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No, that isn’t my only grievance, as I’ve pointed out, the nation-state is just one model and it does not cohere with the history of the Middle East and China.
Nationalism and the nation-state are inherently aggressive towards minorities and seeks to remove them by force, instead of voluntary assimilation over a long period of time.
A nation state would need a constitution where minorities would be protected with inalienable rights and checks and balances like the military swearing an oath to the constitution instead of the leader or the party would be present. What's to stop minorities from being trampled under a Neo Ottoman Sultanate? The Sultan's benevolence?