Collective will supplants individual whim

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of the Middle Eastern peoples are Muslim and Israelis are not, so it is hardly in any position to become the leading power.

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?