>>115398412He's been alive long enough/done enough to know how stories like this tends to end.
Either they become a nation and then devolve into the same shit that they're currently fighting, or they fail become refugees /again/ and try this same idea a few decades later.
Worst of all he's going to live through this no matter how it shakes out. Either he watches Rome fall again or he's a fugitive for lord only knows how many years before another Charles/Magneto/Sinister/Apocalypse tries to gather up the Mutants to "save mutantkind" or whatever.