Central Asia on the verge of a water war 

@precizion Maybe. Although in general very little news Comes from nations east of the caspian and west of china.

Super peaceful lmao

The less economically and militarily powerful a country, the less they are important/interesting for the "big media".

@precizion oh you are from India?

Maybe because China, Russia and Afghanistan are consuming all the attention over there.

Almost wants to make you become a prepper

@@ShakilAhmed-kf5nd nah its not that soon, it'll happen but it'll take a while to reach us, and we'll be dead...so not our problem.

You can see blood is the most valuable coin to use.

*+Mrgurderian* Why not for bot--all three and more reasons? After, in addition, last weeks wars were for prestige, holdings, land, religion, etc.

Exactly!

Baby globalist.

Babies and their first phrases: Timmy: "mama look dog" Jessica: "Timmy hello" Kevin: "dad, this" Jeremy: _"it appears to me that the 12th division is losing grasp of the left drop. Shall it attempt to split and flank the incoming invaders or prepare for prolonged siege?"_

@@royxeph_arcanex Lmao, i love this comment

As kids, after hopping out of the bath my siblings and I would sit on the floor in a line, feet on the wall, count to three, push off the wall and slide on our bums in a race to get to the other side of the bathroom. Little did we know then, we were reenacting the behaviors of real world federal parliaments (like the Australian government).

Pre-enacting.

The Aral sea is just a wastful evaporator its rapid decline shows how much river water is wasted to supply the worthless sea...its a freak of nature and should not be saved.

@@command_unit7792 that was too harsh dude, there was a whole ecosystem that was naturally formed by ages. But yeah, soviets did their job and former president had finished it

Command_Unit Wasteful? There are multiple major problems that result from the shrinking of the lake. Starting locally, the entire economic base of the population around the lake just disappeared. As If that wasn't bad enough already, the climate also changed from mild, maritime touched climate with fresh breezes to continental desert climate combined with Sand or rather Salt storms. But probably the biggest, even international issue: These Salt storms destroy farmlands hundrets of kilometers away from the lake, Even reaching the Himalaya and melting the glaciers and Snow there! On top of that comes that the "useful" purposes that the Water is used For become more and more impossible as well, as cotton Farmers neglected drainage leading to salt accumulating on the land once again, reducing cotton harvest by about 50%. Every "freak of nature" has its purpose, and by cutting of the Aral everyone just lost in the end.

Russia dried the aral sea

@@victorchanalet9592 this is a meme about the IRL person who created the theory that destroyed the Aral sea.

There is a degree of how willfully ignorant one can be about the compounding nature of the calamity the climate change brings to poorer nations. This didn't start now. Some even credit Arab spring on climate change & it causes on urbanization and unemployment.

Instability is always caused by external factors. The West will fall.

Imagine believing nations of the world care about other nations rather than their resources.Also Santa isn't real just for info.

@@1themaster1 The Afghan war has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, and achieved next to nothing for it. The Taliban may be oppressive, but the country's death toll was never that high before the war.

@@1themaster1 what a lame Standart Comment… the taliban is powerfull because of the Western armys you foolish flower.

Oof my guy. Good luck.

You might want to reconsider that now my guy! Try Canada :)

@@alexseguin5245 it's nearly impossible to get a visa there.

Wow this aged so poorly

@@alexseguin5245 yeah of course, why not? Why not america? Not like it’s expensive of anything

by - Sun Tzu

Wasn't it Kautilya or someone that said that a good archer can strike a man dead from afar but the words of a wise man could have killed that man right in the womb?

They're about to enslave us all with their covid narrative and their new papers please regime.

Not true tho

@@sedargames8161 it's true.👍

There were whole civilizations, cities, and cultures based around the Aral sea. Now that is all gone...

As much as the Soviets could cover up their disasters, they couldn't quite find the excuse to cover up a rapidly disappearing sea.

Da....

Yeah, it's bad. But understand the context. The diverted inflow of water was used to irrigate over 5 million hectares of cropland. People in the area needed (and still need) food more than fish. Another thing to remember is that it wasn't the Soviets who did this.

I'm Australian and we have seen a number of documentaries on the destruction for the Aral Sea. I find it truly staggering in this entire video DOES NOT MENTION the destruction of the Aral Sea. Those Soviet era dams built on those 2 huge rivers (Syr Darya and Amu Darya) destroyed the Aral Sea. That destruction is one of the greatest *MANMADE* disasters in history. Prior to its destruction the Aral Sea supported an enormous fishery that fed millions. That is all gone -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea The other thing he does not mention is that those enclaves were deliberately created by Stalin. He did it to create the sorts of situations we now see all across the ex-Soviet Republics. He literally grabbed chunks of populations and swapped them to create these enclaves. These enclaves didn't "naturally" develop over centuries they are a fairly recent (in terms of history) Soviet construct designed to displace people from their traditional homelands.

It’s called Azerbaijan Turks

@@tunc34 By whom?

Azeri in Azerbaijan or Azeri in Iran?

@@dogeofgreatness2222 Are u sure about that?

@@alexflim no I am asking you people.

mostly covered by immediate neighbors like India, china, Pakistan, Russia etc

Immortal Joe

That's why I've stopped drinking water. Recently I found out that you don't have to drink a single sip of water for the rest of your life.

@@einrevjhon9255 *Immortan

100% of serial killers are known to be regular consumers of water

Too late...

BS, the english and french knew exactly what they did, they did it on purpose.

@@Argentvs I think you're missing the satire. It's a meme format

yes, that was meant as satire, but whatever belief makes him happier about himself i guess. like it or not, the African frontiers are nonsense because of carelessness, all black people being just seen as "African" as if it was an identity in itself. I mean, had we known, would we have made sensible frontiers ? maybe, maybe not. I can't tell. if frontiers had been traced to fuck them up, they would be far more convoluted, deliberately splitting as many people groups as possible leading to torturous jagged lines, like we see here, not 500km long straight lines like the frontiers of mali

Most of their borders where made on deserts. The middle east was an actual French-Anglo fuck up.

@@someguysomeone3543 the middle East was divided based on mineral deposits.

he did same in georgia, fuck that guy 😂

Drawing boarders is not that easy. Ask the near(middle) east how they feel about the British boarders^^.

@@anarchisticauthoritarian228 Strictly 'Anglo-French' borders. However if one looks at most international borders they are rather artificial, drawn by politicians according to who had just won a war, had the most powerful friends or thought it would be a great idea to create a state of heterogeneous people in order to prevent another state from achieving dominance. The whole notion of the 'nation-state' should have been put out to pasture in 1945 after the devastation of two world wars. Unfortunately tribalism is still a dominant human trait and we love to puff out our chests in pride over things we never did and/or happened well before we were born. 😥

@@ericjames8233 Yeah, it (tribalism) is what I metaphorically call "the small-d*** complex". And you're right; one shouldn't really mention Britain in such a context with also mentioning France, as they were certainly the biggest players in that arena. As they say, "Not judging - just reporting historical fact." You'll perhaps agree that we could all do with a bit less finger pointing and do a bit more more acknowledging our own shortcomings, both as individuals and as groups. As Woodrow Wilson said, "No nation is fit to sit in judgement of another." That might not be always the case, but I think it's a good general approach, and one which our dumbed-down, polarised world could use benefit from implementing a bit more, certainly.

But apartheid is over, shouldn't it just be all sunshine and daisies?

@@sickre so u don't know about the riots and complete chaos and corruption I'm guessing.

@@maddog5284 I guess you're too dense to get his sarcasm. As for SA, who cares? The only use of that "rainbow" state is to be a living breathing (barely) example of the simple fact that such "rainbow" states don't work and will never work.

@@borisnoone I kinda got it but was not sure but that's me just thinking u never knew since nobody on the establishment media is talking about this at all

@@sickre so u support apartheid ?

From Alexander to Babur

For some reason it sounts like you are calling Ferghana Asia's cahones

It’s amazing how the ancient cities of Ferghana from Alexander’s time have turned into little more than piles of mudbrick dust. Sadder still is that very little of this cultural wealth has been properly excavated.

Bruh, it's obvious that today center of CA is Almaty and Shymkent

This is a good take.

Emphasis on the 'Russia' in Soviet Russia.

@@IvanSoregashi Tnk 🔸r>🔸 ou>r>🔸 🔸me🔸 🔸

When I hear the elder people from Ex-Soviet states* talking about the past times, they often say that the Russians weren´t really beloved, but in the Soviet Union the basic things like a roof over the head and *water* were guaranteed - which is not the case nowadays. What the SovUni could do in the "snip of a finger" is now often impossible due to borders, politics, ethnical disparities. *although so far I can only speak about Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kirgistan and Lithuania, but still :)

@@rocarsadmin.9710 🥵

For those who know about Central Asia - it's about as historic and important as the Nile Valley.

Fargana valley was the home of Babur, the founder of Mogul empire in India.

He’s mentioned this before, it’s an interesting part of the world.

Shirvan is Azeri, so he knows post Soviet Union well

It was from this valley Genghis khan was expected to come and attack kwaregimi empire of iran, clearly you have not read history

This is my first time hearing conflict as an Uzbek It seems Western Media is full of propaganda to me as they spread wrong news when it comes to some other countries

@plentyness I’ve been preparing my interceptor for this eventuality.

Are you a girl 😁?

You'll never see a war called a 'xyz resource war', at least not unless we enter the post-apocalyptic period. That kind of honesty doesn't sell well. The powers that be will always concoct some sort of moral or nationalistic reason for the war, so as to rile people up for it. A scramble for resources only riles people up after everything has gone to shit and so morality has been cast aside. Until such time, people will always want to feel morally justified in what they do, and their leaders will be happy to oblige.

@plentyness witness him!!

resources always have been the primary reason for war. Thats not a new development.

Then take what’s yours and invade and show no mercy and let the world know the Krazystan will bring the krazy of u mess with their water. USA! USA! USA!

No one cares. Enjoy your "freedom and democracy".

And now with the task to keep the remaining bits of the Aral Sea alive as well... gosh.

Nobody lives in Kazakhstan, it is big and empty. I doubt if even 100 people live there XD. Even though it is very big land-wise...

@@crazysilly2914 19 million people live here. It's not like scattered all across that giant land area. There are lots of densely populated urban areas.

Lol. His videos are right.

Our nostradamus

@Calandiel I'm just waiting for the Indo-Pakistan border blow up.

@Calandiel which country’s or ideology do you think he is making “propaganda” for?

@Calandiel okay, who do you think he is being biased for?

I also want to know What will be its impact on Pakistani Taliban Will it get stronger ? Will afghan taliban support Pakistani Taliban as both have same ideology to create a islami state with sharia rule

Id wager China would rather just work with the Taliban than further inflame the region. The last thing China wants is any Salafist, Wahhabist or any other extremist/jihadist Islamist ideologies spreading and entrenching themselves in XinJiang among the Uyghur population there and/or any Han muslims converts. Even if the cooporation/trade/buisness is done under the table and behind the scenes. Overt criticism, covert cooporation.

They aren't going to leave Afghanistan

@@user-cc1so5tq2p I really think they'll get stronger, given USA was helping Pakistan to fight them and when Taliban gets complete control over Afghanistan it's just natural they'll help thier brothers in east.

@@liammarra4003 Xinjiang means the new land in Mandarin this isn't a new its land that has it own different cultural,history and people those people are ethically turkic people whom are native to that region over the the years China has used its power similar to nazi's to sway the public of it justifiacation of the ethnical genociding of millions of uygur whilst they act like they're the holy it's no surprise to me as it was Same regime who massacred and starved their own killing near 45 millions by the hands of maoi like I I said its not suprising but I guess winnie the pooh has to fight radical terrorism lol

That's possible explanation.Water drought is also what drove the original indus valley civilization into spreading to the rest of India

You dont believe. but such issues existed even before him, during his grand-grand-father Tamerlane, there are source booked

It was also the northeastern most part of Alexander's empire

It was also birthplace of river cilivization of Khwarazm, out of which most of the islamic philosophers were born

The ancient empire of Bactria (where Bactrian camels come from) was in the Fergana valley...

every capital of a post soviet country looks like this

Same as in East Germany (Deutche Demokratishe Republik).

Yeah, that's the new Moscow city in the back drop. It's an interesting contrast.

Love to Hungarian brothers through shared ancestors huns

Love to Hungary from your Central Asian brothers! Stay strong Hungary!

Dude, I'm from Kyrgyzstan. And there's a lot of interesting shit in here.

Climate change increases water supply. Higher temperature causes more evaporation over oceans, and so more storms.

@@HUGHMANN7 only in places that are already wet. Wet gets Wetter, Dry gets Dryer. Central asia can die of thirst while India drowns in the monsoon.

Well... look where the US is located and where well ...you know central ASIA. #libtaed

Mongolia is considered part of east asia geographically i believe

@@ivanjinxgg7008 Sure, but the Golden Horde, etc.

American education system, especially in history, geography and math are the worst, so no surprise.

I am not the mongol ! I am Uzbek

Great, planning a trip to Kazakhstan?

Groan

Water you talking about?

@@scintillam_dei These jokes are very wet, it would be ice if people wouldnt be such drips. I prefer my humour either dry or with good flow.

@@jimboblordofeskimos Dew you sea we're running out of material?

@@scintillam_dei I dont think the well has dried up yet.

People who wear funny hats don’t deserve media attention except in a National Geographic magazine. There I said it.

@@Mynipplesmychoice L

you friends dont need to know about these countries if they dont benefit learning from them

Not just the western world, but East Asia has no clue they exist even though some countries share a border. Most East Asians I’ve met just assume there is a black hole between China and the Middle East.

@@Mynipplesmychoice L

Different ethnic groups with different languages becoming one entity is a really bad idea, it's like planting a seed for future ethnicity-based civil war..

@@pragueexpat5106....but they were one country for 70 years, the civil wars only started after the collapse. This is literally the opposite of what you're saying.

That's what the Eurasian Economic Union and SCO/BRI is doing already. Afghanistan is the only true wild card. They'll be fine.

A central Asian federation would be based as fuck.

@@Isacc142 I agree. USSR was based.

Aren’t the Balkans the Balkans of the 21st century?

@@Shaw4123 amazing insight. Bye bye

Afghanistan is 21st century Balkans.

Bullshit. Except for Afghanistan, there is no war going on.

C Asia hasn’t gone all pissy like the Balkans have (yet) but time will tell

mesopotamian citystates always wared about water, millenias ago, not realy such a new thing.

We learned from the best

Hmm

They all are. The British just have better records of what they did

the soviet union can only dream of creating more fucked up borders than the british. You just cant beat em.

No one can dethrone Britain in this.

Qazaq elinen selamlar!

@@MrMrvin27 Nah, I disliked cause of that

It's how it's pronounced in the Oghuz branch of Turkic

Tnk 🔸r>🔸 ou>r>🔸 🔸me🔸 🔸

That's my personal opinion, I hope our government is working on this

@@temirlanabildin9789 As an Anatolian Turk this is what I want the most we failed Central Asia for far too long, investments and diplomatic contacts have increased a lot since the breaking of the Soviet Union and lately we are arming our brothers with our domestic weapons more and more but it's far than enough distance is the biggest obstacle atm Russia has the opportunity of being next door but hopefully it will get better kardeşim

They were just inheriting the mess the Russian empire left behind. And it could be much worse, central asia is nowhere near as bad as former british colonies

Because it doesn't affect them personally. People prefer to live in their bubble without knowing what's actually happening in the world.

People dont read. They'd rather watch. Fewer people watch videos about non-fiction histroy, contemporary histroy and geopolitics, and even fewer still read about non-fiction history, or contemporary history and geopolitics.

Most people generally don't want to expand their horizons or make the effort to process and understand difficult information. They want to only absord convenient, easily-absorbed information that confirms their own worldview and biases. It's why so many older people are incapable of anyone challenging them with something that goes against what they believe: years of not using their brains. Sadly it seems to be getting worse with young folks.

One of the few channels that reports facts, doesn’t take sides, and presents different viewpoints. Excellent work.

@@dongately2817 100% 👍🏻

He is biased to me, no one can be 100 percent objective in politics.

@@chikamazri5817 he hasn't chosen a side though, he's given the facts and hasn't said one said I'd right and the others wrong

@@Kallum-BoneI will set Rubin's vase, and famouse blue and black dress as examples. No one can be 100 percent objective, because we perceive things differently. Don't mind me, I'm just a philosophy nerd.

Not a lot of bro. Just Tajiks and Kyrgyzs couldn't agree with each other this year I hope, there will be not other fights

Doesn't most of the flow of brahmaputtra come from India though?

@@someguysomeone3543 all of it

@@someguysomeone3543 na. From Tibet it goes east parallel to Himalayas then takes u turn and enters in india's arunachal Pradesh. After crossing arunachal Pradesh it goes south and then enters Bangladesh... May be china part has different name. But flow is same...

If you look at the "green" countries, eg Norway. Most of their electricity is from hydro. Hydro power along nuclear will be the main power sources for China as it goes carbon neutral. Other benefits include controlling flood.

@@rajkumarsharma2579 Chinese call it "Ya Lu Zang Bu", they borrow the word from Tibetan "Yarlung Tsangpo". It's the main source of Brahmaputra

Huh?

@@teiloturner2760 he says Kyrgyzstan wrong. There is no extra syllable between the z and the s, it just kinda smears together.

@@tissuepaper9962 It's the Oghuz way of saying it we pronounce it as Kır-gı-zis-tan

Or Kirgizia. By the way Kirgizia sounds a lot better than Kyrgyzstan.

Water wars have always happened since the times of the Mesopotamian, you are far away from being a prophet there are this kind of conflicts that are already happening is just that it is along small countries and usually artifical conflicts caused by badly drawn borders (the real problem will be if china blocks water access to India and Pakistán, them we will have trouble)

Climate:im having an emergency RU-vid: hey watch this guy unbox some funky shoes, btw buy raycon

If they can't redraw the borders because no one wants to lose some lands, merging together is a good solution.

its really dumb ;-;

Turkmenistan most suffering i think

@@Thesaddestmomentinourlives But they have oil.

@@PussyCruiser it doesnt matter, all money goes to president, not people, also no one living in their Capital, they're all living in villages

@@Thesaddestmomentinourlives Yes. But they have oil.

@@PussyCruiser AND? That literally dont change their lifes

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China will solve it the same way Soviets did, or the way Alexander solved the original - everyone do what I say or die.