I have evidence of a sophisticated Russian information campaign to get security nerds to say "nation-state" when they just mean "state". We spent TWO LECTURE PERIODS on this subtle distinction in college geography and it all ends, like tears in the rain, so people can sound cool
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But Scotland is a nation, but not a state, and the UK is a state, but not a nation - whereas Portugal is a nation-state - it just means something totally different this side of the Atlantic
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No, it doesn't. This stuff means exactly the same thing in US english. It's just a bit of jargon that has escaped the "infosec" community and needs to be hunted down and killed.
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