Geography and dialling codes aren’t necessarily aligned. So none of those countries share a border - it doesn’t mean there was never a weird issue with international dialling codes at some point (and, after I did a bit of searching, it seems that there was)
Precisely. That should give the reader pause to think that there's something wrong.
You're missing that the author mixed up Monaco with Montenegro (Kosovo's neighbour) because they sound similar. That's the perennial Austria/Australia confusion writ small.
That can't be right. When will Americans learn basic 4th school year geography?