day no. 16,733: an aristocracy of globe-trotters

"Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy. I do not say it is incompatible with it; but any combination of the two will be a compromise between the two. The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it will always be an exceptional sort of citizen who has or claims the right to rule over ten cities, and these remote and altogether alien cities. All Irishmen may know roughly the same sort of things about Ireland; but it is absurd to say they all know the same things about Iceland, when they may include a scholar steeped in Icelandic sagas or a sailor who has been to Iceland. To make all politics cosmopolitan is to create an aristocracy of globe-trotters." — G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw In America (1921)

God loves nations and Christendom will eventually conquer each and every one of them. This will occur without them being absorbed into one meta-nation. Nations are as different as individuals, but can form leagues like people can form alliances and marriages. No two people could be more different than any man and any woman, but any two of them can come together in covenant before Christ to form a union. The same can be said for nations. They cannot create the same kind of covenant per se, but they can covenant. This, however, does not require them to dissolve their idiosyncrasies, rather it codifies and protects them.  A marriage does not force the man to surrender his masculinity or the woman her femininity, rather it requires them to retain them respectively for the benefit of the union. Nations do not need to mirror each other in order to be in covenant, but they do need to rally back to an agreed upon center. That center is Christ, the arche. He is the only One who can support that kind of pressure and relieve that kind of tension.

"It is a wild folly to suppose that nations will love each other because they are alike. They will never really do that unless they are really alike; and then they will not be nations. Nations can love each other as men and women love each other, not because they are alike but because they are different." — G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw In America (1921)

Internationalism assumes that a few well-traveled tourists should be in charge of a world full of well-established citizens. It elevates wanderlust to wisdom and cliff's notes to commandments. 

"What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them." — G.K. Chesterton

Politicians should be local enough to be kicked, instead of foreign enough to be forgotten. No one has the know how of a nation not their own. There is much one nation may learn from another, but one of those things is certainly not how to be native.

Revelation 7:9

After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.

In the end, nations will be retained for Christ's sake and the salvation of its citizens. These individuals will be unique from each other over all and similar to their fellow citizens in nationality and custom, and covenantally the same as those from other nations who worship the Lamb of God. Their respective words for "Lord" may sound different in their native tongues, but their translation will be the same, i.e. "Jesus Christ, King of all kings, Lord of all lands, Head of all nations, Ruler of all creation."