>>1884745federations are not a mark of political progress they are just other countries LARPing as USA. Germany is a federation because the US rebuilt them after WW2.
Federal system is based on confederation which is a native american idea based on a native american alliance which was in whats now the midwest.
>>1884954Nuh uh. Human unity has been a process starting even before the Holocene. Federalism is just a stage in that process that precedes just before total human political unification.
The alliance of sahel countries is more like a confederacy than a federation. Usually a federation is more centralized under a single federal authority rather than a conglomeration of independent countries willingly choosing to become one, with their governments intact but the only difference being the establishment of a unifying government through consent.
>>1884979If the Sahel states fully form as a formal confederation (which given the direction the continent in general is heading in it probably will), if the state is going to become federalized anyways, because it’s more tax-efficient to run centralized governments anyways.