Imagine spending these last 40 years in Germany. You see a relatively homogenous nation become one in which a quarter of the population have a migrant background.
It absorbs, at short notice, a much poorer country of 16 million people called the German Democratic Republic. It grows out of pacifism to wield lethal force in Kosovo and beyond.
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Janan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.