No country has "the right to exist"
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A "right" is simply something that cannot be taken from you. In the US you have rights because the government is not allowed to infringe upon them. Now we can get into an argument about how they can and blah blah blah, but the accepted premise is that my rights cannot be infringed upon.
Now if someone tried to, then my government will intervene to protect my rights.
A right to exist, can only be truly a right if you are in a position that no one else can make you not exist.
The United States has a right to exist on the grounds that it is capable of fending off anyone who attempts to overthrow the nation. But if somehow another country came along and was stronger, then there isn't all that much the US can do if they lose other than whine that they lost.
The benefit is that a country like the US is so benevolent than it hasn't looked at every neighboring country and decided to take them like the olden days where expansion was the name of the game.
But if the US decided that they wanted Canada and Mexico, then if they can't stop the US, or get someone else to do it for them. There isn't all that they can do except cry that they lost their sovereignty.
cannot? or generally will not as long as you stay in line and do not become annoying to powerful people and organizations?
we can all argue over definitions but in reality rights do not exist for anyone or anything. at best they are a lose social agreement not to immediately engage in universal mass violence and chaos.
In reality, there's nothing stopping me from finding you and putting a bullet in your head short of God himself coming down and preventing me from acting if you cannot get anyone else and yourself are not capable of stopping me. But the idea is that a Right is something that cannot be taken from you, regardless of who is in charge, because a Right is something that no one outside of yourself has any control over.
As a person that's pretty apt, at this moment, I can't make you NOT think certain thoughts, that is a Right you have. You have free will, I can put you under duress and threaten you, but truly, I cannot enforce mind control or engage some robot nanomachines to control your limbs. You have those rights regardless of if you are capable of acknowledging them or not.
But as a country, because it's boundaries can be redefined, unlike a person. You are you, it is your body, and where your skin, molecules, atoms, what have you end is the extent of your physical existence. But a nation can be redrawn on maps, no one has to listen to that if I decide that my map personal map is more correct, unless I can personally enforce that on people or enough people agree.