What is NATO?

[amedicabg]

*after watching the Rome series*

So...where does Caesar come in?

[gizuu]

Had to come back to this with the current invasion of Ukraina ongoing. It's scary to see how long these things are in the works before they happen

[octakaoss]

Anyone calmed down because of the lovely guitar in the background?

[alexr]

I fall in love with this guy just for the background music choice in every single one of his videos. The style of the piece might vary depending on the topic, but he nails it every single time. I'm astonished and even cried over a couple of videos

[MrFrostburner]

I just realized that the name placement is based on a map, and not random.

[MarkusAldawn]

Any plans to revisit this video, specifically how NATO has evolved?

I sometimes feel like history is a watched pot. It never seems to quiiite boil over when I'm looking at it. It'd be interesting to see what's been going on on the last six years from a historical perspective, rather than a political one.

[jesuscastillo]

I like it how he organize the names in relatives to their real life location if you put a map of europe over the screen.

[TerryT]

I like how he put the countries on the picture, where they are, geographically. Norway and Iceland at the top, Greece, Turkey, and Italy on the bottom, etc.

[ottovonbismarck]

So what? Just because George is within Russias influence doesn’t give them the right to overrule their foreign relations.

If Canada for some reason decided to join a Russia or Chinese alliance that wouldn’t give the US the right to invade Canada or overrule our foreign policy.

[robertoroboto]

Politics aside, that guitar lick is so easy on the ears.

[bobsaggat]

"the tighter you close your grasp, lord vader, the more starsystems slip through your fingers

[samuelpatrick]

7 years ago: "What is NATO, we dont know anymore"
2022: "oh yeah, now we remember "

[Joelibear]

Russia be all like "Oh you don't feel safe being aligned with us so you're attempting to join NATO, for that you just earned yourself an invasion"

[lesliefranklin]

Ironically, after the fall of the USSR, Russia was invited to join NATO.

[AndrewJ]

Man, bad timing. September of 2014. "Nobody knows whats going to happen next".


A month later, the Ukraine Crisis started up and the war that continues to rage 5 years later began. Quite sad.


Edit: This is wrong, disregard it

[Observer]

Russia had always viewed NATO as a military organization, which' only purpose is to be an enemy of Russia. And when your enemy is slowly inching towards you, using political and economical leverages to coerce or convince 'neutral' countries to join them, creeping closer and closer to your border, you're bound to get anxious. And, eventually, decide to strike first, before it's too late. That's what happened in Ukraine.

[Alex.R.L]

I'm from the future and I have some news about Ukraine

[HeyNonyNonymous]

If I was Rassia, I'd probably wonder what it was that made so many of my ex-allies want to join NATO in the first place. But self introspection was never a strong attribute of authoritarian states.

[TRENKROM]

Amazing watching this today. Whats happening in Ukraine is perhaps the most predictible conflict in recent history and still here we are.

[Mavendow]

The reason for NATO's expansion is pretty simple; the fall of Soviet Russia doesn't mean much to Russian militancy. Russia was expansionist for a literal millennia before the Soviet Union. One new government wouldn't change that, and indeed, it didn't. At least not entirely. The fact many Russians are fleeing the country in protest of the war is unique in Russia's history.