And a State is the body that governs a nation that lives in a country
A sovereign body.
There is a reason why the original 13 colonies renamed themselves to States and not provinces or territories or districts or any other similar term to denote the subdivision of a whole. They called themselves States because they were supposed to be independent nations that came together in a loose association for a small number of issues of mutual interest. The EU is actually a lot closer to what these United States are supposed to be than what the US is now. And funnily enough, what we see happening with the EU gobbling up more sovereignty for itself and coopting the member nations into vassal states is precisely what happened to the US, we're just a lot further along than they are. And in the information age, we can see it happening a lot faster than it did to us. The last 15 or so years of the EU is like a fast-forward version of the US from about the 1790s until 1913ish. By my estimate, if any of them rediscover their balls, they'll be reaching their own 1860s in the next decade or so.
And a State is the body that governs a nation that lives in a country
A sovereign body.
There is a reason why the original 13 colonies renamed themselves to States and not provinces or territories or districts or any other similar term to denote the subdivision of a whole. They called themselves States because they were supposed to be independent nations that came together in a loose association for a small number of issues of mutual interest. The EU is actually a lot closer to the these United States are supposed to be than what the US is now. And funnily enough, what we see happening with the EU gobbling up more sovereignty for itself and coopting the member nations into vassal states is precisely what happened to the US, we're just a lot further along than they are. And in the information age, we can see it happening a lot faster than it did to us. The last 15 or so years of the EU is like a fast-forward version of the US from about the 1790s until 1913ish. By my estimate, if any of them rediscover their balls, they'll be reaching their own 1860s in the next decade or so.