Could countries still justify maintaining embassies abroad?

[Proud Cosmopolitan]

By the way I was sure if you viewed yourself as a "cosmopolitan," an "internationalist," or a "citizen of the world or of planet Earth," you found yourself having to question all aspects of "nationalism" as in both the "bad" such as "needless wars," as well as even the "good," such as "how countries see it as both their legal and ethical obligation and prerogative to "look out for" their citizens regardless of whether or not they were within or even outside of the territory over which that country and its government holds jurisdiction."

Yeah... about that. As soon as you start doing that much more than now, what you end up with is a Cold War like political polarization of the world where countries stop trading in the same quantities, people stop being able to travel abroad as much, and generally everybody becomes hostile because of your moralizations... so I'm not sure if it's really worth it. Sure there could be more, but you have to consider the cost and not be reckless, or you'll just create more problems than you solve.

As I said before, I found on second thought I decided I had no issue with governments protecting their citizens abroad as long as they did it with DIPOLMATIC MEANS ( or by means of dare I mention them, those embassies and consular offices abroad) and only used MILITARY MEANS AS A LAST RESORT ( such as when things have "gone to pot" in another country so fast that the ONLY OPTION for the foreign nationals is a MILITARY EVACUATION.). I also wished to raise the question of "what about situations where "considerations of humanity and humanitarianism" ought to trump "considerations of nationality and citizenship?" ( For example Rwanda when the genocide happened about 20 years ago.).

[The Voice of Time]

In a genocide or for that sake any situation of a massacre or execution of innocents (or petty criminals... and although I'm against all forms of death penalty, it's hard to successfully defend a murderer and so forth), you ought to engage yourself to stop it of course, and many, though I have no idea how many, would likely do so, me among them. But facing armed soldiers and a powerful nation (compared to little you, virtually any nation is powerful) is no easy task, and you'll need a lot of resolve and bravery to overcome the challenges that you'll face... you truly have to be a knight in a shining armour.

[Proud Cosmopolitan]

Maybe looking out for one's own compatriots/ fellow country men / fellow country women / fellow country people / fellow citizens is at least doing right by them since I'm sure the "internationals" in a country where everything had "gone to pot" in a hurry may not be used to dealing with those sorts of "insane" situations that happened in other countries.

On edit, Maybe one had to admit there are no easy answers for the "nationals" or citizens of those other countries who happened to be the primary victims of the "insane situation " though other countries ought to assist them in some way.