Wilson was a notorious racist, that’s hardly an opinion. As I said he segregated the federal government, praised “Birth of a nation” etc.

And we often use “nation” and “country” indistinguishably (especially Americans) but the point of “national sovereignty” was that each “nation” or “race” (in his time it was common to say “Italian race” or “Irish race”) should have self-government regardless of whether they had been living happily together or not.

Not that he felt the US should be slit up or anything — having the “white man” (as they phrased it then) run everything was important to him.