*Do you think any of these potential countries still has a chance of becoming independent? And which others do you think could become their own nation in the future?*

Bougainville is the only one that’s set in stone

Considering a lot of those predictions were about the Middle East/other Muslim states, I think it’s important to remember that these predictions were made in 2012; i.e. right off the back of the Arab Spring. Everyone was optimistic that the Middle East would overthrow their dictators and give freedom to their people… yeah, we saw how that went. With that context, it’s easier to see why they thought all those Islamic countries would collapse, which seems unthinkable now.

Somaliland is honestly one of the most stable states in the Horn of Africa. Lack of international recognition is due to them not breaking bread with the western banking cartels, not because they have contested or unstable authority over the region.

Creating a new state is hard, if not borderline impossible in the modern world. You need significant enough support (because minority uprisings usually fail eventually due to weight of numbers) and for the Great Powers to either back you or not intervene.

About a month ago a constitutional referendum passed in Mali, creating two new regions in the north, wich was part of a peace deal with seperatists

This video literally shows how diverse is Iran 😁 as Iranian Kurd I just like Iran look like how it does today, but with a good government and more rights for minorities.😌

As a Pakistani,if the government continues to do basically nothing then yeah its probably gonna collapse.

You're forgetting the risk of collapse of the Belgian state and the independence of Flanders.

Iran's protests have nothing to do with a division in the country and in fact that is not even a minor threat for a country like Iran. As an Iranian Azeri I should say that unification of The UK and France is a more probable thing than Iran's Azeri part joining The republic of Azerbaijan!

In Spain 🇪🇸 we also have several independence movements, the main ones being: the Catalan one, which demands the independence of Catalonia; the Basque, which claims the independence of “Euskal Herria” (formed by the Spanish Basque Country, Navarre, and the French Basque Country) and the Galician, which claims the independence of Galicia.

Hey, great video man - Azawad has always interested me! Despite their often tumultuous relationship with colonial French authorities, more than a few Tuareg seemed to believe Paris would allow for the creation of some kind of autonomous Tuareg-Berber state. That never happened of course and I do agree, following the Tuareg Rebellion of 2012, I think it's highly unlikely we'll seen an independent Azawad anytime soon...if ever. There's still a possibility of greater autonomy within Mali, but I guess only time will tell.

very interesting video. Congrats

Theres a common theme with these, people assume that whatever is happening in a country will continue at the same rate, whereas in reality it either excellerates or stops.

As a Pakistani, Baluchistan and KPK can not break up because Balochistani Government relies heavily on the Pakistani government and the Pashtun Political Parties have ran as prime minister and succeeded. The people of Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab and KPK are united, that's what kept us alive for over 70 years.

Great job on this video.

thanks you for share

3 other countries in the article that were not mentioned in the video: 1. Split of Belgium into Flanders and Wallonia 2. China conquering Siberia 3. United Korea

tbh most ppl who live in pakistan see themselves first as pakistani

Nice one

Great video

Somaliland has recently been recognized by Taiwan (ROC) so I guess that's something

From SIbi Balochistan i love my country PAKISTAN

So interesting!!!❤

The independence of Basque country, Catalonia, Scotland and dissolution of Belgium and unification of Romania and Moldova are more realistic than all the list in this video

I dont see balochistan independent, its very unlikely it can survive and iran wont let balochistan independent bec it might encourage the balochies in iran to have an independent movement , other than that cpec ( china pakistan economic corridor)needs gawadar which is a city in balochistan so china will also be against it and the last country balochistan will border is afghanistan and the greater Afghanistan includes balochistan and theyll try to take over balochistan's cheap gas and resources, that only leaves india as a potential ally in the reigon but i dont think india would really go to war with pakistan over balochistan since india is rapidly growing and going to a war with another nuclear power might end their rapid economic growth , and pushtunistan is very unlikely rn

I heard that Africa wants to avoid certain border splits based on culture and race because that could bring back some bad times like earlier in their history. With that I'm sure many places do want to split into smaller nations as well.

You should make a video about possible border changes in the near future

1:40 Thank you for talking about my origin, Kabylia in Algeria. Where did you find that image?

In contrast to those Iranian officials who claim that the Turks in Iran were actually originally Persians, the late IRGC Commander Qassem Suleimani claimed that the descendants of Turkic dynasties that live in Iran are not Iranian. Suleimani claimed: "Turks are aliens and non-Iranians. For hundreds of years (during Turkic rule in Iran), Iran had no history. Non- Iranians like the Seljuks invaded and ruled Iran."74 Shaffer, B. (2023) Iran is more than persia: Ethnic politics in Iran. Berlin: De Gruyter.

I can imagine Kashmir trying to break away from Pakistan and India. It would probably arrange for security guarantees from either China or the US, each with huge geopolitical implications.

"Civilization Day" is a good one.

Gentleman says, "I don't know why?" an embarrassing amount of times...

+ Sakha, Ural Republic, Chechenya, Green Ukraine (Outer Manchuria), CossackLand, etc.

The East African Union sounds like an interesting idea

We want more this type of video

I'm Iranian Azerbaijani And I love My Country 🇮🇷👌🏻

As a balochi i am really shocked at after researching only 6% of people want independence from Pakistan but that’s still shocking anyway I’m personally one of the 94% of people who want to remain Pakistani 🇵🇰

I want to see a kurdistan

Sir your voice is so sweet

In my opinion of these i think 1 Azawad could get independence due to the borders being just lines with no geographical or ethnic components taken in. Just like the borders for the rest of Africa 2 regime change in Afghanistan is likely in the next few decades but unlikely to change borders due to the other countries not wanting to get involved 2.5 Pakistan has been going through some issues but the people from Balochistan kpk sindh punjab and kashmir see them selfves as Pakistanis internal changes will happen but border changes is extremely unlikely 3 the gulf union is extremely unlikely as the monarchies are content with keeping the power and not sacrificing it for a bigger country. Yeman is unfortunately to unstable to even stay together in it own borders sadly. If this union was to happen it would be due to the threat of iran which has clamed since the Chinese reconciliation talks. 4 more Congo's is likely due to reasons in no 1 but at an even larger scale. 5 solmiland is defacto independent but just need approval from Somalia 6 maybe not sure but more possible then others 7 Kurdistan is unlikely as it would cause too many problems for the surrounding Nations ie iran turkey iraq syria because of the kurdish issue 8 greater Azerbaijan is unlikely due to iran be a autocratic but stable country in terms of borders. Internal change is possible but if Azerbaijan gets the north of iran rest of iran may collpase as the are many ethnic groups in iran Sorry this was really long good video though

India warned Pakistan that if there was another terrorist attack like the one happened in 2008 in Mumbai, Balochistan will be split from Pakistan and be a new country. India gives asylum to Baloch freedom fighters and when the above-mentioned scenario happen Baloch fighters are gonna get more training and weapons from unknown entity and finally get to have a new state.

Cardiffstan, Warszawastan, Chicagostan... Add 'stan' anywhere and be happy 😁

Baluchistan and Pastuhistan will be independent over my dead body

Yes, all african borders should be redrawn based on cultural- und linguistic lines

The quick view of the map of an ethnically fragmented Africa looked interesting. Have you ever done a full video on that? I think all their new flags would be quite interesting. I did laugh at the comment that "Somalia is the poster child for a failed state". 😜

The Tuaregs just launched a campaign in Mali. They saw your vid and said "bet"

No South Brazil??? Please! Make a video about it.

That Greater Azerbaijan map implies they would straight up absorb Armenia

Katanga already tried declaring itself indepentent in 1960.

idea do a video on failed statee

These could be new countries in existence in seven years. Belgium is so divided, so the new countries of Flanders and Wallonia can soon form. Catalonia, California, New England, Québec, Greenland, Texas, New Caledonia and Zulia are possible future countries as well. One thing is certain: no country will last forever. I am almost 31 and want to be excited about new countries coming in existence for the rest of my life for the first time.

Interesting

The breakup of Congo may seem logical from an outside perspective, but if you know the demographics of DRC then that theory quickly becomes unrealistic. Unless Congo breaks up into 30 micro states, there will be intense ethnic power struggles in these new countries. Particularly in the Katanga and Kivu regions. Also, any chances of Katanga joining Zambia died in the 60s. They’re too culturally different at this point. As for the Kivu region, the only ties that Kivutians have to Rwanda is the 10% Hutu population. However, given the extreme disdain that the majority of the population has for Rwanda, that would never happen.

02:03 Yes Balochistan and Pashtunistan 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Love from India ❤❤

It’s so easy to defeat a fractured country… division is never the answer and will only weaken the country

Azawad and Baluchistan both seem possible tbh

Inshallah Kurdistan will be free one day ❤️🌞💚

I am from pashtunistan but we don't want separate country

I remember this video from 4 years ago

Actually Balochistan can become a new country sooner than 2030, at this current situation in Pakistan.

As a Tunisian 🇹🇳 I support Gulf Arab union and East Africa federation. I like the idea of unions more than breakup's frankly this world has enough more than 200 nation mots of them have Bad economy . And union mean power and USA is the best example

It is possible for Scotland to become an independent country as well as Ireland. Then comes Texas and Alaska. The real question is why all the crap is happening far away from America and England.

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I think the place that is almost guarenteed to be a country by 2030 is Bougainville. I am uncertain of which is the next likliest nation as I only see others growing their independence movements but not necessarily declaring independence. I certainly see stronger movements in Scotland, Khalistan, West Papua, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Wales, French Polynesia, etc. If New Caledonia does another independence referenfum, then maybe. And the situation with the Chuuk Islands is so uncertain that I am truly uncertain myself lol!

US and allies failed to create these countries 😂😂😂

It is possible that this is the same Frank Jacobs who used to write brilliant poetry satire, movie satires and other satirical comedy for Mad Magazine.

New countries : Kalingrad, Novoland, Sakhalin,Kurdistan,Western Turkey, Eastern Turkey, Alawi, Sonia, Druze, Christian Lebanon,Tibet,Abbasia

love from kurdistan

I would like you to talk about the karaplak people in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan with the Tajik and Uzbeks I would think these Central asians would invade Afghanistan and claim the tajik and uzbeks areas after taliban fall but I think it would be messy because of America and Europe might do sanctions and I don't think these central asian countries might be able to do that but I feel sorry for the hazaras and Kurdish people they deserve a Homeland

Bouganville is confirmed in 2027

What about potential countries in India....????Kashmir,Nagaland,mesoram,south India,greater Bangladesh,........

As a Saudi, the Gulf Union is a very very strong union. A Unification one day isn't that far stretched of an idea and it's something many of us, if not most of us, wouldn't mind, if not support. However, it definitely wouldn't happen through conquest. You must realise Saudis don't want to fight Qataris, and Qataris don't want to fight Saudis. A fight between gulf states would be seen as pretty much a civil war, and no one wants to fight his own kin. Also, one last point. Qatar and Saudi relations are perfectly fine today. I think non-Arabs (specifically non-Gulf arabs) don't realise how interconnected the gulf is. We intermarry very often, the borders between us are open, we share the same tribes, and we consider ourselves genuine brothers. During the world cup in Qatar, Saudis were sone of the highest attendees, when the world up ended, the Qataris were begging the Saudis to say a bit longer after the world cup, just hang out with the Qataris. Yes, a political problem happened. It's solved now. Just like when you fight with your brother, you wake up the next day like nothing happened. Saudis are Qataris, and Qataris are Saudis. Bonus note: There are many songs, sayings, etc, that are very common among gulf states. There is a Kuwaiti song, referencing Kuwait and Saudi, that goes "Two homes as if they are one home, justbborders on a map". A very common saying among Saudis and Emiratis to each other is "One nation, one condition". If you're wondering why its usually Saudi-X relations, Saudi is the only country that borders all of them, and for over half of them, it's the only gulf state that borders them. Also the largest, and thus has he highest diversity, and thus one of the smaller gulf nations can find a subgroup in Saudi that is "closest" to them. Ie: Bahrain and Dammam, Kuwait and Riyadh, etc. To any of my khaleejis reading this, انتم على راسي وعيني.

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I'm Algerian and I thinking about azawad of mali and niger independence soon Probably they joining to us in north And they're desent Accepted to go Out without a Sea on Green part That's what's I think to go with

It’s clear that they thought the Arab Spring would have been more successful than it actually was

Indian's on there way to the comment section after seeing Balochistan on the thumbnail: 🏃🏃🏃🏃

Its impossible to divide Pakistan its a foolish technique to make videos on dividing Pakistan and giving airs to the internal problems and civil war in the country its quite offensive i know its a trick of superpowers to disappoint the ethnic groups 😠

Thought Azawad came about but then faded away.

What about Scotland, Bavaria, Corsica, Catalonia, Occitania...?

What about Mani pur, Nagaland, Kashmir, khalistan and other states of india

List of regions which will possibly be new nations includes: 1.) Scotland and Wales, UK 2.) Corsica and French Polynesia, France 3.) Catalonia and the other autonomous regions of Spain 4.) Sardinia, Corsica and South Tyrol, Italy 5.) Greenland and Faroe Islands, Denmark 6.) Aland Islands, Finland 7.) Flanders and Wallonia, Belgium 8.) Aruba and Curacao, Netherlands 9.) Bavaria, Germany 10.) Republika Srpska, Bosnia And Herzegovina 11.) Transnistria, Moldova 12.) Northern Cyprus 13.) Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgia 14.) Chechnya and the other republics of Russia 15.) Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan 16.) Puerto Rico, Guam and Northern Marianas, United States 17.) Quebec, Canada 18.) Nevis, St Kitts & Nevis 19.) Tobago, Trinidad And Tobago 20.) Zanzibar, Tanzania 21.) Ambazonia, Cameroon 22.) Rodrigues, Mauritius 23.) Jammu & Kashmir, India 24.) Aceh and West Papua, Indonesia 25.) Bangsamoro, Philippines 26.) Hong Kong, China 27.) Torres Strait Islands, Australia 28.) Cook Islands and Niue, New Zealand 29.) Bougainville, Papua New Guinea 30.) Rotuma, Fiji

Make a video on American breaking states

What about Catalonia and Tibet?

Though our country Iran is going toward a very likely regime change in the future the Greater Azerbaijan Kurdistan predication are unlikely. Ever since the new wave of the protests or the "Woman, Life, Freedom movement" our people are showing more and more unity, even Sunni parts of Iranian Kurdistan, traditionally a stronghold of Kurdish nationalism is showing a lot of signs of drifting toward unity.

East Turkestan

What about Hollandistan, Belgistan, Frankistan, Swedistan, Germanistan and maybe Italystan by 2100?

I think the potentiel countries are : Anguilla, Bougainville, Greenland, Hadhramaut, Southern Yemen & Somaliland.

A free and independent Balochistan is a key element for peace and prosperity and development of Middle East and Central Asia and Indian Sub Continent ... ✌️

Where Is Khalistan & Manipur ?

You can add Tigray to your list. It is likely going to separate from Ethiopia

How about Scotland, Catalan or Basque ?

The question when it finally became attached to the forefathers of the contemporary Kurds as their ethnonym or a term of collective identity does not have a clear answer. At any rate, at least until the 17th century, Kurd had not yet become a real term of collective identity, being, rather, a name given to the Kurdish-speaking mass (possibly, to non-Kurdish-speaking similar groups as well) by the Arabs, Turks, Persians, and Armenians. The main markers of identity for this mass were clan affiliation and tribal belonging. Asatrian, Garnik. "Prolegomena to the Study of the Kurds." Iran & the Caucasus 13, no. 1 (2009): 1-57. Accessed September 2, 2020. pp. 27-28.

The linguistic influence of the Turkomans (Oğuz) from beyond the Caspian has been strong among all the western Turks. From the Turkomans stemmed the Selcuks, the Osmanlis and other later clans like the Black and White Sheep (Kara and Ak Koyunlus), the Afshars and the Kacars, who have dominated the political and military life of Iran and Anatolia during the past nine hundred years. The Azeri Turks adhere to the Shi'a heresy of Persia (by contrast to the Sunni Osmanlis and the Sunni tribes of Dagistan)and Azer- baijan was, in fact, the homeland of the Shi'a renaissance and of the great Sufi family of Safawi shahs who were themselves partly of Turkish origin and used Turkish speech. Culturally eastern Transcaucasia has been very much under Iranian influences since the remote period when the Iranian Sassanids were holding Derbent against the northern nomads. Some Turkish elements penetrated there soon after the era of the Hijra¹ One of the Arab geographers of the ninth century A.D. describes the typically Turkish physical type and compares the harsh dialect of Azerbaijan with that of Khurasan. It is worth noting that, while the Volga and Crimea Tartars have passed increasingly under the in- fluence of their Russian neighbours and the Anatolian Turks feel the attraction of the Mediterranean world, the cultural background of the Caucasian Turks, like that of the Turks of central Asia, is very largely Iranian. The Turanian and Iranian worlds have for two thousand years, probably for very much longer, been subject to mutual blending and to all kinds of linguistic and cultural cross-currents; in recent centuries, while neighbouring Turkish groups have been attracted by the ancient civilizations of Iran, Turks have formed a substantial pro- portion of the population of the Persian empire, and sturdy Turkish clans like the Shahsevens of Karadağ have always been the core of the armed forces of successive Persian dynasties-the latter themselves often of Turkish blood." Both Turks and Persians were imperial peoples, but the Turks proved more vital as a military power than the Persians. In the fifteenth century the Osmanli Turks had revived the classic style of 'world power' in the Middle East; and the history of the development of the Russian empire in Asia is that of conflict for control of the basins of the Black Sea and of the Caspian between this classic style of world power and the new world power which had arisen in the Eurasian plain. Modern Russian imperial power in its new expression as a union of soviet republics represents a blending of Slavic, Turkic and Caucasic elements.

3:15 as a Photon proud to be Pakistani 💪

"Hostile merger" sounds like invasion and annexation

ياريت هاي القناة تكون مدبلجة باللغة العربية

Long life Balochistan

As a geopolitic researcher i would like to add that we live in an era of unification of western alias

including northern ireland katalonia scotland kashmir punjab sikkim 7sister too