Dude, as an engineer you are, once again you are breaking it down into numbers, unnecessarily.
One thing I'll do always refrain doing is to prescribing for others, no no no, I was just, non ragionam di lor, ma guarda e passa, and I have to say I believe in, bene vaxit qui bene latuit.
But regarding what you just said, you just did approved what I was mentioning, the futility and absurdness of patriotism in general, and in this case especially talking, for a poor, third world MEern, like an Iranian.
There is a reason for an American to be a patriot, and you just pointed it out, however this is all a macro international perspective.
And for a micro, intranational point of view, patriotism and nationalism is also futile and absurd for the American 99ers either.
So you see it's all about the benefits, but not the kinda benefit for those whom walk on the mine fields in bare foots, but for those playing them, for those one percenters in America, and the likes.
Indeed, isn't it ba kelas.
I belong to the universe and the universe is mine, nothing less and anything more.