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The words country and nation are absolutely not interchangeable, no matter how lay people use the terms.

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But you see that would be an intelligent argument.

That’s not the kind of argument these people make.

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They would say it’s because police are getting better at their jobs or something

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Kurdistan doesn’t really have a central government like that, nor fixed or well defined borders. Keep in mind that the concept of a “Nation State” is really only a couple hundred years old.

If that counterexample doesn’t satisfy you, then Somalia should. It is a country without a functioning government, which has two nations inside of them of the northern and southern Somalians which are completely different, and neither of which have any sort of unifying government.

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This definition is not fully correct. A nation does not need to have a government. For example the Kurds

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It’s less of a legal distinction and more of a definition thing. He is objectively using the wrong word.

It would not be incorrect to refer to the people of Puerto Ricans as a nation by the definition of the word. The word nation does not refer to a place but a group of people.

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Don’t you understand? 20% tarrifs is actually good for the economy because prices will go down when China has to pay Americans 20%! Take that communists! And unregulated capitalism is the only way to avoid inefficiencies and economic dead ends, thanks to the protective power of monopolies.

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The country of … Puerto Rico??

A nation perhaps but why TF is he calling it a country

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