Countries aren’t real things anyway.

Nationalism. As opposed to Czechoslovakia, which was created by a committee answering “what set of ethnical minorities is big enough to merge into a viable country” and Austria and Hungary, which were just cores of their empire after losing a war.

“unify as one country.”

“Stop having it be fractured”

Same way Japan’s ports stopped having them be closed?

Balkanizationmaxxing

It wasn’t and it isn’t