Why is it so hard for countries to give up on trivial land claims ?

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Why risk wars or economic embargos on almost worthless lands or uninhabited islands.
Wouldn’t be better to give up claims and start a good relations that could benefit both countries ?

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Give up a small island today, and there’ll be claims on a bigger one tomorrow. Shift the border 10 miles today, and there’ll be another 10 miles disputed next year. Good relations are just as possible when lands are in dispute as when borders are settled. When bad relations exist, it’s because someone is benefiting from having bad relations – the land dispute is a convenient excuse, but if it wasn’t that, it would be something else.

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