The History of NATO: Every Month

See the growth of NATO since its formation, including the newest member Sweden.
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Music used:
"At Launch" and "Rynos Theme" by Kevin MacLeod.
Sources:
- “NATO Chronology, 1947-1999.” U.S. Department of State, March 12, 1999. 1997-2001.state.gov/regions/e... Wikipedia (For the precise dates of more recent members)
Various government websites chronologizing their process of joining NATO:- Bulgaria: www.mod.bg/en/doc/cooperation... Estonia: www.eata.ee/en/nato/estonia-i... Latvia: www2.mfa.gov.lv/en/security-p... Lithuania: www.urm.lt/default/en/foreign... Poland: www.gov.pl/web/national-defen... Romania: www.mae.ro/en/node/2131?page=4

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Important note: Bosnia and Georgia are a part of a Membership Action Plan but that is NOT the same as a formal invitation or application for membership which is the yellow color in the video. Membership Action Plans are like getting ready for a formal application.

[@mrcat5508]

Thanks for the correction fellow feline

[@rey6349]

If you didn’t know. In 1954 the USSR asked to join NATO. NATO declined this offer. The same was in 2000 when Russia asked to join NATO. And Bill Clinton said NO.

[@jerryhu4763]

@@rey6349 Okay? If Germany applied to join the Allies in 1939, should the UK say yes?

[@daydreamer1917]

@@jerryhu4763 The USA is Nazi Germany in this scenario. Has been since 1945. Nothing short of an absolute scourge upon the world.

[@daydreamer1917]

@@jerryhu4763 The USA is N@zi Germany in this scenario. Has been since 1945. Nothing short of an absolute scourge upon the world.

[@submarino006]

I came for a NATO video and found an accurate video of the War against ISIS

[@agbook2007]

THIS.

[@MajinBuu-oo3vn]

Just look up the Syrian civil war map Timelapse.

[@the_babbleboom]

more like war by the US to illegally occupy oilfields breaking yet again international law

[@404_nowheresnotfound3]

I was more focused on the lakes lol.

[@Kaissereichlover1872]

​@@404_nowheresnotfound3"Black Sea joins NATO" "Caspian Sea joins Warsaw Pact"

[@Altisnotaustria]

sweden has eventually succeeded to join after doing nothing since Napoleonic wars That's crazy! ( talking about aggressive actions not anything like trade and support)

[@Felix-fy4gq]

The reason that Sweden joined NATO is because Russia invaded Ukraine and that led to that the military security in europe is much worse and that is better to be in NATO than be outside of NATO when the military security is worse. That's the same reason for Finland to join NATO.

[@Kajzer857]

I call it "the damned Vladimir effect"

[@Mae-nr7wr]

20 years of NGOs, and still they were scared of actual swedes voting on it, seeing how less than 57% wanted to join in a 2023 poll says it all. they are afraid of people voting wrong.

[@MajinBuu-oo3vn]

Except support dictatorship regimes like North Vietnam and Kampuchea.

[@ReichLife]

@@Kajzer857 More like sensasionalist fools taking power in Sweden in Finland who ditched long established and actually working policy over nothing but pure paranoia.

[@mdl2427]

I love all the lakes that appear when I assume dams are built. You even managed to remove the lake in Ukraine when the dam was destroyed. That's quite the attention to detail!

[@pekkakoskinen5763]

Not only that, but also the Netherlands slowly draining the IJsselmeer 1:07 xD ♥

[@UbysatoShineko]

Neo-Nazis could not have destroyed their dam. I only feel sorry for the Russians in Kherson.

[@George_Wong]

@@UbysatoShineko You flooded your own soldiers and now you blame Ukrainian civilians as neo-nazis.

[@natheriver8910]

👏👏

[@MehmetMalkoc-kg2bc]

1:24 turkish dams

[@Jonago.]

The attention to detail is chef's kiss. So much history visible in just this.

[@cybersarge6891]

France 1966: I want to still be a member, but I don't want to help anybody with military weaponry France 2009: Alright alright alright I'll do it, jeez....

[@seneca983]

"I don't want to help anybody with military weaponry" That isn't accurate. They were still ready to use weapons and they did when the US invoked the Article 5 after the 9/11 attacks. What France didn't want is to have it's troops under American command.

[@Finkaisar]

​@@seneca983Sadly most people just think france left Nato

[@mrcat5508]

@@Finkaisarthey have the most effective weapon ever. It can be used as a drone, sword, projectile, even spy. It’s called baguette in French but I don’t know what it’s called in American

[@potential_music]

It’s the closest we’ve got to a Franco-American Split and like the Sino-Soviet Split afterwards they became allies again after the Cold War ended

[@mikemancini313]

France and America signed an undercover secret deal in 1966 essentially telling France that if the international situations require France's complete involvement in the NATO structure, they would need to rejoin. From 1966-2009, this wasn't a big issue. Politically, this decision had great support by the French people in 1966. They were kinda busy with other things at that point. If NATO requested that they joined the NATO structure during the time period of 1966 to 2009, they were required to do so. However, this never happened and they simply rejoined fully in 2009.

[@geometrydashfan6074]

Poland, the czech Republic, and Hungary joined NATO 25 years ago

[@andrius505]

Hungary plays a bad girl and more worse then good for NATO, maybe... Should be kicked out from NATO and at that matter EU also....

[@martin0499]

I was surprised to see Turkey joined so early on

[@CatfoodChronicles6737]

@@andrius505 If that happened NATO would have lost a vital ally to Russia because 1. Hungary has a party completely with Russia 2. They would have felt betrayed and have their own wants in Ukraine

[@wingblader8584]

@@andrius505 Keep yapping 🗣

[@ChanceKearns]

@@andrius505you are weird

[@cristiii7605]

I love that you added the Syrian conflict as well

[@flankana]

i love the attention to detail with things that are completely unnecessary for the information to be presented. zuiderzee works, the creation of reservoirs and the destruction of kakhovka reservoir.

[@notoriousrapscallion]

Didnt know all those russian lakes were artificial

[@mr.someone6128]

Dam moment

[@angelzavala2254]

​​@@mr.someone6128Is it a God dam

[@Timur_Iz_Timuridov]

This lakes are not lakes, but “water reservoirs” (including Rybynsk reservoir that was created in 1930s). They had appeared after building of dams and hydroelectric power stations on Volga and Dniepr. During this several settlements were flooded (for example small town of Mologa near Rybynsk, in the Middle Ages it was local center of fiefdom). Big natural lakes in Russia and neighboring countries are Onega, Ladoga, Pskov and Chud. All of them located near borders

[@i_barely_hee-know_her]

You can usually tell from the shape! Reservoirs tend to be long and squiggly

[@seneca983]

@@Timur_Iz_Timuridov Aren't dam reservoirs (often) also lakes? E.g. the reservoir of the Aswan dam in Egypt is called Lake Nasser and the reservoir of the Hoover dam in the US is called Lake Mead.

[@OOO1OOOOOOO11O1]

would you mind letting your videos play longer at the end, it would be nice to admire the end product without having to pause it so abruptly. thanks!

[@Nishkid641]

That is exactly my thoughts too.

[@ChikyuuKun]

Interesting how former Warsaw Pact members are now in NATO. Especially Poland who went through excessive Soviet interference from 1945 is now poised to be the leading member of NATO in the East against Russia.

[@chinsaw2727]

The only reason Poland joined the Warsaw pact was because the Soviets “liberated” Poland from the Germans. The Polish people have always been staunchly anti-Russian, ask any Pole online and they will tell you. I’m pretty sure the Warsaw Pact was called “the Warsaw Pact” and signed in Warsaw all so the Soviets could try to foster Polish support for the unpopular Soviet-backed puppet government. I’m pretty sure the Poles would be move receptive to communism these days if it was any country _other_ than Russia that had the first successful communist revolution.

[@AD45]

Our countries suffered alot cuz of the soviets (and not only them), it was only logical to join NATO

[@Bradley2806]

​​@@chinsaw2727It's kind of fair enough considering that the Russians were the primary force behind the partitions of the PLC and a participant with the Germans in 1939. The Russians and polish have been geopolitical rivals fighting over eastern Europe for the last 500 years. The Russians are like enemy number 1 for them historically. That type of animosity takes time, respect and effort to change, and neither side seems willing to do so.

[@dr.damian]

@@chinsaw2727 i mean poles never chose to join the pact, thats just want the puppet regime did

[@clown7608]

dude they all were ussr proxy states with 0 independency

[@smartlucker4011]

Welcome to the compass club Sweden

[@megakillerx]

You mean welcome to being a thrall state?

[@WorldOrderOfIdiocracy]

@@megakillerx vatnik moment

[@hometownboy6537]

@@megakillerx You mean welcome to the alliance where you won't be attacked by an imperialistic dumb*ss?

[@megakillerx]

@@WorldOrderOfIdiocracy Putin and his regime are actively replacing Ukrainians in their occupied cities with central Asians and Chechen Islamists, they share the same values as the globalist west and I do not wish to die for either of them.

[@nissethepear4743]

@@megakillerxthe internet user

[@andrefarfan4372]

Great video

[@wjelgalehjapotenzna78]

Great vodeo for anniversary of Poland's admission to NATO! it happened 25 years ago!

[@AGamer2]

I don't support your words..

[@404_nowheresnotfound3]

@@AGamer2are you polish?

[@AGamer2]

@@404_nowheresnotfound3 Goodly, not

[@404_nowheresnotfound3]

@@AGamer2 why do you get to decide what Poland does then?

[@lachlanandrews3596]

Excellent video!

[@X1GenKaneShiroX]

Russia is definitely the underdog in any conflict against NATO. NATO currently has a military spending of $1,307,329,588,778 ($1.31 trillion dollars) with 10,260,945 square miles of land compared to Russia’s $109,000,000,000 ($109 billion dollars) in military spending with 6,323,142 square miles of land. NATO has over 8,671,080 military personnels to Russia’s 3,708,000 military personnels. Seeing this trend, NATO might have a military budget that surpasses Russia’s entire nominal economy.

[@Moneymagicandstuff3009]

@@Livinginalazyworldfr

[@Tolyan286]

​@@Livinginalazyworldприезжай к нам,пошутим над тобой

[@mikeratixxd7397]

​@@LivinginalazyworldSays the one that has a cringy pfp

[@user-cs2wf9ys8z]

Nukes

[@raidang]

​Then explain why do u u need 32 nations to contain just 1 nation ? ​@@Livinginalazyworld

[@carmi7042]

Countries joining NATO: "Sure, just wait a couple of hours" Countries joining the EU: "You guys still waiting?"

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Dude did NOT have to include the frontlines in the Syrian civil war but did anyway. Cool

[@erinsgeography3619]

From 3:22 I got distracted by ISIS and forgot what this video is about

[@DualTheEggist]

You forgot the strategic port of Saint Pierre et Miquelon. The great French bastion off of Canada!

[@UbysatoShineko]

The only Remnant of New France 😂😂

[@hatman3445]

I think it would've been good showing Bosnia and Georgia and aspiring members as well, especially when Bosnia has Membership Action Plan and Georgia suffered war due to it's aspiration.

[@michaelowino228]

Good video.

[@datdumbguy1067]

I feel like Georgia should've been on the "Invited / Applied" list during 2008, when they voted to join and was welcomed, but Russia invaded them to make sure it didn't occur.

[@anon20]

NATO did not welcome Georgia in 2008. Instead, they were promised eventual membership, but were denied a Membership Action Plan or any other concrete measure

[@user-ux7vr3ut3r]

Грузины против НАТО.

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Georgia began a membership action plan but that’s not technically the same as an outright invitation or application.

[@anon20]

@@EmperorTigerstar EmperorTigerstar!!!!

[@jonson856]

@@EmperorTigerstarwere there countries that formally received an invitation?

[@lordfoxquaad1611]

Putler's 5D chess for sure played out well with two more nations rushing to join NATO. No other master geostrategist managed to bring Europe together as much as he did

[@Felix-fy4gq]

That's true but Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Malta, Cyprus and many more is still standing outside of NATO and has no plans to join even when Russia is invading Ukraine. Ukraine want's to join NATO and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

[@Distress.]

@@Felix-fy4gq Yeah but all of those countries are safely behind several NATO countries. Sweden and Finland were the most vulnerable and committed to neutrality.

[@aidan883]

@@Felix-fy4gq Neutrality is codifed in the Austrian constitution. What is the point of bringing this up?

[@seanm241]

​@@aidan883Austria is just a self-governing extension of Germany let's be real

[@phencyclidine7880]

2 countries that were already effectively in NATO

[@jedimasterjo]

Did you use the thin line to denote territorial claims in Europe but the dynamic front line in Syria/Iraq? Or did territorial claims in the Middle East just evolve that rapidly? Thanks for the video, amazing as always

[@seneca983]

At least some of those are actual control rather than claims.

[@arseniostabile909]

Thank you ! :-)

[@katerbilla]

Lovely that you also included the Netherland's expansion into the sea ;-)

[@cheydinal5401]

If I'm not mistaken, in the earlier upload you had forgotten to add West Berlin?

[@chimera9818]

Nah he had it in there

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Nope. That was there.

[@neverluckym8728]

To remove "(Fr.)" from northern Italy I believe.

[@georgejpg]

Russia truly played itself

[@UHOH3300]

More like the west betrayed the USSR in 1945

[@bodassassin6387]

@@UHOH3300 How so?

[@dagsommar3713]

​@bodassassin6387 They sometimes claim the war in Ukraine was to halt NATO expansion but actually made Finland and Sweden join NATO and Ukraine to apply as well.

[@X9xredgkoa]

@@dagsommar3713lol, and so what?

[@dagsommar3713]

@X9xredgkoa Russia lied, and they played themselves. A fascist kleptocracy full of idiots.

[@scotts918]

I wonder what that strange application boost was around 2023 🤔

[@BengVideo]

Correction: Georgia had no control over its southern province until 2003, you could have outlined that too

[@r8rgtrs]

Not quite. Ajara never governed by an entity which claimed independence from Georgia, whereas South Ossetia and Abkhazia did claim (and even secure) independence from Georgia.

[@unknownyoutuber2407]

Congratulations to Sweden and Finland on joining NATO. Also congrats to Vladimir Putin on making this possible. Never thought it would ever happen.

[@Moi_Gospodin1337]

yeah, he is fabulous dumba55

[@AGamer2]

​@@Moi_Gospodin1337 In some yes, in some not 💀

[@Moi_Gospodin1337]

@@AGamer2 146%

[@duskpede5146]

do you just base maps for every year that you add onto for each video? cause i can't imagine you're manually going through and adding all the lakes and the syrian borders every time??? surely not?

[@MadComputerScientist]

It'd be convenient to have a little timeline along the bottom with events marked on it (perhaps color-coded), especially on long vids where the map changes suddenly and drastically.

[@natemitchell2681]

A decade later these videos are still coming, and with incredible attention to detail! I love watching those lakes appear in Russia, or the land reclamation in the Netherlands, or even seeing the frontlines shift in Syria. No one else would have included those things and it's great how you do.

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Reuploaded to fix a label mistake. Sorry for the inconvenience. Enjoy the video!

[@SamTaylorsVersion]

What was the mistake?

[@BigRedHeadPhones]

Better hope this is your only reupload. 😂

[@michaelkirschner7471]

Forgot to change Turkey to Türkiye

[@Mae-nr7wr]

communist expansion is a threat! communist expansion is a threat! 1945-1990 now: n-nato expansion is not a threat! kappa

[@Mae-nr7wr]

@@SamTaylorsVersion everuything

[@googs3589]

Remember the original version of this video that you deleted as your wrongly assumed Sweden and Finland would join in 2021

[@dinomanaj9701]

Respect for taking the effort of doing the Syria/Iraq wars for no reason. Must've took a bunch of time, thanks mate.

[@Donimaps420]

Yet another w video

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

Ukraine looks so off without the Kakhovka Resevoir

[@Nishkid641]

And yet the Vietnamese communist govt is always a puppet/lapdog of Russia.

[@The_whales]

Russia: I’m here to stop the expansion of nato Russia 20 years ago: let’s former Soviet lands join nato and eu Also Russia right now: the war they caused two more countries to join

[@Guy-Mann]

So you're faulting them for spending years trying to avoid armed conflict? Would this war have been somehow better if it was fought decades ago for far fewer and less justifiable reasons? Shills have no thought process.

[@duskpede5146]

they didn't "let" anything happen. it wasn't their choice in the first place

[@vasya_dangersex]

Such a great hidden lie on the second point. Russia was against expansion from beginning and started war when NATO got too close. Isn't that obvious? What is the cause of expand after Soviet Union collapse? The answer is simple. Greed, control, power.

[@kamilmagomedov2278]

России плевать на Швецию и Финляндию,но России не плевать на Украину, вступление Украины в НАТО опасно для России, вступление Швеции и Финляндии в НАТО безразлично для России,это очень слабые в военном отношении страны с маленьким населением,и не сильно увеличивают опасностью для России,но если НАТО нападёт на Россию, Россия применит своё ядерное оружие, понимая что в этом случае не будет победителей,но если в мире не будет России,то не будет и мира вместе со всеми странами НАТО, Россия это не Югославия и не Ливия,по зубам НАТО от России получит очень сильно.

[@duskpede5146]

@@kamilmagomedov2278you're coping hard. russia can barely manage an invasion of an impoverished muddy field in the backwaters of europe

[@prusentums2407]

love the red areas concept

[@lunaticmaestro205]

Finnaly video I was waiting for :) To see how blue grows.

[@BennygoatHistory]

I love all the extra little details, like the blowing of the kakhovka reservoir and doing it by month rather than by year! small thing, I don't think Tunisia or Morocco were ever covered by NATO. Algeria was as it was a part of metropolitan France, but other African territories by NATO member states aren't covered unless specified (like how Algeria was specified specifically to be covered by NATO when it was a part of France), so France's other North African territories weren't covered, including Spain's African cities of Ceuta and Melilla

[@bc-cu4on]

Indeed, nor were remote islands in the southern hemisphere.

[@seneca983]

I think this map just shows the territory of NATO members

[@EmperorTigerstar]

NATO officially protected anything above the Tropic of Capricorn. So that’s what I went with.

[@BennygoatHistory]

@@EmperorTigerstar fair point, but not technically true NATO officially states in Article 6 that the treaty only covers the territories above the tropic of cancer which are in Europe, North America, Turkey, and North Atlantic islands, not just anything above the tropic of cancer, Algeria was a special case which France argued for

[@BlackAntoITA]

As an Italian i'm proud of my country being a NATO Member and same for Finland and Sweden 🇮🇹❤️🇫🇮🇸🇪

[@lucatheterror]

Siamo diventati schiavi dell'imperialismo statunitense e stiamo finanziando il genocidio a Gaza, contento te...

[@Russian_reich]

@@lucatheterror” “-🤡🤖

[@kamilmagomedov2278]

Италия породила на свет фашизм,итальянцы основатели фашизме.

[@Jeyeyeyey]

@@lucatheterror ok hippie

[@user-lg1bd7mi9g]

Is Georgia still applying for membership?

[@PieterBroer]

From 1984 to 1988 Peter Carrington, the 6th Baron Carrington (UK) was NATOs Secretary General.

[@markvorobjov6185]

Kind weird to paint accurate frontline movements in Syria, but for Ukraine to use russian annexation claims instead of actual current frontline. This video makes it look as if Russia currently controls Zaporizhia and Kherson cities, but it doesn't

[@night_aviation]

meanwhile the USSR casually using dams to build lakes:

[@JoutenShin]

Great.

[@RandomSuspex]

I have an idea for a video make a all moon landing video with a map of the moon and all landings over time even if it’s just a spacecraft or a human mission

[@JenniferinIllinois]

That Warsaw Pact thing didn't last very long. Wonder what happened. 😉

[@lesscringeymapperdude]

Me: I couldn’t be that wild when I was drunk last night What happened last night: _blocked by NATO on Twitter_

[@arawn1061]

Ay caramba!

[@jarrettbobbett5230]

Other than not showing the west coasts of America(Alaska,Hawaii) & Canada this was real good.

[@cynthia6482]

Soviet Union tried to join nato in 1954, if that happened the Cold War would be WAYY more stupid. Imagine having Italy be communist but Czechoslovakia be democratic due to the coups being “allowed” because everyone’s in the same alliance.

[@stefanodadamo6809]

The only coups in Italy were attempted by neo-Fascists and former monarchists that NATO protected in its secret structures.

[@duskpede5146]

i don't think coups are allowed in between nato countries. if the ussr did join, nato would basically just become like the un security force localised to europe. only ever used for conflicts that would've had both sides agree anyway (ig like the boxer rebellion or the somali pirates stuff but during cold war europe) the west would just make a new nato without the ussr anyway

[@Blanka1100]

They never applied and never wanted to be Nato member like every other.

[@duskpede5146]

@@Blanka1100this is false. look it up

[@kram-1]

I’m so glad that Scandinavia finally reunited in economical (EU) and military (NATO)🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮🇮🇸🇬🇱

[@soumyajitdas1729]

Norway isn't a member state of EU

[@kram-1]

@@soumyajitdas1729 Unfortunately yes, but you can enter Norway with European Schengen, so in a way Norway is united with other countries in Scandinavia

[@Nod_Lucario]

The new Kalmar Union

[@megakillerx]

I’d rather that we could be an independent alliance than bends over backwards towards foreign superpowers that has zero interests towards our Nordic people.

[@turkoositerapsidi]

Suomi ei ole skandinaavinen.

[@anthonyn.7379]

Love how he even got the land reclamations of the Netherlands

[@legate5923]

bruh a new lake was created in 1967 in north finland i would like to know more about that

[@Pizzaempire2009]

I'm surprised that NATOs flag use to be green and a emblem in the middle

[@rabbadoodles4522]

What do those red lines mean?

[@Meanthes]

Ongoing conflict/dispute

[@fluto6997]

Civil War/war

[@SiPravki]

new liberated territories of Russia

[@WOLF36554]

Is this the 4th time you had to remake this video?

[@cbrauts707]

I love how you can see the Netherlands slowly taking land from the sea

[@nieprzecietnymapper7448]

Bosnia also is applying

[@kkkoooii]

half of Bosnia is ruled by Serbs. Bosnia will never be in NATO

[@Jefrings]

Welcome to NATO Finland and Sweden! In the hopes of a safer and a total independence seeking future!

[@someone-yeah-123]

nato is a defensive alliance not a safe one even if all nations will invade one country the enemy is probably with nukes so it could end up bad

[@DeCoreyMcGowan]

What map animation thing do you use?

[@BengVideo]

Correction: Germany before 1956 did have the Saarland

[@villekullberg2146]

That Baltic Sea is now a beautiful NATO-lake. Congratulations to Sweden for becoming a member of NATO. Greetings from your eastern frienemesis 🇫🇮❤️🇸🇪 And congrats to Putin for his successful anti-NATO -policies very well played!

[@Moldovanin.]

Neutral Finland and Sweden are not interting to Russia. Slav country that is ex-ally with big russian population is more important to Russia.

[@alinm4tw762]

In 2004 Nato secure a wall in East Europe, from Baltic Sea to Mediteranean Sea

[@cheltblchelnetbl3000]

from whom?)

[@alinm4tw762]

@@cheltblchelnetbl3000 Putin slaves

[@enderkatze6129]

I find it supremely funny how there's massive lakes just sorta popping into existance in the USSR

[@duduchannel6729]

Why did you include the Warsaw Pact but not the CSTO?

[@epickzalpha8273]

Do u see EU organisation uncluded? Bot

[@epickzalpha8273]

@@duduchannel6729 So why CSTO should be included?

[@duduchannel6729]

@@epickzalpha8273 The EU is not a military alliance though? Mister human

[@duduchannel6729]

@@epickzalpha8273 Because its in a proxy war with NATO? He even included the Ukraine war in the video. Plus Russia and Belarus do consider NATO as unfriendly and viceversa and there have been expulsions of diplomats by both sides, they are basically enemies like NATO and WP

[@epickzalpha8273]

@@duduchannel6729 Do you understand that CSTO does not work like NATO? Even Armenia would have joined NATO if not ruzzia. CSTO is just puppets of ruzzia. That is all. Without ruzzia support all of their leaders would not be leaders at all. Also it even has Uzbekistan as a member. Dude it is second North Korea after Iran.

[@EA-js1me]

As someone told Putin: “You caused this.” 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇳🇴 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 💪

[@devceropeolearw5441]

Literally nothing happened

[@TheMercyBeat]

NATO enlragement: 04/04/1949 - Belgium 🇧🇪 - Canada 🇨🇦 - Denmark 🇩🇰 - France 🇫🇷 - Iceland 🇮🇸 - Italy 🇮🇹 - Luxembourg 🇱🇺 - Netherlands 🇳🇱 - Norway 🇳🇴 - Portugal 🇵🇹 - United Kingdom 🇬🇧 - United States Of America 🇺🇸 18/02/1952 - Greece 🇬🇷 - Turkey 🇹🇷 09/05/1955 - West Germany 🇩🇪 30/05/1982 - Spain 🇪🇸 03/10/1990 - East Germany (unified with West Germany) 🇩🇪 12/03/1999 - Czech Republic 🇨🇿 - Hungary 🇭🇺 - Poland 🇵🇱 29/03/2004 - Bulgaria 🇧🇬 - Estonia 🇪🇪 - Latvia 🇱🇻 - Lithuania 🇱🇹 - Romania 🇷🇴 - Slovakia 🇸🇰 - Slovenia 🇸🇮 01/04/2009 - Albania 🇦🇱 - Croatia 🇭🇷 05/06/2017 - Montenegro 🇲🇪 27/03/2020 - North Macedonia 🇲🇰 04/04/2023 - Finland 🇫🇮 07/03/2024 - Sweden 🇸🇪

[@Ossian_Mik-bb3hv]

I love how the Netherlands keep getting land from the Sea

[@FartIgniter9000]

0:19 i like how a random lake appeared in ussr

[@Nieboret]

Those are artificial lakes made by USSR using dams after WW2. Look closer, there are plenty of them being created with time passing.

[@jelen7217]

Today it is 25 yeras since Czech Republic joined NATO. I am proud for my country to be a part of west

[@chimera9818]

Being fair it is physically more western than Vienna also it is less west alliance and more European and European decedent plus Turkey alliance

[@megakillerx]

Going from a puppet of the east to a puppet of the west. What’s with Czechs and their willingness to surrender their sovereignty? You’ve been doing it for over a thousand years.

[@jelen7217]

@@megakillerxfirst thing, you dont know czech history And second thing, we choosed to be a part of nato, we werent forced to do it

[@megakillerx]

@@jelen7217 >Kingdom of Bohemia loosing it’s political power within the HRE and became a puppet state for Hapsburgs. >Actively Germanised until Czechs became a minority in Prag throughout HRE and 19th century imperial rule. >Briefly became independent as interwar Czechoslovakia. >lost it to the reich anyway. >post WW2 became a puppet of the east and violently crushed when trying to become sovereign. >post Cold War becomes a puppet to the west ruled by an elite that once again wishes to see Czechs become a minority in their homeland trough mass immigration. You have been truly independent for approximately 20 years.

[@Blanka1100]

@@megakillerx Joining Nato was a choice while being Warsaw pact member was made by force and Warsaw pact was the only alliance to invade its own members. Calling the police in order not to be hurt anymore is not "lack of sovereignty"

[@AnthonySpecialeJr]

If Saar was a French protectorate until Jan 1 1957, shouldn't it also be blue in the same way Cyprus and Algeria were until their independence?

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Nope. Legally it wasn't a NATO member but French Algeria and British Cyprus were.

[@BennygoatHistory]

the Saar protectorate was a seperate entity from France, whereas Algeria was considered a core part of France itself, and where Cyprus was considered a core extension of Britain as it was a crown colony which was in Europe and above the tropic of cancer which fits the definitions to a NATO member's territory covered by NATO

[@jeffreygao3956]

Now NATO shouts “Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby! BAD DOBBY!”

[@Jan_Koopman]

Putin: "I don't want NATO to border me!" Putin: *attacks Ukraine* Countries on Russia's border: *join NATO* Well, that backfired, didn't it?

[@tylerbozinovski427]

Königsberg in NATO (through Germany) next? Finland gets back its lands? Baltic Sea for NATO!!!!

[@stefanodadamo6809]

And the local Russians?

[@tylerbozinovski427]

@stefanodadamo6809 For the first thing, they get the option to either stay and become naturalised German citizens (like Russians already living in Germany are), or they go back to where they came from (Russia proper). Heck, if they cause trouble, they can be deported, just like how the Germans living in the area prior to 1945 were. Same thing with Finland. Viipuri was Finland's second-largest city before it was annexed by the USSR and repopulated with Russians.

[@justaplayer94]

@@stefanodadamo6809 We could give them the same treatment they gave the German Local Population...

[@111222333daniel]

Yes. That's the real name. Kaliningrad is a false name

[@stefanodadamo6809]

@@111222333daniel Königsberg too was. Twanste or such was the native (Old, Baltic) Prussian name.

[@tomaszprzegwizdane3679]

So if NATO was a some sort of anti-soviet alliance then why it still expanded when there was no more soviet union?

[@Ivan1_1_1]

Потому что наверное существовала опасность того, что в России будет реваншизм?

[@kamilmagomedov2278]

Потому что НАТО ни когда не было оборонной организацией, НАТО всегда была агрессором и всегда нападало на другие страны, Югославия, Ирак и Ливия это доказывают.

[@Nisselak]

because Russia is governed by a dictator who wants to recreate the Soviet Union....

[@Ivan1_1_1]

@@kamilmagomedov2278 Ничего это не доказывает? В Югославии сербы проводили этническую чистку, Ирак оккупировал Кувейт, поэтому там НАТО и проводили военные действия.

[@Ivan1_1_1]

@@kamilmagomedov2278 Чушь полная!!! Разве НАТО в последствии оккупировало Ирак или Ливию? Нет, это независимые государства. Даже Сербия спокойно находится в окружении стран НАТО. Так что НАТО является агрессором - лишь ваши влажные мечты.

[@caballeroarepa9223]

You should have added the nato partners, and perhaps the involvement in Serbia more clearly

[@comandantegorrion7271]

One detail that I think should have been included is that, as of June 11, 1999, Kosovo has been under the direct protection of NATO, by way of the Kosovo Force (KFOR), under the auspices of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244, adopted June 10, 1999, and is slated to remain as such until the Kosovo Defense Force is fully self-sufficient.

[@bokunogentoo4420]

really good video, but I think the LPR and DPR should have their actual borders instead of the claimed borders

[@CoolNinja925]

You know you’re on the wrong side of history when a 200 year old neutral country since the time of Napoleon joins against you.

[@UlulvarCape]

Tbf. Sweden and Russia always disliked each other but yes Russia is on the wrong side here

[@duduchannel6729]

Sweden wasn't neutral since a long time, they helped NATO in Afghanistan and Libya

[@miauw8762]

Dumbest comment ever

[@turplexx233]

Sadly, after 1980 coup of Türkiye, Kenan Evren gave away from veto to Greece to rejoin Nato. Wish he couldnt do that, we can be in better condition nowadays.

[@jeansuber2767]

I could be wrong but it seems to me that Spain joined NATO in 1982 but the structure integrated in 1992

[@karolklepek-lm7dz]

3:49 Let's be honest, we all came just to see that

[@minimodecimomeridio4534]

2:16 🍻

[@rey6349]

If you didn’t know. In 1954 the USSR asked to join NATO. NATO declined this offer.

[@justaplayer94]

They knew they would be rejected.

[@jeansuber2767]

As NATO is based on the couple of the physical presence of American troops ,You should also have done in my opinion on your map indicate the countries which accept American or Canadian bases on its soil for example France hosted bases between 1950 and 1967

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

KFOR needs its own colour and should be included

[@mikeratixxd7397]

USSR: Asks to join NATO* NATO: Refuses* USSR: Creates Warsaw Pact* NATO: :0

[@Moi_Gospodin1337]

Now everyone understand blue is stronger color than red.

[@YujiroHanmaaaa]

USSR never asked to join NATO bu t nice try spreading Commie Propaganda

[@Zakatak-mf4iq]

That was a ploy like when Putin did it in the 2000s. The Cold War was already in full swing by the time NATO as an idea was even conceived

[@Chase92488]

@@Moi_Gospodin1337 purple:

[@Guy-Mann]

Russia: Asks NATO not to expand their borders east now that there is no cold war anymore* NATO: Refuses* Russia: Asks NATO to stop funding coups in neighboring countries* NATO: Refuses* Russia: Asks NATO to stop ethnically cleansing Russian parts of Ukraine* NATO: Refuses* Russia: Responds with hostility after decades* NAFO: VATNIK VATNIK VATNIK GHOST OF KEEEEEV IS MAI WAIFU SLAVA UKRAIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIII

[@Dragonite_Tom]

Europe looks much more scarier now than before

[@halo_el_casual7303]

Yo you are missing colombia as member state

[@lemur988]

Not a very accurate map in some ways, but very nice work

[@CoolNinja925]

Russia invading Ukraine actually caused NATO to expand. Props for Putin for recruiting!

[@WindowsXPMapping1]

I love NATO Coming from Canada 🇨🇦

[@savagepanda8458]

Why was the USSR randomly creating lakes around the country?

[@r8rgtrs]

Those are reservoirs for hydroelectric stations. Hydroelectric energy is among the most reliable and cheapest.

[@macafbro8896]

I want see the maps of OTAN vs OTSC and their expansions

[@talhagenc1466]

OTSC ?