How Each U.S. State Has A Country As Its Partner

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00:00 Intro
00:59 What is the State Partnership Program?
01:57 Historical Context
03:58 BetterHelp
05:18 How does the program work?
06:28 How are the National Guard Units coordinated?
06:57 National Guard Units Missions
07:51 Current Partner Countries
08:23 African Partners
08:41 Middle-East Partners
08:49 European Partners
09:23 Indo-Pacific Partners
09:38 South/Central America Partners
10:09 Most recent countries to join (since 2013)
11:45 Summary
▶ In this video I talk about the State Partnership Program that exists between the United States' Department of Defense, its States, and 95 countries across the world. The States Partnership Program is the 'successor' to a previous program that existed only in Eastern Europe in order to both aid and establish US influence in the area previously controlled by the Soviet Union. Upon the success of this initial program, it was expanded to other areas of the world. Today reaching almost half the countries worldwide, into all continents.
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@ShayP.Cormac Жыл бұрын

I always found it interesting that the partner of my state, Georgia, was...well...Georgia. When I was in the National Guard, we had some soldiers go over to the Republic of Georgia for training missions

@Channel-rs8xj Жыл бұрын

Georgia inception

@no_not_that_one Жыл бұрын

I mean- how could Georgia not be Georgia’s partner

@45acpisdope Жыл бұрын

The republic of Two Georgias when?

@RJDA.Dakota Жыл бұрын

@@45acpisdope A Tale Of Two Georgias.

@modmaker7617 Жыл бұрын

Genius!

@MatijaCG Жыл бұрын

Best crossovers ever: Serbia & Ohio and Georgia & Georgia.

@noiihate213 Жыл бұрын

Only in Serbia bruh

@snowy5419 Жыл бұрын

Ohio is the Serbia of the us

@skeleex Жыл бұрын

Alabama & Romania

@Lcngopher Жыл бұрын

Georgia only had one choice for partner imo

@DJ.24. Жыл бұрын

Also Chile and texas

@PastInNumbers Жыл бұрын

as a georgian i fully support our relationship w the other georgians, as 2 georgias is better than just A georgia

@PastInNumbers Жыл бұрын

@spawnerist this georgia duh not that georgia

@lurji Жыл бұрын

დიდება საქართველოს!!!!

@jfm14 Жыл бұрын

@@lurji I'm not from either Georgia, but I love the nation of Georgia. Excited to visit there someday! 🇬🇪 (Nothing against the US state of Georgia, I'm just ambivalent towards it. All I know is the Atlanta airport is no fun.)

@classicclassi6146 Жыл бұрын

East Georgia and West Georgia

@saulgoodman4597 Жыл бұрын

We should annex the country georgia as a state so that nobody gets confused with it. And as a added bonus protection from a foereign invasion.

@corruptedpoison1 Жыл бұрын

Idaho should be with Ireland for obvious reasons.

@Dpmt Жыл бұрын

I was thinking Laos too, since Laos neighbors with coastlines are partnered with Idaho's neighbors with coastlines.

@BitterMillenial Жыл бұрын

Potatoes?

@corruptedpoison1 Жыл бұрын

@@BitterMillenial Yes

@RunawayTrain2502 Жыл бұрын

And if we take it seriously, Massachusets would be the most realistic I bet.

@zacharyreynolds4303 Жыл бұрын

trade partners :D

@josuaerick9670 Жыл бұрын

for me its crazy that the US has gotten so big that its states can help other countries

@uuba2 Жыл бұрын

Well getting rid of Native American was an easy thing to do. Europeans had modern war machine with guns, they had 🏹. Hey you emotional US(?) citizens, I am jot saying that was bad or good. I said what happened Europeans came and took the land of other people. They lied, sold alcohol, killed natives. Last but not least, US often involved mass killing of natives who basically wanted to get their land back. That is fact. If you feel something arrogant inside you, maybe you can't comprehend the history here. Not problem with me whatsoever.

@genghiskhan5701 Жыл бұрын

@@uuba2 The American conquest of the Natives occured before the machine guns were widespread

@uuba2 Жыл бұрын

@@genghiskhan5701 I meant modern warfare strategies and units. I remember European tactics were pretty similar to modern ones. Beside that, they had superior arms against Natives with machetes and so on.

@freddy4603 Жыл бұрын

@@uuba2 and y'know, having already culturally adapted to all the plagues

@scott2452 Жыл бұрын

@@uuba2 Native Americans also had guns during US expansion…what they lacked were population & political unity.

@grantforester1864 Жыл бұрын

The main reason to make this program was definitely to pair up Georgia and Georgia, everything else is a side effect

@aaronicicle1867 Жыл бұрын

As an Alaskan I was waiting to see my states partner and when I saw its Mongolia I just thought "oh my lord" and polar bear/moose horse archers 😂

@petergray7576 Жыл бұрын

Alaska and Mongolia were paired, I suspect, because of their large respective sizes and low population densities. Traditionally Alaskan National Guard units had to operate autonomously and independently in the Alaskan wilderness without outside support, and this works quite well inside the vast Mongolian territory as well..

@jfm14 Жыл бұрын

@@petergray7576 There are also some ancient cultural links, potentially. Some wise, old folks in Mongolia will tell you their ancestors came from what's now Alaska. I wouldn't be surprised; nomadic people often go back and forth between areas and oral history is more reliable than many of us realize.

@mitch_sorenstein Жыл бұрын

As an Alaskan, I suspect Alaska and Mongolia are paired for 3 reasons: 1) common ancestors (long ago, but still) 2) similar barren conditions and sparse populations and I don't have proof for this next one but I suspect it was the biggest reason for it: 3) RUSSIA! The US would very obviously want to partner with any willing country that close to the former soviet union, and Alaska and Mongolia have that side/corner pretty much on lock down so it makes sense to encourage working in unison between the two.

@DragonTheOne Жыл бұрын

*frozen throught singing*

@deanfirnatine7814 Жыл бұрын

Kind of fits, no one should ever mess with Mongols or Alaskans

@westtxtapper Жыл бұрын

Not quite sure, but the partnership between Czechia and Texas could have come about because of historical ties. In the 1800's, a large number of Czech immigrants made their new homes in central Texas.

@jwg546 Жыл бұрын

absolutely!

@TheKeksadler Жыл бұрын

Same with Nebraska, there were a lot of Czech immigrants that settled there as well.

@ferretyluv Жыл бұрын

Didn’t know about Czech (they would have been Bohemian at the time), but I’ve heard about the Texas Germans.

@faithnfire4769 Жыл бұрын

@@ferretyluv They settled in a similar area, you see some glimmers of it, Kolaches are as common as donuts in the hill country and some old music. Much smaller numbers, but large at the time.

@titobandito1555 Жыл бұрын

@@faithnfire4769I was fixing to mention the kolache’s

@MrLeemurman Жыл бұрын

Alabama: I'd like to share with you some of my culture. Got any relatives? Romania: Wait, what?!

@normanclatcher Жыл бұрын

Alabama: "I'd like to share with you some of my culture." Romania: **pulls out Vlad the Impaler** "Likewise."

@RunawayTrain2502 Жыл бұрын

Romania, Truly the Alabama of Europe.

@neilz. Жыл бұрын

True habsburgs

@osheridan Жыл бұрын

Chad

@ryangarcia9932 Жыл бұрын

@@RunawayTrain2502 lol, I thought the same.

@arko09 Жыл бұрын

General, this is the first time I'm hearing of this program. It satisfies me that Georgia is paired with Georgia.

@littleantukins4415 Жыл бұрын

There is only one Georgia after all Btw whoever paired them honestly is very cool

@awesomeaiden53srandomstuff53 Жыл бұрын

If Georgia wasn’t paired with Georgia I would’ve committed multiple war crimes in Albania

@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb Жыл бұрын

As a Georgian, i agree

@Evil_Emperor_Zurg Жыл бұрын

As someone who has traveled to the country of Georgia for this partnership, I can tell you from experience that the people there also love that we are paired up.

@darwinqpenaflorida3797 Жыл бұрын

Philippines and Indonesia have one state partnership:Hawaii since it was strategic location in the Pacific and also two countries are military allies

@GabrielUngacta Жыл бұрын

And also Guam.

@darwinqpenaflorida3797 Жыл бұрын

@@GabrielUngacta Yes bro close location

@howardbaxter2514 Жыл бұрын

Also cultural ties. A lot of Filipinos moved to Hawaii after WWII.

@darwinqpenaflorida3797 Жыл бұрын

@@howardbaxter2514 Yeah especially Ilocanos as well

@jannmikoingelrabagogamingc6012 Жыл бұрын

@@darwinqpenaflorida3797 Ilocano here! 🤗

@TheJadenVideos Жыл бұрын

We need a Idaho partnership with Ireland to form the potato union lol

@CYbeRuKRaINiaN Жыл бұрын

Latvia + Belarus + Idaho + Ireland = Potato Empire

@greenmachine5600 Жыл бұрын

Perú!

@CYbeRuKRaINiaN Жыл бұрын

@@greenmachine5600 Inca Empire))

@jellymunoz8555 Жыл бұрын

Famine= More potato???

@aaronainairetv Жыл бұрын

@@CYbeRuKRaINiaN throw Maine into the mix too

@unvl7682 Жыл бұрын

People say it makes sense that Ohio is with Serbia, but I think it’d be funny if Ohio was with Japan because of how you say “good morning” in Japanese

@somethingforsenro Жыл бұрын

Ohio gozaimasu!

@NoodleFlames Жыл бұрын

How do u say

@VinnyUnion Жыл бұрын

You people have a screw loose and i love it

@joshuagoldman1916 Жыл бұрын

I went to google translate, Ohayo lmao

@libertarianmarketsocialist3836 Жыл бұрын

The giant monsters too

@CandyHatsuneWolff Жыл бұрын

I've lived in the USA most of my life, and I had no idea about this! It sounds like a really smart way for us to cultivate soft power.

@jfm14 Жыл бұрын

I suspect most of us haven't heard of it because it's just a National Guard thing.

@ImtoPreppyForThisWorld Жыл бұрын

@@jfm14 Yeah I'm american and I agree.

@jbtom321 Жыл бұрын

This is a cool partnership. Each state national guard assists a countries military and helps bring them closer in those regards. And being national guard, state money has to be used rather than federal.

@wrex509 Жыл бұрын

I dont believe thats accurate. Most of the funding comes from the feds because most of the training is for the federal mission. Hell, even when we were doing domestic operations training, some of that money was coming from FEMA. And just because its a state partnership, its through a federal program so the feds are probably still paying for it. However, if it was the state guard (which is not the same as the national guard), then yes, it would be state money.

@kosjeyr Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the lesson. I didn't know this existed and where I live in Illinois, there's a lot of Polish heritage people in the Chicago area which makes sense with Illinois being connected with Poland.

@chrisb.7787 Жыл бұрын

I'm from Southern Illinois and we're mostly English and German. There are a lot of Polok jokes here because weve had a poor view of the Chicago area for generations. Honestly though it's probably just east vs west European racism. People suck.

@Guitarlovechild Жыл бұрын

@@chrisb.7787 well, you will be happy to know that Berlin is Chicago "twin" city

@kosjeyr Жыл бұрын

@@chrisb.7787 with my heritage, I got German, British, Irish and Italian in me.

@ntatenarin Жыл бұрын

I think I saw this at O'Hare airport. It showed states and their country partners. It was in some large hallway.

@kosjeyr Жыл бұрын

@NtateNarin sounds familiar. As a lifelong Chicagoland resident (other than the military) I've only been to O'Hare (originally Orchard Field) maybe 4 times total.

@jbach2002 Жыл бұрын

Georgian cities also often have corresponding sister cities in Georgia Atlanta and Tbilisi are sister cities I love how the state and country just embrace the shared name

@gabriell.4440 Жыл бұрын

🎵He's leavin' (leavin')...on a midnight train to Tbilisi🎶

@jakubpociecha8819 Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, I remember when General Sherman's troops burned down Tbilisi, one of the moments of all time

@humbleguardsman5578 Жыл бұрын

@@jakubpociecha8819 "I dare say private. I knee the south had cultural differences but I didn't know they had a completely different language!"

@jakubpociecha8819 Жыл бұрын

@@humbleguardsman5578 Must've been that Georgian wine

@humbleguardsman5578 Жыл бұрын

@@jakubpociecha8819 Sherman had too many drinks and ended up a bit... Farther east... Than expected.

@minnesotaball9792 Жыл бұрын

Hey nice video! To add on to this the country of Norway has recently entered a partnership with my home state of Minnesota around a week ago! It was a big thing here 😄

@darrenfrench7366 Жыл бұрын

Because of the Viking? 😂

@jackattack8661 Жыл бұрын

Minnesota has the largest population of Norwegians of any state, that’s actually why they are called the Vikings

@minnesotaball9792 Жыл бұрын

@@jackattack8661 I'm one of them myself so yes it fits perfectly :)

@petergray7576 Жыл бұрын

@@jackattack8661 It's also because of their similar cold winter climate, and proximity to cold bodies of water. Given tensions with Russia, having US NG troops trained in Arctic operations makes sense.

@jfm14 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I bet you Scandilanders were all over that.

@thatguynoonelikes4865 Жыл бұрын

Ain't no way Georgia Georgia wasn't intentional Same with Alaska & mongolia since no one lives in either of those places Chile & Texas too

@pancholopez8829 Жыл бұрын

I do feel Wyoming could also work for Mongolia as well. Hell, it's more cowboy than even Texas. And Mongolia still ride their horses to this day.

@thatguynoonelikes4865 Жыл бұрын

@@pancholopez8829 yeah that's A fair take

@RoyalTheCheeseSergal Жыл бұрын

8:55 maryland and estonia make sense together because they are both extremely underrated

@logansymmes2193 Жыл бұрын

One is trying to get into Nordic, the Other is trying to get into the North.

@RoyalTheCheeseSergal Жыл бұрын

@@logansymmes2193 no. One is trying to be not called a Balkan country and one is considered south and new England but absolutely isn't either

@logansymmes2193 Жыл бұрын

Don’t you mean Baltic. I don’t think any country wants to be Balkan lmao

@normanclatcher Жыл бұрын

Both have a deceptively long coastline, rocky shores, and a bomb-lookin' flag.

@cherrycolareal Жыл бұрын

But you can't deny how ugly Maryland's flag is compared to Estonia's.

@matthewgarrison-perkins5377 Жыл бұрын

Interesting that my home state, Iowa, is partnered with a nation that isn't widely accepted to be a sovereign nation, Kosovo. In Iowa's urban centers we do have a significant number of families that either escaped/fled the former Yugoslavia during and after it's dissolution, some of them now in their 3rd generation in the US. Also, understandably, most are of Bosnian and Kosovan birth.

@ferretyluv Жыл бұрын

Kosovar. Someone from Kosovo is Kosovar, not Kosovan.

@matthewgarrison-perkins5377 Жыл бұрын

@@ferretyluv Thanks for the info.

@jasonburmeister4746 Жыл бұрын

There is also a consulate set up by Kosovo in Des Moines

@UnDefinedLegacy Жыл бұрын

I met the 2 main men behind the Consulate in Des Moines when they first established about 6 years ago iirc. They stayed at a 2 star hotel that I worked at the time. They were quite polite.

@moosefromsky3986 Жыл бұрын

Poland and Illinois having a partnership isn't surprising actually, tbh.

@normanclatcher Жыл бұрын

They both got great sausage and are situated inland but still have good railroads and roundabout access to the seas.

@moosefromsky3986 Жыл бұрын

@Norman Clαtcher Illinois also has a decently sized population with Polish heritage. I believe we even celebrate Casimir Pulaski Day. It is the birthday of a Polish soldier who fought and died in the seige of Savanah 1779. I believe Obama made him an honorary American citizen.

@israeldelarosa5461 Жыл бұрын

@@moosefromsky3986 Illinois also has Polish as its most spoken language after English and Spanish. It is the ONLY state that can boast this fact. Every surrounding state has German as it’s 3rd most spoken.

@moosefromsky3986 Жыл бұрын

@@israeldelarosa5461 True.

@cobrakai3732 Жыл бұрын

@@moosefromsky3986 Fun fact: next to Warsaw, Chicago has the world's second largest Polish population. Highly recommend the PBS documentary "the fourth partition" that discusses the history of Polish immigrants to Chicago and the surrounding areas of the state.

@SunsetAssassin Жыл бұрын

It may seem random that Tonga, Fiji, and recently Samoa are paired with Nevada, but these four have more in common than most people realize on the surface. Many people are surprised at how much Nevada and Pacific Island nations have in common, if you look closely you will see similarities of small, close-knit, urban communities, separated by large distances of ocean in the Pacific, and desert in Nevada. Fun fact 1: Nevada and Tonga have partnered in several U.S. Pacific Command and South Pacific exercises that include active duty, guard and reserve forces; as well as, military personnel from Australia, New Zealand and several other Pacific Rim nations. Fun fact 2: The U.S. Embassy in Suva, Fiji is used when engaging with both the Kingdom of Tonga and the Republic of Fiji, and is one of two Oceanic American Embassies that represent the United States diplomatically for the local handful of small island nations. The other embassy is located on the island of Papua New Guinea.

@Go4Broke247 Жыл бұрын

Suprised that it's not Utah, Christian Mormons missionary colonization

@Spongebrain97 Жыл бұрын

I thought it was pretty cool when I found out that the California National Guard had been training many Ukrainian soldiers and those were the ones who were most prepared for the Russian invasion

@MrGadaru Жыл бұрын

Most of EU & UN have been training Ukrainan troops since 2014, thus why they have been so succesfull

@lucinae8510 Жыл бұрын

I remember a tweet about the California National Guard donating batches on old body armour to Ukraine, which I thought was part of the USA's aid packages, but now I think was due to this partnership.

@Perfectly_Cromulent351 Жыл бұрын

@@MrGadaru as far as I know, only the US, the UK and Canada have been training Ukrainian soldiers since the occupation of Crimea.

@MrGadaru Жыл бұрын

@@Perfectly_Cromulent351 Many of the nordic countries has aswell. I know that Sweden has trained Ukrainian soldiers since 2014 in Ukraine. If I remember correct they trained small groups of officers each time and then the officers trained Ukrainians further. And swedes have also started to train Ukrainian recruits in the UK since march last year. I also know that Finns and Norwegians have a similar project on going.

@Perfectly_Cromulent351 Жыл бұрын

@@MrGadaru I’m not doubting you, but I’m also not finding anything that says that’s true. I did find something about operation orbital, which was a British program started in 2015, which then turned into operation interflex, a British-led multinational training program, but it only started in Aug. 2022 and that’s when it says the Nordics and other European countries got involved. The California national guard got a lot of attention early in the war, bc the units that were using the Javelins were trained by them. I remember one story about how some Ukrainian soldiers called their Californian instructor in the heat of battle to ask how to fire the javelin, and the American soldier gave them step-by-step instructions over the phone.

@octaviuswendell5857 Жыл бұрын

I think the criteria is similarity: I’m from Utah and we got Morocco and Nepal, with similar environments with their mountains and deserts. Texas got Chile because the flags look alike; and, well, Georgia 🇬🇪 and Georgia 🇺🇸

@hoid9407 Жыл бұрын

UT's long-standing partnership with Morocco has been really awesome. We do an exchange every year where Utah youth go to Morocco for several weeks while Moroccans come visit SLC. Plus the disaster response mission and multinational cooperation missions... It's been a really great thing. Nepal is a really new partner but it will be awesome to see where that goes.

@johnbrook1279 Жыл бұрын

I was confused to not find my state (Minnesota) in any of the lists. Turns out it joined with Norway a few days after the video came out.

@onesob13 Жыл бұрын

You missed its partnership with Croatia, so I guess we've got two now

@DemeDemetre Жыл бұрын

The Georgia-Georgia one is unexpected but nice, i guess. I remember it from somewhere but still surprising.

@domtom9594 Жыл бұрын

Uzbekistan: what you known for? Mississippi:Long name and nothingness. What about you? Uzbekistan: people forget I exist. Mississippi: I get called landmass between Louisiana and Alabama. I feel your pain.

@katie7748 Жыл бұрын

First time I heard Uzbekistan mentioned on a TV show, I thought it was made up for that episode. Nope!

@kris5885 Жыл бұрын

Louisiana and Haiti just makes sense❤ 🇭🇹⚜️

@Demicleas Жыл бұрын

Yes very ironic as well as our second partner being Belize which also has a large crime rate. Yay crime rate triumvirate. 🇧🇿🇭🇹⚜️ ❤️

@ferretyluv Жыл бұрын

They gotta update each other on their voodoo!

@deanfirnatine7814 Жыл бұрын

Yep the only other French speakers in the US besides the Cajuns and Creole of Louisiana are the Madawaskans in Northern Maine.

@ferretyluv Жыл бұрын

@@deanfirnatine7814 You mean the Acadians in Maine? They speak French, too.

@DriedConcher Жыл бұрын

Minnesota and Norway just officially sign into the state partnership program recently, but they’ve been doing their own version of the state partnership program for 50 years! It’s called Norwegian-Minnesota National Guard Reciprocal Program (NOREX). Minnesota and Norway have a very strong connection with each other.

@pelletrouge3032 Жыл бұрын

There’s also a town in Minnesota called Finland

@danielzhang1916 Жыл бұрын

maybe Wisconsin and Sweden too? haha possible

@pelletrouge3032 Жыл бұрын

@@danielzhang1916 But Wisconsin has those german roots

@danielzhang1916 Жыл бұрын

@@pelletrouge3032 I know but it would be funny to have both

@pelletrouge3032 Жыл бұрын

@@danielzhang1916 True lets say iowa is sweden

@dawnslayer Жыл бұрын

imagine Wyoming and North Korea.

@franciscocruzv3733 Жыл бұрын

A US state that doesn’t exist and an Asian country that shouldn’t exist? Perfect.

@eyyy2271 Жыл бұрын

*oh...*

@diamondsam Жыл бұрын

Damn Texas and Chile the lands in which flags are liable to be confused are partnered also Georgia with Georgia is just meant to be

@pugasaurusrex8253 Жыл бұрын

I found that funny

@Awesoman66 Жыл бұрын

Individual cities have sister cities in other countries. The city I went to university in had a sister city in Paraguay and another in China. Many Paraguayans and Chinese students wen to the university.

@SU1C1D3xPR4D4 Жыл бұрын

Imagine being a Uzbek “I need help!” *good ol boy from Mississippi shows up* “Y’all got any grizz n bush?”

@PopeLando Жыл бұрын

I like that Austria has partnered with Vermont. The Skiing partnership!

@eiros147 Жыл бұрын

Mendoza in Argentina also has a partnership with the city of San Diego, they send their old trams. And the locality of Luján de Cuyo inside Mendoza has a special partnership with France for the firefighters, they get new trucks almost each year and special training, so there're french flags in the firefighters building.

@miraculous_tetris Жыл бұрын

Europe: H-Hungary? Hungary: *Ohio smile * Yes~ Europe: w-wha-what are you doing? Hungary: Im with my buddies Serbia and Ohio 😈

@DLeadVox Жыл бұрын

I did not know this. Thank you for explaining it! I love all your programs. I am a map geek myself. Thank you again.

@bjornstahle4652 Жыл бұрын

I was not aware of these partnerships before finding this video... thank you for posting it.

@kristophersurma6459 Жыл бұрын

I genuinely don’t know why but somehow Indiana partnered with Niger and Slovakia just feels right. I know we don’t have any particular connection to either country but I honestly couldn’t think of a better fitting match for Indiana than those two countries except maybe India for the pun.🤷‍♂️

@zippy-zappa-zeppo-zorba-etc Жыл бұрын

I want to partner with Australia. Just me and Australia.

@fullmetaltheorist Жыл бұрын

Just ask Australia out on a date.

@fullmetaltheorist Жыл бұрын

@Bu$$yButcher I always knew Australia was secretly into bad boys. Makes me sad.

@sebastiansilverfox6912 Жыл бұрын

@Bu$$yButcher The way they buckled under political tyranny the last few years, pretty sure the only dating they do is paying for their handler.

@blackjacktrial Жыл бұрын

We partner at a state level with states I think. So you are more likely to see Queensland or Victoria partner with Florida or Washington (Sunshine States and Queensland/Florida man unite, and unstable weather states unite).

@TheThunderinghammer Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if this is common, but my Maryland middle school did some cool stuff where we learned about Estonia - and to this day, I like the country more than most US States

@pelletrouge3032 Жыл бұрын

That’s cool, estonia rocks

@OmneAurumNon Жыл бұрын

Everyone is talking about Georgia and Georgia, but I also like how Colombia is paired with SC whose capital is Columbia

@RJDA.Dakota Жыл бұрын

I love this channel! I learned something new today from this. Awesome! This is a very interesting video.

@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Thanks for watching :)

@Nightey Жыл бұрын

Those partnerships go both ways. In the case of Austria I know that we are helping Vermont with skiing infrastructure for example.

@bloopletank2491 Жыл бұрын

Bro i live in Massachusetts like an hour south of vermont and i didn't even know skiing was a big think there

@robing9364 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad this is happening & that better understanding between nations are possible I wish more countries would join in & maybe between each other too !

@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150 Жыл бұрын

Great video as always.

@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@roberttfoley Жыл бұрын

This video was really cool. I am glad my country does this, and even more glad to know about it

@justinb.5277 Жыл бұрын

being from West Virginia, I just want to apologize to Qatar and Peru for being stuck with us 😂

@chill1224. Жыл бұрын

Florida and Australia we need to make this happen. If anyone can help you guys with the emu problem it would be the Florida man. Imagine Florida men riding in on kangaroos and emus, unstoppable. No one would ever be able to invade, we can just hide in the swamps and outback and send the crocs after the enemy.

@sebastiansilverfox6912 Жыл бұрын

I'll take "things that happen in Melbourne" for 200, Alex.

@blackjacktrial Жыл бұрын

Queensland and Florida. We have Queensland man, who basically is Florida man anyway (down to alligator/crocodile obsession). Also, we are both Sunshine States, and we both have a Miami (admittedly, we also have a Texas). It's almost too perfect a mirror.

@sebastiansilverfox6912 Жыл бұрын

@@blackjacktrial Both have a Melbourne.

@d8vids Жыл бұрын

Hello General Knowledge, Great Video!

@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын

Hi! Thank you :)

@idklolz5418 Жыл бұрын

8:50 Georgia(country) and Georgia (state) being partnered has got the be the funniest thing in the video, I am from Georgia so yes this is a biased statement .

@kirbybrisley Жыл бұрын

I wonder if South Carolina is partnered with Colombia because of the fact that the capital of South Carolina is Columbia

@lxl-official Жыл бұрын

💀💀Hungary & Serbia With Ohio...

@elitettelbach4247 Жыл бұрын

I was unfamiliar with this practice, but that’s actually pretty neat!

@itsmonday7450 Жыл бұрын

Hi. I watch KZfaq on my phone. May I suggest that lists that you are not going to read aloud be large enough to be read on screen? Thanks! Super interesting content!

@UltraVega924 Жыл бұрын

For interested Michiganders, MICHIGAN's partners are Latvia and Liberia.

@TGE985 Жыл бұрын

Never heard of this before. My home state, Louisiana, being partnered with Haiti makes sense for sure.

@geographymaster9935 Жыл бұрын

great video

@fidoruh Жыл бұрын

This was honestly cool to learn. I always thought it was just some kind of cheeky vacation trap kind of thing.

@Coinfliptails Жыл бұрын

Louisiana with Haiti... That checks out.

@josueveguilla9069 Жыл бұрын

Happy Friday, General Knowledge.

@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын

Happy Friday!

@josueveguilla9069 Жыл бұрын

@@General.Knowledge Thank you.

@danielherman2159 Жыл бұрын

In addition to the Georgia/Georgia pair, I also like the Colombia/South Carolina pair (as SC capitol is Columbia)

@silverstar8868 Жыл бұрын

Oh yeeaah, I learned about this recently, it was so weird that it exists

@theultimateserbian2176 Жыл бұрын

Damn the 2 wildcards of both continents: Serbia and Ohio lmao

@tehteh25 Жыл бұрын

I didn't know this either! very interesting content =)

@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@aaronTGP_3756 Жыл бұрын

I never knew this existed. Interesting stuff.

@subconvextheobezoar3782 Жыл бұрын

Whoever decided these was a legend: Georgia and Georgia Texas and Chile/Czechia (similar flags that are often confused for each other) South Carolina and Colombia (SC's capital is Columbia)

@jeddacheese Жыл бұрын

Australia does something similar called “Sister cities” Canberra’s sister cities are Nara Japan and Beijing China, we have a candlelight concert every year for our relationship with Nara Japan

@ander936 Жыл бұрын

Us in America too! Greece Athens, Greece China Beijing, China Hungary Budapest, Hungary Israel Jerusalem, Israel South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa England London, England, United Kingdom Spain Madrid, Spain Dominican Republic Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Japan Tokyo, Japan These are the sister cities of New York alone!

@KartingRules Жыл бұрын

Every country does it

@Mysticil Жыл бұрын

One between Minnesota and Finland just got added this year

@pandachowtgm Жыл бұрын

I love that trombone king is the background music.

@WillHellmm Жыл бұрын

So I guess that's why illinois has the highest polish population outside of Poland

@cbjm36 Жыл бұрын

Ohio has a large amount of people of Hungarian and Serbian descent, so makes sense that those are the two partner nations. I would imagine a lot of states have similar connections with their partner nations

@orionfreed6763 Жыл бұрын

Yes, a lot of these connections make sense

@UgandanAirForce Жыл бұрын

I met an old Hungarian lady here in Ohio who escaped from the revolution with her husband.

@ferretyluv Жыл бұрын

I know about sister cities, never heard about sister states. I’m honestly shocked that DC is partnered with Burkina Faso and not Ethiopia or Eritrea, considering the MASSIVE Ethiopian diaspora in DC. In the same way I’m surprised that Massachusetts partnered with Kenya instead of Uganda. I’m also surprised that the richest country in the Middle East, Qatar, wants to partner with the poorest state, West Virginia. What could WV possibly teach them?

@RealColoradoProductions Жыл бұрын

Probably riding on ATVs in the mud all day? 😅

@karmanwilmot1648 Жыл бұрын

I did NOT know this existed. This is so cool to me! How did I not know!? My dad was in the National guard too. History class didn't even mention it(yes the class teaches recent history too).

@Igor_Gruzdev Жыл бұрын

Ohio has Serbia and Hungury💀💀💀

@ironiccookies2320 Жыл бұрын

I have a feeling Georgia and Georgia was on purpose.

@masikorski6411 Жыл бұрын

I didnt even knew this existed, but at the beginning of the video I realised polish partner would be Illinois. There is (was?) a big Polish community in Chicago, at a point it was center of polish emigration to US.

@devselvam7596 Жыл бұрын

Cool videos

@Riegawa Жыл бұрын

As someone who lives in Georgia, it made me smile every time i saw/heard that Georgia and Georgia were together.

@splitsee2526 Жыл бұрын

What is the interactive US State Partnership Program map website is? Can you please link me the website? You should've specified what it is.

@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын

It’s in the Department of Defense’s website: www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Experience/Building-Partnerships-Around-the-Globe/

@thiskid12345 Жыл бұрын

@@General.Knowledge THANKS!! We came looking for it too! So fcking cool!

@JamesTDG Жыл бұрын

Is there any way I could take a look at that interactive map without needing to Google for it? (Honestly, I was hoping for a link to be left in the description for it)

@yashagrawal88 Жыл бұрын

Mongolia - Alaska Indonesia, Philippines - Hawaii Geographical nature has been considered here.

@baddbabylon Жыл бұрын

Lithuania & Pennsylvania seems like a weird partnership, but I'm certainly not against it.

@LincolnDWard Жыл бұрын

ania-ania

@Eli-mn5cq Жыл бұрын

Columbia for South Carolina is fitting. Suprised how many of these seem to be related to eachother in weird ways. (for those who don't know, our capital is called Columbia)

@selipe97 Жыл бұрын

Can you do a video about Sister Cities? Thank you.

@mateusramos8250 Жыл бұрын

Since you gave the example of Portugal reaching out to became a partner, is it possible to Portugal actually reach out to join the JTCP in order to save TAP, for example? Does it work like that or is it just for humanitary reasons?

@AV-we6wo Жыл бұрын

From what I understood, the main goals of JTCP and SPP are neither economic cooperation nor humanitarian aid but cooperation in defense and security (though disaster relief etc. can still be part of it). So if TAP has strategic value in that regard, there might be a slight chance the US could be interested to help.

@RunawayTrain2502 Жыл бұрын

Portugal would probably be paired with Rhode Island so TAP will be saved by mob money.

@CarlosGarcia-lo6xf Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure he just gave the example of Portugal cause he's Portuguese

@Acrnavy Жыл бұрын

I know for Illinois, there is a large polish population. I believe it’s still the 3rd most spoken language in the state after English and Spanish.

@israeldelarosa5461 Жыл бұрын

It’s also the only state in America where this happens.

@katie7748 Жыл бұрын

There's a bunch in WI, too.

@ramsgaard8780 Жыл бұрын

Interesting. I’m born and raised NYC but my parents are from South Africa. And I didn’t know this

@ConsistentlyInconsistent Жыл бұрын

You mentioned The Joint Contact Team Program but wrote the acronym as JTCP. I almost didn't catch it.

@Fetch26291 Жыл бұрын

Why no link to that interactive map?

@rinotilde2699 Жыл бұрын

Philippines with Hawaii and Guam makes sense because there are a lot of Filipinos in those US territory/state. But I'm not sure which US state has the most Filipino diaspora.

@petergray7576 Жыл бұрын

California

@hismajesty6272 Жыл бұрын

Could we get the link to the interactive map?

@evamallard884 Жыл бұрын

Minnesota also has an independent partnership with Norway! We've been partners for 50 years now.

@CoffeeSuccubus Жыл бұрын

So thats why California is so co-operative with Ukraine... and why I see so many Ukraine flags around here.

@xreptarbreex Жыл бұрын

I believe most of these have either ethnic or economic ties. Texas is partnered with Czechia due to it having (probably) the largest Czech population in the US. Other I think are essentially the government being a bunch of memesters like Georgia and Georgia or Texas and Chile.

@KyMeatRocket Жыл бұрын

I've deployed as a part of this program, I had no idea it existed until I got orders and started googling. Mainly spent time pulling security for engineers drilling water wells in kenya.

@Nightshadow998 Жыл бұрын

As someone who did a report on Thailand when I was younger and is from Washington I'm embarrassed I didn't already know about this.

@indahasmarani2338 Жыл бұрын

Who will win? Georgia (Country) Georgia (US) New Georgia (Solomon Islands) South Georgia (UK) Georgia (Cornwall, UK) Georgia (Indiana, US) Georgia (Vermont, US) Or.... Georgia (The World Islands, Dubai, United Arab Emirates) I Personally Feel That "Georgia" Will Win