Why NATO-Russia Tensions Are Rising in the Arctic

[@exp2745]

China calling themselves a "near Arctic power" is honestly hilarious. Maybe they mean on a cosmic scale...

[@jonb914]

You didn't hear about the documents they discovered where Santa Clause pledged his vassalage to the Ming emperor? The North Pole is now iNsEpErAbLe ChInEsE tErRiToRy.

[@no_name4796]

China whenever resources exist: "is it for me?"

[@EnriquePerezBarahona]

It called delusion. The CCP will convince themselves of just about anything if it involves a land grab.

[@nmew6926]

They are invited by Russia. Whats your problem

[@pasdpasse439]

​@@nmew6926you mean that Russia is giving away indefinitely half of Siberia to China?

[@phoebus86]

I like how they use the old minecraft gold texture but use the new iron texture as well as using lapis lazuli for phosphate.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

When did they change it?

[@Banter07]

@@user-op8fg3ny3jalmost 2 years ago iirc

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

@@Banter07 wow, I haven't touched Minecraft since update 1.7

[@TylerMarkRichardson]

​@@user-op8fg3ny3jits very different now

[@lukes3dworks533]

China's claim to be a "Near Artic Power" is hilarious. By that logic, Belarus and Mongolia have more of a right due to them being closer, and they're land-locked countries! 😆

[@vladimirbazhaev7851]

Check which countries have laid claim to Antarctica and it's even more funny

[@marxel4444]

We should consider Hungary a "Near Asian Power" :,D

[@dualorphan3765]

wow cant believe most of the eu,mexico and japan are all near artic powers man theyve had lands tehre all along

[@Carewolf]

Too be fair. Germany, Poland and the Netherlands are shorter by boat to the Arctic Sea than any place in Sweden or Finland, who only have land within the arctic circle, but none of the sea access the arctic council is fighting over.

[@apexjailor9349]

@@Carewolfbut Sweden and Finland are within the arctic circle…

[@Red-Magic]

One small comment: the shortest distance between Russia and the US is not over the arctic, but over the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia. This is as little as 50 miles

[@herisuryadi6885]

Technically its less than 2 miles Since the big diomede island is owned by russia And little diomede by the US

[@frf5000]

That is.. the arctic.

[@Leadbelly.]

I dont imagine Russia will be allowed access to the northwest passage, in the future.

[@janvanhoyk8375]

shortest distance from any part that is actually populated

[@old_grey_cat]

​@@janvanhoyk8375shortest distance from an area populated yet. Global warming will change that.

[@wayausofbounds9255]

When most countries complain about US unilateralism, they have a point. The US can be heavy handed. When Russia and China complain about US unilateralism, it's because they don't like the consequences of their own actions. Don't start nothing, won't be nothing. Since the fall of the Berlin wall Russia has been in more military actions (not longer but more) than the US. China has debt trapped over a dozen countries and assumed control over parts of their infrastructure. Unilateralism can have many faces.

[@bloodfiredrake7259]

China hasn't debt trapped anyone lol. If what the China is doing is debt trapping then the west has done it much worse.

[@hungrymusicwolf]

A country that got high on their power like the US may overstep their boundaries, but countries like Russia and China that step on boundaries before they even gain power are the ones to be truly afraid of. You can only but imagine what they may do when they have gained power (or read in the history books when it comes to Russia).

[@MadDragon76]

​@@hungrymusicwolf If Russians read history books they would stop talking crap to us about Afghanistan.

[@leet3207]

Can you list the countries that Russia has invaded since the fall of the berlin wall as i dont believe your statement but happy to be proved wrong

[@leolei9014]

​@@MadDragon76true. USSR collapsed after invading Afghanistan. While US occupying Iraq and Afghanistan did not result to its collapse. I wont be surprised if Russia collapses due to Ukraine 🤣

[@JScott-lg4jb]

3:22 never expect to wake up and go more than 5 minutes without seeing Minecraft. Thank you TLDR for ensuring my day started well.

[@AR_ABOLFAZL]

3:18 who ever edited that part, good job😂

[@krabstickle]

Gotta love the inclusion of minecraft in a very serious and credible news video

[@pieterjan29]

We need to support the polar bears with anti aircraft missiles.

[@masonhandforth1369]

Yes, freedom to the Artic, down with NATO and Russia.

[@MadDragon76]

I mean those polar bears do need jobs and out people do need someone to serve them Coca-Cola.

[@Bruce954]

6:17. The shortest distance between the USA and Russia is actually just under 4 km (Diomede Islands) and when it comes to mainland distances, it is actually 87 km, which is the width of the Bering Strait between Naukan (Russia) and Wales (Alaska, USA). So not really over the Arctic...

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

And exactly how inhabited are those areas?

[@Bruce954]

@@ASlickNamedPimpback, that doesn't matter at all, because in the video is mentioned that the quickest way toward eachother is over the Arctic. It isn't mentioned where the most people in the countries live and how to travel in between those places in the quickest way.

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

@@Bruce954 Just because it's not mentioned in the video doesn't mean it doesn't apply in real life. Those parts of both countries are barely inhabited and have very little in the way of military bases, whilst the rest of the arctic coastline of Russia has alot more, along with the rest of Alaska. If Canada went to war with Denmark, most people would say the quickest way would be over the Atlantic ocean. But no, the quickest way is technically an uninhabited island between mainland Canada and Greenland. But there's no real point in mentioning that island, is there?

[@Bruce954]

@@ASlickNamedPimpback, you seem to miss the whole point. When you listen to what has been said (and not let you be guided by your own thoughts and interpretation), you will know that I was right. If not, then something might be wrong at your side and to be frank, that is a you-problem. Also, Canada and Denmark in war? Hahaha, good joke. Something with NATO. Both founding members. But yes, the closest distance between the Kingdom of Denmark and Canada would indeed be Greenland and Canada. You know that Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Danish Kingdom right? When it comes to Denmark as the country itself, then it would be Denmark on the European continent.

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

@@Bruce954 You want me to listen to the video again? Alright. Look up a map of the arctic region (no, not Arctic Circle, Arctic region). The Bering straight, along with the closest parts of Russia and America, are in the Arctic. What did the video say again? "The shortest distance between Russia and the US is over the Arctic." And, would you look at that, it is right there. Also, I wasn't making a joke about Canada and Denmark at war. It was an example, and you're nitpicking for no reason. I know they wouldn't go to war. You seem to have something wrong, though. I wasn't talking about Greenland. I was talking about Hans Island, which is a tiny, uninhabited island which is split between Canada and Greenland... and hence the Danish Kingdom, therefore Denmark. But there is a better example out there. Let's say Brazil declares war on France. No reason, just for a laugh and to conquer their entire country. Fun fact, though, the two countries share a land border through French Guyana, which is in every way a part of France. However, if the Brazilians concentrated their efforts on a tiny chunk of land whose industry largely consists of shrimp fishing and space travel, they'd find their goal of fighting France to be difficult, because they're not actually attacking anything important. Just like Russia going through a tiny mostly uninhabited strait to attack the US would be very unlikely, and thus they'd likely go from their own coastline to the US'.

[@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle]

Fun Fact: The United States is closer to Japan, than China is to the Arctic Circle.

[@beasley1232]

The arctic will keep Russia a major future super power in my opinion there is to much nature resources I the region that Russia, the USA, EU, Canada and China won't ignore.

[@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle]

@@snoopysnoops007 Hmmmm now legal territories because they liberated them from the power that invaded Eastern China.

[@Zimbobroke]

@@snoopysnoops007now if you actually read your history books, you’d know that the usa BOUGHT it from RUSSIA, because THEY were the ones to ANNEX IT, AND THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE =/ THE USA

[@christopherwilson88]

@@snoopysnoops007 Yeah, the shortest distance is from the northernmost of the Northern Mariana Islands to Iwo Jima, around 594 km. The shortest distance from China to the arctic circle is about 1450 km.

[@V01DIORE]

They have their "best" navy in the arctic like the Kursk submarine: "Kursk had recently won a citation for its excellent performance and been recognised as having the best submarine crew in the Northern Fleet" "Kursk had a mythical standing. It was reputedly unsinkable and, it was claimed, could withstand a direct hit from a torpedo." "The nuclear-powered Project 949A Antey (Oscar II class) submarine K-141 Kursk sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea. It was taking part in the first major Russian naval exercise in more than 10 years. All 118 personnel on board were killed. The crews of nearby ships felt an initial explosion and a second, much larger explosion, but the Russian Navy did not realise that an accident had occurred and did not initiate a search for the vessel for over six hours. The submarine's emergency rescue buoy had been intentionally disabled during an earlier mission and it took more than 16 hours to locate the submarine, which rested on the ocean floor at a depth of 108 m (354 ft). Over four days, the Russian Navy repeatedly failed in its attempts to attach four different diving bells and submersibles to the escape hatch of the submarine. Its response was criticised as slow and inept. Officials misled and manipulated the public and news media, and refused help from other countries' ships nearby. President Vladimir Putin initially continued his vacation at a seaside resort in Sochi and authorised the Russian Navy to accept British and Norwegian assistance only after five days had passed. Two days later, British and Norwegian divers finally opened a hatch to the escape trunk in the boat's flooded ninth compartment, but found no survivors."

[@Silver_Prussian]

You are being skeptical of the russian navy which btw is only a green water navy while the biggest and supposedly strongest navy in the world that of the us has ships that arent even 10 years old and already have massive cracks on their hulls, this is just from sailing btw not combat missions. Here is little summery of all sub accident from the year 2000 to 2009 The russian navy has suffered 5 accident and one of them was the sinking of an already decommissioned vessel thar was suppose to be scraped The us navy suffured 9 accidents, many of them serious in one case almost leading to the sinking of uss san francisco. Almost all of the incidents were avoidable.

[@Silver_Prussian]

​@@ducpaiuntil it was too late. Thats the bullsh*t story told by all western media outlets the truth is that it was already too late for any help, they couldnt have survived even if the russian accepted the help

[@V01DIORE]

@@Silver_Prussian Your silly attempted Russian wumao excuses are not required I'll give you the relevant information again: "Kursk had recently won a citation for its excellent performance and been recognised as having the best submarine crew in the Northern Fleet" "Kursk had a mythical standing. It was reputedly unsinkable and, it was claimed, could withstand a direct hit from a torpedo."

[@Silver_Prussian]

@@V01DIORE why are you repeating the same bullsh*t like a broken record, its becoming real cringe Isnt the US navy the most professional and the strongest in the world, everything in there should be near perfect. Russia is land based power with green water navy made for protection of territorial watters.

[@Nightzo]

"He who controls the polar bears and narwhals controls the Arctic" - Santa Claus

[@George83_Thomas]

When someone who has the logistics to deliver goods to billions of people in one night speaks, smart people listen

[@thepatriarchy819]

Congratulations and salutations on the interviews.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Nobody is bothering about Antarctica because they fear the Penguin Empire.

[@oremust3718]

Literally love this channel

[@theambassador3695]

Gotta love the Minecraft reference at around 3:23! Well done!

[@antdah]

If China is a "near arctic power", then I declare Sweden a "near South Pacific ocean power" 🤣 At the very least they have to wait for Russia to become a Chinese vassal state.😅

[@chadgaming8071]

china could take over Siberia if russia is weakend enough in Ukraine

[@kingace6186]

The Article Council has the best official logo for an international body.

[@JericoLeslie]

China's audacity is amazing

[@bluerisk]

I thought I would never see Alaska until my flight from Tokyo to Frankfurt just flew over it...Greenland too.

[@neutralmc5132]

Alaska is south tho? And not north??

[@poland-lithuania]

​@@neutralmc5132Did you skip the entirety of all your geography classes?

[@neutralmc5132]

@@poland-lithuania omfg, I just- my brain just connected💀 I fucking mixed up Antarctica with Alaska💀💀💀💀💀

[@poland-lithuania]

@@neutralmc5132 its ok. I was a bit harsh tho

[@neutralmc5132]

@@poland-lithuania its alr, it happens

[@andyrihn1]

Russia can't even send peacekeepers to Armenia/Azerbaijan right now. They don't have the strength to project into the Arctic

[@tonyp2865]

Rubbish.

[@Randomguy7261]

They can? Only 200.000 troops have entered Ukraine, out of 1,15 million troops. Russia has showcased some weapons that we haven't seen in Ukraine. They are not sending the peacekeeper because there isn't even peace there, they are still fighting.

[@andyrihn1]

@@Randomguy7261 Cope

[@scottyd3138]

​@@Randomguy7261damn dude, nothing you said was remotely true😂😂. Cope harder!

[@Randomguy7261]

@@scottyd3138 We will see who's right....

[@roo_stonks]

More and more Putin looks like Randy Marsh "I didn't hear no bell" while bleeding profusely to me, still acts like he can compete with the US let alone NATO, completely delusional.

[@DOSFS]

That is the point, he can't do it. It is only thing left for Russia.

[@masonhandforth1369]

But NATO won't do anything until it got guarantees that China won't get involved.

[@bloodfiredrake7259]

Nato lost to goat herders. Not that much of a threat tbh.

[@Tespri]

@@bloodfiredrake7259 NATO wasn't in Afghanistan also they didn't lose. They did withdraw when goat herders already had lost 99% of their territory. The local goverment simply failed to defend itself after USA left. Also reminder... Ruzkiez lost to actual goat herders. Current afghani fighters were all trained by USA, so they weren't herders anymore but trained and battle hardened veterans.

[@V01DIORE]

@@bloodfiredrake7259 Russia has their "best" navy in the arctic like the Kursk submarine: "Kursk had recently won a citation for its excellent performance and been recognised as having the best submarine crew in the Northern Fleet" "Kursk had a mythical standing. It was reputedly unsinkable and, it was claimed, could withstand a direct hit from a torpedo." "The nuclear-powered Project 949A Antey (Oscar II class) submarine K-141 Kursk sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea. It was taking part in the first major Russian naval exercise in more than 10 years. All 118 personnel on board were killed. The crews of nearby ships felt an initial explosion and a second, much larger explosion, but the Russian Navy did not realise that an accident had occurred and did not initiate a search for the vessel for over six hours. The submarine's emergency rescue buoy had been intentionally disabled during an earlier mission and it took more than 16 hours to locate the submarine, which rested on the ocean floor at a depth of 108 m (354 ft). Over four days, the Russian Navy repeatedly failed in its attempts to attach four different diving bells and submersibles to the escape hatch of the submarine. Its response was criticised as slow and inept. Officials misled and manipulated the public and news media, and refused help from other countries' ships nearby. President Vladimir Putin initially continued his vacation at a seaside resort in Sochi and authorised the Russian Navy to accept British and Norwegian assistance only after five days had passed. Two days later, British and Norwegian divers finally opened a hatch to the escape trunk in the boat's flooded ninth compartment, but found no survivors."

[@ziqi92]

Russia’s militarizing the arctic? What’s stopping their corruption from making subpar facilities incapable if supporting their troops there? I mean, I know they’re totally capable of fighting and sustaining themselves in the cold, but the idea that these facilities would be modern is…questionable.

[@frf5000]

Theres also a lot of arctic troops in Ukraine as infantry, so id say they have less than before

[@V01DIORE]

Well what's stopping the corruption? Ask the Kursk submarine: "Kursk had recently won a citation for its excellent performance and been recognised as having the best submarine crew in the Northern Fleet" "Kursk had a mythical standing. It was reputedly unsinkable and, it was claimed, could withstand a direct hit from a torpedo." "The nuclear-powered Project 949A Antey (Oscar II class) submarine K-141 Kursk sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea. It was taking part in the first major Russian naval exercise in more than 10 years. All 118 personnel on board were killed. The crews of nearby ships felt an initial explosion and a second, much larger explosion, but the Russian Navy did not realise that an accident had occurred and did not initiate a search for the vessel for over six hours. The submarine's emergency rescue buoy had been intentionally disabled during an earlier mission and it took more than 16 hours to locate the submarine, which rested on the ocean floor at a depth of 108 m (354 ft). Over four days, the Russian Navy repeatedly failed in its attempts to attach four different diving bells and submersibles to the escape hatch of the submarine. Its response was criticised as slow and inept. Officials misled and manipulated the public and news media, and refused help from other countries' ships nearby. President Vladimir Putin initially continued his vacation at a seaside resort in Sochi and authorised the Russian Navy to accept British and Norwegian assistance only after five days had passed. Two days later, British and Norwegian divers finally opened a hatch to the escape trunk in the boat's flooded ninth compartment, but found no survivors."

[@BeingTheHunt]

Can you do a video explaining the ongoing violence in Manipur, India? It seems like it is being ignored by global media. I only know about it because of an article on BBC today (and it's pretty clear why people are clicking on this particular article) but there's little to explain what the violence is all about, how it started etc.

[@solsunman383]

I can't claim to know much, but I believe the ethnic group in the south of the province feel disenfranchised within the state (much like flemish in Belgium) and want to secede from Manipur but remain within India

[@manthanpatel6295]

Non of your business

[@solsunman383]

@@manthanpatel6295 Well technically nothing in the news is anyone's business.

[@lawsonthepunmaster9010]

3:25 Love the Minecraft Steve and Minecraft references lmao 🤣

[@LoneWolf-wp9dn]

Ive been to Rovaniemi... loved it there

[@jameskonnovitch]

finland and sweden are in nato & the artic council! uh oh russia - they do not play!

[@danieltaskovics7016]

I loved the Minecraft illustrations do it more❤

[@Atlas-pn6jv]

To be fair to Pooh Bear, the Hundred Acre Wood is in Britain. And Britain isn’t too far from the Artic Circle. Some might call it "near."

[@mnufeld8448]

UK/Scotland (nearly) border the Norwegian Sea , heck the Orkneys and esp Shetlands are basically in it. Back in WW 2 UK had the 'Shetland bus' small boats which ran/kept contact to Norway/Norwegian Resistance,from the Shetlands. Anyway point being ,being in on the Norwegian Sea is pretty close ,to the Arctic .

[@derpmansderpyskin]

2:50 - Is this "70bn barrels of oil . . . AND (an unspecified amount of) natural gas"? Or is it "70bn barrels of oil and natural gas"? The script seems to suggest the former, but the graphic seems to suggest the latter.

[@lacoma631]

*The shortest distance between the us and Russia is across Bering straight between Siberia and Alaska, not over the artic, unless you are referring specifically from mainland Russia to the mainland US, in which case you are correct.

[@xnthh]

I think it's been demonstrated in ukraine that on the whole the russian military doesn't pose a threat to nato

[@mr.p215]

​@@wakaisgoodand maybe it would be wise for Russia to consider why so many of their neighbours want to be in nato

[@Runclimblift]

Unfortunately, I don't think this is even slightly accurate, as much as I wish it was.

[@nattly6340]

@@Runclimblift how

[@nattly6340]

@@wakaisgood no, they didnt, they invaded every country on their border including chechnya, afghanistan and georgia (in which they used the exact same "russian brake away area" as they have in ukraine. russia dosnt want to negotiate, it wants domination, and that is why it hates countries joining nato.

[@joshburn4650]

@@RunclimbliftRussia military isn’t much but nukes are still an equalizer

[@gansior4744]

Finnish Defence Minister could read ASMR books

[@V01DIORE]

For anyone wondering about Putin's naval power in the Arctic look up the "Kursk submarine disaster", it'll give you a good bar on competence.

[@optimvsprinceps1845]

Look up the USS Donald Cook to see what happens when the US thinks their ships are the cream of the crop 😂

[@V01DIORE]

@@optimvsprinceps1845 It isn’t sunk by incompetence like the Kursk after being boasted in any capacity and is actually still in active service... so reading the history it just sounds like a standard ship while the Russians were being immature a'oles. They had well justification to shoot down such antagonisers but had patience. You mentioning this is such a self-own lmao, double incompetence, you Russian wumaos can’t even do your job right. On 24 February 2012, Donald Cook was awarded the 2011 Battle Efficiency "E" award.[8] On 9 April 2014, U.S. military officials confirmed the deployment of Donald Cook to the Black Sea,[9] shortly after Russia's annexation of Crimea and amid the pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine. The U.S. Department of Defense's official statement said that the vessel's mission was "to reassure NATO allies and Black Sea partners of America’s commitment to strengthen and improve interoperability, while working towards mutual goals in the region".[10] On 10 April 2014, the warship was reported to have entered the Black Sea.[citation needed] On 12 April 2014, an unarmed Russian Su-24 "Fencer" strike aircraft made 12 close-range passes of Donald Cook during a patrol of the western Black Sea.[11][12] According to an allegation by a Pentagon spokesman, "The aircraft did not respond to multiple queries and warnings from Donald Cook, and the event ended without incident after approximately 90 minutes." Further, Donald Cook is more than capable of defending herself against a pair of Su-24s.[13] In 2014, Russia's state-run news-media outlets ran a series of reports that falsely asserted that during that incident, the Su-24, equipped with the Khibiny electronic warfare system, had disabled the ship's Aegis combat systems. The misinformation was later picked up by British tabloid The Sun and by Fox News, and later reported as Russian propaganda by The New York Times.[14] On 14 April 2014, Donald Cook visited Constanta, Romania, where President Traian Băsescu had a tour of the ship. Donald Cook then conducted various exercises in concert with the Romanian Navy before departing the Black Sea on 24 April 2014.[15] On 26 December 2014, for the second time, according to the U.S. Navy, the destroyer entered the Black Sea to reassure and demonstrate U.S. commitment to work closely with NATO allies.[16] Donald Cook participated in exercises with the Turkish Navy, including an underway replenishment and other exercises with the Yavuz-class frigate TCG Fatih on 28 December 2014. The ship visited Constanta, Romania, on 30 December and Varna, Bulgaria, on 8 January 2015. She also participated in exercises with Ukrainian Navy ship Hetman Sahaydachniy on 11 January 2015, and then departed the Black Sea on 14 January 2015.[17] A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft makes a very-low-altitude pass by USS Donald Cook on 12 April 2016. Video released by the US Navy of the encounter with the Sukhoi Su-24 On 11 and 12 April 2016, two Russian Su-24s performed several low-altitude passes on Donald Cook while the ship was conducting exercises with a Polish helicopter in international waters in the Baltic Sea, 70 nautical miles (130 km; 81 mi) off Kaliningrad. A Russian Ka-27 "Helix" antisubmarine helicopter also circled the destroyer seven times. The U.S. Navy released photos and videos of the incident on 14 April, and the U.S. government lodged a complaint with the Russian government.[18][19] In response to the U.S. Secretary of State commenting on the incident and saying that "under the rules of engagement, that could have been a shoot-down",[20] the Russian Federation Council's official Igor Morozov said that the U.S. likewise "ought to know that Donald Cook approached our borders and may already be unable to depart those."[citation needed] On 26 February 2019, the ship hosted U.S. diplomats Gordon Sondland, Marie Yovanovitch, Kurt Volker, the EU's Jean Christophe-Belliard, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, among others.[21]"

[@skywillfindyou]

It won't. It is sing event. It was long time ago. But most important - you missed what Russians did last decade there. Military, research and production bases, along with floating stations won't leave your point of view alive. Probably won't have good info in English, but it's at least something kzbin.info/www/bejne/jV7Gna15dqaCrpY&ab_channel=OBF

[@V01DIORE]

@@skywillfindyou Military research like hypersonic missile tech the US come up with in 1950's thrown away they boasted as uninterceptable like a wonder weapon? The Russian system is highly corrupt and incompetent, dictator's disease, your Russian wumao attempts to say otherwise fly ridiculous in any well sense of reason. Go back to serving under Putin's desk why don't you? Might do a better job at kremlin flattery. Oh and stop liking your own comments it's cringy.

[@TylerMarkRichardson]

​@@optimvsprinceps1845a plane flew close to it... shocking

[@charlie8458]

Nebula, Brillant....it sounds like the video is never brought from TLDR itself !

[@pearlofthedarkage]

I haven't laughed so hard at China in a while. "Near Arctic Power" ROFLMAO!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@beasley1232]

China wants to rival the USA and Russia so bad in everything 😂

[@thecowardlydm2805]

and they were getting along so well before too

[@andreasottohansen7338]

I am genuinely curious what Russia has left to beef up its' military in the Arctic

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

The answer is Potato 🥔

[@Randomguy7261]

They have a lot of unused modern weapons, as they haven't really used them in Ukraine. Russia is even having millitary drills with China near Taiwan, which just shows how much Russia doesn't care anymore about the Ukraine situation. They have done their job, they scared western companies from Ukranian oil.

[@amckittrick7951]

​@@KonradvonHotzendorfno! Not potatoes...GET LATVIA ON THE PHONE

[@V01DIORE]

Only their "best" navy like the Kursk submarine: "Kursk had recently won a citation for its excellent performance and been recognised as having the best submarine crew in the Northern Fleet" "Kursk had a mythical standing. It was reputedly unsinkable and, it was claimed, could withstand a direct hit from a torpedo." "The nuclear-powered Project 949A Antey (Oscar II class) submarine K-141 Kursk sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea. It was taking part in the first major Russian naval exercise in more than 10 years. All 118 personnel on board were killed. The crews of nearby ships felt an initial explosion and a second, much larger explosion, but the Russian Navy did not realise that an accident had occurred and did not initiate a search for the vessel for over six hours. The submarine's emergency rescue buoy had been intentionally disabled during an earlier mission and it took more than 16 hours to locate the submarine, which rested on the ocean floor at a depth of 108 m (354 ft). Over four days, the Russian Navy repeatedly failed in its attempts to attach four different diving bells and submersibles to the escape hatch of the submarine. Its response was criticised as slow and inept. Officials misled and manipulated the public and news media, and refused help from other countries' ships nearby. President Vladimir Putin initially continued his vacation at a seaside resort in Sochi and authorised the Russian Navy to accept British and Norwegian assistance only after five days had passed. Two days later, British and Norwegian divers finally opened a hatch to the escape trunk in the boat's flooded ninth compartment, but found no survivors."

[@regarded9702]

Their navy is basically (minus one ship and some land attack missiles) basically untouched during the war so far. Their Airforce is probably not that attrited although it might be struggling with land attack missiles again. Its mainly their army which is taling the brunt of the suffering in Ukraine.

[@chessmasterblunderer]

Excellent and informative video like always! I think that Russia has invested much more heavily in the Arctic than the US, however. Alaska only has villages on the Arctic Ocean, Russia has cities. Notably the strategic port of Murmansk and the neighbouring Kola Peninsula.

[@Joey-ct8bm]

The artic is found and explored by Greece first, so it's all EU territory.

[@SilvanaDil]

Russia's "hypersonic" missiles: flops. Biggest concentration of 5th gen fighter jets: F-22s & F-35s in Alaska First nation to sail a nuclear powered sub through the Arctic: USA

[@j2174]

@@SilvanaDilAnd yet Canada has needed to bale out the US ships in the arctic

[@SilvanaDil]

@@j2174 - Be real: who has bailed out whom far more often? Uncle Sugar. Canada couldn't even get jets up there to shoot a balloon.

[@GrammarNaziAUS]

​@@j2174If Canada > USA and USA > Russia, then Canada > Russia.

[@starchunkss]

Russia can barely assert dominance in Ukraine let alone the Arctic lol

[@toyotaprius79]

That doesn't even touch the infrastructure damage of permafrost melt in their arctic bases.

[@bloodfiredrake7259]

Tbf their competition got their shit kicked in by goat herders

[@Tespri]

@@bloodfiredrake7259 You mean same herders who destroyed Ruzzia in their peak power?

[@bloodfiredrake7259]

@@Tespri yes

[@Tespri]

@@bloodfiredrake7259 but they aren't the same? Since they already were veteran fighters when USA was there. Not just that but USA did win all the engagements and did basically destroy Taliban. Taliban was basically nothing but drug cartel after USA went to Afghanistan. It's local's goverment on fault that they failed to hold peace even though they had superior numbers than taliban. USA left when they already had reached their goals.

[@LeafpoolTheMedCat]

Cool Minecraft textures! Still waiting for Mojang to add bauxite to the game but when they do, they should use your brown texture

[@wensdyy6466]

6:21 the shortest distance between USA and Russia is NOT across Antarctica but it is those 84 kilometers in Bering Strait (if we take in to account the fact that in the middle are islands Big Diomede belonging to Russia and Little Diomede Island belonging to the USA so the distance between there 2 countries is just 4 kilometers)

[@Zimbobroke]

“across antarctica” i know its a typo but thats still funny af

[@yuritatsumicom]

Is there any Antarctic Council? Members would be: Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, South Africa.

[@dosa2990]

And India

[@brandonf1260]

​@@dosa2990not India, they aren't close enough

[@cgt3704]

I remember this scenario from Detroit: become human. Since when did we start to adopt scenarios from the media ?

[@barney10240]

We didn't have Android yet sadly 😂

[@cgt3704]

@@barney10240 its okay. At least we can focus more on the arctic rather than some androids vandalising a neighbourhood.

[@1verstapp]

>rapid response looks like time to de-mothball the DEW line.

[@Nichollaa]

Journal in Detroit Become Human (Game) pretty much predicted tensions in the Arctic back in 2018

[@SilvanaDil]

Russia's "hypersonic" missiles: flops. Biggest concentration of 5th gen fighter jets: F-22s & F-35s in Alaska First nation to sail a nuclear powered sub through the Arctic: USA

[@V01DIORE]

Russia's hypersonic missile is literally just tech America made and threw away in the 1950's but they tout like a wonder weapon.

[@nateghast6456]

3:27 Bauxite is not an ore in Minecraft; what is that block?

[@phoenyan2087]

The Minecraft edit got me rolling

[@michaeldowson6988]

It isn't ice free all year yet, and no one with brains would commit putting a navy flotilla at risk while being basically stationary in the ice. They'll be totally dependent on their icebreakers which are even easier targets to eliminate.

[@p_1945]

most of escalation was from submarine and sometimes may be naval fleet but it still mostly in Norway naval territory. I mean definition of arctic have two separate entity between arctic which is north pole and arctic circle that use for legal reason that can include other land outside north pole including all of Iceland too. Even though Russia was have ton of icebreaker with other country like Canada. ( US coast guard have to want new icebreaker for those Russia icebreaker problem which is similar to China tactic with dispute south China sea)

[@thomas-sinkala]

"A near artic power"? What exactly does that mean?

[@SilvanaDil]

Hey, China, I'm a "near Nobel laureate."

[@edc1569]

Oh my goodness, not hypersonic missiles :)

[@tjitse3916]

Funny to see ‘ending for all 3 versions’ but near the end. A mishap?

[@buckempire1395]

Lmao that Minecraft stuff was hilarious

[@gilbertroberttuahuru4715]

The Arctic circle belongs to Canada, not Russian or Chinese. Norwegian is another who are also Arctic guardians along with the West & USA NATO

[@donkey459]

That's western propaganda the arctic circle belongs to Sri Lanka

[@dosa2990]

Artic circle belongs to the world, not a select group of Western countries and Russia

[@mistrants2745]

Wait... We are still pretending Russia is a superpower like the USA, the EU or China? Thats cute

[@barney10240]

Talking about missile shield, why not gone through Tom Clancy's dream and build one on satellite 😂

[@nobodyherepal3292]

Cost. There a reason the StarWars program of the 1980s hit a dead end early.

[@amckittrick7951]

​@@nobodyherepal3292also because the idea of Lazer beams intercepting missiles is...kinda ridiculous and undoable.

[@nobodyherepal3292]

@@amckittrick7951 wait, I though StarWars was more about Kinetic kill vehicles. They actually wanted laser weapons?

[@amckittrick7951]

@nobodyherepal3292 that's part of what I mean, nobody really knew what it was suppose to be. Kinetic interception weapons were what it was going to have to be but the entirety of the project was simply doomed by lack of a coherent vision and logistical nightmare

[@michaelmikulski9734]

I can't find the playlist of NATO summit interviews. Anyone? 😢

[@dominict9418]

The Canadian airforce has been "escorting" Russian military planes out of our air space for decades. The think the pilots know each other.

[@remyphilly5168]

Send them commies homie with a maple FU 😤🍁

[@jc3drums916]

5:02 The Arctic Council, sponsored by Fjällräven.

[@ricodelpiero]

The most hilarious things in this video is when China knew that Arctic was full of natural resources and then call them self a "Near Arctic Power".

[@warlockrobbie]

Loved the minecraft graphics

[@gabrieldsouza6541]

the blue arrow on the left in your thumbnail is Canada not the United States

[@brandonf1260]

No it's still the US. The US absolutely does the heavy lifting of NATO in the Arctic.

[@gabrieldsouza6541]

@@brandonf1260 no they do not. the canadian navy does.

[@brandonf1260]

@@gabrieldsouza6541 your acting like the US doesn't have land in the Arctic. The US Navy for the Arctic is many times bigger than Canada.

[@downey2294]

i love the minecraft bit. that was funny.

[@DUBSTEP_KUSH305]

Tons of reserves there

[@TheChirozachtor]

3:25 haha Minecraft, nice one

[@Miksantos-h2x]

No respect guys but the Russian army of the North is as incompetent as the one in the South I don't think we should be worried😂

[@V01DIORE]

Pretty much well summarised in competence by The Kursk submarine disaster: "Kursk had recently won a citation for its excellent performance and been recognised as having the best submarine crew in the Northern Fleet" "Kursk had a mythical standing. It was reputedly *unsinkable* and, it was claimed, could withstand a direct hit from a torpedo." "The nuclear-powered Project 949A Antey (Oscar II class) submarine K-141 Kursk sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea. It was taking part in the first major Russian naval exercise in more than 10 years. All 118 personnel on board were killed. The crews of nearby ships felt an initial explosion and a second, much larger explosion, but the Russian Navy did not realise that an accident had occurred and did not initiate a search for the vessel for over six hours. The submarine's emergency rescue buoy had been intentionally disabled during an earlier mission and it took more than 16 hours to locate the submarine, which rested on the ocean floor at a depth of 108 m (354 ft). Over four days, the Russian Navy repeatedly failed in its attempts to attach four different diving bells and submersibles to the escape hatch of the submarine. Its response was criticised as slow and inept. Officials misled and manipulated the public and news media, and refused help from other countries' ships nearby. President Vladimir Putin initially continued his vacation at a seaside resort in Sochi and authorised the Russian Navy to accept British and Norwegian assistance only after five days had passed. Two days later, British and Norwegian divers finally opened a hatch to the escape trunk in the boat's flooded ninth compartment, but found no survivors."

[@geoffhoutman1557]

“For all three endings”

[@nopepopcorn7443]

I see you inserting minecraft in as visual aide

[@xt7519]

This all would have looked a lot scarier coming from Russia before their botched Ukraine invasion (version 2). I find it a bit hard to believe that anyone is taking Russian claims or threats all that seriously these days wrt the Arctic. I mean, look at the state of their military when, basically, everything is in their favor wrt the invasion of Ukraine...and they are still losing badly. How much of a threat are they going to be fighting in such difficult terrain in the Arctic? How much of their equipment will actually work? How well are their troops going to be trained? How would they logistically support something like that, when they have had such obvious failures of logistics right on their border? Sorry, I know this video was supposed to be scary, but I find it hard to believe that NATO can't deal with whatever Russia tries to do in the region. China, who claimed to be a 'near Arctic state' (whatever that means) is much more a threat.

[@__-fu5se]

In a way that's the scarier part: a weak madman with nukes is far worse than a capable, self-respecting foe with nukes.

[@potatoereach]

china saying its a "near arctic power" XD

[@Randomguy7261]

I mean, they are near an Artic power, but to call themselves a ''near arctic power'' is just funny to me. They will do anything to get that resources.

[@beasley1232]

​​@@Randomguy7261ood luck to China 😂 the EU, USA and Russia are already major powers, add China and the region will only suffer more and more. It should really only be a discussion with the 8 Arctic country's to see how they want to handle the region in the future.

[@Randomguy7261]

@@beasley1232 Absolutely. China shouldn't have to be in everything. But it's gonna be hard to have talks beetwen NATO and Russia for the future of the Arctic, and Russia might invite China to force NATO to have talks about the stability of the Region.

[@toyotaprius79]

There has been a shocking lack of climate videos and reports from TLDR news lately, besides the odd mention in daily roundup.

[@pedroyoshinaga8326]

loved the minecraft reference

[@Ss97sand]

Detroit:Become Human

[@montes0212]

Love the minecraft reference

[@MLHunt]

US Geological *Survey*

[@Mikebrowski]

Excuse me china is near artic power??? HUHHHHH HOW

[@arkangel6281]

The same as Australia is a near artic power! 😂 just another bs excuse from China to get their navy in the Arctic

[@old_grey_cat]

When it goes North and rips off some of a weakened Tussia's turf. They already class the stuff near them as their traditional lands, as with the South China Sea...

[@swoastudios]

I love their gaming ref haha Minecraft

[@ThomasWright-jw6eo]

err I'm not sure that 28 Trillion dollar makes sense, since you are evaluating ALL of the boe as price of barrel of oil Looking at the 2008 USGS report "Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal: Estimates of Undiscovered Oil and Gas North of the Arctic Circle" only 90 GBbl is direct oil evaluating that aspect as 6.3 Trillion dollars. Natural Gas on the other hand is valued much less at Henry Hub prices of 2.57 USD/MMBtu (1000 CF (cubic feet) = 1 MMBtu). Given the reports 1,668,657.84 BCFG (billion cubic feet), that would come out 4.3 Trillion dollars. LNG was a little difficult to calculate given the unorthodox unit of MMBNGL and can't find any prices for that, all that is given is 44,064.24 MMBNGL (million barrels of natural gas liquids) So just the Oil and NG are at 10.6 Trillion Dollars, and then more for the LNG as well.

[@freja9398]

United States Geological Survey*

[@Yatukih_001]

Russia wants to find out if there are countries beyond the arctic whose land masses have been hidden from the public. To find out about this they need to make sure it is not the case. One way to do that is to make sure they are not part of the Antarctic Treaty. In the case of China, China might have to consider not being part of the Antarctic Treaty. Once Russia and China confirm they are not part of this treaty, they might gain access to lands people have no idea exist, provided these lands do exist. The idea here is that some of these ´unknown´land masses might have clean water. If they do, it is possible to utilize a tiny amount of this water for electricity production. What this means is if this is confirmed, then the end - result are lower water and electricity bills in Russia and China. This means some of them might become interested in migrating to these countries. If these countries are not out there then the value of the water and also energy increases in Russia and China.

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

At no point did anything you write make any sense

[@mowabb]

China: “did someone say rare earth minerals?”

[@beasley1232]

China's audacity doesn't fail to amaze me

[@MasterWhimp]

Russia pretending to be a superpower as usual

[@aji-n]

A battle for Hyperborea?? 🇦🇶

[@George83_Thomas]

skull emoji

[@aji-n]

@@George83_Thomas idk, man. Does the skull happen to be... Hyperborean, tho?

[@Killinemkid]

Leave the damn arctic alone? Option? Option. We don't even have the economy, globally, to afford to utilize those resources. We have more energy than we will ever need right now. More diamons, more gold...the only thing we might need from the Arctic is the phosphate and obviously, the freshwater, which is going to waste. Invest in zero waste, not in more mining.

[@killininstinct343]

The fucking Minecraft references did make it better ngl

[@The_SD_Economist]

Detroit Become Human has spoken.

[@nobodyherepal3292]

Huh?

[@johnsnowkumar359]

Contrary to popular belief, Europeans friom a few earlier centuries never liked to live in frigid places all year long, and years in the northern reaches of the geographical Inuit areas of their countries where it's forever frigid and icy almost all the time. Only Eskimos / Inuits liked such places of those three countries and Imperial Russia all year long and all around the north pole actually from just north of the Arctic Circle. . During the time of Peter the Great, North Sweden and North Norway and North Finland exported or deported all their Inuit Eskimo populations living there 300 years ago or so, living around the Arctic Circle to Imperial Russia and north Russia and Siberian Russia, in exchange for money paid to Imperial Russia. This was how Sweden the other two countries got rid of their Inuit populations and Eskimo populations about 300 years ago, in exchange for money. They were exported to Imperial Russia in exchange for money. The Eskimos were replaced by whites with a Nomadic lifestyle in North sweden and Norway and North Finland in places closer to the North Pole. I forgot the name of that ethnic group, like Sami white Inuits or white Eskimos, which had a similar lifestyle to Inuits. Like Inuits, the Sami white tribes likes fish and reindeer meat. All Inuits / Eskimos of North Sweden and North Finland and north Norway were deported to Imperial Russia in exchange for money paid to Imperial Russia about 300 years ago.

[@Runclimblift]

I fully recommend anyone interested in this subject or the history of Russia/ US and the Arctic to read prisoners of geography by Tim Marshall, notably chapter 10...

[@ajwestgate3066]

thanks

[@anitagorse9204]

China already considers Russian Far East their territory.

[@SuperMcgenius]

This will seem silly in 50 years, because Canada has the most freshwater of any country, clean water will become the next oil

[@kyleellis1825]

Canada could legit turn into a bloodbath. It's where China would invade first if the really wanted to hit the states.

[@Miamcoline]

Those were always just excuses by Putin and Russia. Look how they behaved with Chechnya, Moldova, Serbia, Poland, and Georgia in those years.

[@tnndll4294]

Another video that brings up Putin's criticism of NATO expansion without any defense. PUTIN brought back the Soviet Union in his first term 20+ yrs ago. NATO exists for a reason.

[@tnndll4294]

NO WONDER Russians can never change, bec. videos like this tend to leave important stuff out.

[@JuanAlvarez-wp6ww]

What reason ? Russia?

[@dominict9418]

The geo north pole and the magnetic north pole are both located in Canada.

[@isaacteo4063]

A patriot system shot down 6 hyper sonic missiles in Ukraine, so if it were to be war I have no worries but a pay raise.

[@dlcolossus9127]

Even if war is nuclear?

[@moritamikamikara3879]

It should also be noted that the missiles that were shot down were Kinzhal, a form of primitive hypersonic that have been around for a while (although Putin likes to pretend they're brand new and everyone who wants to see a win from shooting them down goes along with it.) The missiles that Putin is threatening with is Zircon, which are much newer and much nastier, don't count them out yet.

[@isaacteo4063]

@@moritamikamikara3879 dude their one of the newest

[@isaacteo4063]

@@dlcolossus9127 would you even have uranium travel over Mach 3 polluting the skies and the wind turns

[@dlcolossus9127]

@@isaacteo4063 what the fuck are you even saying?

[@scorpiovenator_4736]

China being a near Artic power is like Australia being an asian power

[@theconqueringram5295]

Considering that RuZZia is losing a lot of personnel and material in Ukraine, this won't be a problem for the West. Even though RuZZia's army is bearing the brunt in Ukraine, the country is pretty much a dead man walking.

[@kth6736]

All Russia has to do is offer half the arctic oil to India and China.

[@marym7104]

Within 15 hours!

[@mkvenner2]

You do realize NATO submarines regularly shadow Russia’s northern fleet naval vessels.

[@mrsplashmanjr1285]

What russian naval fleets? The rusting ships or the ones that break down or it's aircraft carrier that's bearly floating

[@daneNoza]

Because NATO is concerned about the damage those rusty garbage ships may cause. 😂

[@V01DIORE]

Is it their "best" navy in the arctic like the Kursk submarine: "Kursk had recently won a citation for its excellent performance and been recognised as having the best submarine crew in the Northern Fleet" "Kursk had a mythical standing. It was reputedly unsinkable and, it was claimed, could withstand a direct hit from a torpedo." "The nuclear-powered Project 949A Antey (Oscar II class) submarine K-141 Kursk sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea. It was taking part in the first major Russian naval exercise in more than 10 years. All 118 personnel on board were killed. The crews of nearby ships felt an initial explosion and a second, much larger explosion, but the Russian Navy did not realise that an accident had occurred and did not initiate a search for the vessel for over six hours. The submarine's emergency rescue buoy had been intentionally disabled during an earlier mission and it took more than 16 hours to locate the submarine, which rested on the ocean floor at a depth of 108 m (354 ft). Over four days, the Russian Navy repeatedly failed in its attempts to attach four different diving bells and submersibles to the escape hatch of the submarine. Its response was criticised as slow and inept. Officials misled and manipulated the public and news media, and refused help from other countries' ships nearby. President Vladimir Putin initially continued his vacation at a seaside resort in Sochi and authorised the Russian Navy to accept British and Norwegian assistance only after five days had passed. Two days later, British and Norwegian divers finally opened a hatch to the escape trunk in the boat's flooded ninth compartment, but found no survivors." They must be making sure they're safe haha!