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> "We've been incredibly good at killing each other." No, what you mean is that Germans and Austrians (and only Germans and Austrians) have recently been rathe
by jjt555 12y ago
> "We've been incredibly good at killing each other."
No, what you mean is that Germans and Austrians (and only Germans and Austrians) have recently been rather fond of invading neighbouring countries and also genociding their own populations.
The other European countries, Balkans excepted, have actually got along rather well for the past 150 years.
So why should Holland, Belgium, France, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark and the others be erased as nation states? This is the way things are going.
- oblio 12y agoYou are only looking at recent history. And even that's not true. Italians invading Albania and Greece? Italians invading France? Soviets invading Finland, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania? Hungarians invading Romania and Czechoslovakia? Romanians invading the USSR? Soviets invading Hungary and Czechoslovakia? And out of the list your have there, many of those "nation states" were too busy "genociding" their colonies in the last 150 years, to care about "genociding" their neighbors. And all of those were "genociding" their neighbors as well, before they got colonies. Plus all those nation-states are too small on today's geopolitical arena. Only the "state" bit will be going away, the nations will be there, sitting nice and pretty as they do right now :)
- lotsofmangos 12y agoAll the countries with empires were proxy-warring it around the globe. The first and second world wars were wars of empire coming home.