It must not be forgotten that the modern nation-state was forged in the fires of the two world wars; World War II and its end was traumatic for most. After helplessly witnessing Hitler’s contempt for the entire nation-state idea, the victors said Nie Wieder to the concept of changing political borders and under the supervision of the US and the UK came up with a new idea that they called a rules based order, or in cruder terms, the submission of the entire world to a new world order carefully managed by America to keep its political and economic interests paramount. Permanent borders were a natural corollary, even a condition of the modern nation-state Indeed, apart from a few anomalies, political borders have largely remained fixed in the last 80 years because of the military and economic prowess of the USA, a feature which has been visibly aided by the US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency.It must not be forgotten that the modern nation-state was forged in the fires of the two world wars; World War II and its end was traumatic for most. After helplessly witnessing Hitler’s contempt for the entire nation-state idea, the victors said Nie Wieder to the concept of changing political borders and under the supervision of the US and the UK came up with a new idea that they called a rules based order, or in cruder terms, the submission of the entire world to a new world order carefully managed by America to keep its political and economic interests paramount. Permanent borders were a natural corollary, even a condition of the modern nation-state Indeed, apart from a few anomalies, political borders have largely remained fixed in the last 80 years because of the military and economic prowess of the USA, a feature which has been visibly aided by the US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency.It must not be forgotten that the modern nation-state was forged in the fires of the two world wars; World War II and its end was traumatic for most. After helplessly witnessing Hitler’s contempt for the entire nation-state idea, the victors said Nie Wieder to the concept of changing political borders and under the supervision of the US and the UK came up with a new idea that they called a rules based order, or in cruder terms, the submission of the entire world to a new world order carefully managed by America to keep its political and economic interests paramount. Permanent borders were a natural corollary, even a condition of the modern nation-state Indeed, apart from a few anomalies, political borders have largely remained fixed in the last 80 years because of the military and economic prowess of the USA, a feature which has been visibly aided by the US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency.