@@JanusTroelsen hi! I’ll check the profile you mentioned. Point taken, the next time I’ll be more explicit. This was thought to link the groups to ideologies. If you get the link with ideologies you see the differences between groups/parties.

Thank you very much ♥️

Glad it helped!

No, monarchy or republic does not define how the power is used in the state. It only gives “the dress”, the formal organization, but it does not tell much. The UK is a constitutional monarchy with separation of powers. For this reason it is a liberal democracy. Please have a look here for more clarity: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKrPm5KmbKmXZ68si=ujIiZ-nYc-InJOKc

This is also helpful to orient yourself: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anmcZJeOebOgl6csi=bWPqlJbNjvdhBS8T

@@UnderstandingPolitics thank you!

@@Srindal4657 cheers!

Hi! One book will come out in English this summer, but on Kazakhstan. I could not find a publisher to buy the rights on the Italian one to translate it yet

@@UnderstandingPoliticsThank you very much. In your book Capire i Balcani orientali, you deal with the eastern Balkans. On Italian Amazon, I noticed a similar book dealing with the western Balkans, apparently by different authors. Unfortunately there was not an ebook version of either. Would you know if digital versions are somewhere on the internet? Thanks.

@@padellina9596 mine is here www.fnac.com/livre-numerique/a18184578/Moni-Ovadia-Capire-i-Balcani-orientali

The people I know that published the other one also have an ebook here: www.ibs.it/capire-balcani-occidentali-dagli-accordi-ebook-vari/e/9791280219251

@@UnderstandingPoliticsGreat appreciations!❤️

Зачем? Тебе там одному скучно?

Sorry what’s Basgan?

@@UnderstandingPolitics Sorry, this is a Turkish word, but I wrote in the slang form :-) The normal form should be "Baskan". It means "president or minister". And friends can call to each other "baskan, or basgan" to show some kind of friendship or sincerity.

@@cenk82 that’s interesting to learn

@@UnderstandingPolitics no problem, but you still did not answer my question :-) I like to watch your videos. I hope one day you will again find the time to do these educative and interesting videos for YT.

@@cenk82 sorry I missed the sense of the question and I thought it was rethorical. “What’s the president or minister?” That is the question? Is it related to Machiavelli’s philosophy?

Thank you for your comment! Absolutely I agree. It’s not as easy to devote yourself entirely to this type of things because it’s incredibly time consuming. Sadly, at the moment I’m in no position to step up the quality of the content production. At the same time, you would need to invest a bit of money in subscription to services (such as stock images) to facilitate the flow. Back then I was also not in a financial position to do that. Now I could but I have less time. I wanted to reach a sweet spot where quality would be good enough visually to facilitate the message, this doesn’t seem enough 😃 I’ll see what I can do in the future

I suggest you don't bother with subscription stuff. It's supporting a bad business model and not really worth it. Too much stock footage makes videos very boring and generic, in my opinion. But a bit more visual aid could help, even if it's just text and some pictures. If you manage to get a good presentation flow, you could go for less editing and longer content (which works better than little editing in short videos). You clearly have a lot to say, so if you can put some interesting graphs and pictures next to yourself talking to keep the eye busy, you should be able to create informational and entertaining 10-15 minute videos with ease. And that would be worth it, even if it takes a little longer for such videos to come out. ^^

@@Grievousnw indeed. That’s the approach I tried to take last year: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmiplKqNm7lja7csi=YvUerrs9WZ4-tDhb Still, it may be that something is missing

No thanks. I’m not telling lies. You might disagree, that’s it.

They have a clear position and you should study the facts and don't make up ridiculous stories xx

@@maxx7970 yes I studied them thanks. That’s a conclusion in a short, so things may be a bit too hurried in the explanation. They shifted their ideological positions throughout the years starting from populist (anti-corruption) positions. Then they became anti-immagration and anti-euro (shortly before creating a government with Lega) to then shift back to pro-European and classical center-left (according to Italian standards) positions. That does not make them coherent nor consistent.

The inclusion of inaccurate or misleading evidence within your videos raises concerns about the overall credibility and integrity of the content, potentially undermining the trust of your audience. ​@@UnderstandingPolitics

@@maxx7970 Similarly, general accusations unsupported by specific arguments undermine their overall credibility. I applied the same degree of criticism to every one of the parties who participated in those elections.

Hi! Interesting story. Would you mind to send me a message in this contact form? linktr.ee/understandingpolitics I’d like to continue this discussion with you.

Which is what the video discusses, can you be devoid of politics?

@@UnderstandingPolitics But i do understand what your video is all about. I was just making a point that being non-political isn't the exact same thing as being politically neutral, because it actually has a different connotation to it.

I have decided to take this as a compliment 😃

Thank you very much!

Sometimes I think whether something particularly good can be said about nationalism. It certainly helped to cause most wars in the twentieth century, so I’m not sure how someone can argue otherwise, but it also helped creating nation states and it would be interesting to discuss that in other videos. Also ethnicity is a social construct, yes.

@@UnderstandingPolitics Can inter-nationalism be considered an ideology? And what is specifically an ideology in non-marxist term?

@@davide7708 any system of political ideas is an ideology potentially. Here the answer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp3akqSsacaabKcsi=zkXB1vOx7XC_T_NF

Hi! Good question again. The Qing dynasty marks the last of the Chinese emperors ruling 1911/12. Yet, the whole Chinese state never became a liberal democracy. There are still some of the key aspects of an empire, such as the preeminence of a language over others and imperialist claims. De facto, the communist Chinese republic only inherited an empire from the previous regimes, but the imperialist attitude never really change.

@@UnderstandingPolitics Which are the imperialist claims?

@@davide7708 Taiwan, Tibet, or Xinjiang. But also its geopolitical strategies in Africa.

@@UnderstandingPolitics Isn't Taiwan reclaiming China too?

@@davide7708 not after 1990

Hi! Very good questions, but they are very theoretical, so also the answers will be theoretical and imaginative. You won’t be able to go around and make these claims (below), but provided the context, the reasoning behind them makes them kind of logical. The concept of empire cannot be separated from imperialism unless it resigns and becomes a multi-National state where no group is superior to any other. Nazi Germany can be called an imperialist state nation for sure, although we did not see how a Nazi German led Europe would have worked. The baseline of this debate and of this opposition is that once a state is “just” a multi-National state it means that liberal democracy chips in and rights of minorities are respected. A non imperialist empire example could be the European Union but you see how being non-imperialist is de facto also not an empire anymore and does not aim to be acknowledged in those terms. As a matter of fact, there is not a European Union army, although NATO works often as a proxy.

Hi! Please check this video: Is Republic synonym for Democracy? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5vPf6uDj5Zpq5Y You basically stated what is a democracy but a liberal democracy is always a republic with a constitution. On the other hand, a republic with a constitution can also be an autocracy (dictatorship). Republic does not define how the system of power is constructed.

Also this: Absolute vs Constitutional Monarchy kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKrPm5KmbKmXZ68

There is also a difference between democracies: Direct vs Representative Democracy: Which One is Better? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmbNoYdulNShr7c

And this is the last one I promise: A Student's Guide on How to Understand the Political System of Any State kzbin.info/www/bejne/anmcZJeOebOgl6c In other words, there is a huge difference between how a country defines itself (or is built formally) and how it exercises power in practice. Almost every system (monarchy, republic, oligarchy, theocratic state) can be evaluated based on the spectrum democracy - autocracy. Understood that you can effectively try to understand other formal distinctions. This is also why there are democracy scores: democracies can be evaluated based on how they perform.

Glad I could help!

He certainly made major attempts to damage the American liberal democracy, Capitol Hill above all.

Hi! Moldova is a candidate country, not yet a member of the EU

@@UnderstandingPolitics but the European Union wants to make Moldova in 2030

@@pynzlyngdohnonglait6698 I hope so for Moldova, but you should not take these declarations as if they were relevant. The western Balkans have been waiting for more than 20 years. 2030 is only in 7 years. It is unlikely that Moldova will join by then, especially because the Western Balkans would react badly. There is no political will to take all those countries together now. It will also create a number of socio-economic problems. Ukraine is paired with Moldova and it is unlikely that a country that big will enter so soon as 2030.

@@UnderstandingPolitics Maia Sandu is a member of Party of Action and Solidarity, a chief adviser of world bank,minister of education and a member of Moldovan parliament.. Vladimir Putin has no intention to invade Moldova next,but he will stop at Ukraine. Putin also congratulated Maia Sandu to become the new president of Moldova at the Kremlin...

@@pynzlyngdohnonglait6698 sure, that is not relevant to what we were saying though

I agree

He is also my favorite 🤣

Yes indeed, but the overall changes felt hasty to me, nothing more than that

It is not meant to do it in 1 minute. But millions? Well if you say so 😉

Indeed, thinking about the so-called "great game" when the British and Russian empires where wrestling over Central Asia makes you think like it's ancient history. On the other hand, it is relatively recent...

Well quite a few things to list, and probably I could do it as part of an empire series of videos. Still, Russian insecurity is well proven by what their diplomats often wrote over the decades. They are not the only power with similar insecurities though, Great Britain was incredibly paranoid in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Hi! I’m not sure I have understood what you mean

@@UnderstandingPolitics umm i meant russian empire is the only empire of russia that has colonies cuz it has alaka

@@GLITCHYLOLPROS true that

Hi! What you say in the last bit it’s true. At the same time please mind that individual anecdotes and personal experience do not invalidate statistical realities and general historical reconstructions. There are still many peoples in the Soviet Union that could claim being victims of this cruel dictator. And many others disappeared from history dying in remote places with no possibility to say the opposite of what you claim. Many people were happy also under Mussolini and Hitler. They (especially Mussolini) worked actively to make some citizens feel good in a hospitable country, but this does not mean that the general historical evaluation on these dictators should be that clement. Historical evaluations should be always critical, dictators or not. I’m not clement with the racist policies of Churchill in the British empire either, for what is worth. Many times people apologetic of fascism in Italy say: “Mussolini did also good things”, which cannot be denied, but bad things he did, willingly or not, were so bad that invalidate the good results. And this is because of the fact that he decided alone and did not accept different decision mechanisms that would involve the participation of others.

@@UnderstandingPolitics Statistics do not consider that certain people were froudsters. Some were innocent victims and others were criminals who got justice, and both would scream blue murder all the same. Also, there is a huge difference between the State and dictator/leader and corruption and victims of either. Statistics usually do not go that deep. I go deeper than just mere surface, I look for various reasons, for example, why some churches were closed and priests and nuns were sent to prisons and others were left be? What statistics say about that? Reality is, it depended on many factors. Government factor was to close down anything corrupt. So the churches that abused children would be closed and everyone involved would be sent to prison. But all the same, there were many corrupt cases of simply church haters who would torture innocent ones and send to prison, actually, they would go after anyone related to religion just the same- innocents and criminals alike. Statistics only caunt how many of them were sent to prison, but leave out the REAL reasons. Al;so, how many criminals would admit they were criminals, like child abusing priests and nuns that sells children and sells women for prostitution and stuff? Statistics are blind to that, and we, whoi were neighbours, only knew some certain things happened but how largely this or that was happening even we would not know, because no one adds us, the neighbours, into statistics.

@@gothic-rosenovorossiya5740 in some cases it might be certainly true. But it’s not surprising to hear that dictators claim that they are acting the way they are to save their country from corrupt people, criminals, and nazis. Think what you like. All the best!

It’s not only that issue qualifying the party as extreme right. Still, opposing migration is a long historic pillar of the extreme right. Liberals (center-right) usually allow limited migration. Apart from that, being extreme right is always relative to the political spectrum. This party is notoriously an extreme right one, not only for Italy, which has, generally speaking, a rightist political spectrum, but for the whole European Union.

That’s a very convoluted comment, but it’s alright that you express your values in this space. Yet, to give you a reply, the fascist and far right dimensions of the party of Meloni are associated with the history and culture to which the party is connected. Also, they describe themselves as fascist. It’s not a judgement attributed from external observers.