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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by filoleg on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:49PM (#24548303)
>Doesn’t this just emphasise that the UK is not a nation state?

What would you use to refer to UK then? Because if Scotland is a country, and Scotland is a part of UK, that feels kinda weird to call an entity composed of multiple countries a country.

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by chrisseaton on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:51PM (#24548319)
Well certainly not 'nation state' of all things. The UK literally has 'the Nations'. And the US literally has the 'Native Nations'. By their own description and common sense they aren't nation states.

Does the 'United...' part of their names not give it away?

Call them 'sovereign states' if you want to mean something independent on a global scale.

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by vkou on Monday September 21, 2020 @06:37PM (#24549192)
A group of united nation-states of the British isles.
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