Parts Of Countries That Could Join Neighbouring Countries

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▶ In this video, I explore the concept of territories that could potentially join neighboring countries due to cultural, historical, or geopolitical reasons. Starting with Galicia in Spain, noting its cultural connections to Portugal, particularly in language and historical ties. Moving on to the Orkney Islands in the United Kingdom, which once belonged to Norway and where there is a historical backdrop and local wish that could lead to potential reunification. Northern Ireland is then discussed, with the increasing likelihood of reunification with Ireland, considering the changing demographics and sentiments. Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) in Azerbaijan is a complex situation, being internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but having a predominantly Armenian population, leading to ongoing conflicts. Transylvania in Romania, originally part of Hungary, still hosts a Hungarian minority, prompting occasional calls for reunification. Istria in Croatia, once under Italian rule, has a small Italian-speaking community. Corsica, although part of France, has historical ties to Italy, and some Corsicans express desires for independence or autonomy.
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▶ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Galicia (Spain - Portugal)
02:03 Orkney Islands (UK - Norway)
03:34 Northern Ireland (UK - Ireland)
06:02 Artsakh (Azerbaijan - Armenia)
06:46 Nikhchavan (Azerbaijan - Armenia?)
07:07 Transylvania (Romania - Hungary)
08:23 Istria (Croatia - Italy)
09:34 Corsica (France - Italy)
10:45 Summary
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[@General.Knowledge]

*A little bit bad timing with Artsakh as the self-proclaimed nation has recently dissolved. Which region/country would you replace it with for this video?*

[@bean_burrito0]

I forgot it dissolved on January 1st.

[@Konekoexe]

As a Jew, I see this as an absolute win...

[@TopatTom]

Hmmm

[@manotenkerian]

​@@Konekoexewhy?

[@turquoiseboy861]

@@manotenkerian Because Zionists are prejudice to Armenians, especially the Armenian Christian who are native to the Levant and reside in Jerusalem and Lebanon. The hatred is so solid that Israel sends weapons to Azerbaijan so that they can more easily build up a military presence on the Armenian border. This is in order to eventually annex the south of Armenia all the way up to just North of Yerevan as many Azerbaijani claim this area as theirs.

[@Zepoz]

Artsakh doesn't exist anymore as of the time this vid is published. 80% of the population fled to Armenia since the start of the current conflict and I guess it will officially be a part of Azerbajan soon. Also to be fair Istria was under Venetian rule for several centuries so Italian influence goes back a lot longer too.

[@hotman_pt_]

the republic of Arstakh was formally disbanded 1 of january (5 days ago). So the conflict that lasted since the fall of the soviet union seems, now for good, to be over

[@DomnulDarius]

This is propaganda. Azerbaijan is killing and massacring Armenians as we speak.

[@nathangamble125]

"I guess it will officially be a part of Azerbajan soon." It has officially been a part of Azerbaijan since the fall of the Soviet Union. Artsakh was de-facto independent but unrecognised (except by Armenia), but this ended a few months ago when Azerbaijan moved their military into it.

[@gothicgolem2947]

@@hotman_pt_I don’t think it was there leader annulled his decree stating that so technically it’s still around it’s just they don’t control the territory anymore

[@WistfulAZ]

@@nathangamble125 Armenia never actually recognised Artsakh.

[@HernasRoom]

Galicia and Portugal were the same nation once. The house of Burgundy wasn't the first to rule Portugal, they were simply the first to obtain the rank of kings. The first ruler of Portugal was... Vímara Peres, and his descendants. One of them was defeated, which left the door open for the Galician monarch to declare himself king of Galicia AND Portugal.

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

Portuguese literally came from Galicia iirc

[@HernasRoom]

@@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad Same tribes, but only in the North. Our greatest hero, Viriato, was Lusitanian. Those lived in Central Portugal.

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

@@HernasRoom The language originated in modern-day Galicia

[@alvaroscarletpoke884]

Extremadura and Portugal have both been Lusitanian throughout history. Furthermore, in the east of Extremadura, there are villages that speak Portuguese. The Portuguese Galician movement is only seeking independence and support from Portugal, similar to Albania's support for Kosovo, not because they want to unite with Portugal. Do not treat the Portuguese like children

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

@@ElSora-ws8zf i mean it literally does, portugal split off from Galicia and the language originates from there. But that was a really long time ago, so they’ve diverged to the point of being separate but related cultures.

[@MrFiver1111]

As a galician, THANK YOU, we do go unnoticed on the internet.

[@leavesfromthevine4465]

I've fallen in love with galician folk music, lately, and it is so difficult to find info and translate things. Anyway, beautiful culture there! ❤ (I am greek, btw)

[@ceother1024]

In reality, Portugal is southern Galicia.

[@reed6134]

spain is eastern galicia

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

@@reed6134 UK is north galicia.

[@lynxfresh5214]

​@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Nah, Spain is part of the Iberian province of Rome and the UK is part of the Britannia province of Rome, so it's all part of the same nation really.

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

Britanny is NorthEastern Galicia

[@user-so9ic7qw2u]

@@lynxfresh5214🤓

[@Yes-qj4bi]

I love the history between Portugal and Galicia it's very fascinating since the county of Portucales creation. I love how we have another people group in Iberia with a similar language to us.

[@Yes-qj4bi]

@@ElSora-ws8zf it's almost like I know that and was talking and referring to it

[@JM-xg7xo]

@@Yes-qj4bi 🤣😂

[@xbai6986]

@@Yes-qj4bi Saúdos dende Galicia meu irmán luso!

[@dariomestre4814]

We will Welcome Galicia any time

[@sunix8078]

Im from galicia we (Spain in general but still) love portugal, but still, we dont want to break away, also, no offense but galician its not used regurally by nearlly no one, pretty much only by ppl in small villages, wich still also never saw one that wants to break away

[@craigcook9715]

Karelia is one area that won't be returning to its original owner, Finland. Karelian language is related to Finnish, and until recently was a part of Finland. By now, though, ethnic Karelians are outnumbered in their homeland (which situation is mirrored around the world, an area is taken and the dominant group's people move in and outnumber the indigenous group).

[@bla-t]

many karelians left after the winter war into finland which left all the empty land open to russian people to settle unless finland would deport all the russians living there now

[@tempejkl]

@@bla-tthats illegal though. not for the USA and UK of course, but still illegal

[@leisti]

@@bla-t Practically all the Karelians left. No one wanted to live in the Soviet Union.

[@Trebor-17]

As an Italian, I think I can give some more info that you left out about Istria, Corsica and South Tyrol (not mentioned in the video): Istria was Latin for most of its history, first with the Romans, then with Venice, but for for various reasons it has been slavicized several times. At least today Italian is still recognized as a language in both Slovenia and Croatia and it seems fair enough to me. Corsica has always been linked to the rest of Italy by language, culture and traditions and their father of fatherland Pasquale Paoli has always supported the idea of being recognized as Italians with equal rights as others. Unfortunately, this awareness has only remained with some older corsican, because by now the majority no longer feel this brotherhood. What in my opinion they don't realize is that with Italy they could make their identity even stronger (obtaining the status of Autonomous Region, with the recognition and protection of Language and Culture, and if necessary, having as official language both French than Italian, as already happens in Valle d'Aosta). Many Italians identify themselves in their Region and by doing so they are emphasizing the fact of being even more Italian (obviously if it is done in a peaceful way, and not ignorantly and aggressively)... and for Corsica it would be the same: consciously identifying themselves as Corsican, they would confirm the fact of being Italian, instead they are "exploited" by France. Having said that, it is only up to them to decide what to be, and I will certainly not be the one who wants to impose my ideas on this wonderful people, who I hope can achieve their objectives whatever they may be. South Tyrol is the northern part of the Trentino-Alto Adige region and has a German majority. In the past there have been separatist movements, including terrorist ones, but now it's all over and the majority of the population is no longer in favor of separation, also because with the status they have in Italy I think it is more economically convenient to stay there (it is a territory that has one of the best provincial autonomies in the world, and their culture is protected) . However, if one day they separate or join Austria, I wouldn't see anything wrong with it.

[@oscillatorstorm]

Wasn't Napoleon corsican?

[@Trebor-17]

@@oscillatorstorm Of course he was Corsican (and his parents and his surname are Tuscan), but he grew up culturally as a true authentic Frenchman (and he was born just one year after the French annexation of the Island)

[@WalterBianco123]

​@@Trebor-17Napoleon was born 4 months after the annexion of Corsica

[@plulpo]

A little bit late answer to this as Corsican. Of course we are sharing many links with Italy, the language being just an old Tuscan dialect, the still strong catholicism but no one ever consider being Italian to be honest. I got your point and it wouldn't shocked me if Corsica belonged to Italy. But the struggle is more about the differences with France than the similarities with Italy. The idea is really either to become independent or geta real autonomous status as in Italy or Spain for example but staying in France. The french influence is too strong I think to just get rid of and go to another country like this, furthermore due to the fact that Italy didn't exist as a whole at the time of the French annexion of Corsica

[@Trebor-17]

@@plulpo I understand, I hope you Corsicans can get what you are looking for. In any case, many of us Italians will always consider you brothers 🇮🇹🤝🏻🇫🇷

[@andreasmaurer138]

Fun Fact:Transilvanian Saxons, despite their Name do mostly consist of german speakers that migrated mostly from Mosel-frankish regions in the Rhineland, France, Luxembourg and such. The name was given by them from others because for them, people who spoke some sort of german had to be saxons. Later they started using this term by themself. Maybe this could be a interesting topic for another Video. Thanks for the Great content! ❤

[@ferretyluv]

My ancestors are Saxon Romanians, but they lived in Iași. My great grandfather had like 13 siblings so there’s probably still some second cousins there.

[@leventelajos5078]

Same thing in Hungary, every German was labeled Schwab, or Saxon. (Sváb, Szász)

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

​@@leventelajos5078 Romania is so "nationalist" that we elected a German as our President (twice). 😂 Did Hungarians ever elected a minority as President? Also, in the last 34 years the Romanian Hungarian Party was part of our government for 31 years! Yes!!!!! This is obviously "nationalism".

[@juanbarbosasiguenza5883]

They were mainly of westphalia región, were originally saxony was. In middle ages the franja used the saxons to repopulate the slav wends territories, creating todays saxony. They were in fact saxon, justo from medieval saxony

[@andreasmaurer138]

@@juanbarbosasiguenza5883 how come the language is most closly linked to Luxembourgish though? My parents where Born and raised there so i guess i know what im Talking bout?

[@wingblader8584]

Artsakh has been officially annexed by Azerbaijan in 2023 september and all armenians there fled to Armenia.

[@nadirnovruz]

1 million people also fled in the 1990s from there. Now they will be back to their homeland. Those lands were and are belong to Azerbaijan

[@Random-ob7dc]

@@nadirnovruz Literally the entire population Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh was 190 thousand in the 90s. How the frick did 1 million people flee from a place less than 200 thousand lived in?

[@nadirnovruz]

@@Random-ob7dc Armenia occupied not only old ‘Nagorni Karabakh’ but also surrounding raions of Azerbaijan. But past is in the past. :)

[@samathalopez2256]

⁠@@nadirnovruzeven though it was in azerbaijan it was still historic armenian territory but dont blame either side its the russians fault they knew what they were doing when they created the borders for armenia and azeribaijan, they just wanted them to fight eachother so russia can get an influence in that area but now it seems russia influence is gone as Armenia is focusing on the west now and azeribaijan will stay under turkey’s influence

[@nadirnovruz]

@@samathalopez2256 this is historically Azerbaijan territory and it will be Azerbaijani territory as well. Stop considering whole world your heritage. Need to learn new geopolitical map and act on that.

[@dudelehhh]

Artsakh has been discontinued a weeks ago

[@lusin23]

And? The situation always changes and we Armenians always work on our problems. I think you should observe this Artsakh issue more thoroughly and see how Armenia is already taking steps to return Artsakh Armenians to their homeland and we have allies in this conflict

[@Long_Live_Asir]

Great video but you forgot Moldova reuniting with Romania.

[@lucone2937]

Yeah, Romania lost a historical region known as Bessarabia to the Soviet Union in 1940 and again in 1944. It's about the same as modern Moldova.

[@GenericYoutubeGuy]

This is about parts of countries. The best other parts of countries joining other countries would be Strasbourg, East Prussia and German Bohemia joining Germany, Upper Austrian Czechia and Western Slovenia joining Austria, Yukon and British Columbia joining Alaska (US), the Falklands joining Argentina, Thracia, Southern Cyprus, and Western Anatolia joining Greece, Southwest Bulgaria joining Macedonia, Karelia and Finnmark joining Finland, Murmansk joining Norway, Smolensk joining Belarus, southern Haiti joining Dominican Republic, Southern China joining the ROC, Inner Mongolia and Northern Tibet joining Mongolia, the Russo-Japanese islands joining Japan, parts of China and Pakistan joining India, and parts of Eritrea and Somalia joining Ethiopia.

[@General.Knowledge]

True! But since that's an entire country I didn't include it here

[@alex857tgg]

Cernăuți and south bessarabia uniting with​ moldova/romania too @@General.Knowledge

[@alex857tgg]

(north bucovina)

[@NightOwlTessa]

I love your videos there so fun to watch keep up the good work

[@General.Knowledge]

Thanks! And thanks for watching

[@MrAlsachti]

*Belgium:* I can't believe this!!! I really dodged a bullet this time! Only 20 seconds left!!! What could go wrong? *General knowledge:* Are there any other territories I forgot to mention? Let me know in the comments.

[@typiclyjohny5114]

You should've included South Tyrol, as the majority there is German and there is still a major desire to reunite with Austria

[@Trebor-17]

There is someone who wants to join Austria, but it isn't the majority

[@typiclyjohny5114]

@@Trebor-17 the majority of Germans, sadly the Italians add to those who want to stay with Italy

[@GBOAC]

Süd-Tirol ist nicht Italien!

[@typiclyjohny5114]

@@GBOAC basiert

[@streips]

Delighted that you have posted again. I love your work Happy New Year!

[@richardalvarez1084]

Thank you General Knowledge for making this video

[@astralp4292]

Note that in Corsica proper, nationalists and autonomists party have been winning the regional elections for several years in a row now, the Assembly (because they already have a degree of autonomy so they don't have a Regional Council but an Assembly) officially asked for autonomy and their political trends drastically differ from continental France

[@Chaiserzose]

do corsican want to unify with italy?

[@astralp4292]

@@Chaiserzose Nope, I’m not sure it’s even considered. Nationalists want the independence of the island while autonomists/federalists wants to remain within France

[@mangiaretout]

​​@@astralp4292 Corsican nationalists want to be independant, telling them about reunification with Italy hits as bad as being with France due to some similar rivalry.

[@Finn21077]

@@Chaiserzose from my experience with corsicans they hate the idea of uniting with italy alot more than the idea of staying french

[@astralp4292]

@@mangiaretout They don't really have the same relation with Italy as a state because they struggled more specifically with Genoa, but they still don't want any annexation by Italy

[@goncalonunes3203]

For everyone wondering, yes he is portuguese, i am one myself and the way that he says portuguese names just explains it

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

Yes, and this is how I lost all my friendship and respect for Portuguese people when he said that Trianon is questionable. For me, as a Romanian from Transilvania this is DEEPLY offending! It is like saying to an African American that abolishing slavery is questionable! HOW DARE YOU????

[@Chris-qb8kg]

but it is questionable.... those are not the same...@@TheMihaiMarinescu

[@TheLexy131313]

​@@TheMihaiMarinescuHey Greta Thunberg! How are you!

[@jewbacca2314]

@@TheMihaiMarinescucry 🇵🇹

[@alvarezandre]

With all the Portuguese people we had in Vigo over Christmas, it almost felt like a colanization, let me tell you! Por qué estou a falar en inglés? Podendo falar en galego...pois non sei 😅

[@MiguelFerreira-kn9xf]

Aqui em Aveiro são tantos Espanhóis na Páscoa e no verão a encher as praias que encontrar alguém que fale português na rua fica impossível 😂😂

[@josousa78]

Honestly the IKEA in Braga feels more like a Spanish or Galician embassy these days.

[@GenericYoutubeGuy]

@@geckoi8166>:o

[@giovanni_vaz_cardoso]

​@@geckoi8166Far from it lol.

[@MW_Asura]

@@geckoi8166 You're in every video that has anything to do with Portugal and always do nothing but shit on it for no reason. Is being a xenophobe towards a particular country daily routine for you mate?

[@kotkotlecik7310]

Galicia should join Galicja. That would be the funniest union.

[@sem_identitificador]

And Galatia (Turkey) should join as well

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

The Gallo speakers (French Bretons) should join as well

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

How about the Georgia-Georgia Union

[@feandil1713]

​@@kylezdancewicz7346 What if the country of Poles would unite with the North and the South Pole?

[@TobinPT]

Os galegos são o povo com o qual temos mais em comum. Um abraço a todos os irmãos galegos!!!

[@poLINGlot99]

I love your videos so much!!!

[@General.Knowledge]

Thanks!

[@nte5]

NEW INTRO SO FIRE Edit: So it isn't as new as I thought, but still much better than the old one

[@Maltheus_]

I'm a bit surprised that you didn't mention the Åland Islands or any of the other Fenno-Swedish regions in Finland (primarily parts of Ostrobothnia).

[@ando3087]

I'm disappointed South Tyrol wasn't covered. It's effectively unknown but sports the highest polling independence movement in Europe, at about 47% being in favour, slightly higher than Scotland and Catalonia. Italians only live in one city while the rest of the province is of Austrian ethnicity, and they've had a Troubles-esque independence struggle in the past. It's like Transylvania (unfair ww1 treaties) except if almost the entire province was Hungarian.

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

Transylvania?????? Are you sure? 76% Romanians and 17% Hungarians???? So those 17% must rule over the 76%? 😂😂😂 What are you smoking? The fact that Hungarian propaganda is more aggressive doesn't mean that it is also right!

[@ando3087]

@@TheMihaiMarinescu I said South Tyrol is like Transylvania >>if

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

​​​@@ando3087ok! Trianon is fair if we consider the data I gave you! Unfair was to have the 70% majority ruled by the 17% minority! Don't you agree? Transilvania is composed of small regions. In a few there is a Hungarian majority and a Romanian minority. Ok! Let's make those regions independent! What do we do then with the Romanian minority inside those newly formed unemployment regions? Are they allowed to be independent too inside those regions? And some cities? And some streets inside those cities? 😂

[@ando3087]

​​@@TheMihaiMarinescu when I said Trianon was unfair I didn't mean Hungary should have kept all of Transylvania and all of Slovakia and Burgenland etc. I didn't call the Kingdom of Hungary fair either. But Hungary lost catastrophic amounts of >Hungarian majority< land it's not really defensible. Hungary could have just been slightly larger and it would have avoided a lot of unnecessary conflict.

[@sudazima]

you say independance but you mean reunification with austria right? im confused

[@AndrzejHeller]

Thank you for another great video featuring a few regions I’ve already visited, it brings back good memories and breathtaking views I enjoyed there. Commenting on the content, I think the so called Republic of Artsakh no longer exists, so it’s no longer possible that region may join Armenia in future. Switching to the beautiful island of Corsica, I don’t think we can say all Corsicans are French. They are of course French citizens and speak French, but my impression is they consider themselves as separate ethnic group. One thing I remember from my Corsica holiday is very few French flags were present in the public space, but Corsican colours were present everywhere. I don’t think there many people who would like Istria to join Italy, but there are two autonomous regions in Italy that in my opinion could have been included in this video. First - South Tirol (Trentino-Alto Adige in Italian, Südtirol in German) with a significant group of German native speakers. Second - Aosta Valley with two official languages, Italian and French. Another region that probably missing is Alsace, but I’m not aware if there are any people there who would prefer to be part of Germany instead of belonging to France. Finally, apart from Transylvania, Hungarian minorities exists in both Slovakia and Vojvodina, as both were under Hungarian rule up until the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.

[@arthurlara4282]

How do the Portuguese view Galicia? You should do a video about the historical relations

[@General.Knowledge]

I'm not from the North so I'm not the best Portuguese person to ask. I think Northerners have a much closer relationship. In general we see Spanish people as being very culturally close to us, I imagine Galicians are slightly closer even.

[@FrancisTheBerd]

I'm not northern, I'm from lisbon the place full of immigrants and cynics that hate everything portuguese. I personally think they're amazing, Galego is fascinating and along with Mirandês are languages that should be protected and shown to the world in their full glory

[@andreilopiansky]

im from Lisbon too, i second yout comment regarding the place being full of immigrants (brazilians and africans) that hate us and call us racists just because@@FrancisTheBerd

[@doeixo]

they love us way less than we do

[@RuiMinecraft]

I am from Porto, and to us Northeners Galicians are like brothers, when I went on my erasmus I had (and still do) a close relationship with the Galicians, I love the fact that I could speak Portuguese with them and they would speak Galego with me and we could understand almost everything.

[@3ekaust]

Its not just that galician and portuguese share a few words, they are two distinct dialects of the same language.

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

I pronounce thee, Portogallego.

[@akai4942]

If we are playing that game I can just say portuguese is merely a dialect of iberian romance, along with castilian, astur-leonese, and galician. As a spanish speaker, I can understand galician 100%, every single word, yet I can't do that with portuguese. Under your rules, Galician would be an inbetween in the iberian-romance dialectal continuum, while portuguese and castilian would not be different languages, but merely different dialects. Since it's a stupid thing to say, and one no one would want, I suggest we simply accept galician as its own distinct languages, and we drop the stupid linguistic ethnonationalism.

[@TheLexy131313]

Linguistic ethnonationalism? In every university the Portuguese language is officially refered to as galego-português or galaico-português.. I wish I had that question right when I had an exam for the linguistic chair. I would've got a better grade back then.😂

[@3ekaust]

@@akai4942 you may be a spanish speaker, i am both a spanish speaker and a portuguese speaker, and also a linguist, so... :/ fallacies apart, there is an unbroken continuum from galicia to portugal linguistically speaking, southern galician and northern portuguese are identical, exactly the same, word by word. There are more linguistic differences between the spanish of cantabria and the spanish of cadiz than between galician and portuguese. If you claim galician and portuguese are different languages, that's fair, but then spanish is not one language either and should be broken up into different languages too. This is the same debate that happens with catalan-valencian, for some reason it is always the minority languages that are broken up into small tiny pockets, almost as if that was a previous step to then call them "regional" and "small" and "useless". People deny galician and portuguese are the same language because if they do admit that, then the argument "galician is a language only to be spoken to cows" often used becomes useless.

[@akai4942]

@@3ekaust >There are more linguistic differences between the spanish of cantabria and the spanish of cadiz than between galician and portuguese. If you are going to lie, then sure, anything is possible. Fantasy worlds aside, Spanish is very uniform, from Castilla to Tierra del fuego. There are more differences between portuguese speakers (br portuguese and portugal portuguese) than there are among spanish speakers.

[@sunix8078]

Bro what? Im from Galicia and i have literally NEVER saw a single person that wants to break away

[@ivybridge4054]

Great ideas for videos: “temporarily annexed areas”( history of Alsace Lorraine); ( Cyprus for a long time) (Taiwan) (Spanish and French North America … could be whole episode ) etc. I feel like you did a lot of this before but maybe you can with a different interpretation

[@ivybridge4054]

Not a big KZbin commenter but think I never commented with you before maybe I did apologize if I did: I never heard anyone Do such a great job in dispassionately like an alien in a good way talk about Ireland and Great Britain issue.

[@xbai6986]

Im from Galicia. Everything you said here is completely right, we have a lot of cultural connections with Portugal, but the movements to unite with it are so small :)

[@mrsmith1938]

​@@ElSora-ws8zfwhat does chavos mean

[@xbai6986]

@@ElSora-ws8zf Mi canal está así de cuando era pequeño, las modas y tal cambiaron mi lenguaje claro, pero mi canal está así para poder recordar mi niñez jajajajsja

[@hosseinramez3293]

You seriously can't stop wanting Galicia for Portugal now can you?

[@hotman_pt_]

i mean, i would rather have cabo verde or São tomé, less beef and claims actually more legitimate

[@jmlg]

Is not Galicia being part of Portugal but Portugal being part of Galicia again 😎

[@FrancisTheBerd]

​@@hotman_pt_ I'm portuguese Cape verdian and those guys want the money but hate the portugueses guts lmao

[@hotman_pt_]

watch untill they discover basically everything in those islands was made by... the portuguese@@FrancisTheBerd

[@FrancisTheBerd]

@@hotman_pt_ I know but there is a popular sentiment of resentment towards Portugal, some see it as only a way into europe and I don't blame them cuz everyone can get citzenship in this shit💀

[@maximilianrhinestone1024]

Dont forget Eastern Thrace (Currently known as European Turkey, including Instanbul/Constantinople) to be reannexed back to Greece due to historical significance of the the area and its strong connection to Greece throughout the years. Come on, look at a map. this is a line that leans/ fits more Greece rather than other countries.

[@Mewing_cat]

You have no idea how cool is too see people talking about Galicia in a NON-Galician context.Thanks man

[@Christmas_Joe]

I also enjoy it

[@matthewlynch9331]

Nagorno karabakh dissolved 5 days ago

[@lizardlenny]

I think self determination is more important than how nice it looks on the map...

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

Self determination at what level? Regional? County? City? Village? Street? And why? I think that international treaties, peace and stability are more important. Just look at what is happening in Ukraine! In EU the borders are less and less important but a war would be devastating! It is just my opinion!

[@Chris-qb8kg]

Ethnic, Religious Ways, Self Determination was a made idea for nations and people of the choosing of a nation or idea thats reasonable, also internatioanl treaties, have made middle east it is, Tons of conflict and actually ukraine war ironically!, also I like u say EU borders are less important but in other comments u rath against hungarians and tranyslvania lmao@@TheMihaiMarinescu

[@Aedar]

I usually wait for the end of the video to give it a like, but this time I "liked" it within the first 30 seconds just for the references to Paradox games, HRE,...

[@robdehoogh6742]

What about Flanders? In time this part of Belgium will be re united with The Netherlands

[@NeichoKijimura]

Finally, a video about countries that might dissappear/split up/shouldn't exist/... without mentioning my home country Belgium

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

😂😂😂

[@PakBallandSami]

Note: A national priority began with the assimilation of non-Italian people in 1923 and continued under the Mussolini administration. Closing Slovene and Croatian public schools and institutions, gerrymandering to lower the number of Slovene representatives in Rome, and evicting priests and educators from Istria and sending them to Yugoslavia or other places were some of the tactics used. A law that Italianized Slavic names in Istria was passed in 1927. The anti-Italian nationalist group TIGR

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

The same in occupied Transylvania under the Hungary My grandfather's name was charged to "Fekete" and he was declared as "Hungarian" in their census. Orthodox priests were banned or killed and Romanian schools were closed. After Trianon finally Romanians from Transilvania gained their freedom. It is stupid to say that a 73% majority to be ruled by a 17% minority. I understand you! For my country Trianon was a recognition of our national dreams! We lived under Hungarian repression exactly how you said!

[@levesteM]

Regarding Szekely Land(the majority Hungarian part of Transylvania), one thing you didn't mention is it's current push for autonomy, which is the main goal of the Hungarian minority party, which has managed to get elected into parliament since 1990. It wasn't the whole territory, but it previously had autonomy between 1952-1968.

[@ryansearle6157]

Another thing worth mentioning about Northern Ireland is that when Ireland was partitioned the Irish Republican Army (IRA) arose as a separatist group within Northern Ireland seeking unification, that conflict has mostly died down now but part of the agreement reached between them and the UK is that Northern Ireland can have a referendum on reunification anytime

[@d.mitchell7809]

Did a police car or ambulance pass by at 2:31, and if so did he either not notice, or not care enough to re-record the line? 😂

[@SquidMonke4]

LOL

[@General.Knowledge]

It absolutely did! The volume of ambulances is absurdly loud. I only noticed in the final editing so it was too late to re record lol.

[@nenenindonu]

Keep an eye on Iran, the country might easily balkanize into a second Yugoslavia with majority Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Baloch, Arab regions breaking away

[@Donotlookatmyprofilepicture123]

I don’t know about this take I mean separatists movements are relatively less then other countries like Turkey and the gouvernement would never allow a breaking of the country. Also you need to realize that contrary to Yugoslavia this country is extremely ancient and the people have lived there in harmony for centuries so I think its unlikely.

[@joetrump2983]

Nah that's just a bunch of crap

[@EsfandiarNokhodaki]

Yugoslavia was Federal State Iran Is United State !!! To Compare With Turkey Iraq Pakistan Afghanistan and fake Soviet Azerbaijan!!! There is less racism against Minorities In Iran!!! Even There is 10,000 Jews in Iran and they have full rights and even they have 2 members in Iranian parliament!!!

[@Yes-qj4bi]

I get Azerbaijan but Kurds are Iranian but then again most nations from Yugoslavia were Southern Slavic even Serbian

[@nenenindonu]

@@Yes-qj4bi Kurds are a separate ethnic group and speak their own languages which aren't even mutually intelligible among themselves let alone Persian

[@grandmasteryoda6717]

I'm sure this video won't be controversial at all.

[@GenericYoutubeGuy]

This is about parts of countries. The best other parts of countries joining other countries would be Strasbourg, East Prussia and German Bohemia joining Germany, Upper Austrian Czechia and Western Slovenia joining Austria, Yukon and British Columbia joining Alaska (US), the Falklands joining Argentina, Thracia, Southern Cyprus, and Western Anatolia joining Greece, Southwest Bulgaria joining Macedonia, Karelia and Finnmark joining Finland, Murmansk joining Norway, Smolensk joining Belarus, southern Haiti joining Dominican Republic, Southern China joining the ROC, Inner Mongolia and Northern Tibet joining Mongolia, the Russo-Japanese islands joining Japan, parts of China and Pakistan joining India, and parts of Eritrea and Somalia joining Ethiopia.

[@user-wh5se3cb2y]

Why would Smolensk join Belarus and Murmansl join Norway?

[@GenericYoutubeGuy]

@@user-wh5se3cb2y it just makes perfect ethnic sense

[@atakanpayman]

Well, these claims are only one sided solutions at the end of the day.

[@winstonway9705]

Sarawak was a sovereign country from 1841 to 1941, recognized by the USA and UK, before it was occupied by the Empire of Japan until 1945, then became a British colony until 1963. The Federation of Malaya annexed it and North Borneo and renamed itself 'Malaysia'.

[@bingchilling7264]

Orkney is a huge stretch. It is never going to happen, its a couple fringe locals and the vast majority are behind staying Scottish. As they are all Scottish its not surprising

[@grandmasteryoda6717]

I bet you're anglo.

[@General.Knowledge]

Yeah it definitely won't. But it's still interesting to mention, I think!

[@charlesm127]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Shetland at all

[@GoOregonDucks]

Good thumbnail

[@EnglishOrthodox]

3:35 Northern Ireland will never want to join the south

[@EnglishOrthodox]

@@km-ry5wq 7000 actually

[@chickentenders1777]

Transylvania will never breakaway from Romania. It’s like saying Plovdiv would breakaway from Bulgaria or Naples from Italy. Just because some support a breakaway region doesn’t mean it’s realistic.

[@sonofskeletor33]

Might not be plausible in the short term, but it would be justifiable historically and ethically.

[@content1006]

"Plovdiv from Hungary" lmao

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

​@@sonofskeletor33😂😂😂 How "historicaly"? Hungarians came into Europe from Asia! They were powerful just allied with Austria. "Ethicaly"???? What are you talking about? A 17% minority to rule over a 73% majority? Hundreds of years of de-nationalization and forced assimilation? What are you smoking? My grandfather's name was changed by Hungarians in "Fekete" and registered as "Maghiar" in their census! In this case it is ethical to turn back to slavery!?!

[@sonofskeletor33]

@@TheMihaiMarinescu Uh, because Transylvania was inextricably linked with Hungary for a full 1,000 years? Is that historical enough for you? I'm not advocating it go to Hungary regardless, just that ethically there would be great justification for Transylvania becoming an independent nation. It's historical connection with 'Romania', is tenuous, at best. The ethics by way in which is was attached to Romania were questionable, at best. Thus, historically and ethically, it's eminently justifiable. Oh, and all humans came to Europe via Asia, unless they crossed via Gibraltar from Africa. So, not really sure what your point is?

[@chickentenders1777]

@@sonofskeletor33 yeah but Hungary never gained full ethnic control of the territory, as Romanians always inhabited the region. It’s like saying turkey has a claim to Bulgaria because they ruled over it for 500 years. Same thing with Ukraine and the Baltic states. Nothing historically matters if a ethnic majority is present, and is native to the lands like Romanians / dacians.

[@bharti4172]

Total video kitni hongi iss channel par...i have to watch all...

[@akanay22]

The map of Nagarno-Karabakh is wrong. Nagarno-Karabakh is the place where the armenians are the majority but it is much smaller than what is shown in the video. The rest of the are in the video is either majority azerbaijani or is very sparsely populated therefore not really majority anything.

[@familygash7500]

Unfortunately Artsakh doesn't exist anymore, as Azerbaijanis invaded, dissolved it and ethnically cleansed the region (with Western toleration of course). An Armenian re-liberation of the territory may be possible in the future, but not right now.

[@atakanpayman]

An Armenian re-invasion of Karabakh would simply doom Armenia. It is funny how Armenians get support even though their invasion and occupation of Azerbaijani lands were against any norm. Classic western double standarts.

[@user-yx8ct7rc8w]

Western was silent when the Armenians occupied Karabakh (the internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan) and staged ethnic cleansing and massacre against Azerbaijanis. And now international law and historical justice have been restored in Karabakh.

[@familygash7500]

@@user-yx8ct7rc8w The land was predominantly inhabited by Armenians, and was given to Azerbaijan by The Soviets in order to cause problems in the future. When The Soviet Union dissolved the borders should have been redrawn in order to accommodate for ethnic populations. The Armenians in Artsakh shouldn't have to be part of a country that oppreses them, just because an old piece of paper says: 'This country owns this land'.

[@User9r682]

Armenia as a state is in an untenable position, if anything it's more likely to get partitioned between Azerbaijan and Turkey in the future.

[@atakanpayman]

@@familygash7500 I am afraid the borders were set anyway. Plus Armenia did not just stop with Karabakh but also invaded the surrounding Azerbaijani provinces. The oppression of Azeris in Armenia are also neglected for some reason. The Zengezur uezd was also majority Azerbaijani in the past, but thanks to the Soviets and Armenia the Azerbaijani people were slowly removed. The "West" needs to stop acting in a one sided way.

[@CUMALI_ORDUGAHI]

Check out the iranian türks

[@campones...]

Kurds?

[@CUMALI_ORDUGAHI]

@@campones... What do you mean

[@user-sb3yq5hi5p]

Azerbaycan Turks,quasgai Turks,turkmens

[@monkeeseemonkeedoo3745]

Honestly, on the 'petitions' to not build nuclear in the UK and so on, I wouldn't be surprised if the kgb had a large hand to play in that.

[@geece5412]

Its kind of crazy that Azerbaijan was allowed to ethnicly clean 200,000 Armenians from Artsakh with the West not doing anything.

[@campones...]

General, poderia fazer um vídeo sobre os países que poderiam sofrer uma balcanization no futuro como exemplo Iran, Rússia, Brasil, India, Turquía, Libia, México...

[@benjamim9138]

Brasil e México? Esses aí são bem estáveis

[@mossfen583]

@@benjamim9138Turkey? Which minority ethnic population except for Kurds have even the slightest power in Turkey?

[@samiiiyusufff]

@@mossfen583 Zaza Kurds and Laz

[@campones...]

@@benjamim9138 num futuro próximo pode estar todo o oposto jovem

[@hotman_pt_]

@@benjamim9138 Brasil não diria, mas Russia pode se dividir num futuro, tendo em conta que a sibéria e várias outras regiões russas ainda possuem minorias túrquicas, chinesas, siberianas e caucasianas

[@thatsleepybirb]

6:09 existed* it got dissolved on january first i believe

[@Aydin-Adam]

10:41 Corsicans have Italian last names, such as Napoleon Bonaparte

[@panatypical]

People need to learn how to negotiate "fair trade" corridors of sorts, so that these areas which want to unify with others can become a contiguous reality. It IS possible to make all spirits willing....

[@ferretyluv]

Mfr that’s what the Schengen area is.

[@frank-fv3pe]

Eswatini and Lesotho to South Africa.

[@giulianococco887]

The Orkney islands are closer geographically to Scotland so I doubt it'll someday be annexed by Norway

[@salvadorcantu7566]

Don't take this entirely seriously since I aint a local. But after living in Germany for about 7 years. I've noticed that wherever I go in germany (different regions), people dislike Bayern, and joke saying they wouldnt mind if Bayern gets its independence. I went there (Bayern) for vacations and went to the Zugspitze and the neighbouring mountains, and realized that the bavarian's accent is pretty similar to the austrian one and they also share cultural similarities. At the mountain people say hi to each other and austrian and bayern people would say "servus", while any other german would say hallo/moin. I dont know if austria should join germany or bayern should join austria, but the latter sounds more fitting. Dont think it would happen anyway, but just curious and would like see a video about it?

[@ingi2785]

That's true, Bayern (Bavaria) has more in common with Austria than with the rest of Germany. It has historical reasons. Btw. Bavaria is considered the "Texas of Germany" 😃 On the other hand, I wouldn't say other Germans dislike Bayern (maybe because of the politics.. their leader always wants to differ and disagree with everything that the rest of Germany wants). For sure, the language is different too and can be annoying if the Bavarian people refuse to speak "proper" German that you can actually understand, but I know many Germans who often go for holiday there and love it. To be honest, indeed the most beautiful part of Germany - I myself was there last year and the people are way more friendly and preserve their culture more than here in North-Germany for example. And yes, you don't really realise once you cross the border to Austria 😃 Maybe only the prices...

[@salvadorcantu7566]

@@ingi2785 yes Allgäu, it's my favorite part of Germany by far, and like you said, people are very protective of their culture, but also very kind, had a great time there. And sadly, I didn't get to hear Bairisch while I was over there, it was just Hochdeutsch with the accent and some colloquialisms. We started the climb from the Austrian side and like you said, it felt like Bayern still. But the gasoline prices were crazy 🤣. Well I know it's not most people that don't like Bayern. But some people really dislike the south. And I know I don't have enough information to make proper statistics, it would be a sampling error. Nonetheless I felt it was worth mentioning in this video.

[@DavidLimofLimReport]

Others - -Sudtirol to Austria -Pomerania to Germany -Schlesweig Holstein to Denmark -Tyneside to Scotland

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

Pomerania is not even German speaking anymore neither is it culturally or ethnically German its basically de facto Polish and the German government recognized its eastern border with Poland and Czechia

[@o_s-24]

Oh no no. Let's not talk about giving lands to germany, that never ended well

[@just_some_guy_innit]

im scottish and no one wants tyneside/northumbria to join scotland 😂 not a single geordie or scot gives a fuck

[@Rasmus-wr4pz]

Holstein is by far majority german and does not have any interest in joining denmark as they were never officially part of Denmark only as duchy with their own laws and regulations, however schleswig which was a historical part of denmark since the viking ages a danish fief and duchy and which have had for most of history a danish majority could be a possibility but unlikely seeing as germans now outnumber the danish minority and there's been an increasing amount of ukrainian refugees whom already outnumber the danes in the region so it's overall unlikely

[@talideon]

The only bit of the North of England Scotland might have its eyes on is Berwick-upon-Tweed. Definitely not Tyneside!

[@rafaxd8178]

Galician doesn't have celtic influence, at least, not more than any other romance language with celtic substrate, like Spanish or Astur-Leonese. Galicians are as Celts as the people from Valladolid, Toledo or Madrid are.

[@michaelhalsall5684]

The Galacian language is closely related Portuguese. The Celtic languages disappeared from Galacia centuries ago. There are still place names in Galacia that have a Celtic origin though.

[@rafaxd8178]

@@michaelhalsall5684 there are celtic toponims in all of Europe and even Turkey. Lots of the roman cities of Spain were celtic before and have a celtic toponim, like "Segobriga", and also current cities, like "Arévalo", "Brihuega", "Sigüenza" or "Segovia" in many different regions: Castille, the Basque Country, Asturias, Galicia, Portugal, Extremadura, León... Is not closely related. The celtic substrate of romance language is the same in Spanish, Galician, Asturian and even Basque has some influence. Galician and Spanish share most of the words of celtic origin and both of then have just a testimonial amount of those celtic words. Also, some of those celtic origin words in Spanish and Galician come from the celtic substrate in French, Occitan or Italian, not particullary from autoctonous celtic words (there were lots of celtic languages in Spain, even within the different tribes they may have different languages). Is like saying Spanish or Galician are semitic languages or closely related with semitic or mixed with it because both languages have lots of loanwords from Arabic. There is no evidence on were the romanization ended, but Asturias and the north of Castille and Leon were conquered lately. Romanization was unstopable. Galician celtism is just romantic nationalism without any historical base. Political roleplayers.

[@matsgmichelsen]

I do not believe it will happen, but as a Norwegian I think it could make sense for Orknøyene (Orkney Island) and Hjaltland (Shetland) to return "home" if they so wish. The cultural connection is still strong and there are many similar communties in Norway today. Norway will not step on the UK's toes and demand the islands back, the UK is a too important trade partner and ally to risk over such an "unimportant" issue. If a reunification were to happen the initiative and the inevitably struggle with British/Scottish authorities will depend solely on the islanders themselves.

[@AndrewCastlemaine]

It might be worth keeping an eye on Norfolk Island in the Pacific. It was semi-autonomous and self-governing until 2016 when Australia imposed a new structure that tightly bound Norfolk Island to Australia. Some of the Islanders are very unhappy with the current situation and are agitating for breaking away from Australia and entering into free association with New Zealand in much the same way that Niue and the Cook Islands operate

[@damonroberts7372]

Norfolk Island is _fully_ part of Australia, despite false claims by some of the Pitcairner-descended population that Queen Victoria "gave them" the island. It was an external territory of Britain from 1774, and by an Act of the British Parliament became an external territory of Australia in 1914. A limited form of self-governance was granted in 1979, but had to be repealed by the 2010s because of financial mismanagement. Norfolk Island has _always_ been subsidised by the Commonweath (in the range of tens of millions of AUD annually, at present). It can't _afford_ independence, and if NZ wants the burden, well, good luck to them... it would make up for all the dole bludgers they dumped on us.

[@john.950]

For some reason, the Portuguese have the false belief that Galicians want to join their country.

[@dvr_glc8701]

Yeah, we actually don't want. Some people only wants independence but most of us would prefer to stay in Spain or unify with Portugal together with the rest of Spain.

[@MW_Asura]

No Portuguese even talks about Galicia that much lol

[@john.950]

@@MW_Asura Well, I've seen it many times. Both on the internet and in real life.

[@o_s-24]

Please check the latest news next time. Artsakh was totally evacuated a couple of months ago with some 200+ deaths from the Armenian side (a lot in an explosion of a petrol station). The whole 100,000+ population left to Armenia, some then left to other countries, but most were relocated to various regions in Armenia. So yeah, that problem has been kinda solved but in a bloody and sad way...

[@markdowding5737]

By that logic, Hitler was just a massive problem-solver in regards to the Jews

[@aMiyafuji]

"A Paradox game without player led conferences" Well ain't that fine and dandy as an EU4 player

[@PalauBallEdits]

Yea!

[@luiseich]

I think Portugal should merge with Brasil. Just for the fun of the plot

[@lynxfresh5214]

By that logic the UK should join the USA, Spain should join Mexico and so on.

[@luiseich]

@@lynxfresh5214 hell yeah

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

​@@lynxfresh5214 hell yeah

[@stoned8034]

we already have problems with brazilian emigration, imagine we unit 😂😂

[@luiseich]

@@stoned8034 problems? You should be glad we are coming

[@idk-2779]

As someone from Galicia, that is nevera goung to happen cus nobody here supports that

[@lordcommandernox9197]

Speak for yourself. Where is the 'Ç'? Ah yes, Madrid doesn't let Galicians use it officially, they call Galician a silly Spanish dialect. Remaining in Spain is slow suicide by assimilation for Galicians. That goes for Basques and Catalans too. Unlike Spain, Portugal has no mass graves from civil wars. I would give it a second thought myself too, if I had to endure Franco.

[@novalarifin9703]

Ferghana Valley region might be a nice addition, but might just secede and unite rather than wild territory swap between three nation

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

9:30 I think 40% is a bit of a stretch ... 30 to 35% yes and mostly on the coast. Inland Istria was mostly Slavic for a long time also the percentages of Italian population today is 7 to 10 % ... although that's also a conundrum because a good part of them are Istriots which a re a romance people but their language developed separate from Italian even if Italians generally regard it as a dialect (Kinda like Rusyn is a recognized language but Ukrainians claim it's a Dialect of Ukrainian ) Lastly I believe the expulsion Yugoslav government commuted was targeting families that settled here after 1919 ... and yes a lot of people also fled and some were victims of mass shootings. Yugoslavia did manage to unite Istria with the rest of Croatia but I try not looking at it trough tinted glasses

[@norbertkrafcsik3628]

I think it would be cool to have an independent Transylvania as the Switzerland of the East with Romanians, Hungarians and Germans having their common nation.

[@thegermanempire8337]

Exactly! In my unbiased opinion, I think neither Hungary nor Romania can govern it without the other (Hungarians from Romania and vice versa) wanting to secede, the region is far too diverse. This would solve a lot of the existing tensions.

[@guccihorse4021]

Kaliningrad is the definition of border gore

[@josueveguilla9069]

Hmmm. Interesting 🤔

[@Fr.O.G.]

did the FSB write this?

[@thetruechaby]

Don't argue whether the Treaty of Trianon was fair or unfair. Also, it's January 5 today, and the Republic of Artsakh stopped existing five days ago.

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

Abolishing slavery was right or wrong? Depends! For slaves was right for slaves owners was wrong! This is Trianon. For the empires was wrong for those ruled was right! I am a Romanian from Transilvania. Being a national majority in Transilvania ruled by a cruel and criminal Hungarian minority for us Trianon was a blessing!

[@Only.D.G.]

Azerbaijan proved they won't allow any of its regions to breakaway again, lol

[@Adam-326]

As they shouldn’t.

[@skawary2569]

Not funny

[@nenenindonu]

Forget losing territory they might team up with Turkey and actually annex South Azerbaijan in a potential unrest or war within Iran

[@AcricketLoverEaglessupporter]

That's never gonna happen bro ​@@nenenindonu

[@Only.D.G.]

@@skawary2569 cry harder

[@JasonAtlas]

Troubles Mk2. I would rather not. Tensions have really not gone down.

[@richdobbs6595]

You really missed the timing of events in Azerbaijan. Artsakh is no more and will never be an Armenian populated region again. And rather than Nakhchivan being absorbed by Armenia, it is more likely that Azerbaijan will force a land corridor to stop it from being an exclave.

[@AVV_Beats]

True. At the time the Soviets took control of it, Nakhchivan had a 40% Armenian population, and a simple look at a map would dictate that it should have been made part of Armenia. The Soviets were real bastards for effectively laying inter-ethnic conflict time bombs.

[@abeeceedee1842]

That does seem possible, but it's also possible that the geopolitical landscape shifts in a way that Armenia is able to resist Azerbaijani genocidal expansionism.

[@nigelmehegan433]

In reality Northern Ireland would just be rejoining with the rest of the island of Ireland, in the same East Germany reunified with West Germany

[@oakleygreen1429]

Except Northern Ireland has a completely unique culture whereas Germany was a country just split in half

[@spencerburke]

​@@oakleygreen1429 How is it unique? Planter 'culture'?

[@michaelhalsall5684]

​@@spencerburkeThe old style Loyalist consider themselves "More British than most British" I believe they are sadly being let down by Westminster!

[@paulsteier8146]

The reality in NI RE a united ireland isn't black and white. Lots of people wrongly believe that most Catholics in NI want to be part of One Ireland so they get all excited when a census shows more Catholics than Protestants. Whereas you can safely say the vast majority of protestants don't want a united ireland, it's not true the other way round. They are as likely to remember the horrors of the Catholic Church in the republic as they are the troubles. Anyway the governance and institutions of NI aren't easily comparable with the Rep. Healthcare being one of them.

[@gavinhill3164]

​@@spencerburke after nearly 300 years, can you really be so disingenuous to refer to it as a planter culture?

[@HermitKing731]

Ok when did you make this video? Because as of right now there are no more Armenians in Karabakh. It happened like months ago. Did you not hear about it?

[@christophercarey8958]

The Orkney Islands? What about the Shetland islands?

[@skawary2569]

Bro you always talking about nagorno karabakh in fact there is no karabakh anymore

[@_unknown123.]

What if all the countries in Southeast Asia joined Indonesia and became the Majapahit Federation? that might be cool...maybe we can stop the battle royale in indochina too i mean we are somehow Malay...and were once part of the Majapahit Empire and Japanese colonies...historically we have lived under one flag

[@brontewcat]

I can tell you there is one SE Asian country that will not join Indonesia ever - its neighbour Timor Leste. Tena Timor spent too much blood and time struggling for their independence.

[@LetsExplore0725]

If you make a 2nd part of “Part of country that could join neighboring countries” put a part about if Northeast India join Bangladesh

[@afaircomparison]

Be louder. What you've recorded is perfect for a quiet space, but is hard to hear while, say, sitting at a cafe or on the porch with traffic passing by.

[@hotman_pt_]

or in my buggatti on my 1 million private race track

[@General.Knowledge]

Yeah I'm always concerned that the volume isn't high enough. Especially when compared to other videos I watch - it's definitely lower. I've started doing a 5db boost after the recording, maybe I'll increase it a little more! Thanks for the feedback.

[@Sussy_Sus76]

As a Galician, most of the people doesnt want independency, i only met 1 people who wanted in whole my life

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Exacto .

[@thegrandlord2914]

One azerbaijan man even bragging to me (Indonesian) about how good their military is to be able to defeat armenia and able to deffend their artzakh claim. Then this man started to mocking indonesia for losing east timor and 2 islands in northern borneo province I then decided to give him a reality check Firstly, indonesia lost all those 3 teritories from legal procedures through UN instead of ethnic cleansing, unlike what azerbaijan did Secondly, unlike azerbaijan who keep attacking weaker armenia again and again, indonesia have history of getting in war against multiple countries, all at once and come as the winner (dutch, ausie, nz, uk and gurkha forces) I also told him that, if he want to bragging about his country and at the same time looking down at my country, his country first atleast have to challenge iran militarily and come as the winner He turn silent

[@SneedPatch]

Except Indonesia didn't defeat the Dutch, UK, etc. militarily. It was successfully re-occupied after WW2, only to be granted independence after international pressure from the US and the UN. The US government threatened to withhold all Marshall Plan funds from the Dutch unless they withdrew from the East Indies

[@bredsheeran2897]

Bro called out most hoi4 players in the first 30 seconds

[@foreignofficeclub5815]

I am originally from The Orkney islands and I can guarantee they won't join Norway. Independence or at least devolved powers are possible.

[@krecior__]

Would love to actually see the Irish unification of 2024 happen

[@samdaniels2]

Is that because of Star Trek?

[@whiteshoes3621]

There is nothing "inevitable" about NI joining the Republic. Until recently (namely Brexit) support for unification had been declining for 10 years, and even at its height it was always a minority position (and still is, despite the right-wing Brexit madness in the UK). A large proportion of Catholics also did not want unification. And even if it did become a majority position you are going to be taking a significant minority of people who feel very strongly that they don't want unification. It's annoying to see blanket statements like "it is inevitable" for issues that are obviously very complex.

[@Tom-yp4mg]

Whatever helps you sleep at night

[@diarmuidbuckley6638]

A thing can be complex AND inevitable

[@spencerburke]

A significant minority didn't want to be trapped in a Unionist statelet either, but their wishes weren't considered important enough...

[@whiteshoes3621]

​@@spencerburkeAnd simply reversing that situation would work well how?

[@spencerburke]

@@whiteshoes3621 It removes outside interference immediately. That's a major improvement.