That's really not such a big whoop. I could create a larger bloc in my back yard, I just need to subdivide it into 250 tiny squares and declare each a country. The UN would admit them, and I have more power than the entire rest of the world.
Ahhhh, if only it worked that way. But that's how Africa got so many countries.
I also thought that was a weak argument on the author’s part. Took away from the article, really.