In recent years the debate of intervention vs isolation has once again reared its head. The topic has been extremely controversial and divisive ever since its inception. The issue can be described as philosophical and has roots in both the powers of the old world and the new.
Although it is almost inexpressible how important this topic is few people understand it and even fewer know where the idea originated.
Interventionism is at its core the idea that one nation can and ought to interfere in the affairs of another nation. Typically this is done on behalf of specific groups in a nation that have already been in some sort of conflict with the governing body. Interfering in this conflict almost always results in a terrible loss of life and resources for all parties involved. Realpolitik is the idea that any and all measures ought to be considered when conducting foreign affairs. Usually these measures are considered in brutally realistic regards and are undertaken without regard for most moral issues this would cause. Therefore interventionism
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In this case nationalism describes the idea that a language and shared culture is what ought to make up a nation rather than allegiance to a multiethnic Empire. (Richly) At this point Germany was totally divided between more than thirty-nine nations’ loosely, but unmeaningfully related in a “German Confederation. There were two nations that were dominant over this “German Confederation” Austria and Prussia. Both of these nations wished for a united Germany, but both wished to dominate it. Therefore when a “Frankfurt Parliament was summoned to discuss the unification of Germany under a model similar to the United States which would be dominated by nobody, liberal negotiations for a United Germany broke down. Both nations took steps to unify Germany under them, but it was a man of Prussia who successfully broke the old order and changed the