Equivalents Of The EU On Other Continents

[@txspartan4516]

*Opens map of EU with the UK in it* Cat: "I know, this will be outdated by 2019 when the UK officially leaves..." People watching in 2020: "Slow down buckeroo"

[@GustavoRubio]

People watching at least 31 days into 2020: *slow down buckeroo*

[@dazza2350]

Well

[@TheCubeRootOfGlitch]

Hmm I wonder how he was able to predict that

[@Skadoosh-pe9gx]

I laughed when he said “get the gang back together” referring to the former Soviet Union

[@Cybernaut551]

NATO: Oh no, not again!

[@giedriusandriulionis2807]

Makes much more sense now...

[@Jotari]

I think Putin read your comment.

[@thedogeoftheyear]

@@Jotari Yeah.. heh

[@Lanosrep]

*Points to south america* "Lets call this the South African Union for now"

[@rajathapa87]

Mishpãré Urśhjìlk stole my comment.

[@tiagomd3811]

Rune Jensen Wtf

[@enachecarmina]

lololololol

Rune Jensen definitely-_- probably only inbred thing here is actually you

[@dazza2350]

He had to keep going, he does these on one or two takes

[@hamishmills2813]

''wouldn't it be cool to get the gang back together'' proceeds to be assassinated by the CIA

[@lipo-tz2qn]

He is british so ithink he is safe

[@RSmyII]

Just like the general

[@yeezusyhrist]

@@lipo-tz2qn *proceeds to get assassinated by MI6*

[@alexhicks6207]

@@yeezusyhrist MI5

[@kingkenofthunder]

*looks at South America* “theres the a south a a African Union lets just say for now”

[@solarfry17]

kingken ofthunder didn't you hear? We conquered them like a week ago

[@linkluver_izn]

Blacka Đøn actually i believe French Guyana is technically part of France rather than a territory/colony.

[@yelar9000]

did he call south america south africa?

[@hnsnjmamzaaiisxmka1635]

Ye

[@ers4690]

Same thing

[@uncoolchris9636]

No

[@Cybernaut551]

They were once united at some times.

[@kaxarla]

"this map will be old in 2019 when the uk leaves" hmmmm

[@burikinodance]

Welcome from the future. We are no longer in the EU

[@paul1979uk2000]

@@burikinodance Technically yes but for all intents and purpose, we are still a full EU member without any say and that doesn't change until at least the end of the year and likely longer than that with this coronavirus going on, if it even happens at all now because this virus could change a lot of things in ways we don't expect.

[@anotheraggieburneraccount]

The united states started off as a union of 13 countries basically. Every state had a pretty unique identity before the American Civil War.

[@KrasserChris420]

Notification Union

[@legrandsalame8558]

That is the first time that i dig a person who can talk non-stop. So funny!

[@nihel3144]

4:10 Little unions *Pionts at the second biggest union only after NATO*

[@legrandsalame8558]

I always imagine what would aliens think in case they bump into our planet and see how we’ve actually segregated our land in a pretty funny (maybe unnecessary?) way and have these virtual “unions” and regulations. Like “No you cannot access this land cause you were born on this other piece of land”...?

[@Cybernaut551]

Indeed, human logistics are quite flawed but as sentient life, we shall fix those flaws.

[@GavinLepley]

Very true. For some reasons, alien planets in pop culture are often portrayed as a single country.

[@alarabi98]

Actually, Kuwait didn't close its airspace to Qatar. Kuwait and Qatar still have relations with each other.

[@yesu5750]

And Oman

[@niensaddestofthesad8151]

Curry empire:India Bangladesh Pakistan and Sri lanka America's ATM:Syria Iraq and Palestine

[@dr.winner2516]

What about Nepal

[@Mr.Nichan]

Wow, apparently there's been great schism in the Union of South American Nations (a left-right or Venezuela-antiVenezuela schism it looks like), with only Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and Bolivia remaining; Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil joining the newly-formed Forum for the Progress and Developmemt of South America; and Uruguay withdrawing without joining the FPDSA (a.k.a. PROSUR/PROSUL).

[@lilyydotdev]

3:02 you mixed switzerland and Liechtenstein, switzerland is in EFTA and Schengen but not the EEA

[@ninjasamich120]

what about the Organization of American States?

[@JasMcKenzie]

@@Account-jn7xunope, "states" in the sense of sovereign nations. The United States, in this case, is counted as one state of the 35 member states of the Americas.

[@dr.winner2516]

It is just an organization based on vague things like protecting human rights, akin to the council of Europe

[@roguepanda9576]

Morocco actually left the AU after the recognition of Western Sahara as a country

[@Canonymous-yx8xk]

They rejoined last year.

[@nazik9862]

Hello from Kazakhstan!

[@faaznoushad1718]

Nazik Sapar Ka3ak Tini

[@Spursy1994]

My nameeee boraaat

[@AnasDaif]

Do u have any knowledge of the Arabic language ?

[@vanya1290]

@@AnasDaif probablu no

[@idontwant2bpoor]

take a shot every time he says "again"

[@ibx2cat]

again

[@jwoodswce]

re: South America, were you talking about Mercosur? If so, not quite as large as you described it.

[@alexandrumanole7460]

I love your videos!You are so passionate and make very interesting videos, it makes me wanna now more geography

[@Osorkon6]

I still don't know what his main channel is xD

[@Alexander_Sepulveda]

OMG it is 👀

[@speedwagon1824]

ibxtoycat

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

ibxtoycat it's about Minecraft

[@Cybernaut551]

@Cole Stockbridge Draconianism's evil spawns must be banished by heroic mages.

[@TheMarioManiac]

Another great geography video!

[@Jotari]

Isn't there a Central American Union? A guy from Honduras showed me his passport once and the cover of it depicted all the Central American Countries (with Honduras being highlighted). There's definitely something going on there, unless my memory is completely fabricated.

[@dr.winner2516]

They are called Central America-4 I think, they have border control agreement, that's probably why they have a common passport design

[@willb9431]

Fun fact: around 20 ears after the creation of the EU (pretty sure it was 1963) Morocco applied for membership. What an idea

[@emib6599]

Asked the application for 2 times. They refused it both without even discussing with the members.

[@alimneimne]

There is also the Arab league, but i guess it's irrelevant.(it's different from the gulf union thingy)

[@christopherellis2663]

Ali Mneimneh Arab unity is an oxymoron. , :)

[@sowhat249]

The Arab League is more of a mutual security union than a union of the kind of the EU or EEU which are economic unions.

[@abc12369]

Ali Mneimneh GCC IS OUR LAST HOPE

[@Jotari]

Back in 1918, there were 51 countries, and 25% of the world was a recent acquisition of Britain. I don't know if now should be considered a rise in the number of countries, and more a return to form after that aggressive expansion brought on by colonialism.

[@spencer4679]

It's the rise of countries because before colonialism there was only empires and kingdoms

[@Jotari]

@@spencer4679 Yes, and a hell of a lot more of them than after colonization.

[@KLASH24]

Kuwait and Oman did not blockade Qatar ,so you can fly over Kuwait

[@ibx2cat]

ah fair enough - however it doesn't actually affect any international route, as neither two are blocking Qatar directly anyway

[@francescosorce5189]

Wouldn't it be cool if the EU actually WAS a country? As an italian, being part of the same country as Germany or Sweden would be awesome. (or at least much better then what we have now)

[@johannbrucker-sladkovic2444]

And then create a "North Terran Union" together with Canada, Greenland and Russia. That would be cool.

[@johannbrucker-sladkovic2444]

I have a question why are so many Italian for a European Federation? That is quite uncommon in other european countries. I think most want that their countries stay a sovereign state and the EU a loose confederation

[@abdullahsaur]

@@johannbrucker-sladkovic2444 An actually functioning EU as a country would be like the modern Rome. Capable of competing with India, China and the US without being pushed around by anyone. Unlike now where each individual country is at risk of being exploited by foreign powers via one sided deals and no say in the world.

[@johannbrucker-sladkovic2444]

@@abdullahsaur So it is because of their roman ancestors? Very interesting because i as an Austrian do compare a functional EU as a modern version of the Habsburg Empire whilst i compare the EU today more as the Holy Roman Empire. But to compare it to the Imperium Romanum is fitting much better. Maybe if once a single administration language is needed we should also use latin (because it's quite neutral, a historical language of a lot of countries and the language of science of course)

[@abdullahsaur]

@@johannbrucker-sladkovic2444 Maybe? I'm sure that everyone has their own reasons for it but generally, to establish one, people need to actually care about it. That's where comparing it and calling it a continuation of European tradition of uniting the continent (i.e. Habsburg Empire, H.R.E, Charlemagne, Roman Empire, Napoleonic France, etc) might make people care about it more. A projection of strength is something comparing it to Rome gives. Yeah, they might make Latin an official classical language, like ancient Greek and Church Slavonic similar to India who have a list of classical languages that get special funding for research and special treatment.

[@musaandnes1759]

Where's the label for Switzerland on the map?

[@kingfisch6604]

Only EU members got names on that map.

[@kingfisch6604]

And Switzerland is to tiny to show its name on the world map.

[@DiegoZapaterTV]

Really good video :D

[@mrcolz9373]

Plot twist: *Every union will eventually join into one country and every country within it will become a province or inner country.*

[@dancegregorydance6933]

Gross. Down with globalism!

[@mohmd3693]

The GCC is about Countries which touch the Arabian/Persian gulf. Not countries on the peninsula, And Iraq was kicked due to the Kuwait war and iran isn't part of it and will never be, atleast i think so.

[@KrasserChris420]

Love your vids

[@vtron9832]

I'd like the Asian Countries to form a union around the South China Sea and Latin American countries to form one around the Caribbean Sea, most unions should form around a sea to encourage trade

[@louiethepitt]

I live in America.... the continent... ibx2cat you need to update your info. 1st- Central America has an organization "ODECA" since 1951 and has a territory integration organization (SICA) since 1993... historically Central America was a kingdom of Guatemala part of the Spanish Empire, then became a State of the Mexican Empire, then became the "federation of united Provinces of Central America", then re-branded as "the Republic of Central America and Finally the "united Central American States"...that gave way a few decades later to ODECA (Organization of Central American States in 1951)..it has a Central american Parliament with elected congressmen from each country and a Central american Court of Justice...economic, law integration, free trade and locomotion and soon a common Passport...the members are Guatemala Salvador Honduras Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Belize with Dominican Republic interested in joining as an observer....and this organization is just not a trade union..it is an actual Territorial integration or re-integration because of their history. 2nd there is a Highway connecting the continent from Patagonia to Canada...called "the pan-american highway" .... 3rd you missed one of the oldest organizations in the world called OEA (organizacion de Estados Americanos/Organization of American States).

[@pocketmarcy6990]

There is no road link between Panama and Colombia, the road networks of North and South America are completely separate, read up on the Darien gap

[@paul1979uk2000]

The problem is that I find with a lot of these other unions is the massive difference from country to country in so many areas that makes it difficult to work and even thought I like what they are trying to do, I get the feeling they just seem to let anyone in whereas with the EU, countries need to do a lot of reforms before they can join and I feel that is the right way in doing it, after all, to create common standards over many different nations, a lot of reforms are needed, the EU is good at doing that because it doesn't let anyone in too easierlly, other unions seems to let anyone in and there is little incentive for them to do the real changes, also by not having political oversight over the economics, it makes it too easy for bigger members to take advantage of smaller ones in a lot of these other unions whereas the EU has political oversight that creates common standards for all members and that makes it a lot fairer for them all. So it will be interesting to see how they developer but the EU one seems the most likely to work because it's not rushed.

[@spencer4679]

Yeah I noticed that with the EU and the middle East they have many fewer countries while South America and Africa have literally the whole continent

[@paul1979uk2000]

@@spencer4679 I do like what these others are trying to do around the world but I feel they are trying to emulate the EU but rushing it when creating a union over many different countries takes time, it can't be rushed and I think that's why these others are not very effective where the EU is.

[@siddarthsuresh]

what about the south asian association for regional cooperation?

[@bolito111]

What about mercosur ?

[@AlexBeerForEveryone]

What do you think about the whole brexit situation? I'm from the EU - austria to be precise - and I think it REALLY sucks. I'm really interested in your point of view on this.

[@dr.winner2516]

He will soon get his Irish citizenship so it wouldn't matter for him

[@thetrashmaster1352]

Fun fact. Australia and New Zealand are also observer states of ASEAN. Australias former prime minister spent 3 years persuading Obama to observe the ASEAN agreements (because our alliance is in place to protect Asia from Russia and China) then Trump took power and pulled out of the region (causing Australia to be the only country stopping Chinese aggression) Another fun fact is Australia is also part of the Air union which is why we can fly Australian Qantas which is the world's safest airline or we can board Malaysia airlines and get shot down by Russia, crash into the Indian ocean (flight 370) or go missing. Another fun fact, ASEAN countries are the only place Australians may go if they have a criminal record. Never trust an Aussie in Cambodia or even Indonesia.

[@mybumbrash]

I think Australia and new Zealand have a joint air market because I see air nz flights from Sydney to USA direct.

[@jtstonewallaggieclassof2005]

As a former practicing attorney & U.S. Government Official, additionally before working for the Federal Government I worked for my State's Legislature, and after working for the U.S. Government I moved back to my home State and was a Prosecutor for a District Court's jurisdiction in my State's court legal system. I got tired of working in law, because I'm jaded with the U.S. Government and legal system at both the State and Federal levels, and then went back to school to obtain a PhD in History and am now a professor of History at a large, top ranked, University in the U.S. To answer your question, the United States of America is a group of 50 Sovereign States (It's in the name - United STATES of America. Not the "Federal Republic of America", "America", the "Representative Democracy of America" is because the Founding Fathers of the United States (Especially, the drafter of the Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson, and one of the main committee members for the Declaration of Independence from the Continental Congress - Benjamin Franklin) wanted the State governments to be stronger than the Federal Government. Jefferson wanted the Federal Government to essentially only prevent the people who live in the States and from whom the Government derives it's power, has only the duty to protect the people from injury - Against International Powers (Where it would TEMPORARILY control the State Militias), settle criminal issues that occurred when a State violated a Citizen's Inherent Rights (Federal Subject Matter Jurisdiction)/, treason, etc., and Civil Matters between two people of two different states where the damage in controversy exceeds a financial amount which has changed over the years and is now = or > $75,000.01, a lawsuit between a State and the Federal Government, etc. Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Mason, etc., even made comments which, essentially, asserted, that if the Government infringes upon the Rights of the State(s) or the People, than it is the duty of the State(s) and/or the People to secede and form a separate government, to work for a change in the Constitution by the power of the people, or as a last and final measure when all else fails to rise in revolt and form a new government of, for, and by the People. When Thomas Jefferson was President, many New England States threatened to secede from the U.S. when the Louisiana Purchase was made. Thomas Jefferson replied, "I hope in departing we do so remaining as friends..." He knew that the rights of the States were what was important, as they were closer to the people under their jurisdiction and knew their needs better, and the U.S. under the current Constitution was just to form a better government, but still in the spirit of, the one under the "Articles of Confederation." James Madison, George Mason, James Monroe, etc. were all in agreement with this. We even fought a Civil War over this subject, in which Abraham Lincoln lied about a lot of things, violated the Constitution, and fought it over Slavery as only 6% of people in the Southern States owned almost 100% of the slaves. President Buchanan had made an armistice agreement with South Carolina, South Carolina could have easily overtaken Fort Sumter when Major Anderson and Abner Doubleday took it over at bayonet point (violating orders from the Secretary of War not to leave the fort they were currently at), and South Carolina was feeding them and had agreed to continue to provide the Fort with provisions. By the way, Fort Sumter hadn't even been commissioned as a Federal Fort. At the time, the United States derived most of it's income from the Tariffs and Taxes of the Southern States who imported goods due to their agrarian economies and had to provide the northern states with a quota of raw materials for the northern industry vs. selling all they could internationally. Just the Port of Charleston, South Carolina would have cost President Lincoln millions of dollars to the U.S. Treasury each year. That's not including: The ports of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia (especially Savannah), Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana (Which New Orleans was the largest port in the South), and Texas with (Galveston as a huge port and financial center), and Brownsville, as well as cross border trade with Mexico and Texas. Abraham Lincoln, in his First Inaugural Speech, stated that he wasn't going to touch slavery in the states where it existed and was going to tightly enforce the controversial "fugitive slave act", so why would the South leave when it put slavery in more danger than staying in the Union. Besides, as technology and mechanical means for harvesting the cash crops of the South "Cotton, Sugar Cane, Rice, and Tobacco" were going to be cheaper to harvest via mechanical methods, which would have made slavery cost prohibitive. So, Lincoln "baited" the South into firing the first shots, by sending warships full of federal troops to Charleston Harbor under the auspices of a re-supply shipment. All one has to do is look at the Government records telegraph transcripts, contemporary records, memos, statements, newspapers, and intelligence reports. Slavery was a terrible thing, I am the first to say that, but the Civil War went back to the feud between Thomas Jefferson (and the Anti-Federalists) and Alexander Hamilton (and the Federalists....caveat - even though James Madison was a main contributor to the Federalist Papers, he was more in favor of State Rights, but defended the document which contained a lot of his work from the "Virginia Plan"). Those who counter this, say that the CSA government and the states that seceded all put slavery as a reason in their secession "justifications" and constitutions. Well, that is true. But, who wrote those documents? The 6% of slave owners who were HUGE plantation owners and owned the majority of the slaves. There were quite a few Confederate Generals and Confederate leaders who disliked slavery and wanted to emancipate the slaves and their families if they joined the army or supported the war effort of free will (Including, but not limited to: Patrick Cleburne, Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Richard S. "Dick" Ewell, James "Pete" Longstreet, Edmund Porter Alexander, CSA President Jefferson Davis, CSA Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin [Who is the person who gave the States in Canada the broad rights they have today, because he was a HUGE STATES' RIGHTS figure and for a "racist" regime, he was a Jewish Confederate leader, and went to Canada after the war and practiced law again as a Barrister there, and won several key High Level cases that became Common Law and later codified], and 5 CSA State Governors, etc.). In fact, Robert E. Lee stated, "If it were within my power, I would set free all of the slaves on the continent to prevent this war, if that is what the war is about." Whereas, Abraham Lincoln said, "I would keep all of the slaves in bondage, for perpetuity, if that is what this were is being fought over." Regarding those who have recently released ads by "Robert E. Lee" about capturing and punishing runaway slaves from "Arlington House" (His house and land are now where Arlington National Cemetery are, as punishment for Lee siding with his state, which is what people back then identified themselves as citizens of, more than they did of the U.S. How was he putting so much effort into the affairs of the slaves his wife inherited (Robert E. Lee never bought any slaves, they all belonged to his wife), as he was a career military man who spent most of the 1840s and 1850s in the War with Mexico, in a U.S. Dragoon Regiment under the command of future Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston before Lee took command himself, as commandant of the U.S. Military Academy of West Point, and only just before the war moved back home. These ads were placed by someone on his land, like an overseer, and he likely knew nothing about them as he was busy with his military career. Presidential power has increased since then, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson increased it even more, Teddy Roosevelt did so even more, LBJ, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama have all dramatically increased how much power a President has, often ignoring the Constitution, going to war without the consent of Congress, suspending Habeas Corpus and ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to the contrary, shutting down newspapers and locking up people for using free speech as defined by the Courts as valid (Abraham Lincoln) 1st Amendment Rights. The U.S. Congress has vastly overstepped the powers it has via the 10th Amendment which state that only those powers vested to the Federal Government (In the U.S. Constitution). Congress passes bills which become U.S. Statutory Codes that far exceed their power. The Supreme Court has become an "ad hoc legislature". America is supposed to be EXACTLY like the EU, with a "tad more" central power, but it has morphed into what is a centralized government in all but name. GREAT VID!

[@dr.blowtorch4335]

You forgot to mention to Nordic council

[@jojo-iq4rz]

forgot AOSIS - association of small island states

[@elimortensen3129]

love ur videos! could u try to do one of the faroe islands, aka my home? would be happy if u did!

[@moquirtle5259]

If you think about it, America isnt actually going the other way; its just going the same way, but it had a head start. At the beginning, it was very much as if it were the however many states acting in compliance with the union to make it work, and who believed they could leave if it was not beneficial. This is similar to these other unions, except they have less ambition to become the way the US is.

[@revbigmoney]

0:50 ya overheard of zealandia?

[@silverbackscopesgeog]

Lmfaooo that description of the US right now at the end of the vid was spot on. So accurate.

[@Aardvarkno3]

“When brexit happens” funny joke

[@lucask4398]

I am a big supporter of European unification and I think we need federalism therefore. However, I don't wanna make it an America2.0, thus I would not call it United States of Europe

[@lucmeyer4012]

Lu Ke l ♥️ EUrope

[@batzal9459]

comparison between average Geography teacher(a) vs ibx2cat(b): 1) who learn: (a) students in the school, (b) who intrested to see that 2) how good the teacher is (a) average-minus (b) plus-plus 3) do the students like to learn thought him (a) mostly not (b) mostly yes Results: REPLACE EVERY GEOGRAPHY TEACHER WITH "ibx2cat"

[@Mr.Nichan]

He kind of rambles.

[@kacee3472]

If any of you thought he talked too quickly try watching it on 1.5x speed because the video is longer than the amount of time you have left at lunch haha

[@oursavior9883]

I like that he talks so fast. I hate slow talkers.

[@kacee3472]

Red Viper I agree, I really like that he talks quickly, but it gets kind of hard to understand if you speed up the video too much, haha

[@dannyli4082]

Kacee you only have 20 minutes at lunch? I have 30 mins

[@oursavior9883]

They could have 2 hours, but if the video only came out with 29 ins left, then the length wouldn't matter.

[@zacharymohammadi]

The UK still hasn’t left

[@Edibleimp134]

Oof

[@moutawakkilBakary]

Please respect Africa,not only you didn't research but you were like making fun of us. For your info there's the economic and monetary community of Central African states(CEMAC) which is more integrated than any of the asian organizations you talked of,we have been using the same currency since longtime for example,we got the same CEMAC passport,same market and same business laws...

[@LRC92]

There's also the Organisation of American State which includes most countries in the Americas including the US.

[@davidchambers7508]

What about COMECON and NAFTA? COMECON no longer exists but is worth noting.

[@moetama_]

Not all gcc countries blockading qatar Only Saudi and uae and the small island of bahrain

[@fcscience1234]

Tfw I didn't even know about your gaming channel. 🤣

[@Heligoland360]

2:52 People keep saying that Switzerland are not in the EU, but are in the EEA, single market, or customs union. NO THEY ARE NOT! They have been neutral for the last 200 years, and haven't become involved with the EU, with the exception of Schengen, which does not facilitate remaining in the country in the long term. Switzerland is about as closely linked to the EU as Canada, stop saying it is an EEA memeber!

[@leylandbrabander7094]

Still hasn’t probably change in 2050

[@leylandbrabander7094]

By the way I’m British 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@dwightmanne]

@@leylandbrabander7094 it changed

[@danielkenah2152]

New Zealand is in a union called Oceania what is basically all the pacific islands and New Zealand. New Zealand is a self governing country that doesn't really need help it's more for the pacific islands. And also the British commonwealth is pretty much a union

[@saberdon2341]

The only thing in common with the Commonwealth is that they have the Monarch as a figurehead There is no political or economic union between the 53 member countries See India and Pakistan as they are at best at unstable peace

[@aurelio280]

is fascinating to me how europeans know more about the middle east than of south america… maybe calling the USA just America voids every other country in the American continent

[@alzaeem14]

You forgot the Arab League

[@felipelopezvalencia8843]

In American we do have a bigger Organizacion it is call OAS Organization of American States

[@truerocketgaming4927]

Switzerland isn’t in EEA, Liechtenstein is

[@Heligoland360]

Yeah but nobody cares about Liechtenstein, and for some reason everyone assumes that the country that has been neutral for the last 200 years would join a federal union. I don't get it.

[@saberdon2341]

@@Heligoland360 the Swiss are just part of the free trade and customs unions that are functions of the EU

[@Heligoland360]

@@saberdon2341 They are not members of the custom union, nor the Single market. They of course have trade deals with the EU, but Switzerland has those with most countries.

[@anotheraccount2052]

3:08 this map is wrong Montenegro joined the EU about a year or 2 before this video was uploaded.....

[@petriamihai2786]

Join in NATO not in EU my friend...

[@jameschapman1442]

You forgot APEC (Asian Pacific economic corporation which has 21 countries along the pacific rim

[@randallparr4349]

Where did u hear Canada doesnt want to be in free trade deal with Us, Mexico? I heard the opposite.

[@LittleKodomo]

"France and UK In some way helo military. Because of eh you knowm the "nuke" thing" -Ibx2cat

[@saberdon2341]

Ehhh Russia and USA nuclear power dwarfs them since France and the UK have a combined arsenal of about 100 or so

[@SOMEONE-cd9wf]

How can the world's 4th largest economy not be powerful?

[@azzarys]

Mercosur and ALENA : Am I a joke for you ?

[@daigeorge9797]

Wouldn't it be good to get the gang back together 😅

[@ErdTirdMans]

Well, the end of this video was certainly something O.O

[@RRW359]

What about the commonwealth? I admit I'm a bit of an ignorant American and am not an expert on it, but several countries in it even have the same head of state. I think there are also various levels to it, like the Commonwealth Realm which I don't think all members of the Commonwealth of Nations are a part of. There's also the interesting fact that several members are part of other nation groups as well (ex: the UK until Brexit fully takes effect).

[@Heligoland360]

Several? The Commonwealth is made up of the remains of the GLORIOUS British Empire, so I think it has more than "several" countries in it. Seriously though, the Commonwealth is more like a loose association like the UN, where the main thing that they deal with is the Commonwealth games, and provides a platform for members to cooperated with each other. There is no trade integration, and minor migratory integration (eg. commonwealth citizens can live, work, and vote in Britain). It would be difficult for that many nations to agree to free trade, especially when the 5th largest country by population, and largest country by GDP is a member of one of the most protectionist organisations in the world. Commonwealth Realm is just a sub-part of the Commonwealth where they recognise the queen as their head of state, rather than just head of the Commonwealth.

[@Heligoland360]

BTW the commonwealth includes 53 member states, over 1/4 of the world's countries.

[@dr.winner2516]

@@Heligoland360 "commonwealth citizens can live, work, and vote in Britain" Not true

[@Nordisk11]

Take a shot every time he mispronounces "Qatar". Damned Anglophones...

[@nazarenosoto3557]

Deberias haber hablado del Mercosur y la Alianza del Pacifico vez de ese otro coso que a nadie le importa :V

[@la_skltn]

fun fact: there's more portuguese speakers in south america than spanish speakers

[@joshuawan7004]

what about Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)?

[@christopherellis2663]

Commonwealth of Independent States. .. EEUU (Estados Unidos) Ehtihad and Emirates both fly via Iran and Turkey, because nobody wants to fly over Iraq and Syria

[@superraegun2649]

So if we leave the EU we’re going to get severely left behind in global politics.

[@natenae8635]

When you were showing Caricom you pulled up a diagram of the Eastern Caribbean States not a diagram of Caricom

[@shortcat]

Bahrain sounds like Britain

[@Pugaroo85]

Does Australia have a union? ;P

[@GamingWithEssa]

could you count the Empire of Atlantium?

[@christopherellis2663]

British Commonwealth of Nations, various trade unions, and mutual deals with many countries.

[@Cassandria]

D Murphy They have the Pacific Islands Forum.

[@joshuawan7004]

Trans-Tasman Arrangement

[@ChemistryAtomistic]

No, but NZ could enter on Mercosur (South America Union), as well Mexico

[@superninja2380]

Organization of American States?

[@andrewwilliams7390]

The Organization Eastern Caribbean States is different from Caricom you are showing the wrong map

[@hauntedscarecr0w]

"It would be cool to get the gang back together" that's the best slogan to reunify the Soviet Union

[@IvairAlcantara]

Mercosul is a thing, but this union of south american nation is the second time I heard about.

[@jaoschmidt3786]

The south America one was completely wrong lol

[@clairemayes6218]

I wish my country could use one currency The African Franc or something like that because most of africa is french so .....but i live in South Africa and we were British so .....

[@clairemayes6218]

Stanley Dougé That is correct but the colonization aka. The language everybody knows and the all the Traditional language eg. Swahili or Zulu or Funa or Mandinka or Arabic

[@clairemayes6218]

But its easier to speak Colonization languages

[@Heligoland360]

120 million Africans speak French. 700 million Africans speak English.

[@Heligoland360]

Granted those figures include second languages but without that both numbers would be in the tens of millions.

[@leea8706]

I expected you to say there were like 3 countries, Spain, France and then the British empire 😂

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

Well Part of Kazakhstan is in Europe (west of Ural river)

[@ChazAugustin]

CARICOM doesn't have a share currency. The OECS does...

[@lucius1976]

Their is no real equivalent of the EU anywhere. Regarding depth of integration the EU is a sui generis and no other comes close

[@joeykelly0157]

In the USA the states have there government then city’s have there own governments too

[@daddyleon]

Wait, which countries will form some sort of new country maybe named: East-Africa? And why would thatbe?? I've never heard of that before.

[@daddyleon]

*+Andrés Méndez* Thanks! I looked it up, sounds very interesting :)

[@GeneralPJ]

When its 27 now, 2020

Association of Caribbean States

[@immenseimmense9302]

6:28 "The EU and the EU."

[@theperfectmix2]

Klondike Bar Enthusiast I think one of those was EEU