I see a parallel with the "unexpected" outcome of the 2016 election in the US.
I think the Democrats in the US engaged in huge levels of corruption, illegality and treason. But they were confident that it just wouldn't matter, because surely Hillary would win and no one would ever pursue their criminal acts.
Oops.
Similarly, I think the Globalists have been confident that we are all rushing toward a One World Government in which national borders do not matter and money sloshes around as needed to pacify people as needed.
Oops.
Brexit, Trump, Catalonia, and internal EU trouble (largely centered around unassimilated immigrants) are all showing that One World Government isn't going to happen. Ergo, national borders matter quite a lot.
Which circles back to the US and makes the election of Trump more correct than ever. Build the wall!
Interesting and well thought-out article. However, Europeans have understood for a lot longer than WWII that “strong borders make good neighbors.”
he Thirty Years War was devastating to Europeans in the 1600’s. The Peace of Westphalia set out most of the modern borders in 1648. It has been the violation of those borders that have led to wars, not the establishment and honoring of those borders, no matter that some problems arose because of how they were drawn.