Taiwan and west taiwan.
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Xi ain't gonna like that!
Xi gonna suck his own testicles.
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Those that are culturally close to each other.
Idk Canadians don't seem to like Americans very much..
I don't know, I've met a decent amount of Canadians over the years, never got any bad vibes from us. I think the problem is America has more than our fair share of assholes, so they approach us a little skeptically, but if you show you're not an asshole, I think they like us just fine.
Of course, my biases should be disclosed. Most of the Canadians I've met have been from roughly the Toronto area, plus a good handful of French Canadians.
Couple of the officers at the border when I went to Montreal were kind of dicks, but I think that's more of a universal feature of border crossing and customs officials around the world. Once I was there though no one gave me any shit.
But then again it does..
Poland and Hungary have historically been very close allies since the middle ages, lots of shared culture, history, they've faced similar struggles over the years, and generally they've always held each other in pretty high regard. They each even have a little poem about how much they like each other
Them polish version translates to something like
Pole and Hungarian brothers be,
good for fight and good for party.
Both are valiant, both are lively,
Upon them may God's blessings be.
The Hungarian Version
Pole and Hungarian โ two good friends,
fighting, and drinking at the end.
Unfortunately there's been a lot of tension between them in recent years over the war in Ukraine, and their relationship has been deteriorating.
Wow, now that's something I never knew, nor expected! Thanks for the history lesson!
All of them.
I'd like to think that you're right
sweden and somalia
Swaziland and Switzerland
Oh man, my maps didn't come with Swaziland ๐ข
It's probably a colonialist name that isn't used anymore. It's now known as Eswatini
Okay now that checks out!
Countries are countries, not people, and cannot really be friends. Countries, today, are all nation-states and therefore inextricable from the global caoitalist system, so to be free of politics would be to end every country. In this context, countries can be allies, usually due to shared interests to meet strategic goals.
Inversely, countries are enemies due to their inherent political nature, the global unstable system of exploitation. To imagine an end to inter-country hostility is to imagine the end of capitalism and nation-states themselves. Under such events the people who live in what is now Chile could love those in Saudi Arabia as much as those in Tanzania.