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I’m not so sure. European borders went through many, many bloody revisions as well, yet Europe is still quite prosperous. borders: https://m.youtube.com/watch

• filleduchaos 6y ago
  You are comparing borders that have mostly had the chance to settle into consenting national identities over the past two thousand years to borders that were forcibly drawn in the late 19th/early 20th centuries (in some places disrupting existing nationalisation processes), as if Europe did not also go through periods of unrest and instability in the wake of dissolving empires. That is besides the fact that (for example) there are far more extant ethnic groups in my country alone than in all of [Western, if not the entirety of] Europe - the considerations when it comes to building a nation are simply not the same. There's nothing that irks me more in these discussions than "Why haven't you already done what took us centuries to do naturally in the space of a few decades under artificial tension?"
  • randyrand 6y ago
    > borders that were forcibly drawn in the late 19th/early 20th European borders were most certainly forcibly drawn. > "Why haven't you already done what took us centuries to do naturally in the space of a few decades under artificial tension?" All I'm saying is that the border argument seems weak.