If only such wisdom were still applicable. But that mentality had it's sell-by date over 100 years ago. And don't the Habsburgs, Hohenzollerns, Romanovs, and Osmans wish it had lasted longer. As well as the big European Colonial Empires. But no. The world isn't a place where "fixing one nation at a time, by it's own citizens alone," is remotely viable anymore. The world is too politically, culturally, economically, and - in the last few decades - digitally intertwined to just make solid and meaningful improvements on each national level, and in a void, at all effective and viable, and idea exchange across borders is a HUGE factor on how national reform and change is done and proposed. The socio-political and economic "butterfly effect" is very real. Time to get your head out of your parochial hole-in-the-ground.
