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Subdivision into smaller and smaller nations …. The last superpower can’t defend them all.

“Balkanization” The Supra-National State sucks the juices out of national states by splitting them into increasingly tiny pieces. This creates constant ankle-biting conflict which guts the nation-state and leaves only the supra-state as an agent available to “negotiate” “peace”.

“Peace!” “Peace!” … uh, right.

The world ends not with a bang, but with ‘scare quotes’…