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Conveniently, though, large tech-focused multinational corporations would no doubt take on an even greater prominence—perhaps somewhat akin to the nation-state—if the techno-libertarian dream were ever to be realized.

The day the United States loses the ability to deport noncitizens who espouse such toxic beliefs is the day the United States ceases to be a sovereign nation-state.

The Trump administration has repeatedly insisted that giving Ukraine too much support would hamper a potential deal with Russia, while Zelenskyy and some of Ukraine's European allies have argued that Ukraine's survival as a coherent nation-state cannot be subject to bargaining.

John Skrentny, a sociology professor at the University of California, San Diego, believes that, though birthright citizenship or jus soli is common throughout the Americas, "each nation-state had its own unique road to it".

However, Mr Skrentny argues that what almost all had in common was "building a nation-state from a former colony".