Guess I'm uninterested in the pretext... Mostly utterly appalled at the evil, and at the horrendous price paid by innocents...

My present outlook on nation-states is that they are all fundamentally and structurally evil, and need to be disregarded, self-destruct, and be supplanted;
https://peakd.com/library/@creatr/the-kingdom-of-jesus-god-the-heavens-my-library-shelf