>>508353260 (OP)nations are naturally inward-looking, self-interested, and grounded in specific geographies, histories, and cultures. their political structures, moral codes, and philosophical frameworks are shaped by the imperative to survive and flourish within their defined borders. The nation is not just a legal unit but a moral one as it assumes responsibility for its own citizens, not for abstract humanity or a global mission. empires and trans-national blocs operate on a different logic. their legitimacy is unbounded.,they construct universalist ideologies, supranational institutions and legal regimes designed not to preserve self-determination, but to absorb it. they claim to supersede the nation in purpose. their structures, morals, and philosophies are meant to remove difference, not defend it. the bed-fellow of the trans-national bloc or empire is trans-national ideological associations,religions, global movements, moral crusades that owe allegiance to no state, often more durable and less accountable than empires, they do not respect borders, negotiate with national interest, or stop at constitutions, they see the nation not as a partner, but as an obstacle, something to be subverted, co-opted, or bypassed entirely, witnessing this play out as your own nation is subverted is not something to celebrate
