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Yesterday it was announced that Russia was moving in on Ukraine, sending forces into the east of the country. That’s major, but somewhat unsurprising news, with many seeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as pretty much an inevitability by this point. So in this video, we unpack why Russia ‘had’ to invade and how Putin got himself in a situation where that was the only option.

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  1. @selocan469

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    I find it hilarious that not only Russian citizens falls for that propaganda but also the western country citizens as well. Of course, there are those progressive U.S. citizens that always think that any bad shit are stemmed from their own evil country U.S. Their perception of world is just massed up. Of course U.S. or NATO is not force of good but they are neither a force of evil, at least when assessed relative to Russia or China

  2. @Hardpact

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    view weeks ago you had a video: "Putin Will Never Invade Ukraine" 🤡🤡🤡

  3. @jonskislo1

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Yeah… you basically only explained why it was inevitable after they have low key started preparing for it. That s barely an analysis…

  4. @UberTankred

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    How NATO predicted the war? Easy, they provoked it and knew there was no off-ramp for Russia. But I guess they didn't expect that the 1 Million strong NATO-trained Ukrainian military would be almost entirely wiped out after only 18 months of fighting. Surprise, surprise!

  5. @CelabroSpace

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Dam, this is the first video I saw of this channel…

  6. @kenburke9145

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Putin wants security guarantees. No NATO membership for those bordering russia. No weapons systems bordering russia. He gets that, he will back off. He will want a treaty not assurances.

  7. @robsurname4054

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Propoganda… The title says it is going to say why the invasion was inevitable which suggests that Ukraine had done something wrong .. but then the article is all about criticising Russia .. Russia has stated why it invaded.. This article should have dealt with those reasons

  8. @ROPON69420

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    idk if it’s a mistake, but it shows me that this was uploaded before the invasion 💀

  9. @grantsapain

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Please. Putin's the new Hitler. The world's war crimes investigation is in full swing, &the evidence is overwhelming…

  10. @bbbf09

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    TLDR Videos coming in the future
    Why Russia Invading Lithunia Was Inevitable – TLDR News
    Why Russia Invading Poland Was Inevitable – TLDR News
    Why Russia Invading Germany Was Inevitable – TLDR News
    Why Russia Invading . . . . . . . . Was Inevitable – TLDR News
    The cluthcing-at-pearls reasoning in the west day after the UKraine war started from so many sides – 'It was inevitable' …. 'all our/ NATO's fault' must have cheered up Putin no end . Where does he stop?

  11. @wubbox555

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Ukraine is getting invega because russia's land is frozen baron and wasteland they need new land if they won't get any land they might suffer a bit because of the freezing cold and also some pollution

  12. @ailopeformers8669

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    "Russia is planning the biggest war in Europe since 1945"
    Me as a historian buff: uhh

  13. @kkkiren599

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    He was running out of time to become " " Peter the Great

  14. @baselak5

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    I need a war explained video please

  15. @t-rex4211

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Nothing to do with NS2 or America’s meddling in elections or Biden’s son getting massive payouts from Ukrainian energy companies?

  16. @yllbardh

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    He did NOT have to. That's a load of CRAP, which he wasn't able to do so he CHOSE to invade.

  17. @Inkling777

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Looking back on this story from three months into this war can lead to some interesting observations. Outsiders strongly suspected the invasion was about to come because the additional troops, the logistics and field hospitals suggested that. Then the invasion came and the Russian troops, the logistics, and field hospitals proved inadequate.

  18. @SERGEANTDlCK

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Mexico is also a threat. We shoud invade it

  19. @ashkanmohseni

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    I have always enjoyed content from TLDR. However this video tells me that either you are unknowingly completely clueless about the true reason behind this war, or you are not being honest. for those who are wondering what I am talking about, everything you need to know is in this documentary called "Ukraine on Fire" on YouTube. you can also listen to the award winning journalist Aron Mate.

  20. @ethiopianism1090

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    I can't trust the main street media like CNN.

  21. @xscallcos4835

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    I was so confused about this video cause I didn't know it came out before the invasion

  22. @Samson373

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Putin knows good and well that NATO would never try to invade and conquer Russia. He fears NATO precisely because it won't let him invade invade and conquer his neighbors. And to the extent he fears a particular neighbor joining NATO tells you how much we wants to invade that neighbor. Think about it.. NATO (or the US alone) could very easily conquer Saudi Arabia and take its trillions in oil wealth. Yet NATO has never considered doing something like that. If NATO won't even consider conquering a small, non-nuclear country so rich in the purest and most accessible black gold, why in the hell would NATO ever try to conquer the largest country in the world, one with the most nukes yet less rich in accessible natural resources?! As if modern democratic NATO countries such as the US, UK, Denmark, Canada, Britain Norway, Belgium, Portugal, Iceland and the rest would risk their comfortable lives and face nuclear annihilation just so they can control Russia's crappy geography… Preposterous.

  23. @Jhossack

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    I am from the future. We kicked the Orcs ass.

  24. @danielhuynh8264

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Very bad poor content. Only critise the war but don't explain the reasons behind it

  25. @aguerra1381

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Why couldn't the Russians be kept from coming into Ukraine in the first place? Why not say,
    "We are NOT about to allow you to come into OUR country to disrupt it, destroy it, kill us and displace us!" Why not take THAT approach? And the free world to help them. A massive move to prevent a war everyone knew was coming. Defend the country at the borders, not let them come in to kill and to destroy!

  26. @natasastojkovic8860

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Becouse you fashist and nazis from nato do not uderstand the words you understand only to get punch in your nose.

  27. @alwitts5630

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    No There is no excuse for this invasion. Russia was just fine before the invasion and NATO had no appetite for war.

  28. @slightlyconfused876

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Anything is possible when a nation's leader is a paranoid sociopath. If he was someone average off the streets he'd be in an asylum.

  29. @herman1francis

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Just because there aren't wars amongst countries you canno say that south america is peaceful. There are tons of drug related and guerrilla related conflicts going on everywhere in the continent

  30. @loganlabbe9767

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    I wonder how many videos predicting what would happen if Russia invaded have since been removed from youtube lol

  31. @romaloboda2280

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Stolen by Russia

    My name is Ivan Semesiuk. I’m a Ukrainian artist, writer, musician, author, and host of the worldview project InstructionUA. I address the people of the Democratic World so Russians can never deceive you again.

    Russia is an empty entity. It has no core of its own. All of its essences are stolen. The Ukrainian nation is the victim and the witness of this epochal robbery that you didn’t even know about.

    After all, it is from Ukraine that Russia stole its most cherished essence, which is now used to justify its bloody existence on the European continent. Russia stole our Middle Ages, our Golden Age. Russia appropriated that history and presented it to the world as its own. Russia stole our Middle Ages so that the old European nations would perceive Russia not as a foreign stranger, but as something worthy of attention and respect.

    This war is far from the first attempt to eliminate the witnesses of that theft. This war was meant to be the complete destruction of Ukraine not only as a state, as a nation, as people, but as an enormous historical tradition in space and time. Russians are eager to erase the very memory of us so that no one is left to hold Russia accountable. But us, Ukrainians, will settle this account.

    Russia presents itself as a millennial project, calling itself historical Rus’ despite never having held that title even for a moment. The real name of the monster you know as “Russia” is Moskovia. Russia is just the Greek form of our medieval name Rus’ (or Kyivan Rus'). In the early 18th century, under the guise of the name Russian Empire, Muscovites entered the European historical arena having forcibly annexed Ukrainian ethnic lands on the left bank of the Dnipro river, as well as Kyiv. They entered brazenly, as if they had always been in the arena.

    Here's what you need to know. Ruthenia is the Latin spelling of the name of the medieval European state of Rus’. Precisely under this name, our country became one of the most important, and, at one time, one of the largest, most powerful subjects of the European historical civilizing process.

    In Moscow stands a pretentious monument, erected at Putin’s request, to our Kniaz (what you’d call a King) Volodymyr (who Russians call Vladimir). Kniaz Volodymyr baptized the first state of the Ukrainian tradition — Rus’ (Kyivan Rus'), with its capital in Kyiv. A city, which these pretenders consider their own, while at the same time they shell it with artillery, missiles and aerial bombs. Just to be clear here: who does that with one's own historical memory?

    Russian history, written by generations of propagandists, is full of a multitude of figures, personas and names which were stolen from us. Modern Russian museums are full of priceless historical artifacts ​​taken out of Ukraine and marked as “Russian.”

    Russia is misinformation. Russia is a manipulation. Russia is fake. Russia is a special operation. Russia is a thief, a rapist and a mass murderer.

    Know this. And know it as well as we Ukrainians do.

  32. @joelgrea6654

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Your video does not answer to the question « Why the invasion was inevitable » but « How Russia prepared the invasion », which is interesting, but not the same question at all.

    Peter Zeihan demographic approach or game theory explain « why the invasion ». I highly suggest to check it.

  33. @ggeshundra

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    The people, who are interested and not too lazy to turn on the brains, read this.

    PUTIN'S MULTIMOVE

    While the West is hysterical about the military operation in Ukraine, the Russian government is buying back stocks of Russian companies for cheap. In response to Western sanctions, the Central Bank of Russia banned the withdrawal of dividends abroad, respectively, Russian stocks fell in price, as foreigners began to sell them en masse. And here the Russians began to massively buy them for "penny". Now the dividends of Russian companies will not go offshore, but will work within the country.

    Vladimir Putin forbade Russian companies to keep accounts in foreign banks and signed a decree on the return of 80% of foreign exchange earnings by exporters. Oil and gas prices are rising. This means that huge amounts of currency from Gazprom and Rosneft and other Russian oil and gas exporters will soon be thrown into the foreign exchange market, and the ruble will eventually strengthen.

    Since part of the assets of the Central Bank of Russia was arrested, then Russia has the right to no longer comply the American financial model. I believe that Putin deliberately allowed some of the assets of the Russian Central Bank to be seized in order to get an excuse not to comply with the model created by the US Federal Reserve. For those who don't know. The entire world financial system is arranged in such a way that not a single Central Bank of the world has the right to print its own currency. For example, you need 100 rubles for the economy, in order to issue them you need to import the currency (dollar) into the country. How much currency was brought in, so many rubles can be printed at the rate. Where to get dollars? On the world market. Need to sell something, for example oil or gas. We give oil, gas, us a dollar (a piece of paper that is not backed by anything), at the exchange rate against the dollar, we have the right to print rubles. The US Federal Reserve back then offered this model to Stalin. He refused. Therefore, they did not open the western front for so long in the Second World War, hoping for the loss of the USSR, as their main opponent in economic terms.

    Russia was embed into this model in the 90s, after the collapse of the USSR. Only the United States has the right to print dollars as much as they need, and all other world currencies are tied to the dollar. Those who have been against, were bombed, for example Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq and the list goes on. And now, when part of the Russian assets of the Central Bank has been arrested, the Central Bank of Russia will no longer print the ruble against the incoming foreign currency. This means that the ruble is finally becoming a truly national sovereign currency. And the Central Bank of Russia will be able to issue as many rubles as Russia needs for development. In this global financial system, the Central Bank of Russia did NOT have the right to finance projects of the Russian government! And now they do whatever they want.

    For example, Russia may announce that it will sell oil, gas, etc. only for rubles. This means that the West will need to buy rubles and only then buy gas with them, which will strengthen ruble as well, as billions of currency will be thrown into the market. And since they are disconnecting Russia from SWIFT (the American interbank payment system), Russians and Chinese are launching their own interbank payment system and the West will have to connect to their system to pay for gas and oil. That is why USA did not completely disconnect Russia from SWIFT, as they find themselves in such a situation, either to carry billions in cash for gas, or to connect to Russian system. But this trump card (the sale of oil and gas only for rubles) Putin has not used yet. Apparently it's not the time. (Although China and the Arabs, for example, are already discussing trading oil for yuan)
    A sharp increase in the key rate to 20% is also the right decision at this stage. It is temporary, it was already in 2014, when the key rate rose sharply to 17%. This is done in order to cut off large players from the foreign exchange market, since at a low rate they take cheap loans and buy foreign currency, weakening the ruble. Plus, with large interest on deposits, they attract people's money to banks. When there is panic, everyone runs to withdraw money from bank accounts. The Central Bank raises the key rate, banks raise interest rates on deposits, everyone runs back to banks to deposit money at a high interest rate. This is a temporary measure to bring down the panic outflow of finance from banks. A high key rate does not mean that now everyone will receive loans at a high rate, for example, IT specialists began to receive loans at 3%, all system industries will be subsidized by the state and receive cheap loans, just as agriculture receives loans at 5%. And when the panic subsides, then the key rate will decrease. It has already happened in the history of Russia, and now it will be the same.

    To summarize, Putin blocks the withdrawal of capital to offshores and breaks the financial world system that was created by the US Federal Reserve, so they will put serious pressure on Russia, but the Russians are used to it after the dashing nineties, 2014th crisis, WW 2, Cold War etc. It should be noted that for now no one has been able to defeat the US Federal Reserve, all who challenged it have been destroyed. For example, Saddam Hussein wanted to get out of this financial system and urged the entire Muslim world to do so. Saddam Hussein was hanged, and Iraq was bombed with rockets, killing about a million people. The medieval execution by hanging of Hussein was broadcasted on all world TV channels in 2006. Why do you think this was shown to the whole world? This is a demonstrative execution so that all countries can see what will happen to those who want to leave the American financial system.

    The US Federal Reserve System (in other words, the US Central Bank) is a private organization owned by 20 private US banks. This is their main business – to print the world's money. To achieve this, the current owners of the FRC have spent a lot of time – decades, to be exact – centuries, and efforts – the 1st and 2nd World Wars and the Bretton Woods agreements, etc. and, of course, the very creation of the FRC in 1907. The Federal Reserve System is a very smart, gigantic in volume and scale financial pyramid scheme.

    One thing must be understood here – humanity is dealing with a brilliant, incredibly strong and ruthless group of people who have built the structure of the world in which we live. Their conceptual apparatus does not take into account such concepts as "humanism", "kindness", "compassion", etc. The main thing is numbers, the main thing is profit, the main thing is the arithmetic of transactions. In a situation where it is necessary to destroy people, but make a big profit, there is no particular doubt for them what to do. They, in their own interests, can raze cities to the ground along with civilians. For them, the only truly meaningful result can only be profit.

    And now Russia has challenged them. And the whole world is waiting for how it will end. If Russia wins, the American financial system will lose half of the planet, China, India, most of the Arab world, Africa, Latin America will also get out of the influence of the US Federal Reserve. But, for now, there is a deadly fight. Russia must win, otherwise it will be destroyed.
    Judging by the decisions being made at the highest level, everything in Russia has been calculated now. So the Russians shouldn't panic. Yes, it will be difficult for 1-3 years, yes, there is still a lot of chaos, prices will rise, some factories will stop, but soon such a powerful development of Russia will begin, which the world has not seen yet! But before building cities, for example, in Siberia, it is necessary to solve the security issues of Russia near their borders for decades, remove the main military threats, move the NATO military infrastructure away from Russian borders, and this is what the Russian Army is doing now in Ukraine. If you aren't from USA, you should probably praise for Russia, as it is changing the entire world.

  34. @R4idenXS

    February 24, 2024 at 11:10 pm

    This video thumbnail is very poorly written

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