Both true and blindingly obvious to any informed observer.
1. There have always been nation states. No event in human history has ever threatened them as an institution, and they will endure. Why is this is in anyway surprising? You have to plumb down into 4GW to find people will to assert it's not true.
2. Also true. Look at the world in the 1960's or 70's. Dangerous is a very relative description.
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