尼采指出，只有通过统一，欧洲大陆才能在世界事务上发出强音，在当时，这意味着在与大英帝国和俄罗斯帝国的战略“大博弈”中获得同等地位，赢家将控制阿富汗和北印度。
Only through unification, Nietzsche argued, could continental Europe have a strong voice in world affairs, which at that time meant being on an equal footing with the British and Russian empires in their strategic “great game,” the winner of which would control Afghanistan and northern India.