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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Best crossovers ever: Serbia & Ohio and Georgia & Georgia.
Only in Serbia bruh
Ohio is the Serbia of the us
Alabama & Romania
Georgia only had one choice for partner imo
Also Chile and texas
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
Georgia inception
I mean- how could Georgia not be Georgia’s partner
The republic of Two Georgias when?
@@45acpisdope A Tale Of Two Georgias.
Genius!
Idaho should be with Ireland for obvious reasons.
I was thinking Laos too, since Laos neighbors with coastlines are partnered with Idaho's neighbors with coastlines.
Potatoes?
@@BitterMillenial Yes
And if we take it seriously, Massachusets would be the most realistic I bet.
trade partners :D
as a georgian i fully support our relationship w the other georgians, as 2 georgias is better than just A georgia
@spawnerist this georgia duh not that georgia
დიდება საქართველოს!!!!
@@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.)
East Georgia and West Georgia
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.
for me its crazy that the US has gotten so big that its states can help other countries
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.
@@uuba2
The American conquest of the Natives occured before the machine guns were widespread
@@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.
@@uuba2 and y'know, having already culturally adapted to all the plagues
@@uuba2 Native Americans also had guns during US expansion…what they lacked were population & political unity.
The main reason to make this program was definitely to pair up Georgia and Georgia, everything else is a side effect
Alabama: I'd like to share with you some of my culture. Got any relatives?
Romania: Wait, what?!
Alabama: "I'd like to share with you some of my culture."
Romania: **pulls out Vlad the Impaler** "Likewise."
Romania, Truly the Alabama of Europe.
True habsburgs
Chad
@@RunawayTrain2502 lol, I thought the same.
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 😂
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..
@@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.
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.
*frozen throught singing*
Kind of fits, no one should ever mess with Mongols or Alaskans
We need a Idaho partnership with Ireland to form the potato union lol
Latvia + Belarus + Idaho + Ireland = Potato Empire
Perú!
@@greenmachine5600 Inca Empire))
Famine= More potato???
@@CYbeRuKRaINiaN throw Maine into the mix too
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
Ohio gozaimasu!
How do u say
You people have a screw loose and i love it
I went to google translate, Ohayo lmao
The giant monsters too
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.
absolutely!
Same with Nebraska, there were a lot of Czech immigrants that settled there as well.
Didn’t know about Czech (they would have been Bohemian at the time), but I’ve heard about the Texas Germans.
@@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.
@@faithnfire4769I was fixing to mention the kolache’s
General, this is the first time I'm hearing of this program. It satisfies me that Georgia is paired with Georgia.
There is only one Georgia after all
Btw whoever paired them honestly is very cool
If Georgia wasn’t paired with Georgia I would’ve committed multiple war crimes in Albania
As a Georgian, i agree
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.
Philippines and Indonesia have one state partnership:Hawaii since it was strategic location in the Pacific and also two countries are military allies
And also Guam.
@@GabrielUngacta Yes bro close location
Also cultural ties. A lot of Filipinos moved to Hawaii after WWII.
@@howardbaxter2514 Yeah especially Ilocanos as well
@@darwinqpenaflorida3797 Ilocano here! 🤗
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.
I suspect most of us haven't heard of it because it's just a National Guard thing.
@@jfm14 Yeah I'm american and I agree.
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.
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.
@@chrisb.7787 well, you will be happy to know that Berlin is Chicago "twin" city
@@chrisb.7787 with my heritage, I got German, British, Irish and Italian in me.
I think I saw this at O'Hare airport. It showed states and their country partners. It was in some large hallway.
@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.
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 😄
Because of the Viking? 😂
Minnesota has the largest population of Norwegians of any state, that’s actually why they are called the Vikings
@@jackattack8661 I'm one of them myself so yes it fits perfectly :)
@@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.
Yeah, I bet you Scandilanders were all over that.
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
🎵He's leavin' (leavin')...on a midnight train to Tbilisi🎶
Ah yes, I remember when General Sherman's troops burned down Tbilisi, one of the moments of all time
@@jakubpociecha8819 "I dare say private. I knee the south had cultural differences but I didn't know they had a completely different language!"
@@humbleguardsman5578 Must've been that Georgian wine
@@jakubpociecha8819 Sherman had too many drinks and ended up a bit... Farther east... Than expected.
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.
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.
8:55 maryland and estonia make sense together because they are both extremely underrated
One is trying to get into Nordic, the Other is trying to get into the North.
@@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
Don’t you mean Baltic. I don’t think any country wants to be Balkan lmao
Both have a deceptively long coastline, rocky shores, and a bomb-lookin' flag.
But you can't deny how ugly Maryland's flag is compared to Estonia's.
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
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.
@@pancholopez8829 yeah that's A fair take
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
Most of EU & UN have been training Ukrainan troops since 2014, thus why they have been so succesfull
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.
@@MrGadaru as far as I know, only the US, the UK and Canada have been training Ukrainian soldiers since the occupation of Crimea.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
Suprised that it's not Utah, Christian Mormons missionary colonization
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.
Kosovar. Someone from Kosovo is Kosovar, not Kosovan.
@@ferretyluv Thanks for the info.
There is also a consulate set up by Kosovo in Des Moines
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.
Poland and Illinois having a partnership isn't surprising actually, tbh.
They both got great sausage and are situated inland but still have good railroads and roundabout access to the seas.
@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.
@@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.
@@israeldelarosa5461 True.
@@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.
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 🇺🇸
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.
Louisiana and Haiti just makes sense❤ 🇭🇹⚜️
Yes very ironic as well as our second partner being Belize which also has a large crime rate. Yay crime rate triumvirate. 🇧🇿🇭🇹⚜️ ❤️
They gotta update each other on their voodoo!
Yep the only other French speakers in the US besides the Cajuns and Creole of Louisiana are the Madawaskans in Northern Maine.
@@deanfirnatine7814 You mean the Acadians in Maine? They speak French, too.
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.
First time I heard Uzbekistan mentioned on a TV show, I thought it was made up for that episode. Nope!
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.
You missed its partnership with Croatia, so I guess we've got two now
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.
There’s also a town in Minnesota called Finland
maybe Wisconsin and Sweden too? haha possible
@@danielzhang1916 But Wisconsin has those german roots
@@pelletrouge3032 I know but it would be funny to have both
@@danielzhang1916 True lets say iowa is sweden
The Georgia-Georgia one is unexpected but nice, i guess. I remember it from somewhere but still surprising.
imagine Wyoming and North Korea.
A US state that doesn’t exist and an Asian country that shouldn’t exist? Perfect.
*oh...*
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
I found that funny
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.
Europe: H-Hungary?
Hungary: *Ohio smile * Yes~
Europe: w-wha-what are you doing?
Hungary: Im with my buddies Serbia and Ohio 😈
I like that Austria has partnered with Vermont. The Skiing partnership!
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.
I want to partner with Australia. Just me and Australia.
Just ask Australia out on a date.
@Bu$$yButcher I always knew Australia was secretly into bad boys. Makes me sad.
@Bu$$yButcher The way they buckled under political tyranny the last few years, pretty sure the only dating they do is paying for their handler.
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).
Imagine being a Uzbek “I need help!” *good ol boy from Mississippi shows up*
“Y’all got any grizz n bush?”
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.🤷♂️
I did not know this. Thank you for explaining it! I love all your programs. I am a map geek myself. Thank you again.
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
That’s cool, estonia rocks
Those partnerships go both ways. In the case of Austria I know that we are helping Vermont with skiing infrastructure for example.
Bro i live in Massachusetts like an hour south of vermont and i didn't even know skiing was a big think there
I was not aware of these partnerships before finding this video... thank you for posting it.
I love this channel! I learned something new today from this. Awesome! This is a very interesting video.
Thanks! Thanks for watching :)
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.
I'll take "things that happen in Melbourne" for 200, Alex.
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.
@@blackjacktrial Both have a Melbourne.
Everyone is talking about Georgia and Georgia, but I also like how Colombia is paired with SC whose capital is Columbia
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
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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 !
💀💀Hungary & Serbia With Ohio...
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
Yes, a lot of these connections make sense
I met an old Hungarian lady here in Ohio who escaped from the revolution with her husband.
This video was really cool. I am glad my country does this, and even more glad to know about it
Great video as always.
Thank you :)
being from West Virginia, I just want to apologize to Qatar and Peru for being stuck with us 😂
For interested Michiganders, MICHIGAN's partners are Latvia and Liberia.
Hello General Knowledge, Great Video!
Hi! Thank you :)
In addition to the Georgia/Georgia pair, I also like the Colombia/South Carolina pair (as SC capitol is Columbia)
Happy Friday, General Knowledge.
Happy Friday!
@@General.Knowledge Thank you.
I wonder if South Carolina is partnered with Colombia because of the fact that the capital of South Carolina is Columbia
I was unfamiliar with this practice, but that’s actually pretty neat!
Damn the 2 wildcards of both continents: Serbia and Ohio lmao
Mongolia - Alaska
Indonesia, Philippines - Hawaii
Geographical nature has been considered here.
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?
Probably riding on ATVs in the mud all day? 😅
great video
I didn't know this either! very interesting content =)
Thanks!
Louisiana with Haiti...
That checks out.
As someone who lives in Georgia, it made me smile every time i saw/heard that Georgia and Georgia were together.
Never heard of this before. My home state, Louisiana, being partnered with Haiti makes sense for sure.
I love that trombone king is the background music.
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
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!
Every country does it
This was honestly cool to learn. I always thought it was just some kind of cheeky vacation trap kind of thing.
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)
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.
It’s also the only state in America where this happens.
There's a bunch in WI, too.
Ohio has Serbia and Hungury💀💀💀
Oh yeeaah, I learned about this recently, it was so weird that it exists
One between Minnesota and Finland just got added this year
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.
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.
California
I never knew this existed. Interesting stuff.
Hi. I watch CZcams 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!
So I guess that's why illinois has the highest polish population outside of Poland
Lithuania & Pennsylvania seems like a weird partnership, but I'm certainly not against it.
ania-ania
Cool videos
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)
So thats why California is so co-operative with Ukraine... and why I see so many Ukraine flags around here.
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
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).
I have a feeling Georgia and Georgia was on purpose.
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.
It’s in the Department of Defense’s website: www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Experience/Building-Partnerships-Around-the-Globe/
@@General.Knowledge THANKS!! We came looking for it too! So fcking cool!
Absolutely no surprise Poland's partner is Illinois 😃
How come?
@@General.Knowledge
Illinois has the largest population of Americans of Polish origin out of an US State.
@@modmaker7617 exactly.
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.
It’s fitting that Texas and Chile are partners considering the flags are similar
Especially since Texss is trying to ban Chinese buying property in Texas . But that's Texas logic for you .
@@georgesheffield1580 they’re trying to ban CCP members from buying property not regular Chinese people.
More states should be doing that since it’s very unnerving how much property Chinese communist party members have bought in the US
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.
Minnesota also has an independent partnership with Norway! We've been partners for 50 years now.
Interesting. I’m born and raised NYC but my parents are from South Africa. And I didn’t know this
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?
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.
Portugal would probably be paired with Rhode Island so TAP will be saved by mob money.
I'm pretty sure he just gave the example of Portugal cause he's Portuguese
I kinda expected Poland to be paired with Illinois as Chicago is biggest center of Polonia outside of Poland
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.
Vermont gets around for such a small state, paired with Austria, Senegal and North Macedonia. I think the city of Vienna has 3 times the population of the entirety of Vermont.
General knowledge: Serbia and Ohio
Me: Of course Serbia has Ohio their a perfect match.
Can you do a video about Sister Cities? Thank you.