil Putin wants the rest of the country.
      So what if Ukraine will give ‘some land’, will that stop insane thief dictator Putin? HOW?

    • @sanderdeboer6034
      @sanderdeboer6034 Год назад +1

      @@Neo-Reloaded You use MAFFIA LOGIC! If you give me your profits I will stop harassing you! If you give me your land I will stop the war I started!

    • @JoaoVictor-hg4tr
      @JoaoVictor-hg4tr Год назад +5

      @@Neo-Reloaded i think i saw something like this happen before, would you like to ask the czechs about it?

  • @GSSurry
    @GSSurry Год назад

    People with hearing impairment can not hear you because of background sound

  • @aricunono6272
    @aricunono6272 11 месяцев назад

    The same reason your bring your head from under water when you fun out of breath.

  • @thomas_tk330
    @thomas_tk330 Год назад +92

    Ukraine has tons of arable land, newly discovered gas reserves and direct access to the black sea, among other things. Though the gas reserves are the main problem since they allow Ukraine to compete with Russian gas providers.

    • @olhasum4721
      @olhasum4721 Год назад +12

      Exactly! Can't belive this video didn't even mention that.

    • @christinemason8166
      @christinemason8166 Год назад

      This is more like the truth, Russia wants our natural resources.

    • @rileyjdavies
      @rileyjdavies Год назад +5

      100% the real issues!!! Of course The Guardian ignored that though 🙄

    • @Waverlyduli
      @Waverlyduli Год назад +8

      So, you're saying Russia's interested is that of a thief? That's correct.

    • @simony2801
      @simony2801 Год назад

      I think your analysis is far more accurate than the guardian’s. The idea of Putin the historian is laughable.

  • @jorr1334
    @jorr1334 Год назад +92

    Thank you for this excellent piece of history and analysis. I think pukin has also become obsessed with Zelenskyy.

    • @snicksabea6192
      @snicksabea6192 Год назад +25

      Putin is so jealous of Zelensky.

    • @ananunez1245
      @ananunez1245 Год назад +13

      Zelensky is the leader Putin wish to be.

    • @broly5411
      @broly5411 Год назад +1

      funny 🤣

    • @ruthwhetsel3594
      @ruthwhetsel3594 Год назад +1

      @@ananunez1245 Agree but perhaps with uncontested permanent elevation akin to a monarch?

    • @nyc4377
      @nyc4377 Год назад

      @@ananunez1245 😅

  • @comatosed911
    @comatosed911 Год назад +1

    why does the guardian not tell the people why julian assange is locked up ?

  • @_R-R
    @_R-R Год назад

    8:53
    I don't know why that's funny, but the way he says it, is.

  • @jaabaadaabaaadoo
    @jaabaadaabaaadoo Год назад +72

    Freedom to Ukraine from Bosnia 💛💙

    • @nomadlifehacks
      @nomadlifehacks Год назад +6

      I hope also peace and harmony for Bosnia too. I was in Medugorje and Mostar, beautiful cities

    • @RJCMaxification
      @RJCMaxification Год назад

      Bosnia invaded Ukraine? haha just kidding

    • @sodiumvalproate3936
      @sodiumvalproate3936 Год назад +2

      I hope you folks can acheive peace and get the justice you truly deserve. I truly care for Bosnia 💛💙🇧🇦

  • @sneedmando186
    @sneedmando186 Год назад +11

    Seriously, why? It’s not 1920 or 1820, or 920AD. People don’t just conquer stuff with convincing people anymore. We communicate too fast

  • @icwiz
    @icwiz Год назад

    4:26 that was a perfect throw!

  • @jsavak99
    @jsavak99 Год назад +1

    This view expects the viewer to just accept these statements bc Luke Harding said so , absent any evidence

  • @abbottone
    @abbottone Год назад +42

    It has nothing to do with romance or history - its just because most of Russia is landlocked/icelocked and the only sea access it has is to go through EU waters. He wants access to Crimea waters and he wants to block Kazakhstan from free flow to Europe without Russia's say-so and that it will be the only country that can supply gas/oil to Europe

    • @blackbirdsr71
      @blackbirdsr71 Год назад +3

      Well that worked out brilliantly for him lol!

    • @boynamesue7720
      @boynamesue7720 Год назад +7

      Exactly it is about having a monopoly on resources and no competition.

    • @georgemorley1029
      @georgemorley1029 Год назад +6

      Well, I’m a naval officer but personally speaking, as useful as sea access always is and as salient as your point is, I thought it was more about absorbing Ukraine’s domestic wheat, oil and gas production to Russia’s own, overtaking India as the second largest wheat exporter in the world, and then flogging all that wheat and oil and gas to China’s expanding population throughout the twenty first century? The real test of the axis of global power is whether a Russian/Chinese bloc pushes America and Europe around, and so far it seems like they’ve moved far too early and without any real staying power to test the global hegemony. For Taiwan, switch wheat for semiconductors.

    • @kwanman5146
      @kwanman5146 Год назад

      @@georgemorley1029 I think China's population is forecasted to fall this century. They definitely have their own issues but I think Xi has backed the wrong horse. Strategically I also think there are untapped oil fields in the black sea.

    • @tokyo.peking
      @tokyo.peking Год назад

      @@georgemorley1029
      You must be naval officer from west.
      They usualy steal, rob and devastate what they touch.

  • @MultiSciGeek
    @MultiSciGeek Год назад +18

    This is actually a great summary! For a more in depth look I recommend the documentary called "Winter on Fire"

  • @Swrab
    @Swrab Год назад

    yeah many forget how it all started in 2013 and that was yanukovych refusing the EU deal and just really think, was he pushed to do that by US?

  • @Andjey90
    @Andjey90 Год назад

    Everyone needs to see this.

    • @DamianMoody
      @DamianMoody 2 месяца назад

      It is completely made up, go find out for yourself the real history.

  • @DeclanMBrennan
    @DeclanMBrennan Год назад +11

    The "Anschluss" with Ukraine was supposed to go a lot more smoothly.

  • @polecat4599
    @polecat4599 Год назад +47

    He's not obsessed with ukraine, he's obsessed with himself

  • @mariiyanikka5367
    @mariiyanikka5367 Год назад

    Thank you for the truly story about what happened in Ukraine

  • @whatbrettdid
    @whatbrettdid Год назад

    I think this all changes now. Great piece of video making here.

  • @Sean-ll5cm
    @Sean-ll5cm Год назад +15

    My take from this video: Ukraine has a claim on Russia...

    • @RuslanKvitnevyi
      @RuslanKvitnevyi Год назад

      good observation :-p

    • @MALITH666
      @MALITH666 Год назад +1

      *Putin wants to know your location*

    • @Sean-ll5cm
      @Sean-ll5cm Год назад

      @@MALITH666 *flees to Kyiv so he'll never be able to capture me*

  • @Dude-iz2dw
    @Dude-iz2dw Год назад +16

    well, don't forget about Belarus (a russian puppet now), Georgia (annexation of Osetia and Abkhazia), Ichkeria(occupation), Kazakhstan (pollitical pressure and Russification).

    • @tasbykekerey1203
      @tasbykekerey1203 Год назад +3

      Kazakhstan has no choice , Kazakh suffered so much during Soviet time, lost entire 2/3 of its population

  • @obolotina2
    @obolotina2 Год назад

    i wish people travel more, talk to local by themself and try to escape federal news channel. may be it will help to avoid hatred

  • @oksana4777
    @oksana4777 Год назад

    Thank you for this video and support for my country.

  • @erwinsegers3696
    @erwinsegers3696 Год назад +15

    so accordingly to Putin , Russia and Ucraine are in fact ....Scandinavian soil?

  • @transmosbrickstuff2911
    @transmosbrickstuff2911 Год назад +12

    Historically Russia is Viking land ....I don't really know if we want it back thou :)

    • @AmaliaGranath
      @AmaliaGranath Год назад +2

      Sweden doesnt object! 🤣🤣
      Oleg was a swedish viking.

    • @sharwama992
      @sharwama992 Год назад

      @Risto Kempas please tell me your joking

  • @dariastroeva6779
    @dariastroeva6779 Год назад +2

    But where is the Donbass' part of this story? Why not even a word about it?

  • @stevensong8784
    @stevensong8784 Год назад

    Thanks!

  • @marlecmarine5393
    @marlecmarine5393 Год назад +16

    Excellent brief look at how we got where we are. Moldova and the Baltic states were next, then Belarus would also cease to exist, but was less urgent as it was already occupied. I think what was missed out was his 'Thesis' was just an attempt at intellectual justification for invasion, he needed to carry his political cronies with him. He wanted to steal the great natural wealth in Ukraine, especially the vast food production in Ukraine. Between Russia and Ukraine Putin could blackmail the world with the threat of starvation and energy supplies, that was the real agenda, with Ukraine and Belarus the Russian federation would be a true superpower again........

    • @shooster5884
      @shooster5884 Год назад +3

      The Russian defence minister was the only one who really was wise as to what a disaster the invasion would be .. but fear kept him from saying what he wanted to... he looked traumatized, by the appalling idea of the special military operation and the consequences, more even than by having to lie to Putin. I'm sure he knew very well what the Ukranians response would be and how they had been preparing themselves for such an attack by Russia. But any such truths would have fallen on deaf ears.. I'd say he's now sorry that he didn't object and resign instead and not been a part of it.

    • @roysmith3767
      @roysmith3767 Год назад

      Search . ' Why is Ukraine the West's Fault . '

  • @pjhgerlach
    @pjhgerlach Год назад +24

    The Russians expected to be greeted with bread and salt. Well the salt they got. Rubbed in their wounds.

  • @zyxi8143
    @zyxi8143 Год назад

    Who ever did the Audio really needs to get rid of the Essing sound.

  • @tanner293
    @tanner293 Год назад

    yeah, no it makes total sense, indeed I also think spain and portugal and france and england and so on are part of Italy, they were under the roman empire 2mlns of years ago 🙄