As a Brit with a modicum of geography and history academia and some experience of Western military interventions across Africa, perhaps the thing to add is the industrial machine.

You have written previously Umair regarding how the nation-state is possibly a tool in itself to perpetuate the elite. Having seen the industry that is war, conflict and resultant humanitarianism, sense is we are still not learning the inertia in the system is driven by those living nicely who really do not give a crap about this or that flag and political posture - Show me the money! Remains the call for those quietly reinforcing the oligopolies they control