Fair point. My take from UK history lessons last century was that the 1871 'German' entity was in hindsight a very early example of centralization of smaller na

Fair point. My take from UK history lessons last century was that the 1871 'German' entity was in hindsight a very early example of centralization of smaller nation states rebranded as'Germany'. There are arguably traces of this logic in the formation of the original EEC which gradually expanded into the vast and homogenizing EU entities today. Globalization is arguably a stratospheric layer above the EU, US, China etc etc that is rendering the old nation state paradigms of less and less importance, something I don't like...