States have the same interests as other states. You rarely heard voices outside of Iran declaring 9/11 a false flag operation.
The same is true with everything, they act as a hive protecting the big lies. They are in this together and know it.
Then the people of the world have more in common with each other than with their "representative" (lol) states. Many of them don't know that we are in this together. So some of them sing the states propaganda songs unknowingly or knowingly betraying their fellow brothers and sisters.
A unifying message is what the state fears most. It needs to sow distrust, lies, and division to secure its survival. It helps collecting taxes to dumb the general population.
Can people exist without states? Sure. Can the state exist without people. No. It's an existential fight.
