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"Germany is a country" - Delusional Cosplayers (infosec.pub)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

I find the standard historical descriptor “unification” to be statist embellishing and give the false idea that this was somehow grassroots.

"War is politics through other means", and all that jazz. German unification movements were widespread and a key component of Prussia's success was leveraging that grassroots enthusiasm towards a unified German nation to assist them, by portraying themselves as the most likely to be able to achieve it.