I beg to differ. They do have a unique identity and even have their own language of a sort. Ofcourse how different they are will differ by individual, but, it is clear they do differ somewhat based on culture.
The US embassies are usually very over the top The one in Venezuela (before they kicked them out) was a Greek temple-style building at the top of a hill and it had spotlights at night
Russia *before* taking Crimea: needs to pass through Turkey/NATO to get to the Med Russia *after* taking Crimea: needs to pass through Turkey/NATO to get to the Med
I'm not sure if any EU country missions to the EU in Brussels are extraterritorial entities, but countries' missions to the United Nations in New York are certainly extraterritorial ... which does raise the question: can New York police enforce local laws inside the US mission to the United Nations? Or is that also recognized as a diplomatic mission??
I dont think US State Department Civil Servants at US Mission at UN are foreign diplomats covered by the Vienna Convention. Most like its treated like a State Department building inside the US so yes local laws apply .
London doesn't have all the embassy drama. Did you hear about when Saudi agents murdered Jamal Kashoggi in their embassy in Istanbul in 2018? He had been a Saudi journalist who had worked both in Saudi intelligence and for Saudi state media, then later essentially defected and became a journalist in other countries (a columnist for the Washington post) who was very critical of the Saudi government. He avoided going back into Saudi territory because he knew they didn't like him, but he had to go into a Saudi embassy once to divorce his Saudi wife so he could marry his new girlfriend, and, that one time, they drugged him, killed him, dismembered his corpse, and sent the pieces to someone to hide, all while his girlfriend was waiting outside, then lied and said he left soon after going in. Later, the Saudi government "found out" and punished some people they claimed were the ones behind the attack, but Turkey thinks the order came from higher up than Saudi Arabia admits, so this is an ongoing dispute between the two countries.
To my surprise, there's actually a lot in Japan (including in Okinawa) that support the military base there. It just depends on the person. Some in Japan staunchly oppose ANY military, even the "Defense Force," and want to stay a purely disarmed nation on all fronts.
This is fairly random, but I don't think you realize that Indian Reservations in the USA are immune to state laws and taxes, but their land is considered part of states, despite them also being considered sovereign nations by the US in some sense, despite not being immune to federal laws and I think taxes.
My favorite example is how the Navajo and Hopi nations handle daylight savings time. The Navajo don't follow it, but the Hopi nation (which is entirely surrounded by the Navajo nation) do. Due to each nation having an exclave within the other, your clock changes six times as you drive along Arizona 264. And (because Arizona also doesn't follow daylight savings time), you'd need to change it a seventh time if you started in Arizona to get there.
It's probably easier to just have it part of USA, so they don't need their own government and has the right and economic support of USA. But, as someone who likes when countries break up and form new countries, it would be pretty neat to see all Indian reservations break free and become sovereign nations. Similarly with the other reservations of Canada and other places. Imagine the number of countries going from the official 195 up to 250 something.
At the end of the day the US Gov is sole Sovereign over all territory its military holds . Tribal treaties are mainly for local economic protection but we've all seen what any attempt at secession would lead to . And why would you be dumb enough to leave the richest country in the world where you enjoy special protections .
@@samarnadra My parents lived in Tuscon in the 1990s. I very vaguely remember some story about state of Arizona trying to go onto some reservation and confiscate all the gambling stuff because gambling was illegal in Arizona, and it wasn't clear whether Arizona state law applies in the reservation, byt I feel like that would have been resolved earlier than that.
@@kgd9725 True. The other reason why Indian/Native Reservations don't want FULL sovereignty is what it would do to their population & culture. Naïve people might think it would help protect their culture, but in reality it would lead to a huge amount of their people leaving for the US permanently. They already have this issue right now (calling it the "brain drain") but at least those people retain ties to their culture & region, and they receive tons of federal funding. Unless they became police states & forced their citizens to stay through threats of violence (think North Korea), people would leave for greener pastures & more opportunity. The issue isn't so bad now because people can come & go as they please, work in one area & come back to Navajo (or other) lands without issue. But put up hard borders, remove all Federal funding & operate as complete enclaves, you'd then guarantee poverty & people trying to leave for a better life.
I've often heard that embassies belongs to the country that holds the embassy, but that's just not true. It still belongs to the country it's located in, but with international agreements, the country that it's inside can't enforce their own laws, and can't send in police or military without prior permission by those who use the embassy. But all embassies in Belgium still is Belgian territory. - Similarly, international airports still are part of the country, but by international agreements, people are allowed to be within the airport without the requirements of entering the country. But the Brussels Airport is still Belgian territory.
This is correct, but as you said, the country who technically owns the land still can't send in police or their military (unless it's an official act of war). The host country treats embassy lands as essentially off-limits due to those treaties & agreements. If they failed to do so, it would highly discourage any countries from establishing embassies in your territory, even if you were allied.
Haha the bases at Guantanamo and Diego Garcia aren’t “top secret”, there are reportedly some secretive facilities within them. Also, it’s interesting that although all military bases, and embassies, are nominally de jure sovereign territory, the only military bases (outside of military occupations) which are actually incorporated as overseas territories are the British Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, while the American Guantanamo base has defacto territorial status as well because the Communist regime in Havana does not recognize it.
There's also some other examples that don't fit into any of these categories, like Canada's Vimy Ridge monument (which is on our $20 bill btw), which is on land owned by the Canadian government but is geographically located in France
I live kinda near an active US military base in Germany, and while I've never actually been inside (I'm not sure I would even be allowed), some of the signs around the place are in English and some shops are very American. Before the pandemic, I used to go to the nearby movie theater because it's the only one in probably my entire state that shows movies undubbed. The target audience is American, so everything in that movie theater is in English (the signs, the ads, the movies etc). During the 2016 US election period, there were ads for Clinton and the Democrats everywhere lol.
The 1903 Lease for Guantanamo Bay has no expiration date. Besides, it allowed Cuba to gain independence from Spain. Meanwhile, per agreement bet. China and the UK over Hong Kong, "one country, two systems" was supposed to last until 2047. Hmmmm
And this date is became closer. But fun fact that even everyone knows about Hong Kong agreement and knows that China PR have this transition period (1997-2047 or one country, two systems) to establish unified system everyone include UK who signed this agreement and accepted this rules still protest against reforms that was part of the agreement))) Doesn’t mean that this reforms are good, but what’s the point of original agreement if you don’t like it after all?
There is exist one territory that not embassy, airport or military base that rented by another country. Russia have agreement that Baikonur Space Port and whole town of Baikonur in Kazakhstan is part of Russia until 2050. And Russia pay annually more then 100 mln $ for it.
@@corey2232 they complaining cause Russia doesn’t have plans to prolong rent. Instead Russia have plans to build space port in Eastern Siberia and open it close to 2050.
The Guantanamo Bay situation is pretty weird on both sides. The US helped Cuba gain independence (not solely for altruistic purposes or anything), signed a lease with the government to pay them, & had no issues for nearly 60 years. But a communist revolt overthrows the government, leaving them sending checks to a regime that despises capitalism & refuses to cash them...🤣 I feel like Cuba's government should've just entered real negotiations & got way more money out of it. Instead of $4,000 a month, they could be getting tens of millions. Worst case scenario if you don't plan to cash the checks, you're making them account for additional funds & waste more money lol
The ACT in Australia is an odd case, sure embassies must lease the land they are on, so must citizens. In Canberra, ACT we have no freehold land, our city creators were sucked in by Georgist land philosophy Though whole embassies pay 5% of the unimproved land value each year, citizens pay $0.05 each 99 years for their leases
You make some pretty intelligent videos! I learned exactly what we're going through now it's just like deja vu! I personally went through it in 2012! In Ukraine! We went over there to establish their military get planes that they haven't had work and since world war II up and running so that they could actually defend themselves in this exact situation right now that we're having today! If people say this wasn't planned they just simply don't have enough information! Putin has literally done this in every decade since 1980 why would he change his playbook up now?
Permanent representation And embassies are two different things countries that have embassies there and our European members also have permanent representation so does Belgium
10:55 To be fair: Germany is completely surrounded by NATO members (except Austria and Switzerland) who are also EU members. Compare that to South Korea with North Korea right across the border or Japan with China across the sea. Why should Germany pay for American military presence, when there is no threat in a 1000km radius?
@@electricpaper269 One might make that argument, yes. But Germany is in a completely different situation than Japan or South Korea. - Germany and Russia are generally on good terms with another - There is a thick buffer of NATO and EU member countries between the two - The American military presence isn't even equipped to fight a conventional war. The US only uses Germany as a logistic hub and to operate their UAVs in the Middle East and Africa (because of the curvature of the Earth they can't do it from the US and need a relay station).
@peter schwarz Uh... you realize West Germany flourished, and now Germany is again the leader of the EU & one of the largest economies on the planet right? USA gave Germany a fighting chance after WW2, whereas the USSR literally held East Germany under their thumb as an actual puppet state. Even after WWI, the US argued to forgive Germany of war repirations, but the other European powers put all the blame on them & demanded they pay for the war. I know it's the internet & people just casually blame the US for anything & everything, but try using some critical thinking some time.
The title of the video was deceiving. I thought it was referring to whole “countries” in other countries, e.g. Scotland in the U.K. or the First Nations tribes in the U.S.
I just want to say, Canada House is absolutely stunning and very underrated. Without question it is one of the most beautiful High Commission/Embassies in the world.
Underrated? I don't think there's a whole lot of people rating the embassy looks lol Also, not surprising the guy with the half Canada/half UK flag profile pic likes Canada House 😉
6:12 I'm not a lawyer, but the North Atlantic Treaty's article 5 doesn't really oblige members to defend another member under attack. The main point is, that an attack on one member is considered like an attack on all members. However, article 5 doesn't specify HOW a member state has to help. Essentially, a NATO member state is free to react to an attack in any way deemed appropriate. That could mean a member state send an armored brigade or just a letter of condolence. Fun fact: the EU has a significantly more specific and stronger mutual defence agreement. It's called Article 42.7 and says the following: (Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union). This clause provides that if an EU country is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other EU countries have an OBLIGATION to aid and assist it BY ALL THE MEANS IN THEIR POWER, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.
@@Mr.Nichan Technically, they would be obliged to defend another EU member state who has been attacked on its own soil. However, what they would actually do in this scenario is another topic.
I like how toycat doesn't bother to edit anything out of his videos lol, when he said he was filming for 35 minutes it had actually been 35 minutes of the video
Brussels contains both other nations’ embassies to Belgium as well as embassies to the E.U.. some smaller nations will just have one embassy to the whole E.U. while nations like the USA probably have multiple embassies within the bloc in addition to a permanent ambassador to the EU.
my teacher from 6th grade, and the teacher who would pay me to help her for 7th and 8th grade, was from belgium, and she would tell me about many things about it
Taco Bell recently came to the UK and it's awesome. My American friends are horrified that I like it because there's so much better available over there, but I love their chicken burritos too much to care. On the subject of London embassies, my dad grew up in post-war Bolton alongside a large Ukrainian community, refugees I guess from the Soviets. They'd often club together to get a bus to go to London to demonstrate outside the Soviet embassy. My dad has it on good authority that there was much more violence involved than that. And I can't honestly blame them.
Diego García reminds me of a couple of islands in the southern Atlantic… only that the uk never bought them, just invaded them an expelled its inhabitants.
Nope. Airports are parts of the territories, there are just local laws that allow visa free transit. Same for embassies, local laws almost fully apply, however, the host state cannot use force against embassies and diplomats but it can cancel diplomat's immunities or even an embassy giving its employees some time to leave the country. A military base is more interesting thing but its status depends on the text of the treaty establishing such a military base. I'm surprised Baikonur was not mentioned. It's a city in Kazakhstan around the cosmodrome with the same name. Russian laws fully apply there for as long as this piece of land is rented by Russia.
Before I even listen to this one: Maybe this should be re-titled to be vaguely grammatical. Possibilities: When does a country's land legitimately belong to another country? When can a country claim to own part of another country? When do countries land on other countries? Countries other to belong countries a does when?
It's fully grammatical if you fix the spelling. I think it was meant to be, "When Does A Country's Land Belong To Other Contries?". That being said, "When Does One Country's Land Belong To Another Country?" with both instances of COUNTRY being singular, might sound better and go with the subject of the video better, too.
7:00 it's weird that the Average American has a positive opinion of Doctor Congo, in my experience everyone here either feels bad for it, thinks dictatorship bad, or doesn't know what it is
Also the map of French overseas bases is inaccurate. France has military bases in south-east Asia also due to the "overseas territories" it has in that area.
Hey toycat, i was wondering can a country elect to be annexed by another country? Presuming that the referendum is legit and clean, does the country they elect to be annexed by have to do something? Will the annexation be recognized?
If an actual country itself voted to dissolve its government & become a part of another country, yes... but that's highly unusual & would require the other country wants you in the first place. But countries don't typically vote to be annexed, they simply get annexed by another more powerful country. If it's an actual country with a functioning government, it's very unlikely they'd chose to peacefully give up their sovereignty, power & authority to another country (unless done so by threat of force). There are rare exceptions where a territory was a part of another country, then seeks to become part of another country for protection (like Texas declaring independence from Mexico, then requesting statehood into the US several years later), but even that's not common.
We Americans don't get cheerleaders either, but they are amazingly hot, next level. I saw some at XNFL (when that was a thing in Germany) front row seats. I was like DAMN SON!!!! LOL
Toycat: "I'm British, I don't really understand cheerleaders." IF YOU DON'T LIKE AMERICA'S PROBABLY ILLEGAL TREATY WITH THE UK FOR PUTTING A BASE ON DIEGO GARCIA YOU CAN LEAVE ...the island to us.
I am NOT a grammar Nazi... but I am an authoritarian grammarian. Just wanted to comment here that your video should be entitled "When Does A Country's Land Belong To Other Countries?" Best wishes.
5:46
You bastard, you jinxed it!!
Belgium has an embassy in Belgium because the EU.
🤔
additional info : No one in Okinawa think Okinawans are ethnically different from Japanese.(I'm quarter Okinawan lived there)
I beg to differ. They do have a unique identity and even have their own language of a sort. Ofcourse how different they are will differ by individual, but, it is clear they do differ somewhat based on culture.
5:45 YOU KNEW!!!
The US embassies are usually very over the top
The one in Venezuela (before they kicked them out) was a Greek temple-style building at the top of a hill and it had spotlights at night
Russia *before* taking Crimea: needs to pass through Turkey/NATO to get to the Med
Russia *after* taking Crimea: needs to pass through Turkey/NATO to get to the Med
Ummmmm
I'm not sure if any EU country missions to the EU in Brussels are extraterritorial entities, but countries' missions to the United Nations in New York are certainly extraterritorial ... which does raise the question: can New York police enforce local laws inside the US mission to the United Nations? Or is that also recognized as a diplomatic mission??
I dont think US State Department Civil Servants at US Mission at UN are foreign diplomats covered by the Vienna Convention. Most like its treated like a State Department building inside the US so yes local laws apply .
London doesn't have all the embassy drama. Did you hear about when Saudi agents murdered Jamal Kashoggi in their embassy in Istanbul in 2018? He had been a Saudi journalist who had worked both in Saudi intelligence and for Saudi state media, then later essentially defected and became a journalist in other countries (a columnist for the Washington post) who was very critical of the Saudi government. He avoided going back into Saudi territory because he knew they didn't like him, but he had to go into a Saudi embassy once to divorce his Saudi wife so he could marry his new girlfriend, and, that one time, they drugged him, killed him, dismembered his corpse, and sent the pieces to someone to hide, all while his girlfriend was waiting outside, then lied and said he left soon after going in. Later, the Saudi government "found out" and punished some people they claimed were the ones behind the attack, but Turkey thinks the order came from higher up than Saudi Arabia admits, so this is an ongoing dispute between the two countries.
Allegedly (:
you divorce your wife, you lose life
And look what the U.S. and U.K. are doing to Julian Assange....
To my surprise, there's actually a lot in Japan (including in Okinawa) that support the military base there. It just depends on the person. Some in Japan staunchly oppose ANY military, even the "Defense Force," and want to stay a purely disarmed nation on all fronts.
This is fairly random, but I don't think you realize that Indian Reservations in the USA are immune to state laws and taxes, but their land is considered part of states, despite them also being considered sovereign nations by the US in some sense, despite not being immune to federal laws and I think taxes.
My favorite example is how the Navajo and Hopi nations handle daylight savings time.
The Navajo don't follow it, but the Hopi nation (which is entirely surrounded by the Navajo nation) do. Due to each nation having an exclave within the other, your clock changes six times as you drive along Arizona 264. And (because Arizona also doesn't follow daylight savings time), you'd need to change it a seventh time if you started in Arizona to get there.
It's probably easier to just have it part of USA, so they don't need their own government and has the right and economic support of USA. But, as someone who likes when countries break up and form new countries, it would be pretty neat to see all Indian reservations break free and become sovereign nations. Similarly with the other reservations of Canada and other places. Imagine the number of countries going from the official 195 up to 250 something.
At the end of the day the US Gov is sole Sovereign over all territory its military holds . Tribal treaties are mainly for local economic protection but we've all seen what any attempt at secession would lead to . And why would you be dumb enough to leave the richest country in the world where you enjoy special protections .
@@samarnadra My parents lived in Tuscon in the 1990s. I very vaguely remember some story about state of Arizona trying to go onto some reservation and confiscate all the gambling stuff because gambling was illegal in Arizona, and it wasn't clear whether Arizona state law applies in the reservation, byt I feel like that would have been resolved earlier than that.
@@kgd9725 True. The other reason why Indian/Native Reservations don't want FULL sovereignty is what it would do to their population & culture. Naïve people might think it would help protect their culture, but in reality it would lead to a huge amount of their people leaving for the US permanently. They already have this issue right now (calling it the "brain drain") but at least those people retain ties to their culture & region, and they receive tons of federal funding.
Unless they became police states & forced their citizens to stay through threats of violence (think North Korea), people would leave for greener pastures & more opportunity. The issue isn't so bad now because people can come & go as they please, work in one area & come back to Navajo (or other) lands without issue. But put up hard borders, remove all Federal funding & operate as complete enclaves, you'd then guarantee poverty & people trying to leave for a better life.
I've often heard that embassies belongs to the country that holds the embassy, but that's just not true. It still belongs to the country it's located in, but with international agreements, the country that it's inside can't enforce their own laws, and can't send in police or military without prior permission by those who use the embassy. But all embassies in Belgium still is Belgian territory. - Similarly, international airports still are part of the country, but by international agreements, people are allowed to be within the airport without the requirements of entering the country. But the Brussels Airport is still Belgian territory.
Facts
This is correct, but as you said, the country who technically owns the land still can't send in police or their military (unless it's an official act of war). The host country treats embassy lands as essentially off-limits due to those treaties & agreements.
If they failed to do so, it would highly discourage any countries from establishing embassies in your territory, even if you were allied.
Millie and Terry are such a strange couple having bases all over the world
Haha the bases at Guantanamo and Diego Garcia aren’t “top secret”, there are reportedly some secretive facilities within them.
Also, it’s interesting that although all military bases, and embassies, are nominally de jure sovereign territory, the only military bases (outside of military occupations) which are actually incorporated as overseas territories are the British Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, while the American Guantanamo base has defacto territorial status as well because the Communist regime in Havana does not recognize it.
Awesome video Toycat! You have an amazing way of explaining these things!
These videos give me more knowledge than what school has to offer, great work!
yes
I’m in preschool and this video made me dangerous towards the other kids because now I know so muuuch
@@hedone13x Im in daycare 😈😈😈
There's also some other examples that don't fit into any of these categories, like Canada's Vimy Ridge monument (which is on our $20 bill btw), which is on land owned by the Canadian government but is geographically located in France
I live kinda near an active US military base in Germany, and while I've never actually been inside (I'm not sure I would even be allowed), some of the signs around the place are in English and some shops are very American.
Before the pandemic, I used to go to the nearby movie theater because it's the only one in probably my entire state that shows movies undubbed. The target audience is American, so everything in that movie theater is in English (the signs, the ads, the movies etc). During the 2016 US election period, there were ads for Clinton and the Democrats everywhere lol.
It is always impressive when I walk through Bern and see all the embassies. The rules thing does it make more special.
When he says welcome to my second channel, I'm like wait he have other channel?
The 1903 Lease for Guantanamo Bay has no expiration date. Besides, it allowed Cuba to gain independence from Spain.
Meanwhile, per agreement bet. China and the UK over Hong Kong, "one country, two systems" was supposed to last until 2047. Hmmmm
And this date is became closer. But fun fact that even everyone knows about Hong Kong agreement and knows that China PR have this transition period (1997-2047 or one country, two systems) to establish unified system everyone include UK who signed this agreement and accepted this rules still protest against reforms that was part of the agreement)))
Doesn’t mean that this reforms are good, but what’s the point of original agreement if you don’t like it after all?
5:45 bruh
There is exist one territory that not embassy, airport or military base that rented by another country. Russia have agreement that Baikonur Space Port and whole town of Baikonur in Kazakhstan is part of Russia until 2050. And Russia pay annually more then 100 mln $ for it.
Isn't Kazakhstan unhappy with that arrangement? I heard somewhere they wanted more money from Russia or something.
@@corey2232 they complaining cause Russia doesn’t have plans to prolong rent. Instead Russia have plans to build space port in Eastern Siberia and open it close to 2050.
If Google maps went down for 24 hours this channel would be fucked!
No, because second channel, don't care
The real enhanced interrogation is making the prisoners eat cold mcchickens.
Don't give Putin ideas 😟
Having a great day as a lithuanian, thanks Andrew!
5:44 well, that aged well
Gosh I wish I was lithuanian rn, that would have made me smile.
The Guantanamo Bay situation is pretty weird on both sides. The US helped Cuba gain independence (not solely for altruistic purposes or anything), signed a lease with the government to pay them, & had no issues for nearly 60 years.
But a communist revolt overthrows the government, leaving them sending checks to a regime that despises capitalism & refuses to cash them...🤣
I feel like Cuba's government should've just entered real negotiations & got way more money out of it. Instead of $4,000 a month, they could be getting tens of millions. Worst case scenario if you don't plan to cash the checks, you're making them account for additional funds & waste more money lol
The ACT in Australia is an odd case, sure embassies must lease the land they are on, so must citizens. In Canberra, ACT we have no freehold land, our city creators were sucked in by Georgist land philosophy
Though whole embassies pay 5% of the unimproved land value each year, citizens pay $0.05 each 99 years for their leases
You make some pretty intelligent videos! I learned exactly what we're going through now it's just like deja vu! I personally went through it in 2012! In Ukraine! We went over there to establish their military get planes that they haven't had work and since world war II up and running so that they could actually defend themselves in this exact situation right now that we're having today! If people say this wasn't planned they just simply don't have enough information! Putin has literally done this in every decade since 1980 why would he change his playbook up now?
Not sure why you’re uploading two days in a row but I’ll take it
Permanent representation And embassies are two different things countries that have embassies there and our European members also have permanent representation so does Belgium
I figure international train stations follow the same laws as international airrports in countries?
why do you put the hofburg in vienna into the thumbnail and don't even talk about austria for a second?
I knew I know that building but couldn't tell which one it was.
10:55
To be fair:
Germany is completely surrounded by NATO members (except Austria and Switzerland) who are also EU members.
Compare that to South Korea with North Korea right across the border or Japan with China across the sea.
Why should Germany pay for American military presence, when there is no threat in a 1000km radius?
@peter schwarz
Some people mockingly say that NATO's purpose is to
- Keep the Russians out
- Keep the Americans in
- And keep the Germans down
@@electricpaper269
One might make that argument, yes.
But Germany is in a completely different situation than Japan or South Korea.
- Germany and Russia are generally on good terms with another
- There is a thick buffer of NATO and EU member countries between the two
- The American military presence isn't even equipped to fight a conventional war. The US only uses Germany as a logistic hub and to operate their UAVs in the Middle East and Africa (because of the curvature of the Earth they can't do it from the US and need a relay station).
How to get germany to join ww3. Say lebensraum then give the germans all of eastern europe again
@peter schwarz Uh... you realize West Germany flourished, and now Germany is again the leader of the EU & one of the largest economies on the planet right?
USA gave Germany a fighting chance after WW2, whereas the USSR literally held East Germany under their thumb as an actual puppet state. Even after WWI, the US argued to forgive Germany of war repirations, but the other European powers put all the blame on them & demanded they pay for the war.
I know it's the internet & people just casually blame the US for anything & everything, but try using some critical thinking some time.
@@electricpaper269 Hello I'm from the future, you were wrong about Belarus
Thumbnail: "your country doesnt own this"
The video: *starts off with the country this commenter lives in*
Nice. Oh, and great job of always staying on point.
Just listened to this while making breakfast
Ya I lived in Frankfurt in Griesheim 3 years and worked at the Marriott Hotel Champions Sports Bar back in 98-00.
The title of the video was deceiving. I thought it was referring to whole “countries” in other countries, e.g. Scotland in the U.K. or the First Nations tribes in the U.S.
Toy cat you know there aren’t many locations in Germany that you can view with street view 😢
22:36 the population of Djibouti reached 1M last year.
I just want to say, Canada House is absolutely stunning and very underrated. Without question it is one of the most beautiful High Commission/Embassies in the world.
Underrated? I don't think there's a whole lot of people rating the embassy looks lol
Also, not surprising the guy with the half Canada/half UK flag profile pic likes Canada House 😉
6:12
I'm not a lawyer, but the North Atlantic Treaty's article 5 doesn't really oblige members to defend another member under attack.
The main point is, that an attack on one member is considered like an attack on all members.
However, article 5 doesn't specify HOW a member state has to help.
Essentially, a NATO member state is free to react to an attack in any way deemed appropriate.
That could mean a member state send an armored brigade or just a letter of condolence.
Fun fact: the EU has a significantly more specific and stronger mutual defence agreement.
It's called Article 42.7 and says the following:
(Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union). This clause provides that if an EU country is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other EU countries have an OBLIGATION to aid and assist it BY ALL THE MEANS IN THEIR POWER, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.
Wow. So that means Sweden and Finland ACTUALLY WOULD have to to defend the Baltic States, Poland, or Germany if Russia attacked them?
@@Mr.Nichan
Technically, they would be obliged to defend another EU member state who has been attacked on its own soil.
However, what they would actually do in this scenario is another topic.
There is going to be a rush on islands in the arctic ocean soon.
I can't believe Toycat had that much difficulty spotting the giant American cube embassy in London.
Oh! A rare double!
"That feels like a waste of time" is like the most Belgian thing you can say!
DOUBLE UPLOAD!!!
I can't wait for the day that my school shows us one of your videos as and educational video on whatever it is.
I passed a huge American base with walls around, right in the middle of the woods where Mt.Fuji starts, it was surreal.
used to live in okinawa at the military base and one in germany an hour from wiesbaden for 10 years cool to see places i’ve been in a video
5:45 that aged well
I like how toycat doesn't bother to edit anything out of his videos lol, when he said he was filming for 35 minutes it had actually been 35 minutes of the video
6:56 and we love you ❤️
Almost at 200k on this channel!
Brussels contains both other nations’ embassies to Belgium as well as embassies to the E.U.. some smaller nations will just have one embassy to the whole E.U. while nations like the USA probably have multiple embassies within the bloc in addition to a permanent ambassador to the EU.
Hey, can you make a video about which countries west(ern) europe consists of. I see alot of different awnsers on the internet.
tldr news (EU I think) did a pole of their viewers on the subject and analyzed it in a video
my teacher from 6th grade, and the teacher who would pay me to help her for 7th and 8th grade, was from belgium, and she would tell me about many things about it
As an American representative of the comment section, I can indeed confirm that we do not have "Might Wings" on our Mc. Donald's menu.
Uncle Sugar's biggest free loader: Canada
Taco Bell recently came to the UK and it's awesome. My American friends are horrified that I like it because there's so much better available over there, but I love their chicken burritos too much to care.
On the subject of London embassies, my dad grew up in post-war Bolton alongside a large Ukrainian community, refugees I guess from the Soviets. They'd often club together to get a bus to go to London to demonstrate outside the Soviet embassy. My dad has it on good authority that there was much more violence involved than that. And I can't honestly blame them.
Honestly, such a great video, though you failed to mention that most of the Chagossians who were native to Diego Garcia now live in... Crawley xD
let’s fucking gooooo 40 minute toy cat video
As an American I really don't know why the cardinals sent their cheerleaders to a military base, maybe the soldiers got a nut?
Diego García reminds me of a couple of islands in the southern Atlantic… only that the uk never bought them, just invaded them an expelled its inhabitants.
Lol I think you missed a joke in the McDonald’s reviews lol
can you do some more videos on uk politics and elections like you have with america?
"If Ukraine invades Russia, a purely hypothetical situation"
1 month later…
Yeah. It aged very poorly.
Nope.
Airports are parts of the territories, there are just local laws that allow visa free transit.
Same for embassies, local laws almost fully apply, however, the host state cannot use force against embassies and diplomats but it can cancel diplomat's immunities or even an embassy giving its employees some time to leave the country.
A military base is more interesting thing but its status depends on the text of the treaty establishing such a military base.
I'm surprised Baikonur was not mentioned. It's a city in Kazakhstan around the cosmodrome with the same name. Russian laws fully apply there for as long as this piece of land is rented by Russia.
Before I even listen to this one: Maybe this should be re-titled to be vaguely grammatical. Possibilities: When does a country's land legitimately belong to another country? When can a country claim to own part of another country? When do countries land on other countries? Countries other to belong countries a does when?
It's fully grammatical if you fix the spelling. I think it was meant to be, "When Does A Country's Land Belong To Other Contries?". That being said, "When Does One Country's Land Belong To Another Country?" with both instances of COUNTRY being singular, might sound better and go with the subject of the video better, too.
Nice ;D Interesting video :D
The Frankfurt Airport doesn't have any military operations on it.
The Netherlands, Brunssum is also a USA base
5:02 Your head covers New Zealand :D
yeah Taipei representatives office is definitely not an embassy, absolutely not.
7:00 it's weird that the Average American has a positive opinion of Doctor Congo, in my experience everyone here either feels bad for it, thinks dictatorship bad, or doesn't know what it is
someone should make timestamps for all the topics toycat talks about so you can see how far he strays from the topic
Also the map of French overseas bases is inaccurate. France has military bases in south-east Asia also due to the "overseas territories" it has in that area.
Funny that you don't mention the British "Sovereign" Base Areas on Cyprus - a true gem of geopolitical anachronism!
Pls explain why you had Vienna‘s Heldenplatz on the Thumbnail, but failed to talk about Austria
What about the enclaves and exclaves on the Netherlands-Belgium border area.
Mighty wings are nothing to miss like the mcrib lol I'm a perfectly example of fast food too
UK police officer: quickly goes into Canadian embassy to use the bathroom
The next day: UK AND CANADA AT WAR
0:20 tf you mean belgium ain't a real country?
You found the McRib in Guantanamo. LOL
I'm from the U.S., never heard of the mighty wings, then again, despite popular belief, I don't stare at there menu / food all day
Hey toycat, i was wondering can a country elect to be annexed by another country? Presuming that the referendum is legit and clean, does the country they elect to be annexed by have to do something? Will the annexation be recognized?
If an actual country itself voted to dissolve its government & become a part of another country, yes... but that's highly unusual & would require the other country wants you in the first place.
But countries don't typically vote to be annexed, they simply get annexed by another more powerful country. If it's an actual country with a functioning government, it's very unlikely they'd chose to peacefully give up their sovereignty, power & authority to another country (unless done so by threat of force).
There are rare exceptions where a territory was a part of another country, then seeks to become part of another country for protection (like Texas declaring independence from Mexico, then requesting statehood into the US several years later), but even that's not common.
What about the 1/3USA(Gringoland)/1/2EUM(Mexico)?
5:45 ???
Djibouti is more prominent for being basically the port for all of Ethiopia than being a place for military bases
this map must be where there had a military base, Brazil does not have an American military base, it had in the second world war
We Americans don't get cheerleaders either, but they are amazingly hot, next level. I saw some at XNFL (when that was a thing in Germany) front row seats. I was like DAMN SON!!!! LOL
The US is a big boy with big guns compared to Djibouti who is a tiny ant with a tiny pistol.
Fun fact when my uncle was in the navy he lived in okinawa for years
Do you mean Okinawa?
Toycat: "I'm British, I don't really understand cheerleaders."
IF YOU DON'T LIKE AMERICA'S PROBABLY ILLEGAL TREATY WITH THE UK FOR PUTTING A BASE ON DIEGO GARCIA YOU CAN LEAVE ...the island to us.
The title hurt my head a bit
That ukraine invasion joke aged like milk
Wouldn’t the Grandmaster’s Rome crib belong to the Order of Malta then, not Italy?
I am NOT a grammar Nazi... but I am an authoritarian grammarian. Just wanted to comment here that your video should be entitled "When Does A Country's Land Belong To Other Countries?" Best wishes.