Why do people use this framing for the UK? Four countries in the same way that Georgia is like 3/4 countries (autonomous areas still ruled by the actual country)? Or like USA is hundreds of countries because hundreds of "sovereign tribal nations" with their own languages and governments are contained within?
No. Each state is a separate country. It is completely different than a province. Uk is just one tiny country with 4 areas that have less autonomy than territory of the US.
First, I gave you a non-USA example (Georgia which I know has regions with more autonomy than your "countries" (even if there are some external circumstances in two of them, but they are never called countries unless you are Russian) But, if you want to talk about US, we can do that. It is not one country. It recognizes the sovereignty, not of the states like your strawman, but the Native American tribes within it as being separate nations with their own independent governments with legislation systems, judicial, and executive systems run entirely by the tribe and not the US or any of the states that make up the US. They have even been known to declare war separately from the US (even if the legality of that is questionable, but it has been done multiple times and followed, would you ever see the Scottish Parliament declare war without the UK's approval?)
How are these different from what is seen in the UK? What is the actual difference? What is the definition of a country where a sovereign tribal nation is somehow not a country but Scotland, Wales, or occupied Ireland is?
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lol the US is not one country ? I kind of stopped reading there.
Yes Scotland is its own country. Have you read the history of Scotland ? Do you want to compare it to Wisconsin? Just from a common sense perspective . That would be fun.
Sorry buddy , good luck being delusional. Oh and - the definitions you're asking for exist. Go ahead and equation those but maybe look them up first
I never said states were countries. I am talking about the tribes within the US that have existed for hundreds of years before the US existed and people groups that were around long before the Picts and Scots united that still exist and have their own governments and are recognized as sovereign by the US.
Try reading the post next time. It seems this is your language. It is not mine.
I just want to know what differentiates a country from something like a sovereign tribal nation in the US or an autonomous region like Abkhazia or Adjara in Georgia, or Kurdistan in Iraq. Can your occupied Ireland declare war without approval of the UK? Scotland? Wales?
Each state is an actual country. Though by the logic of the guy claiming England is a country, you might as well count each county in the US as a country.
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u/arwynj55 28d ago
The UK is made of 4 countries, I'm betting you were in England when you were robbed.