A unified Kurdish state within the confederation would strengthen the idea of unity within diversity and would not be deemed as a big threat by Turkey and Iran.
Even if those views have ongoing resonance in some quarters, Australia's status within the confederation has been further shored up over the past 12 months.
As Nassau's envoy to Paris, he secured (1806) additional territories for his principality within the Confederation of the Rhine, the league of German princes sponsored by Napoleon.
Prussia was immersed, from May, in an internal constitutional struggle, and it was contesting with Austria for supremacy within the confederation.
An unsuccessful Habsburg attack in 1382 drew Solothurn into the Battle of Sempach, and it was included in the treaty of 1394 by which the Habsburgs renounced their claims to all territories within the Confederation.
The Prussian Austrian duality within the Confederation eventually led to the Austro-Prussian War in 1866.
Finally, as Prussian military capacity far exceeded that of Austria, Prussia was clearly the only state within the Confederation (or among the German states generally) capable of protecting all of them from potential interference or aggression.
Before Arsaces I of Parthia founded the Arsacid Dynasty, he was chieftain of the Parni, an ancient Central-Asian tribe of Iranian peoples and one of several nomadic tribes within the confederation of the Dahae.
