SackixFilms He’s starting a series on it here soon

French narrator: five years later

SackixFilms each native nation can be treated as individual and can be treated as their own country with sovereignty

GermanGamer7 we still have to follow state laws and a few federal laws

GermanGamer7 in current days, tribes are fighting for the right to grow and distribute Hemp on reservation land

I knew someone was gonna do this reference

*hawaii, cuba*

Democracy to you.

@@potatogod975 but wait Spain controls Cuba

@@Maxims1 well blame something on them and go to war

Crab:👁👄👁

*but only as a second-class citizen

Like the UK.

Britain, France, Spain, Norway, us to!

Manifest destiny!

no noob

@@CharleyCheno r/woosh

@@anshula2955 wrong

@@CharleyCheno r/whoosh

@@bramble6584 floor is made of floor

yep

Federal law prohibits Puerto Rico from becoming a State. That is because that law basically declares Puerto Rico a Common Wealth. So Puerto Rico is basically to America, like Canada is to England.

The Americans Gameing that's a shame i think it would be cool to have a new state in my lifetime

What Canada is to *The U.K.

A Commonwealth

America is not an empire smh 🤦🏻‍♂️

@@georgefloydsfake20dollarbi28 it kinda is

@@chels5001 America is not an empire it’s a democratic confederation of states and territories founded on democratic values and since when did America declared themselves as an empire it’s not an elective monarchy, autocratic, or dictatorship. And you can’t be a democracy and an empire at the same time it makes no sense.

@@georgefloydsfake20dollarbi28 That is your mistake America is not a democracy is a representative republic, and you can be a republic and an empire like France was.

@@anuvisraa5786 well France had a self pro claimed emperor and was a colonial empire while America wasn’t. You can’t compare the French empire to the United States it doesn’t make sense...

totally nothing happened

Yes we Filipinos totally accepted it

I mean it was probably better than being under the collapsing Spanish empire.

We actually never fought the Philippines. We fought the Spanish to give Cuba independence, and than took Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and this was great for the Philippines as we brought investment to the island. We gave them independence after world war 2 despite them not wanting independence and just kept Puerto Rico

@@epicmatter3512 Philippine American war

I think the bird poop and bat poop at the time was highly valuable for fertilizer. By the 1913's with the Haber process to make ammonia which the key ingredient in making fertilizers. N2 + 3H2 made 2NH3 That discovery along with other methods using the same concept made poop worth poop. And to an extent same with those islands.

"I DECLARE GUANO ISLAND ACT!"

Britain: I raised that boy.

@Linnea the Prayer - You've got issues.

Pulls out 6 billion dollars a year defense budget and the best military technology in the world “I declared it now try and stop me”

You were supposed to destroy global dominating empires, not join them!

@@jakes1566 France: you where like a brother america! I love you.

US: I hate you! For literally no reason!

@@jakes1566 oh shit, this is so true

*Order 66 commences*

This this this

the territories don't pay any taxes to the federal government

Well it’s because they aren’t states yet the idea is that they should become states to have representation but being somewhat self governing is what they prefer. Choice is theirs

@@MustacheDLuffy Puerto Rico and d.c have both voted with the majority wanting to become a state.

Taxation -without representation- is theft

Festus Omega ah, the British empire

Well we did learn from the best

yea... but you have to back that up with a big stick. Many can declare whatever the fuck they want, but if they can't take action then your declaration is kaput!

Nothing wrong with that. 😊

Indeed good sir, truly American.

Hold my *bear*

@@joshuamatthews8326 It's still bigger than Texas.

@Michael Scott What does my heart have to do with this? I was being literal.

@Michael Scott wth, he is talking about the size not its more habitable...……………………………………..

Just some guy Well technically Alaska is smaller than Texas because Texas has more of a population then Alaska

Yeah I was wondering if someone pointed that out. Also he spelled “Marshall” as “Marshal”

eremerica: nooo noob

Empire is one hell of a drug

*H u m m i n a H u m m i n a*

The islands were uninhabited?

@@sexyyeyo hawaii, puerto rico, phillipines, american samoa etc. etc.

Ain't that so.

Scots

+Darkrai Titanollante grey is secretly a robot

It's almost like there have been people in the UK wanting to leave the EU for a while. Say, like a party supporting those principles has existed for a quarter of a century. But yeah, hilarious in hindsight.

Yeah it's not like the Brexit campaign has been going on for YEARS

Yeah but for some reason people think we named ourself after the continent. Last I check there weren't any other states united in america.

@@jaredlangley6924 Mexican States of America.

@@jaredlangley6924 Mexico is literally the United Mexican States, or Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Last time I checked it was also in America.

@Glaydson Coelho lol

Glaydson Coelho 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

A major sale condition was a promise to not claim Greenland. Next there was a court battle to keep Greenland from Canada and a few other countries. So now Greenland is an expensive reservation with statehood.

It would be a lot better if it were

@@TickleMyResearch No, cause then they would all get angry every month.

@@lunaticcultist9741 Would still be more productive

@@denopeno7951 mmmmmhhh... no, not really

@@lunaticcultist9741 HAH!

That sounds confusing

@@MustacheDLuffy yeah i'm confused

just because you're fromg guam it doesnt mean you know the history of guam

Do you enjoy being under the US’s government and US’s military protection? Because a lot of people in Puerto Rico wanna stay a territory and not a state because they don’t wanna be included in the government.

@@WuzzyYT It's okay, we don't want Puerto Rico as a state

Wait, y’all don’t live in teepees ? Jk

What kind of medical infrastructure and shopping do they have in the nation up there? Always been curious as a Texan who’s driven through a lot of Oklahoma filled with First Nations with casinos and gas stations.

@@militustoica Our small town is actually quite normal, two gas stations (one is basically a supermarket), some restaurants, a hospital, and primarily white residents. Yeah, shocks me too.

@@LucasIsHereYT Do they marry into the tribe or just move there for other reasons?

@@militustoica Idk man like nobody here is Indian.

Yea

Did you know?: This is a comment.

Craftimothy123 NO WAY

***** It blew my mind too when I looked it up.

I couldn't believe it either.

Craftimothy123 Preposterous

Oof agreed

Says the virgin himself Lol jk

Exacly

12 year old joke of the day

Agreed

Wait, what? FREE CHEESE?!

@Cole Stockbridge YEEEOOOOOO I WANT CHEEESE

IT'S SWISS!!!

cHEESE?!

@@LegDayLas NO ITS AMERICAN

Just about to say something on that line

Nah, it was pretty obvious they didn't want to be in it.

Great Britain never adopted the Euro, how tied to the EU did you think they really were?

yeah, he should put a link to the "Brexit, Briefly" video at 0:20

+koalabrownie I agree to a certain extent. But there are a few other reasons too

I think that was a reference to the Scottish independence referendum, which was a big issue in the UK in 2014. In the end, Scotland voted not to break away.The thought bubble should've been higher.

Nah the EU was highlighted, he was definitely talking about the UK and it's constant "Will we-won't we" relationship. Turns out we will :)

+TheDukeBox Will it be a called a continent then? Damn, this confusion! 😂

1 EU vid outta date.

Nope, GB is still part of Europe, just not of the European Union... Foolish move, in my opinion

So many people would dump their right to vote in Presidential elections that the nation would go bankrupt from lack of tax revenue.

Yes. Voting is a waste of time. Usa has ben sold and bought long time ago.

Puerto Ricans don’t pay Federal Income Tax, but we do pay Social Security and Medicaid.

Considering PR got shafted by the president after the hurricanes and all that saved money led to a speedy recovery, looks like things turned out well.

raven lord A lot of people would probably give up voting. The voting system is so stupid and a lot of people don’t like it anyway

Given your profile pic I'm assuming you're British or at least in the UK. That having been said can you really say anything against America that your country hasn't done in one form or another and don't bother bringing up the atom bomb. Hell some of the R&D data that helped build it came from your country, not to mention the situational circumstances of the time dictated no other less costly method of ending that debacle.

@@jerekrockw1057 Stop overreacting jesus christ the person didn't comment anything related to what you just said so calm down

@@jerekrockw1057 What the hell? How is that related in any way to what the original poster commented? Oh, I get it. You're one the people who baits other people into arguments. Nice try.

@@jerekrockw1057 quick question did you even read the comment before repling?

@@jerekrockw1057 Given your profile pic I'm assuming your Presperterian mixed between something else and maybe not. That having been said, can you really say anything against Bananas! You can't say what I have done with bananas you haven't done either. Including eating or otherwise alternative activities. Hell, most people shove bananas up their butts. I swear I'm not the only one! And I do recall, banana play is something that originated with you anyway. Don't judge me!

Same. I only learned of the Territories until I searched it up myself much later...

Phuc Huu Bich really unfortunate considering the serious problems facing Puerto Rico resulting from their fucked up political status (and some old fashioned government mismanagement)

Tyler Adam The whole shit needs to be updated and revised. If only though.

To be honest... Would the class would of been any more interested? Most of the time teachers don't have intensives to go off course since most kids only care about passing.

I can just picture this in class 😂😂 “this is America” *walk out slams door* 🙌🏻😂

CGP Grey...shall rain supreme

all hail king coconut!

Shane Swanson Hurrah!

long live the coconut king!

utilizator500 king coconut for world hegemon!

Wow

United is an overstatement, it’s more like “Mildy tolerate”

I mean, it's more accurate than calling the USA democratic. Millions are legally unable to vote, tens of millions are effectively unable to vote... there's a reason they are looked down upon by democratic nations, like Australia, Germany and Canada.

No

Yes

Tensions between the EU and Britain have been rising for over a decade now but yeah he predicted it

Ironically, the UK's ability to leave is the biggest evidence that the EU is neither a federation nor a superstate, but rather, a group of independent and sovereign nation-states committed to an interdependent and legally binding union of these countries. By leaving, the UK is effectively divorcing what is essentially a 28-spouses marriage of nations, now 27.

@@lucofparis4819 Congratulations, You have now learned of the EU. Also, what partof this is in any way ironic?

Brexit talk has been a thing ever since the financial crisis.

I like your youthbe icon

😂😂 lonely coconut

He's got my vote also I'm from chile mr chilemaping I had no idea there where other intellectuals in my country

Oh oh oh like that tree that owns itself, or the dog. America is great, don't change guys.

Haha ya

It's a pity that that community of ignorant, gun-toting, oppressive thugs didn't manage to secede from the Union.

The only difference between the CHOP and the Confederacy is the Confederates could actually grow something.

@@HolyKhaaaaan "ignorant, gun-toting, oppressive thugs" wait are you talking about the police here or what?

@@boozecruiser Haha so funny right? The people that protect your rights to live are "oppressive thugs".Nice one.

Those terrorists should have been executed on charges of high treason.

I'd like that vid about how the US gov't actually works.

+Collin “Misfire” Buckman That would be nice I also want the video on how the EU actually works.

"how the US gov't works" is an oxymoron. :P

"[H]ow the EU actually works" puts the moron in "oxymoron."

skysthe limitvideos At the moment, the reservations are pretty chill. One of them is trying to become internationally recognized as a country, and said country would be the size of seria. Right in the middle of the US, too.

Timestamp ?

not of last friday it isnt.

Joe Smith 0:20 the video predicted brexit 2 years before it happened lol

@@hansgruber788 Predicted the inevitable. Wasn't exactly out of the blue.

​@@kykk3365 It was something that was talked about, but was hardly inevitable.

Nazi germany based its expansion on manifest destiny

A Vallejo It’s not like we fought them or anything

@@0-0hertz93 The Soviets did that, too.

Alias Malte Yes

Why do you have to bring up the Soviets when the conversation wasn’t even talking about them

Rights to the ocean around them is why for those curious. (Disclaimer: From memory, I'm not an expert) The way water borders are determined means that little bird poop islands result in big swaths of ocean for the USA to use however she wants. Usually what she wants is drilling rights or the ability to tax/avoid others' tax involving cargo ships. Occasionally it could also be for military testing, or something similar.

@@mikek6298 Not really, the Guano Island Act was literally just for the guano deposits, not because of the waterways

Guano was a hugely important resource used in making fertilizer and explosives. It was a major strategic resource until other techniques of nitrogen fixation were developed (haber process).

Wrong on both counts. What that coconut needed was FREEDOM.

We’ll give it a M16, and a HMV, it’ll have friends!

Grey Raven

If any country was going to leave the EU it was always going to be the UK

I'm pretty sure a brexit had been discussed for quite awhile before the referendum took place.

The UK tried to leave the EU before but they didn't succeed

We should have seen THAT one coming earlier...But it was kinda Obvious...What with all the arguing they do....

But will you be counted as illegal immigrant if you go there?

Frozen Bus Channel 魔雪巴士頻道 Yes, but absolutely no one in our government would care. So long as your not living in the continental states, our government will do absolutely nothing to stop you from living there.

@@FrozenBusChannel if you didn't go there on purpose no one care

your pfp fits this comment so well

it's a national wildlife refuge, by visiting without permission you (and any children you may have) would be trespassing on federal property, and even if you don't get caught, to get citizenship you would have to prove that your kid was born in United States territory, which requires paperwork from the government which administers the island, but if you go to them they will arrest you for trespassing so it's a paradox.

GhostTrueCapitalist Alaska is the biggest

Yea

If I recall correctly, Texas is about 250,000 square miles and Alaska is 550,000.

texas has more oil under the hard rock layer we are drilling to

But does it have Cowboys?

You would die by the time Death to Pennies would play.

Welcome to the Machine!

for no reason... _Atoll?_ (waggles eyebrows)

@@agiar2000 Nooooooooooo

Deadly NATURE

no

But it can split itself into 5 states if it gets angry enough

@@Plutonium2000 wait what what happened to Texas why does Texas want out?

@@professionaltaxevader2699 I doesn't want out. But when it was added to the USA, it was written that it can, at any time, split itself into 5 US states.

@@Plutonium2000 Left arm of the Yeehaw One.

Only the conservative ones cry. Big business wouldn't do it since they'd lose out on military contracts, drilling rights off Lousiana, and federal aid to prop up the local Walmart or after another hurricane.

branding

***** because were americans brah

NJLamp Films Good luck, its a nature reserve, commonly used for research and study of evolution.

Let's do it

NJLamp Films I'd rather go to south georgia and make a revolution XD

Roberto Kalvin lmao

Its to maintain long term peace. Being unable to leave forces states to resolve their differences amicably. Whereas if they left and became independent entities, they would both be weakened and could become rivals in the future, and ultimately go to war. Off course, sometimes the intention fails and you have a civil war.

once united always united

Back after the Revolution we tried something very similar to what the EU is now. It failed. Go look up the Articles of Confederation.

Yes

MrHSX yes plz even though i live in america

He's already done the UK - check out his other videos

France would be great

Bizarre Bits omg www.BANNED.com

:(

that's what all national governments say right up until the time that it isn't true anymore.

+NorthSeaHero XD

It wasn't always this way, Until lincoln.

+ColonelLanders in a bad way, there wouldn't be a reason to secede if the union didn't overreach it's power...

+Sam Benjamin Same here.

+Sam Benjamin You're gonna have to do alot of praying to get God to make a video for you m8.

How are they in the news?

Larry Im an american but im also an atheist.

Lemme guess, you've watched a few Christopher Hitchens videos and are now convinced of your intellectual superiority over religious people? And what is really 'embarresing' is your grammar. You might want to use a spell check next time you think to insult peoples intelligence.

Hopefully he will make a video about it

Forrest Gatewood in a short version reservations are outside of the jurisdiction of the state, ie. state laws and taxes don't apply and people who live in reservations can't vote. The federal government is a bit more complicated. Article 1 section 8 clause 3 allows for the feds to regulate comerse with reservations. And, Article 1, section 10 (I believe) allows the federal government (congress) to regulate federal land as it wishes (following the constitution, bill of rights, and amendments), which reservation land is. thus the department of the interior and dept' of justice do have some say, but is restricted due to treaties and various laws. And, being kinda sovereign the native Americans who live on the reservation can vote in federal elections as part of a state. it's complicated

Or you could research it yourself.

AfricanH3ro absolutely, you should never get info from one source

AfricanH3ro I know about the laws personally because I mostly of native decent and just a history buff, but c'mon, Grey makes everything more awesome.

Texas doesn’t want to be it’s own country it wants California to not be part of it

lol

it has always been possible as long as you own the land

Brian southparkstudio Or the buyer has the military power.

The actual price of Alaska was 3 cents an acre

Jovan Janevski but I have only American dollars!

+Ryan Moore lol

Is it groundhog day to blame? I think it is.

All I'm saying is, keep your tea under wraps.

Agreed.

No taxation without representation!

America is a she or a he? It's personification is a he, yet the nation is called a she.

Just wait until it's Liberia's turn.

Max Germany's a he though, fatherland!

This is cringy

Bradley Heyden Mom*

You'd better STOP BEING BEAUTIFUL!

roy romano Vivá La Revo- :(

LooooL

I mean if they did not get involved with the confederacy they would have likely retained their right to succeed from the union when they were first anexed as a preexisting condition.

Even after the civil war Texas still existed as a separate nation state but we had to join our economy was shit.

Fun fact: most popular religion is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Another fun fact: it was the only place Michael Bloomberg won in the 2020 election.

hey EmperorTigerstar!

He should really correct this.

I didn't notice.

Great job, while I got even 13 coins of this nation it took me the second time to notice this error.

hi emperor, looking forward for some maps!

MattManManiac yee haw :(

well they could rebal

Justin Valdez ya because last time people tried that it worked out SO well lol

@Meholz Empire pretty sure anyone with a brain could see that was sarcasim

Eternal with an asterisk. The only way a State could ever leave the Union peacefully and without a military conflict is for the US Congress to vote it out. And it would have to be a unanimous decision

yes you are MURICAN!!

Vote yes in November and hope that your voice will be heard! I'm crossing my fingers for you

As an American from California, yes, you are! Puerto Ricans have been US citizens since 1917! Granted, you don't elect congresspeople or electors, but other than that, you have the same legal status as I do!

UKIP has been about for ages

The UK voted to leave, they never did actually leave, as everyone who was bound by law to follow through immediately resigned their job and the paperwork is in limbo now.

Brexit was an appeal from the moderate conservative party ("Tories") to attract the extreme UKIP party voters away from their minority party and in to the main party. David Cameron promised Brexit to get UKIP voters, but didn't really care about it himself. He didn't expect it to actually pass the vote of the population. Hence he resigned. So Brexit remains a voted decision, but no one has any idea what to actually do. There's a lot of "have your cake and eat it too" desires of what people expect Brexit to be.

I thought you were going to say, that'd be a real headache for the flag design. :)

John Ermingham it's in the video.

John Ermingham if you don't find it funny, good for you. But someone does.

😂😂😂😂XD

chilly he pressed the wrong emoji boi

Plot twist

Yo brother are you still there??

@@hank561 no he is no longer here

@@CTRLALTDayman1776 rip bozo

He long gone

That **Almost** happened, it still isn’t a state.

***** hes talking about the 5 TERRITORIES and 3 associated NATIONS.

***** Yes an island with 3 million people. 3 million=0. My brain hurts.

***** yea im an A B student and they dont teach this man

***** cool story bro

***** already told you i did. get it together bro