I understood that there are proposals to create the East African Federation out of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and perhaps the DRC. A constitution is supposed to be drafted by 2023 but will likely come later. Ideas for this existed since the 1960s but it has been revived in the 2010s.
@@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodb7585 i got no sarcasm for the message either you dont know what a joke is which is likely for a kid or you are not the most funniest of your friends
"Three Seas Initiative" is current successor idea to Intermarium, but it ties more countries than Intermarium was supposed to cover. It's mostly economic and in lesser part political union
@@Quartzyyy It won't, because it's essentially a subdivision of EU. It's a forum that was made between eastern memebers of the EU so that they can cooperate on infrastructure and focus on regional problems in the east without "bothering" uninvolved countries. One way you could imagine it would be as a way looser V4
@@sticlavoda5632 The Bucharest 9 is the true successor to the Intermarum concept, at least in terms of goals. As a NATO lobby group that advocates for stronger European defences against Russia, it really is the modern diplomacy-based version of the same idea.
@@Vercur There is no dislike between our peoples. Any type of union like this in present day Europe is non-sense. It could have worked after our independence, with a German king. Why not? But the language barrier would have been huge... not impossible, Belgium made it work. But at least they have Latin alphabet... Honestly, Cyrillic script should be retired everywhere, Latin can work just fine with a couple extra characters like each language has... But again, it's probably impossible because it's also part of Bulgarian heritage, it was invented there. It's a pity because geographically it makes so SO much sense.
Romania should screw over the EU big time. Should take back their oil from Austria and sell them at a 60% profit, should eff up german companies over taxing them, also should charge 500% interest on exported lumber to Austria and so forth, when the EU would be outraged to just say "it should have not happened if we were in shengen lol
You know, i see it as a very good ideea because we could have total control over the black sea, a perfect dirty tool to blackmail the western europe when next time they call us ''the wild west of Europe'' or dont want to let us into the schenghen zone. If only both of our countries had good politicians...
As a Romanian, I'm surprised to see how much support a Romanian-Bulgarian Union gets from the Bulgarians in the comment section. Love to you my southern broders and sisters! :X
@Riccardo Small countries generally had (and still have) the option of banding together in all sorts of unions, or let themselves be eaten by the big players of the world.
Prior to Bulgaria's liberation in 1878, during the 1860s Bulgarian intellectuals settled in Romania proposed an alliance with Serbia against the Ottomans in a war, if won, the Bulgarians agreed to form a Serbo-Bulgarian Union under the Serbian crown but was rejected due to the dubiousness of the proposal and geopolitical circumstances
@@boombah8664 Bulgaria wouldn't dominate, rather it's so equal to Serbia in size and population that it would be able to provide the necessary counter-balance to keep such a Yugoslav union in check. Given that one of the primary failings of Yugoslavia in the end was keeping Serbian dominion in check. What's more interesting is how close Serbian and Bulgarian were back then, had such a Union occured Serbs and Bulgarians would be speaking Serbo-Bulgarian and that would be the primary language of the Yugoslavs, not Serbo-Croatian.
You forgot Maphilindo (Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia). The movement to unify all 3 countries kind of died out when ASEAN was formed because although ASEAN was not really a true union of the 3 countries, it was as far as the 3 countries were willing to go in regards to giving up their individual sovereignty.
iirc the people and the leader was supportive of the idea, but because of disputes in north borneo between all 3 countries, things didn't go as smoothly, it also didn't help when north borneo joins malaya and form the new Malaysia, and both the philippines and indonesia refused to acknowledge the new Malaysia as a successor to the old malaya, attempt to smooth out relations such as the Manila accord did little, and things went so sour that an undeclared war happens between malaysia and indonesia, the idea was long dead by then
Yes, at that time we (Romania) refused because we wanted a buffer state between us and Greece that had considerable influence in our internal affairs. We are historically against the idea of federation and in favor of the unitary state. I don't know exactly how Bulgarians currently feel about Serbia, but a unitary, decentralized state of Romania-Bulgaria-Serbia sounds good to me. Possibly Moldova,Montenegro and North Macedonia. The major problem would be the population. Romanians would be around 55 percent.
@@FlorinDaniel Honestly, most Bulgarians love the Serbs and even look up to them, they like Romania tho not to the same extent, and Macedonia is just a BAD topic to bring up if you want to have fun
Serbia now is an enemy of Europe, because is supporting Russia and China. Even is future membership application of EU is close to getting deleted permanently.
During world war II. Czechoslovak and Polish governments in London exile were discusing postwar confederation as a counterweight to Germany. However it was not approved by Soviet union because it wanted smaller and weaker buffer states on its border.
During late 1940's, there was strong agenda for Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to unite. Interestingly, it was Stalin who pushed this idea the most, more than any Yugoslav or Bulgarian politician, because he wanted to decrease Tito's influence and put him under his control. After Yugo-Soviet split, that idea died forever, which was probably for the best.
@@DoubleAAce And french people aren't especially hairy, and wash every day. And most don't even eat snails. Stereotypes are rarely accurate. It's just a way to have fun.
I'm in shock so many of you guys want or wanted a union with us (Romania). Never knew bulgarian loved us so much. Much respect. And through so.e miracle we unit we last longer and be better than Yugoslavia. 🇷🇴♥️🇧🇬
around the 1950s there was a proposed union between philippines, malaysia, indonesia called maphilindo im not sure what it would have done but if i remember i think it was proposed to solve the northern borneo dispute between malaysia, philippines, and indonesia
A Franco-British union is an interesting idea, though I'm unsure if it would go well. Lots of love to French brothers and sisters from across the channel.
Our rivalry is simply too deeply rooted for both countries to go well together but the resulting country could be such a colossal military economic and cultural behemoth that I can't help but love the idea. Let's hope we eventually unite with our European brothers and sisters ! Cheers from l'hexagone !
Would be possible as soon as all the old people are gone and an opportunity arises (which currently brexit doesn't allow). Definitely will not happen now
I live in Dominican Republic, I find it odd the history classes never mention the Antillean Confederation, considering it could had been an interesting result, and a big change to the area in general
The country union of Finland and Estonia is one of the proposed unions whose idea arose in the late 19th century, but was buried in the early 20th century after Finland decided to leave freshly independent Estonia alone after the Finnish-Estonian defence cooperation didn't go very well. Addition: By the way, the Baltoscandia union would be called as Uusi Kalmarin Unioni in Finnish (in Eng. The Nova Kalmar Union) and time-to-time this old proposal for the Nordic Federation is sometimes re-proposed in Finland, but Sweden disagrees and others mostly ignore it.
@@shonenjumpmagnetoNordic union is not a good idea if you include all countries without look at their cultural diferences only a union between skandinavian germanics but finns and estonians have significant cultural diferences from germanic skandinavians, aslo a baltic union between Latvia and Lithuania is a good idea because these countries are extremely similar and are same developed
A Portugal-Brazilian union was projected - or rather openly fantasized - in 1910. Portuguese republicans were long in love with the idea of a reunion with Brazil, particularly as a counterweight to the monarchy's crippling dependence on the Anglo alliance (hence republican organizations and hangouts in Portugal in the early 1900s are all Brazil-themed, e.g. "Centro Democratico Federal 15 de Novembro", "A Brasileira", etc.). Portuguese republicans believed the separation of 1822 was a Braganza royal family quarrel, that had nothing to do with national sentiment. With Brazil going republican in 1889, and Portugal finally going republican in 1910, it was believed the main obstacles were finally lifted and the two countries would be naturally reunited. Like Italian reunification, or German reunification, why not Portuguese reunification? However, the project never went beyond the enthusiastic aspirations of romantic republican imagination. They jumped immediately into linguistic conferences, etc. as preliminaries for harmonization, but no further. Portuguese politics got very messy quickly, and Brazilians (save for a few intellectuals) were never quite as keen on the idea. Nonetheless, the reunion project is curiously reflected in the Portuguese flag adopted in 1910, which combines the crownless shield of Portugal with the armillary sphere of Brazil, with the common republican colors (red-green). It was originally designed to serve as a reunion flag. This went nowhere, of course, and became merely the national flag of Portugal alone. The "discoveries" excuse was invented later and retroactively fitted to explain away the continued awkward presence of the Brazilian sphere on the flag.
When I was about 14, I would draw sometimes my personally perfect Europe, and most of the times, I drew Bulgaria and Romania as one country, just like in this Union scenario
Maphilindo Project (Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, and Indonesia) join together as 1 nation as confederation proposed in 1960's The Maphilindo state itself was fail but the idea evolved into ASEAN (Association of Asian Nation), join economic corporation for Southeast Asian countries.
United Kingdom of Serbs and Bulgarians or Serbo-Bulgarian Kingdom - On January 14, 1867, an agreement was signed on a joint state but it did not happened due to foreign interference; Serbian-Greek Union; Union of Yugoslavia - Romania - Czechoslovakia (they first formed in 1920. a small Entente - military alliance. In 1939, a decision was made that in the future the Little Entente would act as a single political community/union but WW2 came and everything fell apart.)
sweden denmark moment. there's no two existing nations that have fought more wars with each other than sweden and denmark, and that is excluding all legendary and semi-mythological wars as well. up until scandinavism movement we basically either were in a state of war, or in a state of preparing for a war with each other.
I think the most impactful future union between several countries that might actually happen would be the EAF (East African Federation). If this proposal becomes reality, consequences would be *huge*. Just look at how many countries would be merged into one overnight: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda! The federation would instantly become the 4th most populated country in the world and contain a huge amount of natural resources. The topic makes for an interesting General Knowledge video btw. :)
I have never heard of or read about a possibility of a Bulgarian-Romanian union. Maybe I missed it during my education in Bulgaria. However, we're now at Union with the wonderful European idea for EU and I'm glad and happy we and most of Europe share common values, interests and life together. ✌
Lol we Brits don't care about this rivalry. That said, we don't care about france either. They coerced us into their entente so we have to fight our brother, Germany. Nah there's no rivalry
@@ShireTommy_1916_Somme-Mametz Lmao i don't know on wich planet you are but try opening an history book because its clear you never did, Britain and especially England was the first French colony that's why the modern English have 75% French DNA and why half of all english words are French, then you have the hundred years war that was between 2 French royal families one ruling what is now Uk the Plantagenet and the other was ruling France, and the Plantagenet lost the war after the english army was literally pulverized at the battle of Castillion they suffered their first Brexit out of Europe and that when the 1000 years rivalry started. And Germans are obviously not your brothers since they are part of the Franco/German haplogroup that goes from southern France to the Oder River. England was populated by Celts from Gaul and then by French after 1066, the anglo saxons left little to no trace in Britain population even the vikings left more traces even if mostly in the north of the isles.
@@ommsterlitz1805 nice try lad. If we English have "75% french dna" that would mean almost every one of our ancestors are french. If that were the case, England (Germanic word: Angle / French: Angleterre) wouldn't be called England. We would speak entirely French, be eating baguettes/wine, and the island would be called some French word. But no, nice try trolling mate, it didn't work, and not in your fantasy, there is a reason we're called English (Germanic word: Anglo-Saxon). Yes, we English share dna with the french, we both have Celtic blood, from the ice age, as both of our lands were under Roman rule. And perhaps you should look into nostalgia/bond. Ask any random Englishman, he'll say he feels a bond to the Germans/Norwegians, as we're tied through blood, tongue and history. Don't get personal, I just don't care about France
Fun fact "trój morze" or "3 seas" is an alliance between most of the countries that were meant to join the huge Central European country, mentioned in the vidro between three seas.
It would still be a union jack, as france and uk have the exact same colors, the british would yell at the french "We incorporaated your national colours to our flag frogs! ahhaha"
Other proposed unions were: -Alpine union ( Swiss Austria Italy) pre ww2 - Italo-German Union Post ww1 - Italo-French Union medieval era - Franco-Spanish Union medieval and post ww1 - Latin Federation ( Latam + France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania and Belgium) from 1950 to 1980 replaced by the Latin Union ( association of defense of Latin languages and Cultures terminated in 1994) - Italo-Spanish Union Medieval Era / 1932 - Asian empire ( China Korea Japan) 1880-1932 - Roman union Italy-Greece 1920-1939 - Mexican federation ( Mexico+ Central America) lacking data - North American Union ( Usa+ Canada and Mexico being invaded and annexed) 1840-1900 - Golden Circle ( CSA + Mexico+ Carabean Nations+ Central America) scrapped after the defeat of the Csa - Imperial Federation ( Uk+ Colonies) 1860-1990 replaced by Canzuk - Corso-Sardinian Union 1770-1945 scraped due to Corsican and Sardinian integration in their state ( France and Italy) - Caucasian Federation 1400-1856 Georgia+ Chechenya+ Azerbaijan+ Armenia+ other regional kindoms terminated due to Russian conquest and Stalin deportation Ps: the Latin federation came very close to happen but the Usa issued ab ultimatum to France and Italy to disband the thing after almost all referendums had more than 60% approval
Peru and Bolivia eventually did manage to form a federation (without Gran Colombia) in the mid 1800. But it only lasted for three years, and then separated again, although several treaties were signed between both countries to ensure their mutual cooperation.
You forget some like the iberian union which was quite popular among intellectuals in the early 20th century and currently is seen as an easy way for spain to solve its internal problems. Or Moldava-Romania that continue to be very popular in that countries.
@@pilum3705 he in the video says that Bulgaria and Romania were also united. And in the reality Portugal and Spain never were a single country the emperor never united the two kingdoms they have the same ruler but they are two independent countries and empires, they have diferent courts and laws. For example Filipe the second of Spain is Filipe the first of Portugal.
@@matraquilhochumbo352 No, he said they first lived together. It was never a union. It was just a part of the Bulgarian Empire. It's like saying Syria and Switzerland once formed a Union because both were conquered by the Roman Empire. Apart from that: This video also counted Personal Unions as Unions.
True! I left out the Iberian Union because it did end up happening at one point, then failing and coming apart. For this video I wanted to keep it to potential ones that never happened
The Franco-British Union actually came closer to happening then some might realise. In June of 1940 with the situation on the western front collapsing for the Allies, the French government had decided to make overtures towards Germany asking for an armistice. The British knew that to keep those in France willing to keep up the fight motivated, to carry it on in the colonies, they needed a bold statement. The proposal for a union of the two countries was submitted, and approved by the British, stating: "France and Great Britain shall no longer be two nations, but one Franco-British Union. The constitution of the Union will provide for joint organs of defence, foreign, financial and economic policies. Every citizen of France will enjoy immediately citizenship of Great Britain, every British subject will become a citizen of France." However, events overtook them, and many in the French government saw it as a means of Britain stealing French colonies as the Metropol collapsed. With the chaos of the situation and without a consensus in the French government the proposal was ignored and a new French government led by Petain sought an armistice.
I think the British People genuinely cannot conceive of how much a Modern Democratic Republic loathes the very idea of a Royal Elite, of the threat of a Monarchy. And the British will deny the role of such individuals & assure of the limits of their power, & that they too are a Democracy for the People with a Monarchy only insofar is it celebrates their Culture. No; that's not the case - the Monarchy holds the Right of Ascension; & is entitled to live off of the People's wealth. A much more ideal union would be a union of the United States & France. The World's 1st Grand Republic! Add Portugal, Morocco, West Africa, Japan, & South Korea, then the Grand Republic would have some brief internal dealings with monarchical thoughts, but, thereafter, would be too strong to allow the idea of 'Monarchy' to persist in this World. A Militaristic, Diplomatic, Cultural, & Economic Juggernaut built on Modern Liberal Political Philosophic Ideals - such a Union would mark a turning point for humanity.
As a Canadian tired of the winter weather...the one I wish would happen is the Turks and Caicos joining Canada as a province......I like the idea of a warm place to go in the winter that doesn't require a passport.
On the bulgaro-romanian bit, actually one of the times it was proposed it was done so by Russia, who wanted to give the crown of Bulgaria to prince Carol I of Romania under the condition he was to remain loyal to the Russian Empire. This was mostly done so out of desperation, as Russia had aided Bulgarian independence on the gounds of gaining an ally but while they were searching for a monarch for the nrew country, they were desperate it didn’t fall on other great powers’ hands
No, the bulgarian delegation proposed the crown to Carol the 1'st of Romania but Russia threatened both countries with invasion if such a union takes place. Russia wanted two weak buffer states and not one stronger state that can project influence in the balkans and defend itself
@@welcometotheinternet574 Yup, he's right, Carol was really tempted to accept but Russia stopped that. The "protector of the Christians in the Balkans" such a joke... they were just imperialists hoping to in the end conquer all the way to the Mediterranean.
About the Franco-British union, it almost really happened in 1940, as France was on the brink of defeat, both Churchill and Reynaud (the french PM) agreed on it as a last stand in order to keep the French on the fight and there was even a declaration prepared, but it was not approved by the French cabinet which preferred to sell out France to the nazis rather than the UK. Reynaud then resigned and Petain (who led the opposition to the union proposal) formed a collaboration government
The war union was different than the union both countries were looking at when the project emerged in the 30's. There were way too much issues and it was doomed from the beginning. Sell out France to the Nazis.. or simply not willing to sacrifice their country like they had to do 30 years before while both french and english armies were already down. Looking back now those were some bad choices but it must have appeared the only way at the time.
@@antifasupport4840 I am from former Yugoslavia. When people got (relatively) poorer in eve of 1990's all quasinationalists started to emerge with same exact rhetorics that they are still using today (minus war). Poor nation is seductive to nationalism and all bad thing coming from that.
I am neither Romanian nor Bulgarian But I have ancestry from the latter and I hope that in the near future Romania and Bulgaria will unite under a new flag.Greetings from La Austral Buenos aires Aires
A non romanian o bulgarian who dream of the future of my country 😂😂😂, as a romanian i never want a union between Bulgaria and Romania so Spain need unite with France in that situation?o all latino America ?
if you would make a second part, here are some you (and the viewers) might find interesting Austria-Hungary like dualism of Romania and Hungary after WW1 Carphatian connationalism, uniting the carphatians in a federation of Hungary, Slovakia, Transilvanya, and Vojvodina it was mostly supporter by the Hungarian arrowcross party, and Szálasi Ferenc Canada-USA manifest desteny but with canadas consent😂 The Imperial Federation, uniting all of the British Empire and its dominions, idea suggested in the late 19th and early 20th century (basically when thr Britsh Empire was strong) Panslav unity of Poland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the USSR (i cannot be bothered to write down all the substates of it xdd) Trialism in the Austro-Hungarian empire, basically not Austro-Hungarian, but Austro-Hungarian plus either Czech, or southslav component like Austro-Hungarian-Bohemian or Austro-Hungaro-Yugoslav/Illryan Empire, and the Wilson proposal Germanic Union of all Germanic nations European State(EU but more federalised)
As someone with Bolivian ancestry, I think the Federation of the Andes would’ve worked if they actually used cultural similarities (aka leave Colombia & Venezuela out) but kept Peru, Bolivia, & Ecuador in since they share a historical & cultural similarity pre to post colonialism. Quechua & the Inca empire being a factor
They actually all wanted to do a federation, but Bolivar wanted more power so he refused to make it happen. He changed his mind later, but the political and economic landscape shifted so much everyone was against it.
The picture you showed of the First Bulgarian empire was not the empire at it’s biggest extend. At it’s peak pretty much the whole Romania was part of Bulgaria. Bulgarians felt that Romanians and Bulgarians are one nation so that’s why they supported the idea of a union with them.
"If you play Hearts Of Iron IV, you propably have seen Intermarem" I love, that all ahistoric paths in Hoi4 have af least loose historical background and are not pulled out of thin air. Franco British Union und the Balkan Federation are also possible in Hoi4 aswell as several Baltic and/or Scandinavian Unions. Of course, there are much more ahistorical county unions (Turan, arabian Union, Spanish-French Monarchy...) and they all led me down into a history rabbid hole of former political ideas and concepts. 😅
not at all. there are like five stages of economic integration to get where the eu is and mercosur failed at stage one. it's actually no more than a soft trade agreement for tax discounts. Its also became obsolete the last decade since it can't compete with the other bloc in SA, Alliance of the Pacific, formed by the "open" economies from south america (the ones that relatively "work")
Exist a proposal of union between Spanish-speaking countries in American continent, since the United States 🇺🇸 southern border until the Drake Passage (extreme south of American continent): Great Fatherland / Great Homeland (Patria Grande, in Spanish language), which would consist of the following countries: • Argentina 🇦🇷; • Bolivia 🇧🇴; • Chile 🇨🇱; • Colombia 🇨🇴; • Costa Rica 🇨🇷; • Cuba 🇨🇺; • Dominican Republic 🇩🇴; • Ecuador 🇪🇨; • El Salvador 🇸🇻 • Guatemala 🇬🇹; • Honduras 🇭🇳; • Mexico 🇲🇽; • Nicaragua 🇳🇮; • Panama 🇵🇦; • Paraguay 🇵🇾; • Peru 🇵🇪; • Uruguay 🇺🇾; • Venezuela 🇻🇪. Some people indicate that Brazil 🇧🇷 (Portuguese-speaking country) could be part, but many Brazilians would refuse. Brazil's ambitions might be seen as different from the traditional idea of Patria Grande, though, as it is often argued that the country's historical foreign policy is shaped by the exclusion of Mexico and Central America (and the Caribbean, counted as Central America in the Portuguese sense of the term) as ideological and political cognates, seen as important US allies, with their paths in the opposite direction of interests central to its alleged project of a more sovereign, post-neoliberal, non-peripheral South America - or at least that of its left-leaning political parties and intelligentsia.
An interesting detail is that with the Left-Wing Nationalist tide sweeping a neoliberalism-weary Latin-America, an interest on a pan-LatAm union if not federation of sorts has also resurged. Mexico has proposed that we work on a common disaster-relief currency to fund our poorer brethren's efforts. A healthy *and* stealthy way of beginning a regional currency.
The Balkans have been united for several centuries and perhaps we the nations of this region should take this as an example for a future union. (Eastern Roman empire Byzantine empire)
I had not heard of any of these prior to now. But I do have to raise one point: There could not have been an alliance between any nation or nations and Yugoslavia in 1910 as Yugoslavia didn't yet exist. It came about after the end of WWI in 1918.
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have been joined in various unions or dominions throughout history. The largest, the Kalmar Union, did not include Estonia, but all the rest. Not currently having much attention, I'm not sure that people would actually be opposed to the idea of a new union. It's just not perceived as that important at the moment, mostly because many of economic and security concerns are meet by EU and NATO. Lithuania and Latvia have not been members of the sphere to the same degree and they would perhaps be seen as a foreign element in such a union.
you forgot the idea of "great Germany". This idea was an combination of the German empire and Austria-Hungary when Germany unified. At that time it was very unlikely because of the multiethnical mess in the austrian-hungarian Empire. There also was a idea to only merge Germany with the austrian territories
@@Tyler-qr7rd But Greater Germany was the conception of uniting Germany. If we would go with this trope we should include every nation like Germany, Italy or Romania on list as well. The only difference is they actually came into fruition
Austria and Germany wanted to unite for a long time and there still is some people who support this, because Austria is about as much German as Bavaria is. The idea lost popular support though after WW2, because postwar Austrian politicians used Austrian patriotism to create a stronger national identity and distract from their own willing participation in the Nazi crimes.
Most of those what if South American countries would be comparable in size, resources and population to Brazil, who already takes half the continent. So when imagining those scenarios it’s more likely to lead to a Spanish speaking country with similar global influence that Brazil or Mexico have in the real world.
You need a continent wide country for becoming a superpower. It would be like every other strong country.... a strong local power under the influence of one of the two global superpowers.
One of the biggest obstacles to these sorts of mergers is multiculturalism. When forming a new country you have to nearly form a new culture behind it. Otherwise you will always have an issue of 'us and them'. In the United States we have this solution and this problem. The solution is when we had mass migration here from Europe and Asia over the last century is assimilation to the new American culture. Many foreigners look at Americans and their near reverence to itself as weird (flag, anthem, etc). However its one of the main reasons why we have 50 states able to work as one union. The problem we've had is not fully assimilating our native population (and before anyone cries foul, I'm making this statement as someone with native heritage). While most natives do see themselves as culturally American, some do not and are unfortunately being left behind. More work could have been done, and can be done to make these communities feel more inclined to feel included as Americans with native heritage rather than separate entities. These are challenges that any countries seeking to form unions with others would have to take into account. You don't need to wipe out cultures (that's unthinkable anyway and leads to more problems than not). But you need to integrate them as forming a sum greater than its parts. Friendship isn't enough. On the individual level, imagine being roommates with your best friend. All the little nuances now begin to stack up. You may quickly find yourselves at odds. Now apply that to millions of people and things can get out of hand quickly. You'll need to find what you have in common and expound upon that while accepting and understanding the differences. Its not easy. And its for this reason why it doesn't happen on the regular. With that said.. having a maniacal neighbor (Russia) doesn't hurt in more recent times. Former rivals have shown to turn into close friends in recent months (Ukraine and Poland for example). So anything is possible.
You should talk about Kosovo and Albania. Most Albanians and most ….well, Albanians support the merger of those two countries. Yes, the people of Kosovo are Albanians.
89 percent of Kosovo is Albanians, I hate how Serbians call Kosovo Serbian because it’s a majority Albanian country, and it’s just delusional when they say that it’s an autonomous province of Serbia, because it simply isn’t, it’s independent.
Interesting video. The unions that i'would love to see in the future're: Germany-Austria Union Turkic Union(🇹🇷🇹🇲🇺🇿🇦🇿🇰🇿🇰🇬) Pakistan and Bangladesh Union Kosovo and Albania Romania and Moldova Maghreb Union(🇩🇿🇲🇦🇹🇳🇱🇾🇪🇭) Korean Union.
There's a union proposal between FR Yugoslavia and Greece during late 90s and early 2000s, by Slobodan Milošević. It supposed to be confederation between Yugoslavia, Greece and, at time, FYRM.
As a Finn, I have never heard of Intermarium and I know for sure that Finland would have said "no" in a second. After being occupied by Russia several decades earlier, Finns wanted independence, nothing else. As we know, all other nations became more or less part of Soviet Union, or ended up under their sphere of influence, except Finland which became one of the most western european country there is. Intermarium - Between seas. Finland does not even fit into that category.
*Are there any other proposed country unions I didn't include in the video?*
Romania and Hungary after ww1
Moldova romania
syria-iraq
Germany and France in the 1950s.
I understood that there are proposals to create the East African Federation out of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and perhaps the DRC. A constitution is supposed to be drafted by 2023 but will likely come later. Ideas for this existed since the 1960s but it has been revived in the 2010s.
The Franco-British union already exist, it's called Canada
neither french nor british, and when canada was created the nations hate for each other didnt disappear
It wasn't on purpose
Ye
@@shadykid5939 I don’t think you get that this is a joke
@@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodb7585 i got no sarcasm for the message either you dont know what a joke is which is likely for a kid or you are not the most funniest of your friends
"Three Seas Initiative" is current successor idea to Intermarium, but it ties more countries than Intermarium was supposed to cover. It's mostly economic and in lesser part political union
yeah this, and Via Carpatia road :)
Idk. Maybe in future will be an counterweight for EU
@@Quartzyyy It won't, because it's essentially a subdivision of EU. It's a forum that was made between eastern memebers of the EU so that they can cooperate on infrastructure and focus on regional problems in the east without "bothering" uninvolved countries. One way you could imagine it would be as a way looser V4
The Bucharest 9 too
@@sticlavoda5632 The Bucharest 9 is the true successor to the Intermarum concept, at least in terms of goals. As a NATO lobby group that advocates for stronger European defences against Russia, it really is the modern diplomacy-based version of the same idea.
Saw Bulgaria and Romania in a union, and instantly clicked. Love to Romania from a Bulgarian ❤
Bulgaria and Romania best country in the world💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
@@albanezu5103 Best shitholes
so did i, but i am romanian. lots of love to bulgarian bros
Lmao, as a Romanian, that's exactly the reason why I clicked on this video. ❤ Bulgaria!
@@Vercur There is no dislike between our peoples. Any type of union like this in present day Europe is non-sense. It could have worked after our independence, with a German king. Why not? But the language barrier would have been huge... not impossible, Belgium made it work. But at least they have Latin alphabet... Honestly, Cyrillic script should be retired everywhere, Latin can work just fine with a couple extra characters like each language has... But again, it's probably impossible because it's also part of Bulgarian heritage, it was invented there. It's a pity because geographically it makes so SO much sense.
Bulgaria and Romania should make their own common travel area while they wait for schengen.
Romania should screw over the EU big time. Should take back their oil from Austria and sell them at a 60% profit, should eff up german companies over taxing them, also should charge 500% interest on exported lumber to Austria and so forth, when the EU would be outraged to just say "it should have not happened if we were in shengen lol
Yeah, that's true!
Maybe with the other west balkan states while they all wait for eu membership as well.
@@Hession0Drasha or let's make a Union, like EU, named Balcania/Balkania (with countries from Balkans).
@@justawhitenigga i wonder what can go wrong with a balkan union :))))
As a bulgarian i would love to have a union with our romanian brothers ❤
as a romanian, i strongly agree
@Riccardo No real Bulgarian would support such a union. Only traitors.
You know, i see it as a very good ideea because we could have total control over the black sea, a perfect dirty tool to blackmail the western europe when next time they call us ''the wild west of Europe'' or dont want to let us into the schenghen zone.
If only both of our countries had good politicians...
@Riccardo Absolutely correct, these morons are just out there. I'm thoroughly against uniting with anything except Macedonia, which is ours anyways.
@@Alexandra-xw2yeno
Great video! I feel like a video with “proposed alliances that would have changed the world” would be great
Three Emporors.
like British German alliance, which was proposed before the franco-british alliance (entente)
Giga Chad!
@@johngerygooz3251 yes GIGA CHAD
@@johngerygooz3251 Mega Based!!
As a Romanian, I'm surprised to see how much support a Romanian-Bulgarian Union gets from the Bulgarians in the comment section. Love to you my southern broders and sisters! :X
@Riccardo idk
Mayb all gypsies wannabe together
@@SuleimanTheMagnificent71618 said the turk haha
@Riccardo Small countries generally had (and still have) the option of banding together in all sorts of unions, or let themselves be eaten by the big players of the world.
@Riccardo Idk, control trade over the black sea and blackmail western europe with it xD
@@riccardo6820no never
I feel like out of all of these, a Romania-Bulgaria seems like the most realistic. good video
They are both in EU at least.
The cultural differences are way too big
@@danvaly2256yes I don't want Romania to unuite with bulgaria
@@danvaly2256bulgaria and Romania are different countries Romania is latin and bulgaria is Slavic and many culture different
Prior to Bulgaria's liberation in 1878, during the 1860s Bulgarian intellectuals settled in Romania proposed an alliance with Serbia against the Ottomans in a war, if won, the Bulgarians agreed to form a Serbo-Bulgarian Union under the Serbian crown but was rejected due to the dubiousness of the proposal and geopolitical circumstances
Bulgarian dominated Yugoslavia sounds wack ngl
@@boombah8664 Bulgaria wouldn't dominate, rather it's so equal to Serbia in size and population that it would be able to provide the necessary counter-balance to keep such a Yugoslav union in check. Given that one of the primary failings of Yugoslavia in the end was keeping Serbian dominion in check.
What's more interesting is how close Serbian and Bulgarian were back then, had such a Union occured Serbs and Bulgarians would be speaking Serbo-Bulgarian and that would be the primary language of the Yugoslavs, not Serbo-Croatian.
There were also proposals of uniting Bulgaria with Greece and ottoman empire. Also personal union with montenegro
Who lied to you that ? 1885 Bulgaria and Serbia were at war !😅
@@9_9876 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You forgot Maphilindo (Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia). The movement to unify all 3 countries kind of died out when ASEAN was formed because although ASEAN was not really a true union of the 3 countries, it was as far as the 3 countries were willing to go in regards to giving up their individual sovereignty.
iirc the people and the leader was supportive of the idea, but because of disputes in north borneo between all 3 countries, things didn't go as smoothly, it also didn't help when north borneo joins malaya and form the new Malaysia, and both the philippines and indonesia refused to acknowledge the new Malaysia as a successor to the old malaya, attempt to smooth out relations such as the Manila accord did little, and things went so sour that an undeclared war happens between malaysia and indonesia, the idea was long dead by then
Honestly, a Bulgarian - Romanian union sounds sick
Yes, at that time we (Romania) refused because we wanted a buffer state between us and Greece that had considerable influence in our internal affairs. We are historically against the idea of federation and in favor of the unitary state. I don't know exactly how Bulgarians currently feel about Serbia, but a unitary, decentralized state of Romania-Bulgaria-Serbia sounds good to me. Possibly Moldova,Montenegro and North Macedonia. The major problem would be the population. Romanians would be around 55 percent.
@@FlorinDaniel Honestly, most Bulgarians love the Serbs and even look up to them, they like Romania tho not to the same extent, and Macedonia is just a BAD topic to bring up if you want to have fun
@@antifasupport4840 Is Macedonia viewed in the same way that Romania views Moldova? or it is a divisive topic in Bulgaria.
Serbia now is an enemy of Europe, because is supporting Russia and China.
Even is future membership application of EU is close to getting deleted permanently.
yes, let's do it
During world war II. Czechoslovak and Polish governments in London exile were discusing postwar confederation as a counterweight to Germany. However it was not approved by Soviet union because it wanted smaller and weaker buffer states on its border.
"...a union between the French and the British..."
*spits out coffee
I mean uhhh Canada
Yeah, I'm a Brit and glad it never happened
@@ShireTommy_1916_Somme-Mametz Moi aussi je suis contente que ce soit pas arrivé
During late 1940's, there was strong agenda for Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to unite. Interestingly, it was Stalin who pushed this idea the most, more than any Yugoslav or Bulgarian politician, because he wanted to decrease Tito's influence and put him under his control. After Yugo-Soviet split, that idea died forever, which was probably for the best.
But that also left the Macedonian question being debated to this day though
There were many Bulgarians strongly opposed to this, since Serbia held onto Macedonia, so that was a doomed idea to begin with.
@@Ne0LiT True.
I'd rather be skinned alive than be ruled from Belgrade.
This is great! Some of these unions would be really interesting
I agree!
France and Uk form a union:
+200 % colonisation
-50% teeth
-20% snail population
And food will simultaneously be awful and délicieuse : a schrodinger food
fried snails 'n chips
i still dont get the teeth things we have better teeth than most countries
@@DoubleAAce And french people aren't especially hairy, and wash every day. And most don't even eat snails. Stereotypes are rarely accurate. It's just a way to have fun.
@@xenotypos fair enough
You forgot colonies of Australia and New Zealand. NZ said no so we became the Commonwealth of Australia.
And the Australian constitution still list New Zealand to this day🤓😅😂
NZ said no because no one invited them to the signing of The Articles of Federation...
Lol, Bulgario-Romania was so strong that two superpowers had to stop us from uniting
They we scared of our powers.
Romania-Bulgaria Union is one of my dreams 🇷🇴❤️🇧🇬
I'm in shock so many of you guys want or wanted a union with us (Romania).
Never knew bulgarian loved us so much.
Much respect. And through so.e miracle we unit we last longer and be better than Yugoslavia.
🇷🇴♥️🇧🇬
I love when foreigners try to pronounce polish words
around the 1950s there was a proposed union between philippines, malaysia, indonesia called maphilindo im not sure what it would have done but if i remember i think it was proposed to solve the northern borneo dispute between malaysia, philippines, and indonesia
A guy named Xi-Jinping also proposed a union between China and Taiwan but Taiwan refused.
obviously. One is democracy, the other isn't at all.
A Franco-British union is an interesting idea, though I'm unsure if it would go well. Lots of love to French brothers and sisters from across the channel.
Our rivalry is simply too deeply rooted for both countries to go well together but the resulting country could be such a colossal military economic and cultural behemoth that I can't help but love the idea.
Let's hope we eventually unite with our European brothers and sisters !
Cheers from l'hexagone !
I thought such ''union'' was almost about to happen during Henry V, but yeah even if that did happen, i doubt such unification would ever last long.
Can't think of a more unlikely union. The unending rivalry would make it impossible.
A Franco British union would probably look like Canada
Would be possible as soon as all the old people are gone and an opportunity arises (which currently brexit doesn't allow). Definitely will not happen now
Can you imagine how OP the Franco British Union would be. Most successful army in history with the most successful navy in history.
I like the fact that more Bulgarians would rather unite with Romania rather than Yugoslavia
I one never knew bulgarians loved romanians so much.
As an Englishman I'm glad the Anglo-French idea fell apart. I'd rather unify with Germany or any other Germanic country.
France slander 💀
Why the bad blood with the french? For 200-300 years you guys accually spoke french.
@@dollarweeb4573 The nobility spoke French, not the average person.
I live in Dominican Republic, I find it odd the history classes never mention the Antillean Confederation, considering it could had been an interesting result, and a big change to the area in general
i think it would’ve survived to this day. you know how similar culturally we are to each other
The country union of Finland and Estonia is one of the proposed unions whose idea arose in the late 19th century, but was buried in the early 20th century after Finland decided to leave freshly independent Estonia alone after the Finnish-Estonian defence cooperation didn't go very well.
Addition: By the way, the Baltoscandia union would be called as Uusi Kalmarin Unioni in Finnish (in Eng. The Nova Kalmar Union) and time-to-time this old proposal for the Nordic Federation is sometimes re-proposed in Finland, but Sweden disagrees and others mostly ignore it.
The Nordic Union should federate for sure man.
(It's why Denmark won't adopt The Euro & keeps The Krone!)
@@shonenjumpmagnetoNordic union is not a good idea if you include all countries without look at their cultural diferences only a union between skandinavian germanics but finns and estonians have significant cultural diferences from germanic skandinavians, aslo a baltic union between Latvia and Lithuania is a good idea because these countries are extremely similar and are same developed
A Portugal-Brazilian union was projected - or rather openly fantasized - in 1910. Portuguese republicans were long in love with the idea of a reunion with Brazil, particularly as a counterweight to the monarchy's crippling dependence on the Anglo alliance (hence republican organizations and hangouts in Portugal in the early 1900s are all Brazil-themed, e.g. "Centro Democratico Federal 15 de Novembro", "A Brasileira", etc.). Portuguese republicans believed the separation of 1822 was a Braganza royal family quarrel, that had nothing to do with national sentiment. With Brazil going republican in 1889, and Portugal finally going republican in 1910, it was believed the main obstacles were finally lifted and the two countries would be naturally reunited. Like Italian reunification, or German reunification, why not Portuguese reunification? However, the project never went beyond the enthusiastic aspirations of romantic republican imagination. They jumped immediately into linguistic conferences, etc. as preliminaries for harmonization, but no further. Portuguese politics got very messy quickly, and Brazilians (save for a few intellectuals) were never quite as keen on the idea. Nonetheless, the reunion project is curiously reflected in the Portuguese flag adopted in 1910, which combines the crownless shield of Portugal with the armillary sphere of Brazil, with the common republican colors (red-green). It was originally designed to serve as a reunion flag. This went nowhere, of course, and became merely the national flag of Portugal alone. The "discoveries" excuse was invented later and retroactively fitted to explain away the continued awkward presence of the Brazilian sphere on the flag.
Never would happen. Brazil would never agree to be ruled by Lisbon and Portugal would not agree to be ruled by Rio de janeiro at the time.
When I was about 14, I would draw sometimes my personally perfect Europe, and most of the times, I drew Bulgaria and Romania as one country, just like in this Union scenario
Were you payed by that time for the phropaganda ? 😅
Maphilindo Project (Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, and Indonesia) join together as 1 nation as confederation proposed in 1960's
The Maphilindo state itself was fail but the idea evolved into ASEAN (Association of Asian Nation), join economic corporation for Southeast Asian countries.
United Kingdom of Serbs and Bulgarians or Serbo-Bulgarian Kingdom - On January 14, 1867, an agreement was signed on a joint state but it did not happened due to foreign interference;
Serbian-Greek Union;
Union of Yugoslavia - Romania - Czechoslovakia (they first formed in 1920. a small Entente - military alliance. In 1939, a decision was made that in the future the Little Entente would act as a single political community/union but WW2 came and everything fell apart.)
Imagine being worst enemies for 1000 and then almost becoming the same country
sweden denmark moment. there's no two existing nations that have fought more wars with each other than sweden and denmark, and that is excluding all legendary and semi-mythological wars as well. up until scandinavism movement we basically either were in a state of war, or in a state of preparing for a war with each other.
"franco-british union" I had a heart attack just by imagine how atrocious and unnatural it would be
They have common enemy
@@agailham8476 indeed. French people are GB's ennemy.
French people are France ennemy.
What? We absolutely LOVE the British people (with only a small exception: the English people. Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of silly persons!)
@@MrAlsachti lmao, nice reference 🤣
@@agailham8476 yet, England and Germany are the same: Germanic brothers. We're not enemies
Romania-Bulgaria would have been a global power
Love Bulgaria from Romania!
Thracian brothers💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I think the most impactful future union between several countries that might actually happen would be the EAF (East African Federation). If this proposal becomes reality, consequences would be *huge*. Just look at how many countries would be merged into one overnight:
Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda! The federation would instantly become the 4th most populated country in the world and contain a huge amount of natural resources.
The topic makes for an interesting General Knowledge video btw. :)
I have never heard of or read about a possibility of a Bulgarian-Romanian union. Maybe I missed it during my education in Bulgaria.
However, we're now at Union with the wonderful European idea for EU and I'm glad and happy we and most of Europe share common values, interests and life together. ✌
No keep dreaming 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Because are different people 😂😂😂😂😂
@@rockyhd5gangxd784name 5 differences that aren't about language
The Franco-British one would've been fun. British and French rivalry is like ancient lmao...
It would have been the third superpower and the strongest one.
@@ommsterlitz1805 It's never too late, y'know... lol
Lol we Brits don't care about this rivalry. That said, we don't care about france either. They coerced us into their entente so we have to fight our brother, Germany. Nah there's no rivalry
@@ShireTommy_1916_Somme-Mametz Lmao i don't know on wich planet you are but try opening an history book because its clear you never did, Britain and especially England was the first French colony that's why the modern English have 75% French DNA and why half of all english words are French, then you have the hundred years war that was between 2 French royal families one ruling what is now Uk the Plantagenet and the other was ruling France, and the Plantagenet lost the war after the english army was literally pulverized at the battle of Castillion they suffered their first Brexit out of Europe and that when the 1000 years rivalry started. And Germans are obviously not your brothers since they are part of the Franco/German haplogroup that goes from southern France to the Oder River. England was populated by Celts from Gaul and then by French after 1066, the anglo saxons left little to no trace in Britain population even the vikings left more traces even if mostly in the north of the isles.
@@ommsterlitz1805 nice try lad. If we English have "75% french dna" that would mean almost every one of our ancestors are french. If that were the case, England (Germanic word: Angle / French: Angleterre) wouldn't be called England. We would speak entirely French, be eating baguettes/wine, and the island would be called some French word. But no, nice try trolling mate, it didn't work, and not in your fantasy, there is a reason we're called English (Germanic word: Anglo-Saxon). Yes, we English share dna with the french, we both have Celtic blood, from the ice age, as both of our lands were under Roman rule. And perhaps you should look into nostalgia/bond. Ask any random Englishman, he'll say he feels a bond to the Germans/Norwegians, as we're tied through blood, tongue and history. Don't get personal, I just don't care about France
Fun fact "trój morze" or "3 seas" is an alliance between most of the countries that were meant to join the huge Central European country, mentioned in the vidro between three seas.
Im pretty sure that "może" means "maybe" in Polish.
"Polski język, trudna język."
@@Kretek oh sorry spelt it wrong. I fixed it. Thank you 😂
@@Kasnickijakub Hehe. No worries , happens to best of us xD
@@Kretek to you correct you. Język Polski, jest trudny. 😂
@@Kasnickijakub Lol. Ja wiem. Ale jest takie powiedzenie: "Polski język, trudna język". Błąd jest tam specjalnie :)
England and France in a union? 😂 It's hard enough trying to keep England and Scotland together.
It would maybe be easier to unite Scots and Froggies, as it was for the Auld Alliance 😅
It would still be a union jack, as france and uk have the exact same colors, the british would yell at the french "We incorporaated your national colours to our flag frogs! ahhaha"
The instant I saw Franco-British I had stop my lungs from seizing up from excessive laughter.
Scotland and France where on good terms though
Other proposed unions were:
-Alpine union ( Swiss Austria Italy)
pre ww2
- Italo-German Union Post ww1
- Italo-French Union medieval era
- Franco-Spanish Union medieval and post ww1
- Latin Federation ( Latam + France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania and Belgium) from 1950 to 1980 replaced by the Latin Union ( association of defense of Latin languages and Cultures terminated in 1994)
- Italo-Spanish Union Medieval Era / 1932
- Asian empire ( China Korea Japan) 1880-1932
- Roman union Italy-Greece 1920-1939
- Mexican federation ( Mexico+ Central America) lacking data
- North American Union ( Usa+ Canada and Mexico being invaded and annexed) 1840-1900
- Golden Circle ( CSA + Mexico+ Carabean Nations+ Central America) scrapped after the defeat of the Csa
- Imperial Federation ( Uk+ Colonies)
1860-1990 replaced by Canzuk
- Corso-Sardinian Union 1770-1945 scraped due to Corsican and Sardinian integration in their state ( France and Italy)
- Caucasian Federation 1400-1856 Georgia+ Chechenya+ Azerbaijan+ Armenia+ other regional kindoms terminated due to Russian conquest and Stalin deportation
Ps: the Latin federation came very close to happen but the Usa issued ab ultimatum to France and Italy to disband the thing after almost all referendums had more than 60% approval
USA with the Latin American Federation probably thought it would challenge their domination. Has potential to upset the balance of powers.
Peru and Bolivia eventually did manage to form a federation (without Gran Colombia) in the mid 1800. But it only lasted for three years, and then separated again, although several treaties were signed between both countries to ensure their mutual cooperation.
more broken appart than separated, it was part of the causes of the peru/bolivia/chile war
You forget some like the iberian union which was quite popular among intellectuals in the early 20th century and currently is seen as an easy way for spain to solve its internal problems. Or Moldava-Romania that continue to be very popular in that countries.
Ah yes, the Bessarabia dispute.
But both are Unions that HAVE happened. So they don't fit the list.
@@pilum3705 he in the video says that Bulgaria and Romania were also united.
And in the reality Portugal and Spain never were a single country the emperor never united the two kingdoms they have the same ruler but they are two independent countries and empires, they have diferent courts and laws. For example Filipe the second of Spain is Filipe the first of Portugal.
@@matraquilhochumbo352 No, he said they first lived together. It was never a union. It was just a part of the Bulgarian Empire. It's like saying Syria and Switzerland once formed a Union because both were conquered by the Roman Empire.
Apart from that: This video also counted Personal Unions as Unions.
True! I left out the Iberian Union because it did end up happening at one point, then failing and coming apart. For this video I wanted to keep it to potential ones that never happened
The Franco-British Union actually came closer to happening then some might realise. In June of 1940 with the situation on the western front collapsing for the Allies, the French government had decided to make overtures towards Germany asking for an armistice. The British knew that to keep those in France willing to keep up the fight motivated, to carry it on in the colonies, they needed a bold statement. The proposal for a union of the two countries was submitted, and approved by the British, stating: "France and Great Britain shall no longer be two nations, but one Franco-British Union. The constitution of the Union will provide for joint organs of defence, foreign, financial and economic policies. Every citizen of France will enjoy immediately citizenship of Great Britain, every British subject will become a citizen of France." However, events overtook them, and many in the French government saw it as a means of Britain stealing French colonies as the Metropol collapsed. With the chaos of the situation and without a consensus in the French government the proposal was ignored and a new French government led by Petain sought an armistice.
Yeh I was surprised he focused on 1904, which was essentially a military alliance, as opposed to Churchills 1940 proposal of union with France
Everyday, I thank god this union never happened.
Knowing France’s history with monarchy, the king must’ve been sweating.
Tell him he needs to fix the name of the union in the thumbnail.
I think the British People genuinely cannot conceive of how much a Modern Democratic Republic loathes the very idea of a Royal Elite, of the threat of a Monarchy.
And the British will deny the role of such individuals & assure of the limits of their power, & that they too are a Democracy for the People with a Monarchy only insofar is it celebrates their Culture.
No; that's not the case - the Monarchy holds the Right of Ascension; & is entitled to live off of the People's wealth.
A much more ideal union would be a union of the United States & France. The World's 1st Grand Republic!
Add Portugal, Morocco, West Africa, Japan, & South Korea, then the Grand Republic would have some brief internal dealings with monarchical thoughts, but, thereafter, would be too strong to allow the idea of 'Monarchy' to persist in this World.
A Militaristic, Diplomatic, Cultural, & Economic Juggernaut built on Modern Liberal Political Philosophic Ideals - such a Union would mark a turning point for humanity.
the Antillean confederation lives on in our hearts 😔 🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷
I would like to see a video about the currently proposed unions. I can only think of the East African Confederation currently.
Creation of East African Confederation would be huge for world at large
A Franco-British union at the time of them wanting to unite would've been OP icl
We love bulgarians and I'm sure they love us back💕
As a Canadian tired of the winter weather...the one I wish would happen is the Turks and Caicos joining Canada as a province......I like the idea of a warm place to go in the winter that doesn't require a passport.
On the bulgaro-romanian bit, actually one of the times it was proposed it was done so by Russia, who wanted to give the crown of Bulgaria to prince Carol I of Romania under the condition he was to remain loyal to the Russian Empire. This was mostly done so out of desperation, as Russia had aided Bulgarian independence on the gounds of gaining an ally but while they were searching for a monarch for the nrew country, they were desperate it didn’t fall on other great powers’ hands
No, the bulgarian delegation proposed the crown to Carol the 1'st of Romania but Russia threatened both countries with invasion if such a union takes place. Russia wanted two weak buffer states and not one stronger state that can project influence in the balkans and defend itself
@@Arelorium Oh, really?
@@welcometotheinternet574 Yup, he's right, Carol was really tempted to accept but Russia stopped that. The "protector of the Christians in the Balkans" such a joke... they were just imperialists hoping to in the end conquer all the way to the Mediterranean.
another cool animated Eurocentric content!
About the Franco-British union, it almost really happened in 1940, as France was on the brink of defeat, both Churchill and Reynaud (the french PM) agreed on it as a last stand in order to keep the French on the fight and there was even a declaration prepared, but it was not approved by the French cabinet which preferred to sell out France to the nazis rather than the UK. Reynaud then resigned and Petain (who led the opposition to the union proposal) formed a collaboration government
The war union was different than the union both countries were looking at when the project emerged in the 30's. There were way too much issues and it was doomed from the beginning. Sell out France to the Nazis.. or simply not willing to sacrifice their country like they had to do 30 years before while both french and english armies were already down. Looking back now those were some bad choices but it must have appeared the only way at the time.
GREAT VIDEO.
please do a video on current union proposals.
You mean the eu?
Okay!
Balkan unions will always fail because when money runs dry, old wounds will be opened.
That is Balkan politics in a nutshell.
Kinda rude, but I can understand your attitute
@@antifasupport4840 I am from former Yugoslavia. When people got (relatively) poorer in eve of 1990's all quasinationalists started to emerge with same exact rhetorics that they are still using today (minus war). Poor nation is seductive to nationalism and all bad thing coming from that.
Next: can we explore country breakups that did not happen?
As a British person I love are French brothers
Love from britain
I am neither Romanian nor Bulgarian But I have ancestry from the latter and I hope that in the near future Romania and Bulgaria will unite under a new flag.Greetings from La Austral Buenos aires Aires
A non romanian o bulgarian who dream of the future of my country 😂😂😂, as a romanian i never want a union between Bulgaria and Romania so Spain need unite with France in that situation?o all latino America ?
Yugoslavia ending not so well is the understatement of the year. 😂
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The three seas initiative is a great ideea and also a backup in case UE will continue to this path and eventually will collapse.
country's that want to unite today! that would be great video to see!
Ah, Bulgaria, the country us Romanians remind of when we want to say that "it could've been worse"
if you would make a second part, here are some you (and the viewers) might find interesting
Austria-Hungary like dualism of Romania and Hungary after WW1
Carphatian connationalism, uniting the carphatians in a federation of Hungary, Slovakia, Transilvanya, and Vojvodina
it was mostly supporter by the Hungarian arrowcross party, and Szálasi Ferenc
Canada-USA
manifest desteny but with canadas consent😂
The Imperial Federation, uniting all of the British Empire and its dominions, idea suggested in the late 19th and early 20th century (basically when thr Britsh Empire was strong)
Panslav unity of Poland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the USSR
(i cannot be bothered to write down all the substates of it xdd)
Trialism in the Austro-Hungarian empire, basically not Austro-Hungarian, but Austro-Hungarian plus either Czech, or southslav component like Austro-Hungarian-Bohemian or Austro-Hungaro-Yugoslav/Illryan Empire, and the Wilson proposal
Germanic Union of all Germanic nations
European State(EU but more federalised)
As someone with Bolivian ancestry, I think the Federation of the Andes would’ve worked if they actually used cultural similarities (aka leave Colombia & Venezuela out) but kept Peru, Bolivia, & Ecuador in since they share a historical & cultural similarity pre to post colonialism. Quechua & the Inca empire being a factor
Mml
Sorry but only Peru and Bolivia, because Ecuador belongs to Gran Colombia in the case a reunification is proposed 😉
@@geografisica I mean, they call Quechua “Kichwa”, but other than that I’m willing to forgive them haha
They actually all wanted to do a federation, but Bolivar wanted more power so he refused to make it happen. He changed his mind later, but the political and economic landscape shifted so much everyone was against it.
We do NOT want to join the INVADERS. We Ecuadorians prefer a thousand times to be independent or to re-form Gran Colombia than to join you.
The picture you showed of the First Bulgarian empire was not the empire at it’s biggest extend. At it’s peak pretty much the whole Romania was part of Bulgaria. Bulgarians felt that Romanians and Bulgarians are one nation so that’s why they supported the idea of a union with them.
You have no idea how thankful I am the UK x French union isn't a thing.
"If you play Hearts Of Iron IV, you propably have seen Intermarem"
I love, that all ahistoric paths in Hoi4 have af least loose historical background and are not pulled out of thin air.
Franco British Union und the Balkan Federation are also possible in Hoi4 aswell as several Baltic and/or Scandinavian Unions.
Of course, there are much more ahistorical county unions (Turan, arabian Union, Spanish-French Monarchy...) and they all led me down into a history rabbid hole of former political ideas and concepts. 😅
If Romania and Bulgaria actually do unite into 1 country, Moldova should join the union as well.
Good vid as always!
I don't know how far the idea of Mercosur actually is. It means it would unite South America like the EU want unite Europa
not at all. there are like five stages of economic integration to get where the eu is and mercosur failed at stage one. it's actually no more than a soft trade agreement for tax discounts. Its also became obsolete the last decade since it can't compete with the other bloc in SA, Alliance of the Pacific, formed by the "open" economies from south america (the ones that relatively "work")
@@theuselessdrunk
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Exist a proposal of union between Spanish-speaking countries in American continent, since the United States 🇺🇸 southern border until the Drake Passage (extreme south of American continent): Great Fatherland / Great Homeland (Patria Grande, in Spanish language), which would consist of the following countries:
• Argentina 🇦🇷;
• Bolivia 🇧🇴;
• Chile 🇨🇱;
• Colombia 🇨🇴;
• Costa Rica 🇨🇷;
• Cuba 🇨🇺;
• Dominican Republic 🇩🇴;
• Ecuador 🇪🇨;
• El Salvador 🇸🇻
• Guatemala 🇬🇹;
• Honduras 🇭🇳;
• Mexico 🇲🇽;
• Nicaragua 🇳🇮;
• Panama 🇵🇦;
• Paraguay 🇵🇾;
• Peru 🇵🇪;
• Uruguay 🇺🇾;
• Venezuela 🇻🇪.
Some people indicate that Brazil 🇧🇷 (Portuguese-speaking country) could be part, but many Brazilians would refuse. Brazil's ambitions might be seen as different from the traditional idea of Patria Grande, though, as it is often argued that the country's historical foreign policy is shaped by the exclusion of Mexico and Central America (and the Caribbean, counted as Central America in the Portuguese sense of the term) as ideological and political cognates, seen as important US allies, with their paths in the opposite direction of interests central to its alleged project of a more sovereign, post-neoliberal, non-peripheral South America - or at least that of its left-leaning political parties and intelligentsia.
Hi. Great video. I'm from Poland. When polish-lithuanian commonwelth was great (indeed), 'miedzymorze' was a damn utopia. Crazy, crazy...
Stay put .
Franco-Britain would be hilarious because it would put us back in the EU 😂
Mustn't.
It would also be chaos
"Just when we thought we were OUT...."
An interesting detail is that with the Left-Wing Nationalist tide sweeping a neoliberalism-weary Latin-America, an interest on a pan-LatAm union if not federation of sorts has also resurged. Mexico has proposed that we work on a common disaster-relief currency to fund our poorer brethren's efforts. A healthy *and* stealthy way of beginning a regional currency.
The Balkans have been united for several centuries and perhaps we the nations of this region should take this as an example for a future union. (Eastern Roman empire Byzantine empire)
The Intermarium was actually surrounded by 4 Seas! Not just 3 Seas!
○ Baltic Sea
○ Black Sea
○ Adriatic Sea
● Azov Sea
Where is it?
@@whitezombie10 right above The Black Sea, North-East of it.
I had not heard of any of these prior to now. But I do have to raise one point:
There could not have been an alliance between any nation or nations and Yugoslavia in 1910 as Yugoslavia didn't yet exist. It came about after the end of WWI in 1918.
The idea for Yugoslavia predates the creation of the state and that's what the proposal must have referred to.
Nor did Albania exist at the time.
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have been joined in various unions or dominions throughout history. The largest, the Kalmar Union, did not include Estonia, but all the rest. Not currently having much attention, I'm not sure that people would actually be opposed to the idea of a new union. It's just not perceived as that important at the moment, mostly because many of economic and security concerns are meet by EU and NATO. Lithuania and Latvia have not been members of the sphere to the same degree and they would perhaps be seen as a foreign element in such a union.
Hi my friend!
One thing is for certain the Anglo-franco union wont last till lunch time give the history of france and the UK
you forgot the idea of "great Germany". This idea was an combination of the German empire and Austria-Hungary when Germany unified. At that time it was very unlikely because of the multiethnical mess in the austrian-hungarian Empire. There also was a idea to only merge Germany with the austrian territories
to make it clear,the second variation is not the Anschluss of Austria. (completely different time)
@@Tyler-qr7rd But Greater Germany was the conception of uniting Germany. If we would go with this trope we should include every nation like Germany, Italy or Romania on list as well. The only difference is they actually came into fruition
Austria and Germany wanted to unite for a long time and there still is some people who support this, because Austria is about as much German as Bavaria is. The idea lost popular support though after WW2, because postwar Austrian politicians used Austrian patriotism to create a stronger national identity and distract from their own willing participation in the Nazi crimes.
🇩🇪 Germany
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🇦🇹 Austria
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🇨🇭 Switzerland
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🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
That'd be all of the German Ethno-States.
Germany has always been a multi ethnic mess.
Another union is Maphilindo, thought by Jose Rizal
A Federation of the Andes would be so cool it could be a superpower and it could have been the heritage of the great Inca Empire
Most of those what if South American countries would be comparable in size, resources and population to Brazil, who already takes half the continent. So when imagining those scenarios it’s more likely to lead to a Spanish speaking country with similar global influence that Brazil or Mexico have in the real world.
You need a continent wide country for becoming a superpower.
It would be like every other strong country.... a strong local power under the influence of one of the two global superpowers.
@@emib6599 The Inca Empire went all the way to North America and that's not 100% true
The Inca Empire never covered the area of current Venezuela, so the Federation as it was proposed would not be necessarily a 100% “Inca Empire”
You tell about Intermarium, which includes Finland and use (again) cropped map of Europe not showing Finland?
Hasn’t there been a proposed union between the US and Canada for a while?
Doubt it, it gets complicated with the queen lol
@@namename3130 yeah
Hear me out: Romania unites with Hungary, as it was proposed in WW1, and then with Bulgaria.
There is no the Adriatic sea in the main concept of the Intermarium.
If you've played supremacy 1914, the Bulgarian-Romanian union happens
One of the biggest obstacles to these sorts of mergers is multiculturalism. When forming a new country you have to nearly form a new culture behind it. Otherwise you will always have an issue of 'us and them'. In the United States we have this solution and this problem. The solution is when we had mass migration here from Europe and Asia over the last century is assimilation to the new American culture. Many foreigners look at Americans and their near reverence to itself as weird (flag, anthem, etc). However its one of the main reasons why we have 50 states able to work as one union. The problem we've had is not fully assimilating our native population (and before anyone cries foul, I'm making this statement as someone with native heritage). While most natives do see themselves as culturally American, some do not and are unfortunately being left behind. More work could have been done, and can be done to make these communities feel more inclined to feel included as Americans with native heritage rather than separate entities.
These are challenges that any countries seeking to form unions with others would have to take into account. You don't need to wipe out cultures (that's unthinkable anyway and leads to more problems than not). But you need to integrate them as forming a sum greater than its parts. Friendship isn't enough. On the individual level, imagine being roommates with your best friend. All the little nuances now begin to stack up. You may quickly find yourselves at odds. Now apply that to millions of people and things can get out of hand quickly. You'll need to find what you have in common and expound upon that while accepting and understanding the differences.
Its not easy. And its for this reason why it doesn't happen on the regular. With that said.. having a maniacal neighbor (Russia) doesn't hurt in more recent times. Former rivals have shown to turn into close friends in recent months (Ukraine and Poland for example). So anything is possible.
The Franco-British union technically already (partially) happened in the form of the Angevin Empire
Loving the hoi4 referente about myedzimorze
You should talk about Kosovo and Albania. Most Albanians and most ….well, Albanians support the merger of those two countries.
Yes, the people of Kosovo are Albanians.
89 percent of Kosovo is Albanians, I hate how Serbians call Kosovo Serbian because it’s a majority Albanian country, and it’s just delusional when they say that it’s an autonomous province of Serbia, because it simply isn’t, it’s independent.
New South Wales to include New Zealand. This occurred on 15 June 1839
Interesting video.
The unions that i'would love to see in the future're:
Germany-Austria Union
Turkic Union(🇹🇷🇹🇲🇺🇿🇦🇿🇰🇿🇰🇬)
Pakistan and Bangladesh Union
Kosovo and Albania
Romania and Moldova
Maghreb Union(🇩🇿🇲🇦🇹🇳🇱🇾🇪🇭)
Korean Union.
Levant Union 🇸🇾🇵🇸🇱🇧🇯🇴
I wish that Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden is one country while speaking Old Norse.
There's a union proposal between FR Yugoslavia and Greece during late 90s and early 2000s, by Slobodan Milošević.
It supposed to be confederation between Yugoslavia, Greece and, at time, FYRM.
As a Finn, I have never heard of Intermarium and I know for sure that Finland would have said "no" in a second. After being occupied by Russia several decades earlier, Finns wanted independence, nothing else.
As we know, all other nations became more or less part of Soviet Union, or ended up under their sphere of influence, except Finland which became one of the most western european country there is.
Intermarium - Between seas. Finland does not even fit into that category.