Manipulating ethnicities and border areas to create conflict and war [link]

By bolstering border conflicts, they can easily be turned into war that can serve as excuses for manipulating flows of people and assets.

The politicians mostly talk about an open, borderless society where people and goods can flow freely, but when the politicians decide to create war in order to get a pretext for manipulating flows of assets or people, every inch of territory is suddenly worth sending tens of thousands of people to die for instead of letting the residents vote about their own future and solve the situations diplomatically. National borders are usually broken down in the global system, except when it wishes to create war.

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