Nations like enemies, that way people are distracted from the real enemy i.e. "Their government" e.g. India keeps saying that Pakistan is causing terror in India; Pakistan keeps saying that Muslims are harassed in India. Who benefits from these allegations? The answer is both the governments for India and Pakistan. The people tend to tolerate the tyranny of their own governments, when they are distracted by external threats. So all governments, all over the world, almost always are at war (in some form) with some country. It benefits the governments, at the cost of the people.
John Lennon had a wonderful song, where he says "Imagine a world without countries"
Governments encourage "desh-prem" or "nation love", because it allows the governemnts to exploit the citizens. Leo Tolstoy said, "In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."
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