Who Really Controls Eastern Europe?

[@Dr.Kornelius]

I declare ownership of this youtube channel, but I will let you keep posting videos 🤝

[@ibx2cat]

Thank you for allowing me to lease my channel from you, the new formal owner

[@RandomBirdBoy]

and i declare war on you and send my 3 subs to liberate ibx's indenpendence

[@markusklyver6277]

I claim ur moma

[@andrew-0000-]

@@ibx2cat I’m claiming the main channel

[@itzmanolo3438]

I claim deez

[@jamietaylor5570]

Now Toycat has to do a series in which he travels the world committing crimes to see who is really in charge of various places.

[@schafferkyle94]

Toycat: Very few nations recognize Taiwan, even the one you're living in right now. Me living in Taiwan: (scratches head in Taiwanese)

[@joegonzales1932]

Honestly with the way things are looking right now you should definitely consider moving to the U.S. the sad fact is that China could invade Taiwan any day now, i dont want to consider the atrocities they would commit to the Chinese Taiwan people.

[@schafferkyle94]

@@joegonzales1932 I’m a US citizen. I’m working in Taiwan right now as an English teacher and living with my husband who is Taiwanese. We were already looking to move back to the states within the next few years. The recent events have definitely expedited our timeline a bit. More than anything I’m worried about leaving his family here though. Even if we could figure out a way to get them to US, legally… I doubt they would want to move. The fear of invasion just really isn’t that real for anyone here.

[@KikogamerJ2]

@@joegonzales1932 surely they wouldn't commit has bad atrocities gas what atrocities the kmt committed when they fled to taiwan

[@robertwilloughby8050]

I seriously wonder if there is a country that doesn't recognize itself. Oh, and I think Russia has just queered China's pitch for possibly invading Taiwan by their invasion of Ukraine. I think that China will now soft power their way into an annexation in about 20 years time - if we're still here in 20 years, which I doubt.

[@loek5886]

@@joegonzales1932 why would anybody move to the us if they can move to any western european country?

[@supernt7852]

Something wrong: The Chernobyl Power Plant isn’t in Chernobyl, but in a city called Pripyat that is north of the city of Chernobyl.

[@markusklyver6277]

Yes, +1

[@ramjotgrewal2580]

TIL this

[@helmutwege4730]

yes, thats correct, pripiat is location of nuclear power plant

[@alpacaalpaca2509]

Fifty thousand people used to live here.... now it's a ghost town

[@angycucumber4319]

I heard it's because when the chernobyl power plant was made, Pripyat didn't exist, and the closest city was chernobyl

[@Mr.Nichan]

3:49 Yeah, this is a big problem with maps of the colonial era Americas. People show maps dividing the land among the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc., but those maps usually only reflect European/Euroamerican international law, not actual control. Much of the Americas was primarily dominated by native groups (and also was generally rather anarchic) until the mid-to-late 19th century.

[@frederikvater]

Yesterday my history teacher started the class out by pulling a Toycat, and projected his Google Maps onto the big screen, and just zoomed in and out explaining the Ukraine situation, while comparing it to other countries' scenarios that are similar. hehe.

[@georgiancrossroads]

Toycat your 'new Georgia' is the Old Georgia. Georgia (Sakartvelo) goes back into the mists of time. Georgia in America isn't very old at all.

[@Nahasapasa]

Cries in Native American

[@georgiancrossroads]

@@Nahasapasa I am talking about the English speaking state. Not the land under it.

[@123amsterdan456]

21:00 the relevance of places changes depending on your google data. In my google maps (not american or european) the Domnican Republic shows earlier and even some show diofferent borders. Google knows who you are and what borders you 'want' to see, so It shows those.

[@ezrapark9992]

10:22 I think you found the State of Chiapas… there is an indigenous independence movement there and in the neighboring State of Oaxaca since the 1990s

[@molotera8789]

Chiapas is still part of Mexico, there are just territories or towns within that state that dont abide by the Mexican government

[@BaluBrew]

You used the term of "owned by law" a lot alongside "de facto". You can use "de jure" as well for "owned by law". Really important latin stuff like "casus belli" :)

[@ethanmoon3925]

I think it's a mistake to say the UN consensus defines what is or isn't a legitimate government. Politicians play games. Who do the people of an area look to as their leaders? In one sense that makes it a real government of a real country. For instance, Taiwan has been separate from China longer than North Korea and South Korea. Both of those splits are due to civil wars. Everyone knows North and South Korea are separate countries... yet the leaders of each could still claim the right to "take back" the other half. But to South Koreans, the North Korean government is a scary foreign power. To North Koreans, happy or unhappy they know that they are definitely not part of South Korea. The situation with China and Taiwan is almost identical.

[@stafer3]

Problem is who decides on scale at which to cut. Countries are not 100% homogeneous. People move all the time. People go abroad for work, to start family, they are displaced, and so on. I went to neighboring country to study. And there were thousands of students from my country to the point that we were pretty big minority of large city. There are like 30 million Kurds which is more than population of 150 regular countries in the world. Yet they are just minority in their respective countries. There are dozens of countries that have less than 1 million people. Yet, in some big cities that have 10+ million agglomerations, you can easily have 1 million foreign workers there. And countries with 1 billion people would look at you like “why they f*ck are you talking about independence for 0,1% minority”. Not to mention, there is no agreed upon definition of rightful owners of land. In some countries, your family can live there for 4 hundred years and you will still not be called native, while in others you can came there and after few decades you can complain about “foreigners”. That’s why it all boils down to what other countries in the world agree with.

[@henryhargraves4184]

Fact: Australia is yet to sign a treaty with the Indigenous Australian populations even though terra nullius ( the legal concept of Australia not belonging to anyone upon British arrival) was disproven so technically the Commonwealth of Australia is occupying the continent known as Australia.

[@JmMateo933]

Ok

[@Marcusjnmc]

@Dreymon Green in a court

[@ravensblade]

All of Australia are already in prison anyway.

[@PolishDane]

"if we are being honest, if you are comiting a crime there you are probably the Russian military" lmao

[@Mr.Nichan]

18:49 "Force" is maybe an inappropriate word. I don't think people are afraid China will attack them for recognizing Taiwan. I think they're just afraid China will cut relations with them and economically sanction them. (I don't know if China calls them "sanctions", but they can and do do them.)

[@ketamine-consumer5185]

"Taiwan is a country that like..." -700000 social credit points

[@than217]

Toycat: "I am now a war profiteer because I just made $169 from the invasion of Ukraine ...so, I'm sorry." The most British thing you'll hear all week.

[@gavini1738]

Norway, a NATO country, also borders Russia in the far north. This makes the total 5

[@yougoslavia]

There is 1 country between Norway and North Korea.

[@pootispow0]

@@yougoslavia which ironically have the shortest borders with Russia that aren't maritime borders *looking at you usa*

[@yougoslavia]

@@pootispow0 Imagine if the Diomede islands randomly got connected.

[@joegonzales1932]

Russia is also really close to the U.S. with a point almost touching Alaska.

[@davidandrews4454]

Yeah they always forget to mention Norway :(

[@jimmyle2447]

The thing in Mexico is the Rebel Zapastista Autonomous Municipalities, which if I recall correctly, is some kind of anarchist territory.

[@toolebukk]

The only reason he wants control over Luhansk and Donetsk is because they have better football teams than any Russian team.

[@toolebukk]

Actually I think this is true for more Ukranian football clubs

[@compatriot852]

Just like with modern wars lacking declarations of war, modern land ownership has more or less become who can occupy a region for long enough. Bonus if you also use ethnic tension caused by your own settlers (Especially Russia).

[@electricspeedkiller8950]

Especially Israel

[@savvageorge]

The saying "possession is 9/10 of the law" does seem to be quite accurate when it comes to land ownership. I guess this is why armies have been so important throughout history.

[@syro33]

I'm pretty sure the Country of Georgia is a bit older than the US state. Well... I guess not the current country, but Georgian countries have existed in the Caucasus for a long time.

[@leo7325]

@UCzl5QtJHlU5ZSJZBKizOTwg and that just our two kingdoms being united, first Georgian kingdom- Colchis was created in 13th century BC.

[@bigjod9088]

I haven't watched this dude in like 5 years. and the video I get recommended from him is related to the war

[@illillyillyo]

Welcome back!!!

[@GeneralBongmeister]

You can run from toycat, but he'll always catch up

[@Lazris59]

I'm surprised you didn't talk about kasmir/ladakah and all that tri-country claim mess in the Himalayas and how China is building things as a way to make de facto claims on it. Or about Tibet as that is a great example too.

[@mario_aleex]

24:05 Here in Romania people quite lose it because of the snake island being tooked by Russia, legaly speaking is in our economic zone. We question why does Mr. Putin needed to take that on day two, 48h had gone by nonstop aircrafts flying around above "my head" just that sound of perpetual circles is horrofying, can't even imagine how it is to be one regular civilian of our neighbour country...

[@syro33]

Russia also has a border with Norway, technically, though it's not very wide, and up in the Arctic Circle.

[@worldwargamer1362]

Thank you for covering this! Great videos also!

[@skyguy1236]

"let's be honest, if you are commiting crimes there you are probably russian military" had me dead

[@madmasseur6422]

Vatican to Taiwan: you've got the power of God and anime on your side

[@swright2134]

when they landed in mexcio 600 years ago the spanish wrote into law a few new towns to get a legal foot hold in that area. these cities are still there

[@Smitdogz]

Hey Toycat I was scrolling around on the map the other day and found and island called Mahur island where there are two areas that have numbers in there name, I've never seen this before and thought it would be an interesting idea for a video. They are part of New Ireland which I also didn't know existed as well as New Britain LMAO

[@paulisaacson6044]

10:25 Chiapas and Oaxaca Mexico I think Guatemala still wants part or all of Belize I believe

[@Lukas-ut5fz]

Russia actually borders 5 NATO countrys, because there is a border between Norway and Russia too

[@tajbeaumont3062]

Toycat is a known war profiteer this is his second offence after the hole thing in Afghanistan, but I’m still happy to contribute to his cause as long as u keep making great minimalist content

[@ilect1690]

"If you're commiting a crime there you're probably the russian millitary"

[@GeneralBongmeister]

I'm claiming ownership of the world, I'm just letting the worlds countries have rulers

[@jarednelson3539]

Pee pee poo poo

[@PopularDiamondPieYolo]

25:25 that's Queen Elizabeth II

[@arvusi8379]

Estonia and Russia actually havent negotiated any borders with Russia. One day in 1994 Russian troops just put up border posts along Estonian-Russian border according to what they decided.

[@LC-uh8if]

I don't think Russia (USSR at the time) negotiated any of the borders which is part of why they ended up with Transnistria, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia in particular. Gorbachev let the SSRs leave but refused to consider requests from regions such as Transnistria to separate from their SSR before the SSR left.

[@CrazycoolcruMHDTV]

"JEWISH PEOPLE DONT EVEN LIVE HERE, why is the picture a woman standing on a railway track? Is that a woman?" I laughed so hard lmao, needed it after just reading the news since Russia's holiday into Europe

[@sinannamur8973]

Every time ibx2cat thinks of mentioning the situation in Cyprus he remembers us, the Turks, and our fellow Greek friends, and Cypriot communities of course, commenting furiously over minor details he missed or the names he should've used but hasn't, and turns to his old friend Taiwan, knowing that Chinese people from the PRC can't even access his channel without a VPN anyway.

[@rotkiw8031]

12:06 NOT every country. Just bcs your country does something wrong, doesn't mean all the other countries do it to.

[@nullinullinullifi]

My favorite thing that toycat says is when he transitions by saying "speaking of _____, … " and then following it up with a completely unrelated subject

[@rorybrown7632]

09:10 "Is Ukraine ever going to get crimea back?" That thought is worried Putin. He thought eventually the Ukrainians would be strong enough to attempt to re-capture Crimea and the Donbass, and if they were in NATO it would make things even more complicated and dangerous. So Putin thought, "well, if I am going to have to fight them sooner or later, I might as well just fight them now before they are in NATO, and finish the Ukrainian question once and for all".

[@harrybalanovsky2169]

I think you should go to Crimea and ask by yourself, would they like or let current Ukrainian government to take them back. Russians took it without single shot, remenber? Same goes for many settlements on the East right now...

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

Yes. Anyone sensible knows that NATO is never going to invade Russia, but if Ukraine joins NATO then it is too late for Russia to invade. But Ukraine would not be allowed to join NATO while there are outstanding border disputes because NATO doesn't want to accidentally get into a war with someone, especially Russia. Ukranian would have to other take back it's former territory by force, or cede it, or come to some kind of peace treaty establishing a compromise. Since Ukraine is almost certain to not be able to force Russia to leave Crimea or Donbas that means that Russia effectively already had a veto about Ukraine being allowed to join NATO anyway. A cynical person might suggest that Russia deliberately stoked and supported the Donbas rebellion in order to block NATO membership, and the same for those places in Moldova and Georgia etc.

[@Cyborg_Lenin]

@@adrianthoroughgood1191 I don't think you need to be clinical to say that. Hell, I'm from Ossetia and I don't belive for a second Russia saved our ass out of the kindness of their heart.

[@murkyjiz1616]

That part in Mexico were it said all that stuff is the state Chiapas and the government let anarchistic groups live in and semi govern their own communities in that state

[@secretnetizen]

I am quite sure if Toycat continues doing similar series of videos,he might end of as one of the most beloved war profiteer. 😂

[@_vallee_5190]

10:22 is the EZLN or the zapatista movement for national liberation.

[@paulisaacson6044]

8:40 uh there is an Ossetia or Alania across the border in Russia along with at least 4 other areas including neighboring Ingushets which had the horrible Beslan school terrorist attack then Chechnya which is actually Itzkeria also Derstan or Nakh Mokh Then Dagestan and Kalmyk on the Caspian Sea that Russia exports ISIS recruits from that they've radicalized through oppression Besides Aphati Abxazia there's Achar Ajar bordering Turkiye on the Black Sea

[@LC-uh8if]

Taiwan is a bit different because it is the last vestige of KMT China. The KMT government moved to Taiwan and has held out since. It didn't break away from China, it IS (or at least used to claim to be) China with the mainland being occupied by communist insurgents. The PRC never controlled Taiwan.

[@radejovanovski509]

Every time I watch a video of yours I'm surprised at how little Geography and Geo-Political knowledge you have. How man?

[@austinsteward8956]

I think that place you saw without a government was Cherán, Mexico. They beat out all their police, politicians, and gang members.

[@lstump4482]

The Vatican recognizes Taiwan because there’s lots of Catholics in Taiwan and has bishops there but no bishops in PRC I think

[@craigdavies2598]

“You don’t have to question is sydney legally a part of australia or is it like actually you know de facto a part of that too and the answer is well it’s both, at least for now”

[@AFAndersen]

24:35 - Five NATO countries.. They border Norway in the far north :) Edit: Technically US in the west of Russia as well... so 6? And there's a Russian settlement on Svalbard, so technically Russia is inside NATO...

[@CEKROM]

I like your video style =D

[@tylerdickinson705]

IBX , I LOVE YOU

[@tiseril]

1:32 Both, and let them fight for your amusement

[@DamjanI_Iダミアン]

Excited to see new oversimplified video xD

[@wonkydonkey7705]

0:20 We should start a independence movement huh?

[@wonkydonkey7705]

Like Western Australia

[@10thletter40]

Things would be a lot simpler if I just claimed it

[@djjones6510]

you gonna step in?

[@GTAandApplechannel]

@@djjones6510 1.5 million British troops land on the Beaches of Crimea to ensure the legitimacy of their claims on the Crimea port

[@froglifes6829]

@@GTAandApplechannel Britain doesnt even have 500k soldiers

[@jamesmccomb9525]

@@froglifes6829 Yet.

[@froglifes6829]

@@jamesmccomb9525 What Yet? It never will have 500k soldiers.

[@aussiedude3121]

24:37 Russia also borders Norway which is also apart of NATO

[@slurpeekyler]

Excited for this one as always!

[@cool99punk]

Google maps shows different borders depending on what country you're in.

[@MTaxiSheep]

14:56 ahhh…memories….🥲

[@Twiggiman007]

5:58 a very soviet vibing place bald and bankrupt has entered the chat

[@fbi8836]

i suggest you look at the wikipedia page as there is quite a bit of interesting information on there

[@giladeilon3452]

Does someone have a link for the apolitical map? I can't find it

[@smpark12]

Pray for peace in Ukraine

[@prion42]

Just realized the western border of Mali is diagonal instead of on a meridian.

[@savosavic1222]

Can u make a video about every desputed area in erope beacose im soure there us plenty of this mess

[@kowalskidageorgian1897]

thank you for noting about secret expandure of russian borders in russia

[@wqiz1818]

if you do a vid on russia include something about sakhalin and its history cause it's super interesting

[@robert_wigh]

Hey Toycat, you know that there are thousands of Lenin statues standing in practically every town and city in Russia? xD Honestly, I just opened Google Maps and zoomed in, and decided that Lipetsk sounds like an interesting place. Guess what, there's a "Monument to V.I. Lenin" there.

[@HighExplosiveSerenade]

Toycat! You have to exploit this war thing... The morbosity humans have can make you some dough! ;)

[@snokehusk223]

PRC doesn't legally have rights on RC

[@v5hr1ke]

14:57 I see ya doin something

[@Cyborg_Lenin]

As a person from north Ossetia i don't want Georgia invading me.

[@alcarbo8613]

19:57 Cough Cough...…. Puerto Rico

[@sammyismuff]

10:20 These are the Zapatistas in case you want to look up what’s going on there. They’re essentially libertarian socialist (or basically anarchist). In case you don’t know, anarchists aren’t people that want chaos. Anarchists are critical of states, governments, and power itself, and believe that society should organize itself from the bottom up rather than the top down. Left wing anarchists want democracy not just in administration but in the workplace as well. Anarchists have actually been relatively successful in some places, as is true of this case. Right wing “anarchists” (anarcho-capitalists) on the other hand are lame. Capitalism is flawed already, and in a society with no government to keep corporations in their place, corporations would become governments, non democratic ones at that. The most successful example of a proto-ancap society was Iceland, but things devolved into conflicts between local warlords and then the people invited Norway to annex them.

[@jmtz3149]

You’re so smart I wish there were more people like you in the world. Obviously capitalism, the form of government that has improved the quality of life more than any other system sucks compared to far lib left policies. I bet we’d be on Mars now and the average life span would be 120 if lib left anarchies were in charge the last few hundred years.

[@bestGaming132]

Thanks for explaining

[@agentnine3973]

Its 1:30 am for me, so its way later for you why are you up sooooo late dawg

[@LucyWest370]

Time zones.

[@yulin84]

nice idk if i can take credit for this but hey it's the same as my idea that i emailed good vid

[@christhorney]

you always say second channel, but i have no clue what your first one is lol

[@rafaelalbiter6923]

it's called "ibxtoycat" and is a videogame channel

[@LucyWest370]

What is the point of this comment

[@christhorney]

@@LucyWest370 the point was that I don't know what his first channel is, he calls this his second channel but for me it's his first channel because I didn't come here from his apparently gaming channel according to another comment, you see how they helped me out and told me what it was while you on the other hand have to come out like a smart ass with a smart ass comment instead of being a decent human and helping a brother out you wantvto be an a hole

[@NeoJackBauer]

Another good video

[@wonkydonkey7705]

Toycat, can you show more analytical videos

[@wonkydonkey7705]

KZbin analytics

[@roysta8915]

Have you ever done anything about Cyprus? :)

[@robinb8860]

@ibx2cat, the western of the claimed autonomous regions is pronounced "abkhazia". It seems you have mispronounced this pretty often in your videos that mention it :)

[@khada6226]

13:40 uk laughs at straight line

[@tomg5187]

Top geeza 👍

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Remember, there is the friendly dispute between Portugal and Spain - de facto Spain, de jure - also Spain, but that doesn't stop it being disputed. Then again, it's probably the only dispute where the weapons are leg-pulling and sarcasm......😉🤔

[@TheMithrilGuy]

16:18 how to have -100000000 social credit

[@datboyace13]

So wait, this isn't the main channel? It's like Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, but shows up big and bold on Google Maps. Well, I vote that the second channel declare independence from the main channel, just like Puerto R.... never mind, not touching that one.

[@emtso]

ive been watchibg you for a few months now and i just realized that i havent been subscribed

[@predyaxc]

My country is 50km near Russia now

[@douglasscharbaupetersen5408]

More videos on the Russian-Ukrainian situation please! They are very interesting!

[@jantjepietjepol]

The Taiwan Vatican relationship was a great rabbithole.

[@goli8699]

I'd Like to See what the Russian Google Maps Looks Like rn

[@chrisrus1965]

Never say "hypocriticalness".

[@toubeeee]

2:40 that sounds like Hitler with extra steps

[@Void_Wars]

You’re too happy for this

[@yedrellow]

If you really want to open a can of worms, look at Antarctica and sea borders

[@SuperMaxHODL79]

Have a look at viva frei's channel, he has a guy who knows about some of the East Europe geopolitics guesting

[@SuperMaxHODL79]

I deleted my other comment because I don't want anyone to think I'm as drunk as I actually am