Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "These maps explain why Putin is invading Ukraine" video.

@imyarek While Novgorod was Rus’ first city on their migration south, it was in fact Kiev where Russia as a country was officially started. Novgorod was considered to be a Varangian settlement and was only Rus’ capital for 4 years from 879 to 882. Kiev held the post from 882 to 1240.
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Buildings can be rebuilt. There’s no one single reason for any of it. This video shows how many factors all play into foreign policy. Things like that are nuanced. Do you understand nuances?
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@delmanpronto9374 Oil rich nations? Really? Name a few!
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Ukraine and Russia (and Belarus) all came out of Rus of Rurik’s dynasty. One didn’t come from the other. When the Kievan Rus fell apart, the different parts became different kingdoms, including the Dutchy of Moscow, which became Russia after the Mongol defeat. The other parts fell under Grand Dutchy of Lithuania . However, despite the familiar names, these kingdoms have NOTHING in common with today’s nations.
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@KalifUmestoKalifa The word “borderland” isn’t actually a proper word in English. It’s something an interpreter wouldn’t use as it’s a compound word. No one says “borderland” in modern English speaking countries, just as they don’t in Slavic ones. The word “Окраина” isn’t used in modern Russian at all, but it means “fringe”, “edge” or “periphery”. The word for border is “граница” and if you were to force a literal translation of “borderland” (a word no one uses in English) it would still be that. There are synonyms that one can use from modern English and Russian instead of forcing bad translations.
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Most countries lack natural borders in terms of mountain ranges.
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@downundergarage6968 In the end he is destroying it and he knows it. If he doesn’t mean to, he would have stopped.
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@delmanpronto9374 Libya wasn’t attacked by the US and along with Somalia and Syria isn’t a major producer of oil (and never was.) Try again, ignoramous! Oh and there was no “proxy war” with Syria. You clearly don’t know what the term means.
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@delmanpronto9374 That’s FALSE. There was a short NATO bombing campaign after the UN security council passed a resolution asking for a no-fly zone. No ground troops were ever used and there were 10 NATO and and 3 non-NATO countries participating in that campaign, under the leadership of a Canadian General (Bouchard).
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@theprinceofcrows8691 It’s a ridiculous script too. The funny thing is that technically, by international law, the US was allowed to requisition Iraqi oil to pay back for its war expenses. However, against some opposition, President Bush staunchly stood his ground on leaving the oil for Iraq, and especially the Kurds, since Kirkuk was where so much of it came from. The US spent billions on re-building that country and took nothing back. Go to Kirkuk today… it’s all modern sky scrapers. The bullshit from all these haters is ludicrous.
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@G0TIMAN To be fair, neither Ukraine nor Russia existed at the time.
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@romanpanmei2647 No, it wasn’t.
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@jamietung8233 It was a monarchy at all points, until February 1917. Anastasia Nikolaevna was born in 1901 and died in 1918, at the very end of the monarchy. She was assassinated by the Communists (Bolsheviks).
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@KalifUmestoKalifa No, it’s a Slavic word for “borderlands”. The Russian word is different.
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@dieter2008 “Western Ukranian” isn’t an ethnicity. They’re exactly the same, genetically and culturally, as Eastern Ukranian or Belorussian or many Russians or Poles, Slovakians and Lithuanians. They just happened to have had fallen under the Lithuanian/Habsburg (Austro-Hungary) ruled section instead of the Russian Empire ruled section in the 19th century. That’s how Ukraine was separated into different linguistic and religious categories.
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@jamietung8233 That’s a bit off. The revolution happened in February of 1917 in St Petersburg. It was led by Lenin, a Russian man, and fought by Russians. Eastern Ukraine was a part of Russia at the time. Bolsheviks (Communists) had been rising all over the region for decades. The Western part was under the Austro-Hungarian empire. You probably know that in WW1, those two forces were opposing. After a successful offensive by the Russians in Eastern Ukraine, Volhynia and eastern Galicia were ceded to Russia. When the revolution (the first one) happened, the socialists of Ukraine decided to demand autonomy from Russia and a Ukranian republic was created, with very close ties to the new Russian provisional government that replaced the Czar, but wasn’t Communist. Then Russia suffered major losses in the war and lost a lot of soldiers and territory, fast. This led to hunger among the people and a total dissolution of the armed forces. This led to the October revolution (Communism). In Kiev, an uprising took place against the Communists and the Central Council took control from the Russians. This led to the Bolsheviks to declare a separate country, loyal to Russia and Communism called the Ukranian People’s Republic (vs Ukraine) and its capital in Kharkov. This is similar to Korea today. A war between them broke out immediately. The Central Rada (Council) declared independence of Ukraine on January 22, 1918, but the new USSR government refused to recognize it. A month later, the Bolsheviks took most of Ukraine, forcing the Central Rada government to turn to Germans and Austrians (opposing side of WW2) for help. The Axis powers were able to clear the Russians out of Kiev quickly and Russia withdrew from WW1 on March 1st. The Central Rada’s Army was then able to clear the Bolsheviks (Red Army of the USSR) out of Crimea and Kharkov. When the Central Powers were defeated in 1918, the pro-Western government left with the Germans and the local socialists easily overthrew the rest of the government. Moscow immediately annulled their treaty and by 1919, the Red Army overran most of Ukraine, even the far Western section in Lviv which was about half Polish ethnically. There were many counter movements in Ukraine and it wasn’t until 2021 that the USSR Red Army finally defeated all opposing forces in all of Ukraine, up to the Polish border, and made it a Soviet Republic.
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@KalifUmestoKalifa Border in Russian is граница. Granitza if you write it out in Latin letters. Notice the similarity to the other languages? Окраина in Russian means “at edges”, and isn’t a used word as it comes from Old Russian. In modern Russian it’s переферия. “Edge” is край (krai) in Russian. Now… lets play this out right… how does that translate into Czech? Okraj. How about Polish? Krawędź. Belarussian? Окрай (okray). Slovak? Okraj. It helps when you’re fluent in Russian, of course, as I am, and you know other Slavic languages a bit, and not just use an online translator. It also helps if you know the history of Eastern Europe and its languages, which you so obviously do not. So yes, the word comes from the old Slavic languages and a form of it is present in all of them, even though Eastern and Western groups of them are quite distinct nowadays.
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@KalifUmestoKalifa Hello!! You should pay attention to the fact that you’re using a medieval language, not a modern language! The link you provided CLEARLY states that the work was written in “Old Church Slavonic”, not Russian!!! Do you know anything about language development and history? The language used in Russia hundreds of years ago was not modern Russian. It was a common East Slavic language. In fact, up until about 600, ALL Slavs spoke a single Slavic language. Again, the root word KRAI/KRAJ (same pronounciation) exists in all Slavic languages, which indicates it’s old enough to have come from the Proto-Slavic.
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@KalifUmestoKalifa Your “logic” makes ZERO sense? 1. No, my dates aren’t off, mostly because they’re not my dates, they’re history’s dates. If you have something to the contrary, other dates, you should have posted them. 1. What difference does where a language was established makes? It only matters where it’s actually used. You say it was established “far away”, but without stating where or how far (very convenient.) 3. Southern Slavic languages come from the modern day Serbian/North Macedonian region, not Greece. You’re confusing a very rarely used Old Church Slavonic, which originally came from a tiny Byzantine Slavic population to whom Cyril belonged. This was the written language that was spread by the Orthodox church. It has NOTHING to do with spoken Russian. “As the oldest attested Slavic language, OCS provides important evidence for the features of Proto-Slavic, the reconstructed common ancestor of all Slavic languages.” - Wiki article on Old Church Slavonic. So again, everything you’re posting is either ignorant or supports my claim, not yours. So please, keep posting!
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@markusschmidt7513 Well… and the fact that 3/4 of Russia’s in Asia.
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@markusschmidt7513 Not sure what you mean by “historically speaking” in relation to geography. Russia is more culturally European as most of its population lives in the European part, but it has been a Eurasian country for hundreds of years, even extending into North America as far South as San Francisco. That said, it has no colonies today. Not a single one. France, the UK and the US still administer many.
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