>>515674491
perhaps you are the exception to the rule. the forest, however, is made of trees, not clearings.
take a step back and look at the long arc of history. do your people try to live alone, live off the land, be left alone, not be involved in the affairs of others? or do you HAVE to exist in the countries of others? are you always merchants, bankers, middlemen, a people who exist trans-nationally, rootless cosmopolitans that need the advanced and stable societies that other races have built in order to live and flourish?
read this and the next few images.