What makes Russia and the United States rivals? 

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And send poor doggos into the clutches of outer space...never to return...:p

@@1337Skrjabinn & you know the earth is flat

@Roughman - German scientist made it possible.

@Roughman- Both sides used German scientist to advance there technology. That was only one factor, but the Germans were not equipped for the winter. The Germans also underestimated the soviets determination and were being pushed forward by Hitler's hatred of Stalin instead of strategically.

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Not any more. Nukes and range of your rockets.

Perhaps but the significance of geography decreases over time due to numerous factors like technological innovation and demography. Greenland's vastness doesn't make it powerful if it doesn't have the population to exploit its natural resources, staff an army, or simply scale its economy. You can't buy/sell stuff from/to people who don't exist. You can't exploit natural resources that are too expensive to extract. Of course, you could argue that natural resources don't move so these could be solved by immigration and further automation in mining and hydrocarbon drilling businesses. This brings up an important counterpoint: natural resources don't equal power or wealth. There are many kinds of wealth not derived from natural resources, meaning you have to weight your power by the importance of your resources to others and weight that by the proportional control you have over the world market. And just because you have natural resources, doesn't mean you can automatically use this as economic leverage in your relationships with other nations.

Johnny boi Supreme Didn’t you know that population is, well, geographical factor? Some geographers literally devote their careers to study patterns in population disposition and allocation

@@atlas42185 That Greenland is inhospitable is a matter of geography. It’s because of geography that little people live there.

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@@davep5227 it's pretty obvious in the video he isn't stating we got Hawaii for cold war purposes. He lumps it in with Spanish war and Alaska purchase.... Anyone with a lick of sense knows at least roughly when we annexed Hawaii

@@skizzik121 yeah that's what The other guy said, but he said basically 🤣😂😜we did not Annex Hawaii like Russia annexed chrimea!

Alex Plante the Somali-Ethiopian war is kind of an oddball of all of the conflicts as they both aligned with the Soviet Union so Ethiopia didn’t believe that the Soviets would actually back a side, how weird could it get?

Both countries were definitely expansionist. For the most part this was only in terms of influence, but the Soviets engaged in plenty of territorial wars in early decades. The Soviets and later the Chinese had varying degrees of belligerent policy toward non-socialist governments. The US and presumably many of its allies were varying degrees of belligerent toward socialist governments. This basically meant "if you're not with us you're against us," which implies that "we are going to interfere in your politics until you are 'with' us." Sounds pretty expansionist to me.

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At 54 years you most likely just remember what the end of all the game looked like. If USA's game was pretty much the same all the way till these very days, then USSR been changing all the way. At first USSR was most likely ignited by germans to make Russian empire collapse within itself, they used it as last resort cause they knew that it's gonna be a risky thing and so it proved to be. I personally just astonished with what progress it was - such an economical rise: thousands of industries rise almost from nothing, it truly became a superpower in a matter of 30 years, defeating Germans along the way. The real pivot point was 1964 - after Stalin is gone USSR begun to dissolve into lazy clumsy shit. Social and economical progress made before 1964 didn't just died instantly, it kept everything going for few more decades, but without stern leadership it just been falling to pieces within itself until it finally collapsed. And so were it's geopolitics. USSR openly and for most part very pathetically tried to grasp onto whatever it could, trying to force it's ideology in places where people hated it, until it's internal problems became too serious to give a shit about anything. USA is another matter entirely. It doesn't annex other countries - it doesn't has to, doesn't needs to. Manipulating other countries indirectly and at some hard cases - directly. They played this game all the time and they keep on playing it now. It works so well that nowadays no one knows for sure what is what. The whole geopolitical picture of the world looks so absurd that I would suspect USA been pulling strings on everything so hard that even USSR itself was it's puppet. At some point you can say they played a nice game making world such a quiet place without wars unless you live in today's Russia or it's former allies that economically look much worse than Germany was by the end of the war or in one of those european countries full of nothing but hipsters, feminists, homosexuals and multiculturalism. I'm just saying current geopolitical map of the world, as much as economical and political system of most countries look like literally shit and it hard to believe that USA has nothing to do with it. And stop kicking Russia, it can't even produce a decent car nowadays, it's just a huge territory with miserable people. It's gonna have to rebuild it's economy entirely from scratch like in 1920ies before it would pose any geopolitical threat larger than annexing another useless piece of land. It's military power looks like something only because Europe and other countries look militarily pathetic too. China on the other hand.. having a very powerful economy and epicly large amount of inhabitants it can be turned in absolute military superpower at some point.

@@samhamsord7942 You're essentially right. 1964 was an economic turning point for Russia also because they had reached the limits of the kind of industrial development undertaken since about 1930 - i.e. development of heavy industry and basic infrastructure. After 1964, if the USSR wanted to catch up to the USA they needed to develop consumer goods, services and technology products, but you just cannot do that effectively in a totalitarian police state.

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But the defeat of these two nations allowed the USSR and USA to expand their own influence easily and justifiably

It wasn't the fall of Japan or Germany. It was the decline of Britain and France that allowed for the US and USSR to fill that gap as Britain was the superpower back then.

​@@louisbaker4362exactly. Germany was and continues to be a big player in Europe but was never really a player on the world forum like Britain and France Additionally I would say most European countries recognise they are no longer what they once were and do not stand a chance alone. That's the basis for the EU. Britain is clearly not catching that though hence Brexit.

@@manickn6819 it's because UK is the only european country to retain an oversea Empire: the Commonwealth. Without it they would be limited to continent and consequently follow it's fate.

@@ilFrancotti good point but I am not sure how much trade they do with the commonwealth. The channel TLDR news did some analysis on this recently but I can't recall the numbers off the top of my head.

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Same

although historically, I think the seapower has been the best and most tested at being the "correct" assertion. heartland can change by the people, sea cannot.

@@Nosirt I agree. Don't know how you can ignore the little detail that most humans live along coasts or that most global trade travels by sea. Furthermore, the Eastern European heartland is geographically indefensible.

I don't think they are mutually exclusive. Capitalism and Communism deploy resources in a very different way. Control of the sea maximizes the advantages of a capitalist system. You could not have a Soviet version of Bretton Woods for instance.

@@listener523 Absolutely, which is why it's interesting to assert the dominant philosophical and geopolitical debate between these great powers wasn't the communist vs capitalist split.

@@goldshtrom I'd argue a synergy of the two. Geography sets the boundary conditions of what is possible. Our ideologies move within those boundaries.

Are you kidding me, it's already going full bore thanks to "The Russian Collusion Fairy Tale", fabricated by the Clinton Campaign, FBI, CIA, and London.

@@Johnnycdrums Pffft, Invasion of Afghanistan, War on Terror to Arab Spring and the latter succeeding Crisis which came afterwards are the practical proofs that Cold War never actually ended lol, It's just transferred to different brands and playing fields

Wheresmyeyebrow no the coldwar never stopped lol

@@ohamatchhams; Stephen F. Cohen will tell you it's a new Cold War. These things you mention and not disputed as facts in any sense, and are not related to Russia except in an oblique way. As to your position of a continuation of "The Cold War", rather than "Cold War II", would be more reasonable if you mentioned Clinton's bombing of Serbs in Yugoslavia during the Nineties, a slavic people and traditional ally of Russia because of history, culture, and religion. I respect your opinion but I don't think we went into Afghanistan for the purpose of isolating and containing Russia. Russia wasn't against the initial deployment, and they actually assisted our military with clearing flight paths and intelligence. Remember, Russia has had more jihadi terrorist attacks than the U.S., although none as big as 911, but they've had more. I could be wrong, but when Bush 43 invaded Iraq, I don't think it was a move to isolate Russia, although Russia was against the invasion they only had a small presence in the area. When Obama and Clinton led from behind to depose Muammar Gaddafi in Libya it appeared to Russia as complete jackassery, as we previously had a good relationship with the Libyan Government. Syria is a completely different situation, as Russia has strategic interests there, but remember, the Cold War ended in 1989, and Obama started supporting ISIS, and calling for regime change of Bashar al-Assad not much earlier than 2011. If Cold War II is just a continuation of Cold War I, than there was a big time gap, and a massive ideological change by Russia from Communism to Capitalism, and from Atheism to Orthodox Tradition. It doesn't matter that America didn't change (I think we did change), it can't be considered the same Cold War because Russia radically changed, culturally, economically, and Russia is not the Soviet Union geographically. The Soviet Union was much, much, larger and it was a bipolar world. Call it what you want, but London is responsible for this Cold War, I can prove it, and this is the important thing we need to focus on, not the name of it.

@@stevendong8634; It's a different Cold War because Russia radically changed. It has to be Cold War II, anything less would be an insult.

Yet he. like the vast majority, completely ignore the depper roots if all the major wars and conflicts. Whether he decides not to touch on it in fear of the wrath of the censorhip machine or if he's just ignorant to the fact I do not know.

@@ExilSvensk Feel free to enlighten us then.

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@@ExilSvensk can you give another link? They are censored

Love both these guys. They need to work together more

The endings were of equal quality

Game of Thrones was inspired by the War of the Roses.

Constitutional rights only come into effect after becoming a US citizen. Prior to that, any and all arbitrary criteria can be applied depending on the political climate at the time.

Communism is totalitarian, which is antithetical to Liberty, and therefore is is not acceptable for communists to emigrate to the US.

@@michaelfoye1135I recently became an American. Immediately before the inauguration ceremony, I was required to swear to the fact that I had not become a communist since the immigration interview. My reading of the Constitution is that I was free to become a communist the second I was sworn in. (Anecdotal. I am not a communist.) I found it a brain teaser.

@@coreycox2345 There are Americans who have made the grave moral failure of becoming communists. Many of these were raised in the cult of Marx, and had no chance to avoid it. While they are dangerous, and not to be trusted with power, they are free to hold their beliefs. That said, this is not the case for those seeking to gain citizenship in the US. The US has no obligation to accept any such applicant, and vested interest in disallowing the induction of saboteurs, and agitators from foreign shores. People who do not respect the Inalienable natural law rights of the Individual are not compatible with the principles of Self Determination and Independence which our Republic is founded. Indeed the communist works tirelessly to undermine and usurp the inalienable rights of every individual, and thus makes if himself, by reason of his specific ideals, the enemy of liberty. The privilege of becoming an American, aught to be taken under the understanding that such individuals will not work to destroy our country by seeking to turn it into a totalitarian state.

@@michaelfoye1135 One could argue that we are dangerously close to that precipice already. I view Bolton, Trump, Abrahms and Pompeo as enemies of the people. It is not only the victims of our senseless and misguided wars of intervention that have been thrown away. It is us. As a new citizen, I am thankful for our first amendment.

Same here. 4 am is the best time to watch Shirvan

Is the insomnia caused by Bolsonaro? Shrivan should talk about. We are in stage and powerfull forces are trying to change brazilians' sovereign decisions. As prophecised "Russia will spread the war"

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@@Bizarro_na_chapa Tá perdendo o sono pq, parça?

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He mentioned it in one of his early Q&A's. I forget what it's called. I do remember thinking it is very expensive (>$1k)

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Those reunification talks between Belarus and Russia tell a different story

@@rejvaik00 I always consider Russia a threat, but today Americans care more about the "Socialists" or "cultural Marxists" that no longer exist rather than the geopolitical threat of Russia and China.

@@inferno0020 The subversion soviets implemented in the US effects politics to this day. You joke about cultural Marxists, but its well documented the soviet union funded the far left movements who took over the universities. Heres s soviet defector talking about it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y3qkf3bajd4.html

SourPls China has taken the reigns as far as subversion goes

India will bomb the silk road

@@Student0Toucher keyboard warrior, the silk road would bomb and annihilate india

I believe he’s Azeri, so it would actually be Şirvan instead of the Irish Siaorbhán.

He's not feckin Irish ya eejit!

We still have to fight the communist on our own shores now.

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