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I remember that I was having lunch and my father came saying Catalonia is independent, when we finished having lunch, Catalonia was part of Spain again
I'm Spanish and there are a lot of lies outside Spain surrounding what's happened and is happening in Catalunya. Basically an illegal referendum was made, where people reportedly voted more than once and where the Central Spanish government had stated that the police would be present (so a lot of people didn't turn up to vote because the vote was useless, since the referendum was illegal, and also because they didn't want to get in trouble with the police). The Catalunyan independentist government then counted the votes by themselves and stated that independence had overwhelmingly won, declared independence unilateraly and then, as said in the video, went back on their own words after 8 seconds. In more trustworthy surveys there's about a 50/50 split in Catalunya in terms of those who want independence and those who don't (which causes a lot of problems and social division), this is also observable by the number of votes independentist vs constitutionalist parties get whenever there are elections in Catalunya. I just wanted to post this because it seems independentists are very good at sharing their version of the story outside Spain, making the rest of the country look like an oppressive dictatorship, and it is not true. The problem is much more complex than what most of you would have heard in foreign media, and if you don't believe me you should ask someone from Catalunya that's not independentist how they feel about all of this.
@@adren4306 Of course, he shit himself, he knew that at the end Catalonia would be destroyed if It was independent. Catalonia doesnt have enough power to be independent
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I'm from Catalonia and I was coming back from school when independence was declared and I remember we all started shouting and cheering in the bus only to get upset like 10 seconds later
Actually Catalonia still exists and it has kind of existed for centuries it's just that it isn't a country, it's just a region with a bunch of nationalist people
I declare war to annex it, The messland-sockland war 2019 2020 Edit: Sockland has split into West and East, the East wants to ally to annex off the West, which was the one that declared war on Messland. Name: Republic of East Sockland Party: Communist Ongoing wars: West Sockland Treaties: Messland, Artisten. Name: West Sockland(They call themselves Sockland.) Party: Imperialist Ongoing Wars: East Sockland, Kitchenland, Empire of Housia, Messland. Treaties: None
Technically, it wasn't an annexation at all. Russia merged Crimea with itself UPON FORMAL REQUEST of the Crimean government. You still can argue that's illegal (cough cough Kosovo cough cough) but annexation is a forceful act. Which, TECHNICALLY, it wasn't.
Was the Annexation (Anschluss) of Austria legal? There were no gunshots, no violence it was peacefully and everyone was happy. And under Germany Austria was rich and prosperous, and everything went smoothly... Oh wait!..
@@tirionfordring5580 did Austria also hold a public referendum where 79% of it's population voted in favour of joining Germany? Was Austria in the first place as German as Berlin, but illegally transferred to another country from Germany, and then occupied by another country for 23 years?
True Story: Back when I was 8, I made my own country. Its claims ranged from 4 counties near where I lived to 6 states. I actually made a flag for it and declared myself the ruler. The only people who knew about it were me, my parents, and a few other people. I tried to get my mom to remember *every* single moment of my life, since it would be important when I became known as the youngest ruler ever. My mom always said, "Honey, Alexander the Great was younger than you". So how did it fall? I forgot about it one day.
imagine not getting the joke and missusing which subreddit to link, also you probably didn't even post it there AND you're trying to link a subreddit on UA-cam. I was clearly joking Mr Redditor
UN recogniztion actually just requires 5 countries to recognize you. 5 *specific countries,* being Russia, China, The US, Britan, and France. Noone elses opinion matters so long as all of those 5 are in agreement.
UN recognition doesn't equate to general recognition though, every country besides china knows for a fact taiwan is an independent country, it's just china refuses to admit it, going by your extremely strict reference, taiwan wouldn't technically be a country, but it is.
Not really; UN doesn't recognise countries as such, but allows them to be member-states; the membership requires 2/3 majority in General Assembly; 3/5 majority in the Security Council; and no vetoes from permanent members of the Security Council. "Yes" from just the 5 countries you mentioned wouldn't do a thing.
@@shmoola Good point, counterargument: If the USA, Russia, China, Britain, and France all agree on something, chances are they can pressure the rest of the world into agreeing. The security council IS those five nations. also, this was 3 months ago.
@@ChiccinTendies Nope. The declaration of Independence was illegal according to the Constitution of Ukraine. A coubtry can't just annex another part of a country by vote. Kosovo is independent.
Crimea declared independence from Ukraine, not Russia. The independence movement has, for all intents and purposes, been led by the faction in the country that wanted to join Russia to as their ultimate goal to begin with. Declaring independence is really just a way to work within the legal constraints of international laws and the countries involved. Why do they bother with all that? To establish the legitimacy of the annexation. If Russia had just annexed Crimea, a territory of Ukraine, without Crimea declaring independence, that would've been considered an outright invasion and even the Russia's own constitution does not allow itself to officially do that. But if it is an independent state Crimea that asked to join Russia, then that's A-OK. In reality, there's probably a bunch of backroom dealings and covert operations. We'll probably never know the full extent of those in our lifetime, if ever.
I declare an indepence of "WEST KOREAN REPUBLIC" 8 seconds later: My mom invaded my computer and banned me using computer for a month Ok I surrender And that's how to make a 8 seconds country!
Half as Interesting: Zanzibar Me: *The sultan of Oman lives in Zanzibar now* People’s Republic? Ah yes, the perfect Zanzibar. And clearly Mars belongs to Russia
It's a struggle, not changing the name "Republic of China" is awkward. But it's even more impossible to change it to "Republic of Taiwan" due to the attitude of the PRC aka China.
Taiwan is not a country, Taiwan is a province belong to Republic of China. The fact that ROC lost all provinces except Taiwan does not make Taiwan a country. It’s still Republic of China.
@@hanyangxie4730 Let's see, Taiwan and China have different currencies, different governments, different leaders and different passports, just off the top of my head. The only thing that makes Taiwan part of China is China's ongoing hissy fit about it, and all the missiles they have pointed at Taiwan.
The Republic of Crimea is reminds me of Anschluss. It also reminds me of when you time getting Chamberlin with the “Motion of no confidence” focus to get rid of Chamberlin in Hearts of Iron 4
Well, you seem to lack context then. Russia would be more than happy to not get involved in 2014, but Ukraine made the things Georgian way (tested in 2008) - a highly sponsored move which driven local people desperate. Story time. I was born in 90's Republic of Crimea and lived there as a child. It was acceptable to be part of Ukraine due to economic needs and people's wish for peaceful dissolving of the Union. Chechen war and Nagornyi Karabakh conflict was enough fire and blood - noone wanted it at their home region. Then U.S. money flow came - with "orange revolution" in early 00's and NATO ships coming to Sevastopol - to say the least, people were not happy. Since then Mainland Ukraine only applied pressure on Crimea at moderate pace, pushing anti-Russian practices step by step - there used to be a highly supported political counterweight party helping people of South and East. But in late 2013 the said party collapsed under corruption, betraying the people. Nationalist idiots with full support of most of the oligarchate and the West made a proper power overthrow this time. Overthrowing corruption is good, using the event as a glorified boost of nazi ideas with the prepared legal background for purges - not good. Not freaking good. The balance was broken and people were ready to pay the economic price and stand for their out-of-Ukraine identity. All they needed was the support. Right here, Russia made a respectable move stepping in. Inability of the West to step in too, and communicate constuctively over the next years - the military inflation of Ukraine was chosen instead - brought this all to a full-scale European crisis and warfare. "Motion of no confidence", you say?
*I'm Catalan and I never thought I would see anything related to Catalonia in "Half as Interesting".* The problem is that out of all things you could have mentioned you guys chose the one thing that we Catalan people are ashamed of....
Well here is a real Catalonian I respect, one Who doesnt want to become independent. Or maybe you are ashamed about only being independent for 8 seconds?? Who knows? I at least didnt forget to do what other many Spanish people did forget to do . *Consider the Catalonians as humans* no Matter the side they are on.
liamskisniper 4 Nan, don’t be ashamed guys If you guys didn’t get the independence you deserve. It’s okay, hey atleast you have the Spanish Government’s benefits too. Don’t worry mi amigos and introduce me to Catalan girls too. I’m Filipino by the way, Spain’s former colony is our country.
I declare my room my country Population: My PC and me Territory: My room I guess Government: All powerful Mom ForeignRelations: All the other messy room countries here.
@@cosmicball1670 I do the same Enemies:Italy,Sweden Population:Me and a spider on my window that shouldn't exist Goverment:Dust Allies:Republic of Chad,Sao Tome and Principe,other messy room nations
My friends and I did that in Civics. We tried to put a sign, but our teacher said she was declaring a unilateral trade embargo and wouldn’t give us any tape as a result. So we agreed to peacefully be re-annexed into her zone of influence so we could use tape again
I declare my house independent. Name: Kingdom of Houseonia Population: Me and my family Government: absolute monarchy (I’m the boss) Formed: Monday, July 18, 2022, 10:04:03 AM Dissolved: Monday, July 18, 2022, 10:04:11 AM
@@vladimirlenin8168 but we're both in Heaven right? I am planning a trip to ur house. Can I join ur house sir. Also I was born the exact year when the USSR was made (1917)
guy after founding the russian democratic federative republic: well, guess I can relax for a little while and watch the entire matrix trilogy (6 hours and 57 mins later) okay I'm ba- *wait what just happened*
I declare my building independent from Brazil. Name - Empire of Yorkia Permanent population - The residents and my family Royal family, hiearchy order: Dad (emperor) Mom (empress) Me (prince) My sister (princess) ---------------------------------------- Military - um no? Currency - ... r$ Passport - screw this
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thebigdog360 you probably made him a lot more money as people would actually watch the ad at the end to see the misspelling
General Phoney oh yea lol
Compare what happened in Crima and Kosovo if you want to see who the UN duble standarts at there finest.
I was watching the news and I saw Catalonia got its independence.
I went to the toilet,and when I came back,it was a part if Spain again.
Did it take 8 seconds?
@@thekat2784 what a question 😂
Wow, Spain is really fast.
@@CyberneticBread We are fast when we want to be and lazy when we want to be
Lmao
I remember that I was having lunch and my father came saying Catalonia is independent, when we finished having lunch, Catalonia was part of Spain again
It probably took your father 8 seconds to say that.
real bummer
Catalonia is to stupid to be a country
I'm Spanish and there are a lot of lies outside Spain surrounding what's happened and is happening in Catalunya. Basically an illegal referendum was made, where people reportedly voted more than once and where the Central Spanish government had stated that the police would be present (so a lot of people didn't turn up to vote because the vote was useless, since the referendum was illegal, and also because they didn't want to get in trouble with the police). The Catalunyan independentist government then counted the votes by themselves and stated that independence had overwhelmingly won, declared independence unilateraly and then, as said in the video, went back on their own words after 8 seconds.
In more trustworthy surveys there's about a 50/50 split in Catalunya in terms of those who want independence and those who don't (which causes a lot of problems and social division), this is also observable by the number of votes independentist vs constitutionalist parties get whenever there are elections in Catalunya.
I just wanted to post this because it seems independentists are very good at sharing their version of the story outside Spain, making the rest of the country look like an oppressive dictatorship, and it is not true. The problem is much more complex than what most of you would have heard in foreign media, and if you don't believe me you should ask someone from Catalunya that's not independentist how they feel about all of this.
@@espinoname2988 Cry harder.
That intro sponsorship was longer than the country
Dozy Gamer true lol
Not actually, it was shorter than it by 2 seconds
What a way to ruin a joke
*Catalonia: yay I’m independent!*
*Spain: Your 8 second free trial has expired*
When I first read the title I thought someone saying like
'i declare this as an independent country!'
_8 seconds later_
'actually wait no'
Well you are correct
You weren't wrong, though
That is literally what Pugdemont, the Catalan leader, did.
@@adren4306
Of course, he shit himself, he knew that at the end Catalonia would be destroyed if It was independent.
Catalonia doesnt have enough power to be independent
Cøffee: Adrian And that's exactly why the president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, is not living in Spain currently.
Dude: We need to design a flag
Another dude: oops our country just dissolved
Humanitymistakes lmao
According to the Declarative theroy, Halfasinteresting-stania was a country.
1. Permanent Population (You)
2. Defined Territory (Your Living Space)
3. A Government (Monarchy)
4. Ability to do Foriegn Relations (UA-cam Videos)
👏👏👏👏👏
He is not a permanent population, as he can’t, on his own, replace his population.
Technically it's unclear what government type it was, it's probably a de-facto republican dictatorship, as there is only a single citizen.
@@guaymaster Definitely could be a Despotism as well.
This means his country is 12 hours old.
“Let’s do it! Let’s make a country!”
“Okay”
*7 seconds later*
“That was kinda boring let’s stop”
This Brilliant was made Interesting by half as Audible.
And is sponsored by skill space
@@1997paulr and you can only get to SkillShare with Nord VPN
but you need nord vpn to access dollar shave club
@@mayrln and to remove ear wix
That killed my brain :(
Apparently, Wakanda only lasted 2hr 15min.
No. Wakanda forever
@@brainwashed7384 r/wooosh
Brainwashed *what a stupid idiot you are*
When you woosh a joke because you missed it lmaoo
@@brainwashed7384 actually, YOU'VE BEEN WOOSHED!
"Zanzibanswer" had me laughing for a solid 30 seconds lmao
More than 3x longer than it existed
@@evanoverzet921 beat me to it
A_Zalt exactly
A_Zalt same
Bruh
I'm from Catalonia and I was coming back from school when independence was declared and I remember we all started shouting and cheering in the bus only to get upset like 10 seconds later
How sad
bruh
Parents stupid influence
lmfao
Cry
Crimea: alright we a country now?
Russia: yeah sure
Crimea: sweet
1 day later
Russia: your mine now
@Nine Tailed Fury (Real Warriors Fight Fair) Boi
When you try to make a meme, but cannot comprehend simple grammar.
@@jerryn8738 r/iamverysmart
You’re^
You're* Do you even know the difference????
Spain: Your independence starts now.
**eight seconds later**
Spain: Okay, time's up, you're no longer independent.
😂😂
LULMAOOOOOO 😂
The Spanish Government never allowed Catalonia's independence
It's independence, which less than half of the autonomous community wanted, was illegal
@@gpg3379 as also a Spanish, I’m with that. They simply want to make noise
@@fran14b porque hablas en presente, eso pasó hace 4 años
Me: *skips 10 seconds on a video*
Catalonia: He’s thinking on a scales of time beyond my imagination!!
Actually Catalonia still exists and it has kind of existed for centuries it's just that it isn't a country, it's just a region with a bunch of nationalist people
@@andreab.8126 you do realize its a joke right?
@@sarmadali7191 you do realize u have no humo right
Im from Catalonia. Lmao
@@diamante8864 what's your population ?
I declare my apartment as the Republic of Total Mess.
Population: 4 (my family)
Capital: Kitchen
Government: my parents
Sadly your Government wasn't elected, so it's a monarchy
@@hashira9223🇫🇷: “did somebody say”
*”M O N A R C H Y!?!?”*
@@HeminMMH “No...please don't hurt me” -some monarch probably
foreign relations?????
@@hashira9223 true, they do use force around their citizens sometimes lol
8 seconds? I've had farts last longer than that.
Lol
heha im retarded and i find farts funny heha
Well catalonia is a fart...
I know. I was there.
You fart for 1 day on Crimea:v
I declare my bedroom as the democratic republic of messland
finlandball where is it? I wanna be the citizen of the democratic republic of messland.!
same
I declare war to annex it,
The messland-sockland war 2019
2020 Edit:
Sockland has split into West and East, the East wants to ally to annex off the West, which was the one that declared war on Messland.
Name: Republic of East Sockland
Party: Communist
Ongoing wars: West Sockland
Treaties: Messland, Artisten.
Name: West Sockland(They call themselves Sockland.)
Party: Imperialist
Ongoing Wars: East Sockland, Kitchenland, Empire of Housia, Messland.
Treaties: None
I declare a treaty between Sockland,messland and my country Artisten (Artistland/Artland to be specific)
Like that one family guy episode... just like it
So the 8 second country was not just a clickbait thumbnail.
It actually was given the whole thing was a political stunt.
@@phillip_iv_planetking6354 Where "clickbait thumbnail" applies to the international community. Balsy!
It was clickbait, Catalonia have never been independent and will never be.
That thumbnail's flag kinda looks like South Vietnam
@@totetoresano 😒
"We are officially a country now, yay"
"whoooohhooooo"
"ok no more"
that lasted longer than the span of the country
crimea: just becomes a country
russia:
*Hippity hoppity, this is now my property.*
Its hippity hoppity your life is now my property
*Our
Hippity hoppity Crimea in poverty
\ /
\ /
\/
l
l
l
Same
Crimea: can we be a country?
Russia: well yes, but actually no
#DDM
Crimea didn't wanted to be a country, it wanted to be part of Russia
yes, but then no
@@jaztin7197 true
Not to ask Ukraine wants say about that.
"As a Taiwanese..."
*Angry mainlanders incoming*
Cheers, brother, we mainlander don't care as much as our goverment does.
@@leonleon2021 Are you in jail already?
@@leonleon2021 the peoples republic of China wants to know your location
Fubuki Hajime they have vpns
@Fubuki Hajime they did
Catalonia: I am independant!
Also Catalonia: Nah
I declare my Apartment a Country! Its named "Jerk off Castle"
Come and fight me USA Military! My Defense will be rock hard...
Don't get yourself in a sticky situation.
How does this not have more likes?
*Cuts electricity*
@@JustAnotherNamelessGuy There are such things as windows, they provide the light necessary to read porn.
@@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447, and nothing can take away your imagination.
IM SO HAPPY I JUST GOT MY OWN COUNT-
RUSSIA: ーYou mean "our" country
@@shinjimirou928 papa stalin would be proud
Lol
@@shinjimirou928 **communism intensifies**
Was the Russian annexation of Crimea legal? Because if not, you could say Russia committed a crimea.
for your pun, i sentence you to a punishment.
Technically, it wasn't an annexation at all. Russia merged Crimea with itself UPON FORMAL REQUEST of the Crimean government. You still can argue that's illegal (cough cough Kosovo cough cough) but annexation is a forceful act. Which, TECHNICALLY, it wasn't.
@@mihan2d also there were literally no resistance to it. Like, at all.
Was the Annexation (Anschluss) of Austria legal? There were no gunshots, no violence it was peacefully and everyone was happy. And under Germany Austria was rich and prosperous, and everything went smoothly... Oh wait!..
@@tirionfordring5580 did Austria also hold a public referendum where 79% of it's population voted in favour of joining Germany? Was Austria in the first place as German as Berlin, but illegally transferred to another country from Germany, and then occupied by another country for 23 years?
HAI: short living country ever
My country in strategy game: *Pathetic*
Catalonia: "I declare myself independent"
8 seconds later " Well yes, but actually *no* "
"well, yes, but actually there's tanks ready to kill us all" is more accurate.
@@delarkaBCN Estas llorando en todos los comentarios bro,ya puedes parar.
@@delarkaBCN soy catalan no indepe va siendo hora de que aceptes de que ese referendum era ilegal y tu moriras siendo español
@@marcmonge5193 ho sento, no parlo colono de merda
@@marcmonge5193 com i quan mori no es cosa teva, a no ser que m'estiguis amenaçant, colono
Plot twist: The Declaration of Independence for Catalonia was on April fools
Excuse me but I'm from Catalonia and it was in October 2017
@@xabierpozopozo4532 woosh
@@hodor9851 r/whooosh
@@mattye3173 whatever!! Same point we're making!! ¬¬
@@hodor9851 lul
Zanzibar, it’s zanzibar.
*russia is part of bolivia*
MARS BELONGS TO RUSSIA REEEEEEEEEE :)
@@quentingilanian8045 NO
@@quentingilanian8045 THE UNIVERSE IS
blde guy :p Serbia?
I don't boliv ia
Wow! Thank you for putting me on to something I didn't know. Cheers!
True Story: Back when I was 8, I made my own country. Its claims ranged from 4 counties near where I lived to 6 states. I actually made a flag for it and declared myself the ruler. The only people who knew about it were me, my parents, and a few other people. I tried to get my mom to remember *every* single moment of my life, since it would be important when I became known as the youngest ruler ever. My mom always said, "Honey, Alexander the Great was younger than you". So how did it fall? I forgot about it one day.
Alexander wasn’t exactly an 8 year old when he took power tho? Maybe I’m just picking apart little details
@@R-H-B you're right. he was 7.
@@lekevire he was born in 356 BC and took power 336 BC
@@R-H-B imao, Alexander went back into time to gain powers./s
@@Linux_MissingNo yeah I don’t know why they said he was 7. That’s not true
Me being from Spain and already knowing the answer:
*I'm 27 steps ahead of you*
Me too
P.D.: Además sale la bandera de Cataluña, así que para un español no es difícil averiguar de qué va....
Como el bicho diría, siuuuuuuuu
@@victorialn1317 si basicamente
Más bien, estamos 4 universos paralelos por delante XD
no, you're actually 8 steps ahead of them
"You couldn't even finish all three Matrix movies in that time."
Yea, because they didn't exist back then.
yup
He might be just referring to the time
Not with that attitude you won't.
@@gokulpayyanur1839 r/wooooooosh
See how the old times were better?
“I kinda wanna make a country”
The country is made
“I am bored now”
The country dies.
“You can’t just say you’re an independent country and expect anything to happen.”
“I didn’t say it. I declared it.”
I did that and look at me now, I'm in the Internet and the books
@@vladimirlenin8168 On the internet*
I declare this a country!
Some higher up guy: *No you dont*
I love the froshlandian empire
annexed amalgamation by the shore
My Lego set before my sibling came in and broke it
Is this all you do
What
F
Better than gay ass Justin y
Yespacito i see you on almost every video i go on lol
3:21 I like that "Bolivia" is misspelled, that's a nice touch.
“This video is longer than the actual country”
*Interesting*
Or should I say
*HALF as interesting*
don't you mean, HALF as interesting?
Seb Ebse woah 😯
Omh u can sovel rubiz cub so fast!! 1!!,1!! :O bo
@@DB-xv3kz r/noncubers
imagine not getting the joke and missusing which subreddit to link, also you probably didn't even post it there AND you're trying to link a subreddit on UA-cam. I was clearly joking Mr Redditor
I was watching another vid but I instantly decided that this video was probably more important
Siphon happens to me al the time
it was really only HALF as important tho
Oh yeah 😂nothing beats this 👌
Siphon or else you have the attention span of a fish
What was the video?
Where when you when Catalonia die
I was at house eating air when phone ring
"Catalonia is kil"
"no"
What did I just read
what the fuck does this say and why does it have so many likes
@The Knowers You don't even know how the fuck r\woooosh works and you have a roblox pfp. Get lost you infant.
@# Bindhu Antony "my ass" thinks it's a pretty stupid, unfunny dead meme. y'all are the clowns 🤡
@# Bindhu Antony this is the unfunniest meme I've ever fucking heard of, you tards
UN recogniztion actually just requires 5 countries to recognize you. 5 *specific countries,* being Russia, China, The US, Britan, and France. Noone elses opinion matters so long as all of those 5 are in agreement.
UN recognition doesn't equate to general recognition though, every country besides china knows for a fact taiwan is an independent country, it's just china refuses to admit it, going by your extremely strict reference, taiwan wouldn't technically be a country, but it is.
@@ChristopherGray00 well, yes, but this is going by the UN recognition rules
Not really; UN doesn't recognise countries as such, but allows them to be member-states; the membership requires 2/3 majority in General Assembly; 3/5 majority in the Security Council; and no vetoes from permanent members of the Security Council. "Yes" from just the 5 countries you mentioned wouldn't do a thing.
@@shmoola Good point, counterargument:
If the USA, Russia, China, Britain, and France all agree on something, chances are they can pressure the rest of the world into agreeing.
The security council IS those five nations.
also, this was 3 months ago.
@@ChristopherGray00 only like 5 countries recognise taiwan
Crimea: So are we independent now?
Russia: Well yes but actually no
@@ki113rkkrclips9 no he doesn't
fuсking hаte that
Crimea: _declares independence_
UN: "Wait, *that's illegal* "
Kosovo: _declares independence_
UN: " *That's legal* "
@@-SUM1- Completely different situations
@@ConorMcgregor322 Bias bias bias
@@ChiccinTendies Nope. The declaration of Independence was illegal according to the Constitution of Ukraine. A coubtry can't just annex another part of a country by vote. Kosovo is independent.
@Sweganator2013 Kosovo was not allowed to declare independence from Serbia under its laws either
I declare my closet as the democracy of broken hangers
You forgot to mention the Republic of Benin (1967), which was independent for seven hours before being dissolved back into Nigeria.
There was also the Republic of Biafra, which lasted for almost three years, and might return again in the future. It was also part of Nigeria.
“RUSSIA IS PART OF BOLIVIA” - Commenter5, 2019.
😂
i bolivia now
eXcUsE mE HE sPElLeD iT BOLVIA
oh dear; 2010s was a blessed decade
thats because it is
Crimea: WE ARE A COUNTRY NOW!
Russia: I KNOW! (Whispers under breath) _You are Russia_
WE are Russia
Our country
More like
Crimea: WE ARE A COUNTRY NOW!
Russia: I KNOW! WANNA JOIN US?
Crimea: YES DADDY, TAKE ME!
Wait people are declaring their houses independent country's? Why wasn't I told about this?!
Aah so the Peoples REPUBLIC of Shankill...???
@@davidlally592 no, the 1st shankill reich.
Mom: "You're useless"
Me: "Well I lasted longer than a country, so I don't think so."
This could be interpreted as a sweet home alabama joke
Wait a second.
I lasted longer then dixie land
Catalonia: *just exists*
8 seconds later
Catalonia: *Ight Im not A Country Anymore*
Edit: just chuckled to this 9 months later
Lol XD
I live there XD
as a catalonia citizen I can relate sm lmaoo😭👉👈
I lived there for 9 years.
@ItsBob 8.2533795382 seconds*
Xd
crimeria : **becomes a country**
russia : "peace was never an option"
Lol want to like but it's 69
70th like, muhahaha
@@scythal Wtf my man why u flex like that
Do you mean crimea
Crimea declared independence from Ukraine, not Russia. The independence movement has, for all intents and purposes, been led by the faction in the country that wanted to join Russia to as their ultimate goal to begin with.
Declaring independence is really just a way to work within the legal constraints of international laws and the countries involved. Why do they bother with all that? To establish the legitimacy of the annexation.
If Russia had just annexed Crimea, a territory of Ukraine, without Crimea declaring independence, that would've been considered an outright invasion and even the Russia's own constitution does not allow itself to officially do that. But if it is an independent state Crimea that asked to join Russia, then that's A-OK.
In reality, there's probably a bunch of backroom dealings and covert operations. We'll probably never know the full extent of those in our lifetime, if ever.
3:15 gives us a nice insight in HAI's search history.
I declare an indepence of "WEST KOREAN REPUBLIC"
8 seconds later: My mom invaded my computer and banned me using computer for a month
Ok I surrender
And that's how to make a 8 seconds country!
Milatery, I can help with that
WEST KOREA BEST KOREA
@@Sorunia east korea best! north, west and south suck
Orphans: ._.
"RUSSIA IS PART OF BOLIVIA"
- Commenter5, 2019
They misspelled it to “RUSSIA IS PART OF BOLVIA”
Of course, space exploration is the first step for any new country.
3:21 Mars belongs to Russia?
Kaustubh Verma all belongs to mother russia.
Because it's the Red Planet
@@konplayz Mother is power and power is the only law.
Nah, mars is serbia
In Russia, Russia belongs to mars
HAI manages to turn a 8 second long country into a 5.5 min long video
Half as Interesting: Zanzibar
Me: *The sultan of Oman lives in Zanzibar now*
People’s Republic? Ah yes, the perfect Zanzibar. And clearly Mars belongs to Russia
I see. You are a man of culture!
Hi kim
Hello glorious leader Kim Jong un. And yes as a Russian I can indeed confirm mars belongs to russia
Hey there god, today's Christmas... You must be meeting Jesus today
According to Your County people i.e 😂
That’s just, where he lives
RUSSIA IS PART OF BOLIVIA
love him or hate him he’s spitting straight fax
I loved/hqted that comment.
BOLVIA*
A lot of parts of Russia belongs to different countries. Russia shouldn't exist
Shini Selune Nope it’s Bolivia
facts*
I declare my 120km square including my house independent.
Governor: Me
Opposition : Wife
Population : 4
Next leader: Wife
You have a governor but not a president are you waiting till the elections
Where did you get 120 square kilometers?
@@jeffbenton6183 his wife
@@jeffbenton6183 That's a relatively small cattle property in some places.
@@PhiAce_0 holy shit pp unknown
I found this to be quite an informative video! Subscribed!
So basically it just takes the right person to say "We're a country! Aaaand, never mind!"
Yay, Taiwan is a country!
But wait, whats its official name again?
Republic of ....
.... China?
It's a struggle, not changing the name "Republic of China" is awkward. But it's even more impossible to change it to "Republic of Taiwan" due to the attitude of the PRC aka China.
china: no, its (inhales) *CHINESE TAIPEI* (outhales)
Taiwan is not a country, Taiwan is a province belong to Republic of China. The fact that ROC lost all provinces except Taiwan does not make Taiwan a country. It’s still Republic of China.
The People’s Repubic of China owns the mainland and the repubic of China owns Taiwan. Please don’t declare war on me
@@hanyangxie4730 Let's see, Taiwan and China have different currencies, different governments, different leaders and different passports, just off the top of my head. The only thing that makes Taiwan part of China is China's ongoing hissy fit about it, and all the missiles they have pointed at Taiwan.
Our classroom was a country, until the teacher next door came...
She/he shall be punished with illegal immigration
oh no, did she declare war? :o
The Republic of Crimea is reminds me of Anschluss.
It also reminds me of when you time getting Chamberlin with the “Motion of no confidence” focus to get rid of Chamberlin in Hearts of Iron 4
Well, you seem to lack context then.
Russia would be more than happy to not get involved in 2014, but Ukraine made the things Georgian way (tested in 2008) - a highly sponsored move which driven local people desperate.
Story time. I was born in 90's Republic of Crimea and lived there as a child.
It was acceptable to be part of Ukraine due to economic needs and people's wish for peaceful dissolving of the Union. Chechen war and Nagornyi Karabakh conflict was enough fire and blood - noone wanted it at their home region.
Then U.S. money flow came - with "orange revolution" in early 00's and NATO ships coming to Sevastopol - to say the least, people were not happy.
Since then Mainland Ukraine only applied pressure on Crimea at moderate pace, pushing anti-Russian practices step by step - there used to be a highly supported political counterweight party helping people of South and East.
But in late 2013 the said party collapsed under corruption, betraying the people. Nationalist idiots with full support of most of the oligarchate and the West made a proper power overthrow this time.
Overthrowing corruption is good, using the event as a glorified boost of nazi ideas with the prepared legal background for purges - not good. Not freaking good.
The balance was broken and people were ready to pay the economic price and stand for their out-of-Ukraine identity. All they needed was the support.
Right here, Russia made a respectable move stepping in.
Inability of the West to step in too, and communicate constuctively over the next years - the military inflation of Ukraine was chosen instead - brought this all to a full-scale European crisis and warfare.
"Motion of no confidence", you say?
10 Year old me to my mom: I can live on my own!
Also me:
Pfft-
I was expecting the sponsor ad started as follow: “every independent nation needs a website....”
Use Wordpress. Ask me for more information.
History: 8 Second Country
Me: *im gonna make a 1 second country*
\Your life lmaoooo
I live on that 8-Second country
Ive seen places go 1 billionth of a second of a country like *inhale* Nvm
Yeah, its called Catalonia and they did illegal vote for be independent
@@PerroExtintor basically
Imagine if there was a map made in those 8 seconds where there was catalonia
*I'm Catalan and I never thought I would see anything related to Catalonia in "Half as Interesting".*
The problem is that out of all things you could have mentioned you guys chose the one thing that we Catalan people are ashamed of....
Ur right man, ur right
Well here is a real Catalonian I respect, one Who doesnt want to become independent.
Or maybe you are ashamed about only being independent for 8 seconds?? Who knows? I at least didnt forget to do what other many Spanish people did forget to do . *Consider the Catalonians as humans* no Matter the side they are on.
liamskisniper 4 Nan, don’t be ashamed guys
If you guys didn’t get the independence you deserve. It’s okay, hey atleast you have the Spanish Government’s benefits too.
Don’t worry mi amigos and introduce me to Catalan girls too.
I’m Filipino by the way, Spain’s former colony is our country.
@@Oline1756
Im not Catalan man XD.
I cant introduce you to any Catalan girl either mate, dont know any
liamskisniper 4 I thought you said you are Catalan hahah
Sorry about that, I guess I just woke up on that moment hahaha
My cup is my own country
Ok it’s been 5 seconds and it fell so...
Badum tss
Not funny
XD
Catalonia: Yay! I’m Independent!
**8 Seconds Later**
Catalonia: Um, actually, can I be apart of you again?
You know it’s bad when he’s been saying dates and then he says “it was formed at about noon”
My house is basically CCP.
Dad and Mom: Xi Jinping
Me: Chinese Citizen
My Opinion: Wrong
@@IsaCarlaDesenvHumano you right
Bro your comment vanished for me
Yes same
Haven't you Learned about *Shareing*
This post has been removed by the CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
1:25 Best part of the video
H3h3h3 1 l0v3 3v1l pl4nt
You have UA-cam in North Korea?
r/beetlejuicing
@@albertapetrei9997 yeah, thay probably have it
Best regards supreme leader
Damn, the Republic of Catalonia lasted longer than me having sex.
......same
well, Catalonia exists since XIV ... no shame on have shorter sex...
@@ItsMe_G the republic of catalonia didn't
@@aelix56Repasa la historia amigo ... 1er Republica, 2nd republica .... te falta mucho por aprender
@@ItsMe_G Ninguna republica Catalana amigo. Y la que declaro el puig tampoco vale mierda ;)
This is the first video i have ever watched in half as interesting
Good!
My backyard was a country with a permanent population of ants and hot wheels cars, until my dad rolled in
I think u triggered Catalonia slightly with that thumbnail
im not triggered
Nah, no t'ho creguis, ens ho prenem a broma
S'hauràn enfadat més els feixistes espanyols jajaja
@@jogaton7994 Si no te gusta España vete a vivir a otro sitio
@@raulruiz205 ja comencem... xD
Crimea: Are we a Country now?
Russia: Well yes, but actually no
I officially declare my digestive system as the People’s Republic of Chicken-Nugget-Topia
I declare my room my country
Population: My PC and me
Territory: My room I guess
Government: All powerful Mom
ForeignRelations: All the other messy room countries here.
I also do the same.my enemies:Ukraine Population:Me Territory:my room Government:Me Allies:The other rooms.
@@cosmicball1670 I do the same
Enemies:Italy,Sweden
Population:Me and a spider on my window that shouldn't exist
Goverment:Dust
Allies:Republic of Chad,Sao Tome and Principe,other messy room nations
@@jaffacakenjoyer Update:Ive conquered a the rooms and Ukraine is my allie now
Enemies:Russia
@@cosmicball1670 I support revolts
"I should not have mentioned Taiwan..."
*Hoooo boy... statistics yea~*
West Taiwan mad
0:59 It's more like the PRC's the controversy.
This guy and the wendover productions guy should collab
Yeah ikr, they're going to be a good collab
Pretty sure they have before, I'd like another one lol
I think they collaborated on some videos like the one about the shortest flight route or the longest continuous flight.
They both sound the same
@@te1327 r/wooosh
the shortest lived country is any country that didn't exist, they lived 0 seconds
HAI: Shows a Taiwan meme
Also HAI: Shows a map without Taiwan literally 6 seconds later
@ idk, never heard of him, apparently he made a video about shortest lived countries ever
Expecting a video on Boeing 737 max-8 from you
Is it just my instinct or are you a tamil from india? Your name suggests me
@@guruprasaathm
You are correct
It'll drop soon enough.
...Too soon?
Hmmm... probably it's going to be from wendover, or real engineering. Because half as interesting is full of jokes
The problems of the Boeing 737 MAX-8 "lawn dart" are yet to be investigated thoroughly in order to avoid what caused them in the first place.
In art class, I declared a country called Wasteoftimeistan with my friend that consists of a table
So did your teacher entering your very classroom! 😅
yo but do you have the recognition of the tables next to you?
If you were smart you would start a Communist federation to resist the control of your dictating teacher..... Power to the desk people amiright?
Look up on youtube lil Hitler.
My friends and I did that in Civics. We tried to put a sign, but our teacher said she was declaring a unilateral trade embargo and wouldn’t give us any tape as a result. So we agreed to peacefully be re-annexed into her zone of influence so we could use tape again
"This country lived for 8 seconds"
unvaccinated kids: Are you kidding me? That's insultingly *long*
I just realised that you are a channel with all videos being shorter than 10 minutes, that's honestly some real dedication.
0:07 Yeah it's not like there's a flag covering the screen giving it away or anything
The Real Flenuan most would not know the flag of Catalonia
@@holikwakkemoli True.
I’ve laughed longer than the length of the country
same
I declare my house independent.
Name: Kingdom of Houseonia
Population: Me and my family
Government: absolute monarchy (I’m the boss)
Formed: Monday, July 18, 2022, 10:04:03 AM
Dissolved: Monday, July 18, 2022, 10:04:11 AM
Country: Prussia 2
Population: me
Largeness: 19 m2
Capital city: Bunk Bed
Milatery, I can help with that
@@vladimirlenin8168 My friend made a country called The Communist Land of the Soviet Union
@@abrahamlincoln8037 you know that I died before you were elected president
@@vladimirlenin8168 but we're both in Heaven right? I am planning a trip to ur house. Can I join ur house sir. Also I was born the exact year when the USSR was made (1917)
@@abrahamlincoln8037 The USSR was established in 30 December in 1922
Crimea: "So we're independent right?"
Russia, has fingers crossed behind their back: "Yeah, sure absolutely "
guy after founding the russian democratic federative republic: well, guess I can relax for a little while and watch the entire matrix trilogy
(6 hours and 57 mins later) okay I'm ba- *wait what just happened*
Lenin: Communism happened, b*tch!
I declare my building independent from Brazil.
Name - Empire of Yorkia
Permanent population - The residents and my family
Royal family, hiearchy order:
Dad (emperor)
Mom (empress)
Me (prince)
My sister (princess)
----------------------------------------
Military - um no?
Currency - ... r$
Passport - screw this
Creative ✅
Informative ✅
Life-Changing ✅
Yorkia ✅