If Hungary and Slovakia are red, Serbia should definitely be red also. They're even more supportive of Russia.

This is hard, because “pro-Russian” doesn’t necessarily mean allied with China as well

I would call India neutral, I think their non alignment policy is pretty huge

Personally, I would do a purple color for countries that are kind of aligned with both sides (India, Pakistan, Hungary, etc.)

Here are some ideas I have for other colors: Purple - Pro-Russia and Pro-West (i.e. India, Turkey) Yellow - Pro-China (i.e. China, Laos) Orange - Pro-Russia and Pro-China (i.e. Kazakhstan) Green/Lime - Pro-China and Pro-West (i.e Pakistan)

I feel like India should be white, Serbia should be red, and I think Bosnia should be blue.

The thing is, the 2-side view of the world used to be true in the Cold War, but as we're moving to a multi-polar war, you see the sides being very different in different regions of the world. For example Russia has good relations with China and India, but those two are on the brink of war. At the same time, you see traditional allies like Turkey and Azerbaijan, that are on very good terms bilaterally and support eachother in Armenia/Nagorno-Karabakh, but have very strategies in the wider Middle-East, and especially the Gaza Crisis.

People are most curious about which side India will be on because of its relations with China, but it depends more on Pakistan, so if we think that India will be on the opposite side to Pakistan, it is a nice map 🔥

Slovakia and Hungary should be white at worst. Both countries still send humanitarian aid to Ukraine after all, and don't question their membership in the Western world. They also both condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine and consider it as a violation of the international law, Orban himself said it recently during the Visegrad Group Summit

Changes I would make: Blue: Japan, Switzerland Light Blue: India, Colombia, Egypt, Vietnam White: Turkey, Hungary, Slovakia, Armenia Light Red: UAE, Pakistan, Sri Lanka Red: Venezuela

There's a civil war in Myanmar, I would argue the military government is Russian friendly and the democratic forces are western friendly

Last time i was this early, rome was under German Control

I think Nepal and Bhutan should be white due to their "silence" politically.

I think you could also colour the Netherlands dark blue since they are also involved in the Red Sea crisis

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You have quickly become my favorite mapping channel. Covering history is great but covering history *as it is happening* is such an amazing concept. It is also easier for us who have other ocupations to keep updated with the whole geopolitical situation. Thank you and keep up doing such amazing work!

Great idea! A few things i would change: -i haven't researched it enough but chinese influence in the pacific has been growing and i think countries might be considered leaning towards China -Armenia is also a difficult situation. They have been historically pro-russian but this seems to have changed lately. They did sign some pretty important military treaties with France lately, and some european countries (again France especially) have openly supported Armenia rather than Azerbaijan lately. So i guess maybe these 2 countries could be considered neutral, or at least Armenia could

I know it might make the map a lot harder to read, but maybe you could try colouring countries like india, pakistan, saudi arabia, hungary, etc. with red and blue stripes. for example, hungary might be medium blue/light pink, because they're a part of the EU and NATO, but are also somewhat sympathetic towards russia. politically

Perhaps Armenia could be very light blue. I remember reading that Armenia distanced itself from Russia after Moscow was silent during Azerbaijan's complete subjugation of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia has held military exercises with America, and I think was considering leaving CSTO. They've also sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine as well, I believe.

"WW3 proto" 💀

Biden: Putin has been isolated from the world *Also Putin:*

I would love this as a monthly series or so

i would love to see that true map of the world video, sounds so interesting, but please do whats best for you man

I’d be very excited to see something like this!

Heard his voice for the fist time😃

Oh :( I'm so sad you abandoned the de-facto world map, I was so excited for it

The world is divided by a new Iron Curtain.

This are changes I will do to this map: Pls Haití, India and Pakistan shold be in white (also Afganistan) Venezuela and Cuba should be more red Vietnam and Switzerland should be slightly in the blue colour I would like a better representation of the African conflicts anyway , great job!

3:05 the first one was pretty good! Aspides means "Shields" in Greek. By the way, Egypt is also supporting the mission in the Red Sea, because they're losing out big time due to trade restrictions on the Suez

I had a similar idea to this as I myself also like making maps. On my map though I had the idea of coloring Russia yellow while keeping China red and the US/West blue (I thought about also maybe coloring Iran green but I don't know if I should go with that or not). I like having the multiple colors cause it shows more context on political alliances as it is a multi-polar world nowadays. India is pro-Russia but anti-China so it'd be a lighter yellow as only an example. I also think for nations allied to more than one color (think Pakistan in your case), I'd mix in both colors, but I'll leave that up to you. I think your map looks really good nonetheless. Keep it up!

I have actually been making a map just like this for the past couple of years and used your last video on the de facto world map to expand my map. there's definitely a lot of differences between countries on mine. I even call mine the Modern Cold War map

Impressive. Very nice.

Would love to see where you go with this! Do you have a link to a non-red/blue map?

You could perhaps do stripes or use purple colors to describe the mixed relation countries. I don't know how confusing that would be to actually do though lol Very much in favor of this becoming a weekly thing as you mentioned, I've been looking for some source of information on global matters.

the prelude to the 3rd great clan war

I'd recommend making India neutral and colouring Hungary and Slovakia very light blue. If it comes down to it, they'll side with the west but they are still somewhat supportive of Russia

Awesome video my dude

I'm from Brazil and your point is very correct, even last year we were buying Russian oil. Our current president has always been anti-American, but that type of criticize and praise

I had a similar project back in 2021, I ended up not updating anymore since the map I was using didn't show every unrecognised country and because I didn't have any time for it. For the EU I had always thought about highlighting its border and colouring that, tho it probably wouldn't look as good. For India (and Iran and Türkiye as well) I chose to colour them in a different colour (green, orange, and purple respectively), together with the countries that were close to them politically (for example Türkiye, Azerbaijan, and N Cyprus were bundled up together). Anyways, I think of it as a fantastic idea, it would be really interesting and useful to follow such a project

My suggestions: 1. Serbia pink; Hungary/Slovakia stay pink, Switzerland stays white 2. Include wars in Ethiopia, Libya, CAR, Myanmar and Somalia even though they aren´t proxy wars (maybe add yellow colour for neutral warring factions) cause these wars are still necessary for a weekly world news series. 3. Include the other EAC countrys in light blue 4. MAYBE (idk so much about it) make the subconitinent situation all-white since the Anti-Indian factions are pro-chinese and India anti-chinese even though China being a major red player.

Egypt is pretty pro Western, might not be happy with what’s happening in Gaza but well, its still way more pro Western than pro China

My suggestions: 1. Serbia pink; Hungary/Slovakia stay pink, Switzerland stays white, Usbekistan pink cause of SCO and GUS membership 2. Include wars in Ethiopia, Libya, CAR, Myanmar and Somalia even though they aren´t proxy wars (maybe add yellow colour for neutral warring factions) cause these wars are still necessary for a weekly world news series. 3. Include the other EAC countrys in light blue 4. MAYBE (idk so much about it) make the subconitinent situation all-white since the Anti-Indian factions are pro-chinese and India anti-chinese even though China being a major red player.

Poland should be deep blue

We are in a second cold war, a good way to demonstrate the complex dynamics.

This is an amazing map 👏 👏 👏

Hey, I also made a west vs east map like this. Though west vs east alignments are quite ambiguous, since many countries are playing both sides and have their own immediate interests. For example I coloured turkey and azerbaijan purple as there own factional block.

Finally, a map when Vietnam is neutral

0:32 "news of the world" is great album :D 👍

I think you should have extra colours when it comes to Turkey-Iran-Pakistan- India - China relations, as your enemies enemy isnt always your friend. Also you have a good voice, you should do more videos like this👍

Nooo I was so looking forward to the de facto World Map

I tried to make a map like this, with mostly the same results. However, I found it quite difficult to determine the allegiances of most African countries. Also, the world is more complicated today than during the first cold war. Some countries, like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and India should be colored as the centers of their own smaller regional blocks. Also: where did you get the blanc map for this? It's often hard to find a suitable one.

I think a major difference between this cold war and the previous one is that the third world (lead by India and Brazil) is much, much tougher. It's really an independent "don't get us involved in your silly shenanigans" bloc which is veeeerrry loosely unified by a desire to see a more multipolar world. India, Brazil, Turkey, much of South America and most of Africa and Southeast Asia aren't so much anti-western as they are ambivalent about the west, and many of these nations also have disagreements with western countries and Russia-China aligned countries. India is the biggest example. India is deeply suspicious of China, with which they have huge border disputes, conflicts over water and a grudge due to China's attempts to surround them via the string of pearls. However India is also suffering from significant democratic backsliding (or at least a backlash against western style liberalism) and retains amicable relations with Russia and Iran. India's greatest geopolitical rival, Pakistan, is friendlier to China than it is to the United States. Turkey is a member of NATO which has huge issues with Russia regarding it's support for the Assad regime, but also has huge issues with the Americans regarding American support for the Kurds, and is much more willing to negotiate diplomatically with Russia than almost any other member of NATO. Saudi Arabia has been moving closer to China since the beginning of the Biden administration and especially since the start of the war in Gaza. Finally, I would caution against depicting the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran triangle as a unified alliance rather than an informal dictator's support club unified purely based on weakening American hegemony (and in the case of Russia and China, cooperating against islamist terrorism in Central Asia - which is a rather loose term given that the Chinese Communist Party seem to think terrorism = Uyghurs). They will all quickly turn on each other if they achieve their goal of a general American withdrawal from Eurasian affairs. I'm not saying this to critique the map, which is of course amazing, and you are of course aware of how oversimplified this is. I don't want to discourage you. I think the issue with mapping the myriad entangling alliance systems and overlapping influences in the modern world is that depicting them all would create so much overlap that it would make any 100% accurate geopolitical map illegible. It's a weakness inherent in the art of mapmaking rather than any failure on your part. But this system you've invented here is by far the most comprehensive I've seen anyone use, and I look forward to seeing how you update it as time passes!

Definitely make this weekly, you will be capturing history!

I am Serbian you should put us the same color as Hungary and Slovakia

For countries like Brazil where there are a lot of tribal nations within it, I would suggest adding something separated like a little not that says they support one side or the other or only color the parts that are directly under the Brazilian Government's control.

EU ambassadors have allowed the allocation of 5 billion euros for the purchase of weapons for Ukraine, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU reports. This means that Ukraine will also be supported by: Ireland, Malta and Austria!

My take on the Myanmar conflict: the junta is hard cause China supported forces against them but otherwise: - peoples defense forces are mostly pro Western maybe light blue - the northeastern ethnic armies are + kachin, wa, the communists, ... are reliant on China and should maybe be lite red - other ethnic armies are mostly neutral

*Sees your naming of the file in the top left* HEHEhehe...heh O_O

1. India should stay red. 2. Serbia should turn red. 3. Haiti should be white. 4. Colombia should be blue. 5. Turkey should be white 6. Switzerland should be blue

Love the work, and I agree in the global possessions as you represented them, but I feel like the Western and Eastern Blocs are different in nature. While NATO has strengthened their alliance and structure after the Soviet Collapse, the new Eastern Bloc works differently. Key players present complete different ideologies, they may work together because of shared objectives at any given time, but their geopolitical affinity is the result of Western pressure rather than anything else. I think the big 3 players: China, Russia and Iran, should each have a unique color, maybe in tonality of a warm color to denote their closeness. I do agree that there are players that play differently, Turkey and India, maybe Brazil, but their influence outside their border is limited. I don’t like the idea of them being a mixed country. At the end Turkey is part of NATO and India of the BRICS+ I do adhere to the notion that the world, geopolitically, is going in to be multipolar, with different nations taking regional relevance and their alignment to the great powers will be more limited than seen in the Cold War.

Armenia is distancing from Russia. It should not be pink in this map. + Azerbaijan clearly has allience with Russia since february 2022, 2 days before the Ukraine invasion . They cooperated in the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh and they are prepearing for invasion on Armenia, Azerbaijan from outside and Russia from inside of Armenia. I don't know what opinion will you have on this , but Azerbaijan is not the country of the West that much .

The idea is interesting. However, trying to simplify this 2nd cold war based on only 2 camps focusing in a single conflict (ukraine war) may be impossible. We are entering a period were there ware multiple cold wars happening at the same time. Some are aligned and others are not. Perhaps a better option (more labor intensive) would be to create multiple maps (1 for each conflict hot spot). Though this could require more work, it could provide better results. Example: * Map 1 regarding the ukraine war global position, though this could also be replaced by a map regarding Russia challenging NATO with Ukraine as the battlefield (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 2 USA vs China (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 3 regarding Israel x Palestine global position (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 4 regarding China vs Taiwan Global position (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 5 regarding Iran vs Israel global position (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 6 N.Korea vs S.Korea (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) * Map 7 India vs China (you could assign % values in order to determined the color overlay) With those maps ready, you could use those % values in order to merge all 7 maps into a single 8th map. The color scheme would probably end up quite varied.

This proves that geopolitical does not have hard alliance, as every country got their own personal intrest.

Columbia and the US are fairly close but they aren’t really outspokenly against russia

I get that this is an oversimplification, but we have to recognise a very crucial difference between the First and Second Cold War the first one was a "bipolar" conflict, i.e. Two superpowers fighting for global hegemony by fighting in proxy wars which would determine the alignment of each state. This war was won by the US, establishing a "unipolar" world order in which they alone dominate world affairs. Not everyone is happy about this arrangement and a coalition composed of emerging superpowers and regional powers emerged seeking to undermine US hegemony and create a "multipolar" world in which no power dominates globally. Other than that they have little in common and often find themselves fighting each other, like how Russia and China are competing for influence in Central Asia, China flirting with the Taliban while it is fighting Iran, and there's plenty of other examples. To keep it oversimplified I think the colours should be based on their relationship with the US alone with Blue being friendly and Red meaning hostile rather than a spectrum between Russian alignment and American alignment like how it was in the First Cold War, since it is outright wrong in some cases like China which is definitely more dominant in it's relationship with Russia or India which is friendly with both Russia and the US.

Thank you for your detailed analysis of ongoing conflicts!

Awesome map

Italy should be lighter blue, it has a commercial trade with China

Ok, so I think there're a few things incorrect with this map, so here's my thoughts on what should change. -Brazil is still under the Lula's administration, so it should be light red. -Both India and Turkey have mixed alliances, so I would suggest painting them in a 3rd color or a mix of red and blue, as "mixed alliances". -Cambodia is currently being invested heavily by China, and it stills supports China in the South China Sea matters, so it should be red. -Call me out if I'm wrong, but isn't the post Sadamn government of Irag is a US puppet, so even if the Iraqi population resents the US occupation, shouldn't it be light blue.

What program you use?

*Map of political alignment* Community: "100 nuanced takes, on the history of superpowers" *Is there a genicide in gaza?* Community: "haha Transnistria belongs to Bolivia haha"

Were you also playin CON?

Oh shit

The Netherlands technically sent one staff officer to fight the Houti’s. The current government is very pro us but the most probable next one is more sceptical

Please include wars in Ethiopia, Somalia, Central Africa

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Switzerland stays neutral because it’s Switzerland.

Armenia's current government is more western-leaning

Switzerland 🇨🇭, although all the memes or jokes say that they are the most neutral country in the world I would say they would be Ukraine/USA leaning because first they have eu policy’s and they have somewhat recently condemned Russia 🇷🇺 in the war in ukrain

3:40 only 4% of sri lankans have a negative view on india and they are large trading partners am i missing something??

He gave up lol, we Brazil defeated him 😅😂

I think that Turkey should be the same colour as Hungary and Slovakia. All 3 are in NATO but all 3 are also led by populist conservatives with pro-Russia/imperialist leanings.

Indonesia should be slightly red

5:36 it won’t flare up. There is only one road that crosses the border and it goes through Brazil. Any offensive would have to go through dense uninhabited forrest with no roads. Such a war is unfeasible and to say otherwise is a maduro cope

I feel like Chile should be neutral, especially with the current government, they are in situation like Brazil but with the US, west leaning but openly critical of some OTAN policies. Chile openly supports Ukraine, but it also strongly disapproves of Israel campaigns in Gaza. Chile also has very positive relations with China.

Damn, mid-late 20’s and early 30’s are gonna be fire fr🔥🔥 (i’m gonna die young in WW3 and civilization will be wiped out in nuclear fire😅)

And now I am asking you guys: How can you support the Eastern Faction? It is a bunch of Autocracys (exceptions confirm the rule) starting all the wars

3:01 it's pronounced as "Aspeedhes"

That file name though...

Make the conflicts different Colours it would help understand it more

I also think Djibouti should be neutral because they have so many allies and everyones chill with them

Sri lanka is not allied to china against india. Srilanka is allied to both india and china in a kind of mediocre way. And sri lanka is way more leaning to the red team than blue.

I think Serbia and Brazil should be pink, and also I think India it's ok with pink color

acho que você está correto em deixar o brasil branco, nossa política externa é de neutralidade apesar de atualmente haver esforços para não penalizar a rússia devido ao BRICS - é algo a se pensar. ótimo vídeo :).

Friend, you missed a lot of things. For example, Libya and Ethiopia are both at war. So is Myanmar. They should be similar to Sudan in the picture.

Great work but imo China should either be an equal to Russia or its own faction.

Look up the burundian invasion of the drc btws

I believe you forgot to color blue some French overseas like La Réunion or Kerguelen. That's just a miner nitpickbut yeah. Also I wonder what to do with other civil wars like Myanmar.

I have a few points to consider, and I am by no means an expert As many people have pointed out, India could maybe be white. But another way to make it clearer could be to make China its own axis, but then again, you're not painting axes centered around one nation, and the overlap with the Russian/Iranian one would be quite big. China is purple on Liveaumap. One way to portray countries who are part of an alliance, but acts counter to it, would be to include diagonal stripes. Serbia is difficult, but I think Republika Srpska could probably be coloured some sort of red or pink. I might be wrong on all three points

I think Nepal should be light pink as the Prime Minister is a Maoist