Why Russia Is Not Really a Superpower: Geography Explained

For Russia, the world’s largest country by landmass, which bestride Europe and Asia and encompasses forests, lakes, rivers, frozen steppes, and mountains, the problems come by land as well as by sea. Here are the top reasons why Russia's geographical weaknesses and why Russia is actually landlocked. The Surprising Reason Why Russia Is Always at War: Geography

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[zhubajie]

Finland has similar problems but they didn't invade Sweden and Norway to make a "buffer zone"

[daltonmiller]

1:05 Just fyi, "Steppes" is pronounced "steps" not "steppies" lol. Kind of a cute mistake. Don't mean to offend or anything, as I know English is not everyone's first language. Just wanted to be helpful for future reference.

Edit: Also, just noticed, at 4:48, Vladivostok is too far north. It actually sits just above the "S" in "Sea of Japan" on the screen.

[abbofun]

Interesting but I still fail to see a direct link between geography problems and Russian’s aggression towards its neighbours. If the EU project has shown one thing it is that cooperation pays off big time, why does Russia refuse to learn that lesson?

[geoben]

I loved this video! Very informative, and the graphics are amazing

[hybridarmyoffreeworld]

"We lost nothing."
"Also, I declare mobilisation."
—Vladolf Pootler

[AustinPerdue]

Always a treat when your videos come out, thank you.

[vjunaperoh]

Finally, someone who can see that europe is a peninsula.. not a continent.

[asahel]

Well Russia began stagnated during the Age of discovery and pretty much didnt participated in it, despite having a desirable geography during the spice trade, whcih could have been used to strengthen their Navy which is basically non-existent during the time.which couldve been used to colonize the Americas and Africa Continent like the super power at the time like England, Portugal, Spain, France and Netherlands.

only in the 17th century when they started to step up during Peter the Great, but then again stymed after the Napoleonic Wars, because in every direction theres a strong enemies or serious consequences if they started invading for warm waters or resources, they gambled and lost(the crimean war)

during the Industrial revolution Russia started to step up again and their economy improved, because it cant handle too much problem externally and internally, most likely due to corruption and lack of competent leaders it didnt survived revolutions which ended the Tsardom

I mean even in world war 2 the USSR is screwed without the americans provisions and The Harsh winter of USSR wouldve lost to Nazi Germany
after world war and discovery of more oil reserves in USSR territory. whcioh made them rich and why they can compete with USA in many many aspects

[vincentcleaver]

Europe isn't a real continent, it's a subcontinent like India. Actually, India and Europe are very similar peninsulas

[TheHaXR]

It's pronounced like STEP not STEPPY

[ChickenVeggi]

couldn't russia ust ice breakers in the far east?

[tritium]

If Russia was a superpower then those countries would be too scared to try blockading it though.

[shafirihan]

Damn this is not enough
But Russia and China are connected each other why not using a train
And Russia has north south transport corridor which connects Mumbai from India to Saint Petersburg in Russia via all facilities and go all the way from iran ajerbaizan
Russia can use this but For more Russia can connect China and enter South China sea in case of war in case of trade

[miroslavhoudek]

You could make a video "How land-locked surrounded-by-everyone geography doomed Switzerland to be poor, drunk and aggressive". Oh wait.

We all know that if swiss (or whoever civilized) got russian territory to govern, they would be a richest country in the world in 50 years.

[hybridarmyoffreeworld]

Send Ukrainians everything they need to reclaim BEFORE -2014 borders. Slava Ukraine ! with Love From Sweden!

[alexsilent]

It's ridiculous to say that Russia is "landlocked".

[antoniomonteiro]

hey! I said it before that Europe is just a peninsula of Asia :) people laughed at me.
I'm also reclassify the Mediterranean as a fiord.

[hybridarmyoffreeworld]

Moscow horde´s war record :-
1856 defeated by Britain and France
1905 defeated by Japan
1917 defeated by Germany
1920 defeated by Poland, Finland, Estonia and all Baltic states
1939 defeated by Finland
1969 defeated by China
1989 defeated by Afghanistan
1989 defeated in the Cold War.
1996 defeated by Chechnya
2022 defeated by Ukraine
WW2 won USA/Britain, meanwhile Stalin's officers were shot or sent to the Gulags. Millions went to the Gulags, including Solzhenitsyn
Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :-
a) Hungary 1956
b) Czechoslovakia 1968
c) Moldova 1992
d) Georgia 2008 ...

[raresboghean]

O it realy suks thats why Napoleon and Hitler ddin succed to qonqer Russia

[nsambacharles]

The title world power isn't valuable to it partners, for us we benefit from it's favorite policies towards us, freedom help & cooperation not coasion