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
The only situation I can imagine is a contrived one where you are talking about US states like California and want to compare to countries like Sweden. But while this is the scenario everyone gives me, I have never seen an example of this ambiguous usage in the wild
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So to an American, a "state" might primarily mean a US state, and they might then use "nation-state" to denote a non-US country? I can imagine that.
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That is my theory of why the jargony use of it took hold. My complaint is that there are fields outside information security where it has a specific technical meaning, and computer people are generally respectful of not abusing technical terminology.
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