Originally posted by Elfie
Technically the answer is no. However, when folks talk about America as a nation they are usually refering to the government and not the nation (or people).
Hope that helps.
Very interesting, you puzzled me...
So, Hortlund wish our nation... "government" according to you, collapse to anarchy... That 's a little bit strange. Anarchy is nonexistence of government. It's hard to imagine how government can collapse into anarchy and people wouldn't be affected.
Hortlund doesn't hate Russian, he hates Russian government. It's what you want to say, and what Hortlund confirmed few posts ago. And he just wants Russia collapses into anarchy, without any government, any state institutes, nothing. And all Russians together with the whole world including Sweden will be happy. Ok, not bad so far.
But there is a little problem. We've already been there. From 1990 till 1998. We didn't like that, and looks like the world doesn't like the result. But now we don't care, it's not our problem anymore. Pray it won't become your problem.