Nationalism is a reflection of politics at a local level enabling self-determination and democracy. People have fought quite hard to be free of empire and oppression foreign and domestic. Freedom attained within a national boundary is far better than being a subject of monolithic authoritarianism. The problem with government and humanity is a lack of adequate intellect and knowledge in leadership able to choose good policy directives. A global government rule has no firewalls to contain wrong political leads.People that would trust some kind of planetary elite government would need to lack confidence in their own political competence to acquiesce as subjects.
Humanity has simply expanded its numbers because of advances in science beyond the world's safe carrying capacity. There are several possible positive responses to the challenges of that, yet as I mentioned, the intellect and knowledge is lacking. The EU leadership for example has become swollen with power and seeks to protract war with Russia instead of peace and work on actual existential environmental challenges in regard to maladapted political economy. In response to swollen foreign global power units seeking to take over their nations and render them powerless subjects, people will fight. There isn't a substitute for smart and cooperative international leadership making good choices.
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