Your argument still seems to apply only to countries with access to ocean. (It was one of the reasons behind WW1, that Germany objected against some European c

Your argument still seems to apply only to countries with access to ocean. (It was one of the reasons behind WW1, that Germany objected against some European countries colonizing the rest of the world, and not allowing countries such as Germany to also take a piece. And Germany lost that war. And there were other countries that were too small to participate in this kind of conflict.)