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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

To quote a famous Georgian political activist and philosopher, "a nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life and culture." The US Empire is a settler-colony, and as such does not constitute an actual nation, though it is a state with citizens.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the USA counts on all those points.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The settlers do not qualify, though, just like Israelis do not have a claim to nationhood in Palestine.